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Here is Matt Leinart’s take on the recent NCAA sanctions:

“It’s tough but no one can take away what we did on the football field there in those years. So whether they take the wins away or whatever it doesn’t affect us. Selfishly it doesn’t affect us as much as it affects the kids who are there right now, which is the hard part. I feel for the coaches and the team there now, but Lane [Kiffin] is going to do a great job there. He’ll get through these next couple of years and USC is still great. They have a great coaching staff and they’re still going to get great recruits. Once they get past the next couple of years they’ll be back in title games again.”

“People can say whatever they want but we still played every game the way we had to, we beat almost every team we played and, to me, no one will ever be able to take that away. I’ve talked to a lot of people I played with on those teams and we all say the same thing. Everyone who knows football knows we won those games and we won the title. It’s unfortunate what happened and you move on from it but I just feel for the guys who are there now but they’ll move on from it.”

Leinart not affected by USC sanctions [espn]