Dave Portnoy slammed as ‘dirtbag’ by former | Sports News

Former USC star quarterback Matt Leinart had alternative phrases for Dave Portnoy after the latter’s rant singling out the Trojans’ program. 

In USC’s 38-17 win over Northwestern, Trojans quarterback Sam Huard wore No. 80, with punter Sam Johnson additionally sporting No. 80. The specific sequence had Huard taking the snap in punting formation and finishing a cross to Tanook Hines for the primary down. 

Seeing the play, Portnoy referred to as the Trojans “dirtbags” for the play they executed. This, in flip, led to Leinart’s – the former Heisman winner – comment, which comes after former USC star Mark Sanchez was fired by FOX Sports. 

“By the way, that’s Dave’s worst rant of the year,” Leinart stated on the newest installment of ‘Big Noon Kickoff.’ “That’s a terrible rant, Dave. Be careful. Dave Portnoy is the biggest dirtbag of all time. Am I right, Iowa fans?” 

The former USC star’s feedback come after the Barstool Sports boss had alternative phrases for the Trojans’ soccer program. Specifically, the 48-year-old singled out Southern Cal during his rant about packages giving the identical numbers to a number of gamers on the roster.

“I’ve had a problem with this. I don’t know when it started. I hate in college football how they’re giving out the same number on multiple teams. So you can have three number threes,” he started, per Awful Announcing. “Last night in USC against Northwestern, this problem came to a head. USC, who are dirtbags.

“They put out the punter. It seemed just like the punter sporting quantity 80. It was really the third-string backup quarterback, and he threw a cross. This must be jail. You put out a man, he seems to be just like the punter. Oh, no, it’s a quarterback. Play goes for a first down. I don’t know after we began doing this.

“There should be one number one, one number two. Fine. You have over 100 guys, 101, 102, 103. But I don’t want to see Arch Manning, number 16 on Texas, and their safety wearing 16, and it leads to this, a fake punt that shouldn’t be a fake punt because you have a quarterback pretending to be a punter.

“What happened? When did this go on? Get rid of the double numbers. It’s got to go. It’s got to go.” Despite Portnoy’s rant, there are no guidelines towards having a number of gamers sporting the identical quantity. The situation arises when the 2 gamers are on the sphere on the identical time. 

That stated, Northwestern admitted that what USC did was legal, regardless of how it may need appeared within the second. “One of their backup quarterbacks, No. 7, was sporting No. 80, the identical quantity as their punter. Did not show up on their roster online, hadn’t proven up anyplace else, however they did legally submit that,” coach David Braun stated after the matchup [h/t Awful Announcing].

“Was on the sport day roster that was right here current on the Coliseum, and the lesson I’ve discovered in that for the remainder of my profession is after we arrive at a facility, we’ll go over that with a fine-tooth comb and search for any of these potential points. If we knew that their backup quarterback was within the sport in that state of affairs, we both would have been in secure [punt coverage] or referred to as a timeout.”