OT: USC Prank...

[Mugsy27]

props to USC!! as a halloween prank, coach carrol threw lindel white (sp?) off the practice field. white then went to the roof of a nearby building and started screamin back at the practice field. some guy then comes uo behind white, grabs him, and throws him off the roof (6 stories)...only its a dummy wearing whites jersey that gets tossed.

video is funny as h3ll. does anyone by chance know of a link to this video?? i would love to see it again!!!

[Kevin101]

So Coach Carroll and White purposely set this up so they could scare the team?

[Mugsy27]

yupp...the teams and other coaches reation (cought on camera) was hysterical...they were freakin man..its was beautiful!!!

i sure hope someone can get a link to that!!

[pez]

White's prank put scare into USC

The junior stormed off the field during Monday's practice and pretended to quit, all to the shock of teammates and coaches.

By: Rhett Bollinger

Issue date: 11/1/05 Section: Sports

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Gotcha. USC tailback LenDale White played a Halloween prank on his teammates and coaches by pretending to quit the team after a heated exchange with coach Pete Carroll, then threw a dummy with a No. 21 jersey off a building.

Media Credit: Katherine Beck | Daily Trojan

Gotcha. USC tailback LenDale White played a Halloween prank on his teammates and coaches by pretending to quit the team after a heated exchange with coach Pete Carroll, then threw a dummy with a No. 21 jersey off a building.

The Trojans received a trick and a treat during Monday's practice when LenDale White pretended to quit the team and jump off a building on Child's Way.

Only a few coaches and players knew about the prank, tricking most of the team and coaches along with the press.

The prank started when White got into a yelling match with USC coach Pete Carroll and then offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin.

Kiffin, however, had no clue that it was all a ploy and really told White to leave practice.

White told the coaches and players that he was mad and yelled that he didn't get enough carries.

"I tried to get my teammates to really believe it," he said.

White then stormed off of the field and told a reporter that he quit the team and was carted away.

"When a Fox (Sports) guy asked me what's wrong, I said, 'I quit,'" White said.

Practice then resumed as normal until the team's final meeting, when Carroll told players that they could win without White.

"I told them, 'We won with him and we can win without him,'" Carroll said.

Then the players heard White yelling that he hated football from the top of a building.

"I had to duck down so they wouldn't see me," White said.

Then a dummy with a No. 21 jersey was thrown off the building and the team and media realized it was all a joke.

Reggie Bush got a kick out of the hoax because he knew about it the whole time and was actually a candidate to play White's role.

"Reggie was scared to go on the roof so he talked LenDale into it," Carroll said.

Many players, including offensive lineman Winston Justice, believed the prank all the way up to point where the dummy was thrown.

"I thought he was serious, but I didn't think he was jumping," Justice said.

Carroll acknowledged that the whole prank affected practice because even some coaches did not know that White was not serious.

"The coaches were the funniest because they couldn't believe that stuff could go like that," he said. "Jethro Franklin was so sucked in. He put his arm around (White) and was talking to him trying to get him back in."