UTEP’s Floyd Talks About USC Exit, Problems With Agents, Miner Team

New UTEP coach Tim Floyd continues to profess that he did nothing wrong at USC and was used as a “scapegoat” by outgoing athletic director Mike Garrett before Floyd abruptly resigned in June 2009, Floyd said in an ESPN interview.

“It’s a shame that USC went through penalties when our coaching staff had no violations,” said Floyd as he was recruiting at the AAU Super Showcase at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports Complex. “When I left, I said it wasn’t admission of guilt. I felt like I was being made the scapegoat by my boss when I told him that I had done nothing wrong and our staff had done nothing wrong.”

Floyd enjoyed success at USC, but his tenure ended in resignation.

The NCAA didn’t attach any violations to Floyd when it released its findings and sanctions June 10. The NCAA report’s most damaging statement toward Floyd was that he sat in on a meeting with runner Rodney Guillory, who was pushing USC to recruit O.J. Mayo, and that the SC staff continued to recruit Mayo through Guillory even though they had “Googled” to find out that Guillory was identified as a “runner” for a sports agent in a case involving another NCAA member institution.

Since Floyd resigned, there has been quite an upheaval at USC.

Read the full ESPN blog here.

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