Sensible scheduling idea from LSU's Brian Kelly shows outrage toward USC was unjust

The big issue of who USC is 'scared' of and unwilling to schedule tough competition with is something that could have been instantly laughed at at face value. It is, after all, the Trojans who joined the Big Ten and not Notre Dame, for example.

Now LSU's coach Brian Kelly, according to Yahoo's Ross Dellenger, has something reasonable that he is putting forward that would begin to even up the unbalanced scheduling throughout college football. 

The Tigers' HC has proposed the SEC schedule one of each team's out-of-conference games in agreement with a Big Ten counterpart while increasing the number of conference games themselves to nine. This would still allow two open slots to be left open for whichever program at whichever level of play an AD sees best fit.

Naturally, a good idea had to go to waste. Dellenger also shared that other coaches expressed a willingness to do a basketball-like SEC vs. Big Ten football scheduling arrangement but wanted to keep the conference games at the current eight.

Coach Kelly's proposal is a good one and takes guts in a room full of SEC personnel who are insistent on maintaining this advantage over the rest of the college football world.

This once again begs the question of why it is USC that is being held to this extraordinary standard that would significantly steepen their path, far more than everyone else.

Of course, there will not be hours of podcast takes or hundreds of columns written about how the SEC does not want to compete or how they are running away from equal competition. That right is apparently reserved only for USC.

Taking the good with the bad, it does show that a relative newcomer to the SEC in coach Kelly recognizes the inherent, blatant, unfair advantage that his LSU team has over others across the nation. He is someone who truthfully can't reasonably afford to lose too many more games, unless it leads to a title this season.

Continued false narrative will continue against USC

Regardless of why coach Kelly came forward with this proposal or how the Tigers will do this season, the pushback to the idea should show that college football is a long way off from being truly competitive on level terms.

While that may be an unattainable, ambitious goal as is, the unwillingness of most of the SEC to have taken this common-sense first step should show that the accusations made against USC were always baseless and a projection of other programs' shortcomings to begin with.