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Discuss The USC-Texas Game

What an utter joke.

Who is defending Clay Helton now?

What was the game plan? Can USC run block? Did it even want to run?

Can Clancy Pendergast even defend the middle of the field?

Can John Baxter coach special teams?

What a disaster. But don’t expect Lynn Swann to do anything. He acts like a figurehead.

Porter Gustin is ejected for targeting.

JT Daniels is throwing too much off his back foot and USC has rushed for 16 yards in 11 carries. No wonder Texas leads 16-14 at halftime.

USC started brightly with a 14-3 lead but the second quarter was a mess. Two guys chop blocked on a fourth-and-goal. Then USC roughed the punter. And Chris Tilbey had a 13-yard punt. It looked like Stanford again.

82 thoughts on “Discuss The USC-Texas Game”

  7. Trojans defense playing really well as usual, Helton and Martin giving the Trojans no shot at winning this game. Trojans defense will not be able to keep it up as they’re constantly on the field. CLAY HELTON IS GARBAGE!

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  9. Started “brightly”??? Wow, Scottie, you’re going soft in your old age.

    True score is 16-16. Zebras embarrassing themselves down there.

    SC clearly looks like the better team out there. they should take care of business in the 2nd half. Looks like night and day compared to the stanford game – Texas can’t hold a candle to Stanford, and it’s easier to through without a bone bruise in your hand.

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  10. We are playing against two teams tonight. The refs and Texas. Now if we had ANY blocking at all we’d be ahead by two touchdowns. If the y’all refs knew anything about football rules there would be a safety added but knees being down, elbows down none of that matters to the refs. Finally we got a glimpse of new math with Texas refs illegal hands to the face ten yard penalty on a down where 20 yards were needed equals first and then for Texans

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    1. You are completely correct. Swann is only a figurehead with no sense of
      being an AD. He sits on his ass letting programs like Baseball and Men
      Volleyball labor at the bottom .

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    1. Thirty – four (34) unanswered Tixas points Commie Succ! The Auld bozo U excuses, excuses, excuse whine isn’t applicable. You should be complaining about the bozo QB.

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  14. Why the hell didn’t Helton challenge that call…looks like Sydney caught it? Jesus H. Christ! Clay Helton is trash…absolute trash!

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    1. Hey PT, Daniels’ deserves more credit for this loss than Max Browne did for the Alabama loss. Will the Rah-Rah’s whine for a QB change – they should. Tixas scored 34 unanswered points. I still have no idea what the 3rd Qtr. FG would have done for the bozos had it been good (37 – 17: BFD) instead of blocked and turned into a Tixas TD!!

      I know PT, UCLA is loosing 16 -7, but their defense hasn’t allowed 34 unanswered points lately. Fight on.

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  26. The Trojans defense has been on the field all night because of the incompetent Helton and Martin offensive play calling. If it weren’t for the Trojans defense the beatdown woukd be worse. The refs have screwed the Trojans and Helton says and does nothing…Helton and Swann are a Gawd Damn Joke!

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  28. Horrible, horrible, horrible coaching. The offensive line looks completely lost! They don’t have a clue!Tulsa and Maryland has no problem with this defense!

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  29. Swann, like Haden, like Nikias is USC’s own ‘deep state’ – the connected either through athletics or 28th Street frattieland. Just hope Caruso’s search committee comes up with someone who doesn’t act like that back end of a horse John Forbes Kerry.

    Seen that photo of his hustling his ‘an evening with the former Sec. of State who knows every 5 star hotel in Teheran and Pyonyang’…next weekend right south of bel-air tech.

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  30. This SC football program is joke. I want to boo the coaches, but I don’t want the players think I am booing them. I love SC football but it is time for some hard love.

    I will booo the coaches here. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooo the coaches. Boo Martin. Booo Helton. Boooooo Calloway. Booo Ellis. Boo the dB coach. Boooooooooooooooo Swann.

    To the football players, thank you and God Bless you. Keep Fighting On

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  32. It is terrible to rely on Joke Toss Daniels and blame him for not being the God Helton and staff think he is. After all look at the players who have been in the system for 3 years and can’t beat a high school quarterback.

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      1. Why not, zero UCLA fans proclaimed the Bruin’s capable of competing for the Nat. FB Championship like the bozo U Rah-Rah’s. Exaggerated FB expectations are the hallmark of the bozo U Rah-Rah FB fans. Overrated on!

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  41. Texas is at best a second rate team, yet after the first quarter, this had the feeling of 2016 Alabama and Notre Dame games. Hopeless. Just wanted the game to be over. JT will be a really good QB one day, provided that he is behind a line that can run block and take some pressure off of him. Why does Callaway still have a job?

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  43. Get some of the money that Haden hijacked and pay off the clowns and get rid of them. That includes Martin, Calloway,, and the dB coach

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  44. We don’t have a good team right now, but SUCLA has one helluva team this season. It actually looks like a f’g world beater!!! Very impressive!!! lol.

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      2. 28 unanswered points against Kansas State in the blockbuster Cheez-it bowl last year. It would have been 35 points or more, but Bill Snyder was a gentleman and didn’t pile it on.

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  45. Gomer and the rest of this “coaching” staff should be forced to tithe their overpaid salaries to Darnold. Honor thy departed savior.

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  49. Very disappointing to watch my team play poorly and then quit. This team has talent but obviously lacks the leadership and, sadly, coaching talent to play 4 quarters of inspired football. I have supported Clay, hoping he would grow into a good head coach but it’s not happening. Obviously change is coming – I wish Clay & staff well. Nikias is gone – time to commit to the program and open the wallet.

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    1. You should’ve known much better and much earlier about Helton. I did. It shouldn’t take that long to figure about the abilities and lack thereof a football coach. Nope, you needn’t be a genius to see it almost right away!

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  50. MUST READ: SI column on SC football. In short, with Helton as coach, SC will forever be mired in mediocrity. Truer words were never spoken.

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