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Sunday Night With Clay Helton

Clay Helton might be fighting for his job but the same answers keep coming Sunday night.

“Those mistakes are my responsibility,” Helton said. “I own it.”

Helton was asked about keeping the Victory Bell, which goes to the winner of the USC-UCLA game?

“We will all work like heck to keep it,” he said.

Golly gee.

Helton said again Toa Lobendahn is the starting center and will remain so. Lobendahn did suffer a sprained ankle Saturday night.

Meanwhile, USC is a 3.5-point favorite over UCLA.

And Helton just zoomed to No. 1 on the CoachesHotSeat.com website.

21 thoughts on “Sunday Night With Clay Helton”

  1. Why can’t this guy just be honest about his inabilities and shortcomings like a man and resign, instead of sounding stupid and delusional with false promises about the future? I think this is a case of “not being able to do”, not “not doing”. In other words, the guy’s not right for the job, and the job is wrong for him. Is he waiting to beat SUCLA and Notre Dame to save his job? I guess hopes are eternal. His are, anyway. lol.

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    1. The truth is, according to those who have witnessed a practice, they won’t work like heck because there is no semblance of order and discipline. The practices are soft for fear of injury and for fear of lack of depth. Come to think of it, this team plays like their coaches’ personality- SCARED, passive and with no inniative.
      What do you think the over under on boneheaded, unnecessary penalties due to lack of discipline will be?

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      1. Yes, good call. You play like you practice, and the fundamental problems the team is facing stem from his personality, which can’t be altered. Therefore, we need another coach with entirely different personality.

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    2. Another inexperienced AD . . .
      Lynn Swan-Dive should GO!
      He extended CH’s contact last year . . .
      Swan-Dive has no better judgement . . .
      about calling plays and talent than HC!

      P.S. don’t drink the Kool-Aid about how
      great certain coaches are at recruiting . . .
      when USC has a QUALITY COACHING STAFF . . .
      USC doesn’t have to recruit . . .
      USC selects!!!!

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  3. Coach deserves to be #1 on the list for his lack of adjustments and performance as a coach.

    The silver lining I believe will be what comes out of this. JT is a QB leader through and through. I think under a different staff he will be tremendous and this will help in his progression. He makes throws that big times guys make. Don’t care what this blogger says. He fanboys Darnold so hard that it ruins his ability to the the forest for the trees.

    I wish the best for Helton in the future whatever it may be. I also wish for a new head coach and staff.

    Fight on!!!!!

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    1. Unfortunately, JT Daniels is not the wonder boy the press made him out to be. He can’t scramble, can’t audibilize, can’t take charge of the offense, and is now a deer in the headlights. All hype at Mater Dei. He’s become Cody Kessler in less than one year, and probably because of the poor coaching under Helton and Tee Martin. But, that’s no excuse. Matt Leinart said he audibilized 80% of the time when Kiffin and Sarkisian took over the play calling for Norm Chow. It’s time for Daniels to sit on the bench and allow others to see what they can do in his place.

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  4. Helton didn’t zoom to #1. He landed on the spot with a thud and planted his flag there for the rest of the year.

    It’s not just his mistakes that are his responsibility. It’s his coaching philosophy. Because even with the mistakes of the bad snap and the ill – timed penalties, Helton still didn’t do the things that aren’t considered mistakes.

    He didn’t score any points after half – time, he called an unnecessary fake FG when 3 points would have sufficed, he burned a TO then sent the punt team out there when he should have done that first and saved the TO and his team ended up chirping at each other on the sideline. He has lost the team and the result is a program teetering on the edge.

    Remove the mistakes of the snap and the penalties and there are still plenty of things with his management of the game and the team last night. He is owning the “mistakes” but what needs to do is own his philosophy that fostered this inept culture in the first place.

    Fire Helton and the staff, all of them. Faith, Family and Football must go!

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  5. I agree with all the comments but one. JT is nothing more than a serviceable college QB. Sure, he can improve some things, but he lacks the critical physical skills and the intangibles that set the great QBs above the others—e.g., mobility, field vision, instincts, and especially leadership just to name a few. Honestly, he really doesn’t even look the part.

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    1. Amen per Daniels – that quote from the former coach who claimed Daniels ” ….deserved to have the keys to the car (calling plays)…” rather than any coach has been evident from the UNLV game. He floats deep passes, he does not look at other receivers when his first choice is a bad one i.e. covered, not changing from his high school days of 4 – 5 seconds from snap to 2 seconds in the ‘average’ Pac-12 oncoming rush.

      Daniels may turn into a decent quarterback but regardless of who was coaching him, in 2018 he has a lot to learn namely humility.

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    2. He doesn’t even look clean cut when he takes his Helmut off. He just has that dirty facial look, which is not the image of USC. We need that Matt Barkley look back. The only thing missing from JT Daniels is a tattoo on the side of his neck.

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      1. I think that speaks to his lack of sense of what it means to be a ‘man’ at 18 – not easy to do. I agree the goofy looking facial hair is just that. Love to have a new coach make that kid re-earn that starting slot because he’s shown little to be ballyhooed as much as so many made of him prior to the first game. The saddest thing is his parents – pulling him out of the 8th grade classroom to home tutor him before he went to Mater Dei and then again bailing on his final year there with a quick admittance to USC.

        I expect ucla will be hunting him down from the ‘get go’ as will notre dame – he can’t scramble to save his life and he can’t throw strong hard deep passes – might come with time but right now he looks totally overmatched.

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  6. The only thing keeping the Trojans fans from riding this guy out of town on a rail is that nobody knows where Haden hid the rail. I do not know if slaughtering Ucla and holding up some promise of football against ND will cool the hot seat.
    I think the seat he’s on will ignite a fire under somebody able see the stupid that has become USC coaching. In other words I don’t think there is anything to save Helton now..

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  9. If clay loses out he should be given at least one more year.

    Snakebit this year: injuries, bad refs, freshman qb.

    Who actually thinks any coach would be successful given those variables?

    Viva Los Heston’s

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