I got a call from a former USC coach of a non-revenue sport today because Lynn Swann said graduating players and compliant behavior were his priorities for football.
The coach pointed out USC women’s volleyball Mick Haley, who won two NCAA titles, had a student-graduation rate of 91 percent in 2016. He was fired in 2017.
Women’s rowing had a student-graduation rate of 94 percent in 2016 and fired Coach Zenon Babraj in 2017.
Women’s volleyball and women’s rowing did not have compliance violations. So didn’t both sports follow Swann’s top priorities? I could throw women’s tennis in there too since he also fired that coach.
Let’s be honest: Swann is paying lip service to those issues as a way to rationalize USC going 5-7 and keeping Clay Helton.
When or if he fires Helton, he won’t care about the graduation rates or compliance.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
Let’s hope he’s not around to fire Clay Helton
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I could care less about grad rates…..we all want one thing – Helton sacked and oh yeah another….Swann run out of town on a rail.
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Another anonymous source for the hairy blogger. What a surprise.
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“Hairy?” Flow? No way.
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Swann can’t come out and say he is dissatisfied with Helton because of the tight monetary situation of the university being held hostage to a plunder and takeover by radical feminists. The same feminists who instituted kangaroo courts to oust players for violations that did not rise to their losing their scholarships or ban from playing football. But, hey, human behavior works contagiously and the “me too” movement keeps orchestrating contrived, fake victimizations of women requiring, what, hundred of millions in compensation? The larger background choreographed contagion that is being attempted is that women should oust Trump from the presidency. That is what is holding the football program at siege. The once entrepreneurial university is being taken over by Leftists in part thanks to the LAT. Sorry I ever went to school there.
Helton just gloats and never owns any responsibility for the staff nepotism, on-the-job training of an overpaid trainee offensive coordinator (who was a great recruiter), player favoritism, possibly ousting a player who said something unkind to his secretary after being provoked by her, horrible selection of offensive scheme that didn’t match team talent and on and on. He sees himself a victim of the media and just dismisses even constructive criticism. He’s the perfect coach for the “me too” administration: a social worker who wants to love and be loved and wants to be known for putting his arm around Cody Kessler walking into the tunnel to the locker room after his last game which USC lost to Wisconsin. The Head Buddy.
It would have been better if Helton came out and said he owned all the criticism and, despite this, asked the fan base to support the team this year due to the situation the university is in. That would have been walking the talk. But, hey, some people believe in grace and forgiveness instead of responsibility: theirs.
But the players are more important than all this and if that means hoping that somehow Helton succeeds then that is ok. Call them NeverHelton/Hopers for the team’s sake.
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