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Clay Helton Leads Odds To Be Fired

USC usually doesn’t figure prominently in any of BetOnline’s college football odds. But it found its way to the top on the gambling site’s odds of who will be fired first:

Odds below:

First College Coach Fired

Clay Helton (USC)                                 11/2     

Chris Ash (Rutgers)                               6/1       

Lovie Smith (Illinois)                               9/1       

Gus Malzahn (Auburn)                           10/1     

Kalani Sitake (BYU)                               12/1     

Ed Orgeron (LSU)                                  14/1     

Justin Fuente (Virginia Tech)                  14/1     

Willie Taggart (FSU)                              16/1     

Mike Gundy (Oklahoma State)               16/1     

Tom Allen (Indiana)                                20/1     

Kevin Sumlin (Arizona)                           20/1     

Derek Mason (Vanderbilt)                      22/1     

Steve Addazio (Boston College)             22/1     

Chad Morris (Arkansas)                         22/1     

Matt Luke (Ole Miss)                             25/1     

Barry Odom (Missouri)                           28/1     

Herm Edwards (Arizona State)               33/1     

Jeremy Pruitt (Tennessee)                      33/1     

Justin Wilcox (Cal)                                 33/1     

Will Muschamp (South Carolina)             40/1     

Jonathan Smith (Oregon State)              40/1     

Joe Moorhead (Miss State)                    40/1     

Dave Clawson (Wake Forest)                 40/1     

Jim Harbaugh (Michigan)                       40/1     

Tom Herman (Texas)                             40/1     

Brian Kelly (Notre Dame)                       40/1     

Mario Cristobal (Oregon)                        40/1     

Matt Wells (Texas Tech)                         40/1     

PJ Fleck (Minnesota)                             40/1     

Chip Kelly (UCLA)                                  40/1     

Chris Klieman (Kansas State)                 40/1     

Pat Narduzzi (Pitt)                                 40/1     

Mack Brown (North Carolina)                  40/1     

Mark Stoops (Kentucky)                        50/1     

Ryan Day (Ohio State)                           50/1     

Neal Brown (WVU)                                50/1     

Matt Campbell (Iowa State)                    50/1     

Les Miles (Kansas)                                50/1     

Bronco Mendenhall (Virginia)                  50/1     

Mike Leach (Washington State)              50/1     

Mike Locksley (Maryland)                       50/1     

Geoff Collins (Georgia Tech)                  50/1     

Scott Satterfield (Louisville)                    50/1     

Manny Diaz (Miami)                               50/1     

David Cutcliffe (Duke)                            50/1     

Mel Tucker (Colorado)                           66/1     

Pat Fitzgerald (Northwestern)                 66/1     

Dave Doeren (NC State)                        66/1     

Jeff Brohm (Purdue)                              66/1     

Matt Rhule (Baylor)                                66/1     

Paul Chryst (Wisconsin)                         75/1     

Dan Mullen (Florida)                              75/1     

Scott Frost (Nebraska)                           75/1     

Dino Babers (Syracuse)                         75/1     

Mark Dantonio (Michigan State)             75/1     

James Franklin (Penn State)                  75/1     

Kyle Whittingham (Utah)                         100/1   

Chris Petersen (Washington)                  100/1   

Lincoln Riley (Oklahoma)                       100/1   

Gary Patterson (TCU)                             100/1   

David Shaw (Stanford)                          100/1   

Kirk Ferentz (Iowa)                                100/1   

Jimbo Fisher (Texas A&M)                     100/1   

Kirby Smart (Georgia)                            125/1   

Dabo Swinney (Clemson)                       200/1   

Nick Saban (Alabama)                           250/1  

34 thoughts on “Clay Helton Leads Odds To Be Fired”

      1. Folt? I don’t think they have a list for people who just started their job this month….
        #”I’veLostPatienceWithFolt!!”

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      4. Arturo — well, we’re all trying to do our part….
        #That’sProbablyWhyWeDon’tHave”Cupcake”PostingAnymore…

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  2. Clueless Clay Helton and Stuttering Stanley (aka Lynn Swann) are both a cancer on the USC football program. Let’s see how far this cancer metastasizes during the season to the point where someone in the administration wakes up from hibernation and tosses both of them out on their arses.

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      3. According to el presidente, Google manipulated the election by 2.5 to 16 million votes. This means Trump actually won.

        # NOT

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  5. Yeah, whatever. [It truly sez something about UCLA’s Athletic Department that there’s virtually NO chance Chip is gonna get his ass fired]….
    #3Wins?NoProblem!

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    1. MG-
      As much as I think Helton’s likelihood percentage should be more prohibitive than Secretariat in the Belmont (ie retrospectively – this year is an open book – until it is or isn’t)…

      Whoever made these odds is perhaps a little off…as we’ve discussed, if the breaks all went in USC’s favor (of course they won’t, but good old ceteris paribus), 9-3 isn’t outlandish at all…unlikely, but not far fetched either…

      I’d put a lot more money on Lovie Smith at Illinois (and isn’t that a strange tale unto itself…he was a bad day in the rain saddled with Rexie as a QB from winning a Super Bowl) being the first to go…and after last year, if FSU stumbles out of the gates, a change will be made there…

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      1. In terms of converting the odds into probabilities, the probability that Helton is first fired is about 14.5%. That is quite high, given how many coaches are on the list.

        I am surprised that Paul Chryst of Wisconsin is not at the level of David Shaw/Chris Petersen. Wisconsin does more with recruiting classes that are typically in the 40s than one could imagine.

        Wisconsin players are incredibly disciplined, and the program typically goes 10-3 or 11-2 in a difficult conference.

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      2. James —I think the time is ripe for USC to get some outlandishly good calls at the Coliseum (Whatever happened to home field advantage? All the other Pac 12 schools get it!), have a few fumbled footballs bounce back into our hands for TD’s, and a couple of footballs hit both sides of the uprights before scoring threesies for USC…
        #IsThatTooMuchToAsk?

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      3. The Bilema nonsense robbed them of their football innocence maybe…Alvarez (along with Bill Snyder at K-State) was never appreciated as much nationally as he should have been for what he did (has done) there…but now they are self-cognizant of the fact that they have established a national identity…so the expectations are higher…and they’ve never as of yet had that one year where everything clicked (where Bucky really gets Lucky!)…lots of 2 and 3 loss seasons…

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      1. Hopefully with some Tojo Studios magic added in (somehow seeing Clay’s mouth move and the sound being delayed by a couple of seconds would seem…)…

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    2. James, I feel as if this has been going on forever, even though the ’15 season was such an exciting one with Sam.

      It really is the cumulative effect of the decisions that have been made going back for roughly a decade.

      Because of the over-the-top NCAA sanctions, perhaps Kiffin was the best who would have taken the job at that time.

      But the chronic, terrible choices of Haden, Sark, Swann, Helton…

      Then throw in the awful situations at the med school and student health, the “pay to play” enrollment fraud, and you get…

      #DeathBy1,000Cuts

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    1. I thought that too, but remembered until last year he was on the hot seat, and that place is crazy (just like Auburn and the rest of the conference/region – it’s what they have)…a bad month and he could be sent packing, and in that conference a bad month is always staring you in the face (I think the SEC is overhyped, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not really, really tough)…think this is a big year for him, in terms of seeing if they can ever find an answer on offense…if they can, he might be there for a long time…if they don’t, they’ll get impatient (Saban and Miles really lifted expectations there)…

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  8. Agreed…
    You keep thinking “Well, that’s it…nothing further could possibly happen…”
    And then it does…
    Don’t believe there is any certainty – and that’s not being pessimistic, but just a realistic appraisal of where we find ourselves, based on what you’ve described above…
    But it’s always eventually reversed in the past, so hopefully our time is coming soon…

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  9. Note the ‘group’ USC is in? Of the 1st 17 only LSU and OK St. stand out as top tier the rest listed (Auburn, IL, MO, AZ, IN, AR and FL St. (Taggart didn’t do himself any favor the way he took the OR job and, after a year, quickly abandoned it when he suddenly realized he didn’t know anything about recruiting).

    So hoping this happens as soon as possible regardless who is named interim – just get this guy gone!

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  10. SC has that idiot Swann in charge. Swann won’t fire him because Helton knows where the skeletons are with Swann. The only time you see a charge in Swann is when he wants to be the first in line for his paycheck.

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  11. I’ll give the son of an OL coach 100% odds that when he loses his first game. He will say.

    “I’m proud of the way they played”. Nobody is more proud of a losing effort than Gomer Helton

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    1. Limp —That “pleased and proud” line has been slightly devalued now that Miami’s coach used it to describe the most misbegotten football performance of the 21st century….
      #HeltonNeedsToComeUpWith’AllNew’LameLine….
      #…[AndHopefullyHeWon’tNeedItForAWhile]….

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