For the first time in my memory, USC put out a press release for an actual game today and it does not include a depth chart.
Clay Helton claims he is doing this for competition purposes and will not release a depth chart until Friday.
Will three days really determine if Isaac Taylor-Stuart or Chris Steele starts at cornerback vs. Fresno State? They will both play.
The offensive line was pretty settled in training with Austin Jackson (left tackle); Alijah Vera-Tucker (left guard); Brett Neilon (center); Andrew Vorhees (right guard) and Jalen McKenzie (right tackle) were the first team. The only question is whether Tennessee-transfer Drew Richmond will ever unsettle McKenzie or rotate? Both will play.
So no depth chart is really a gimmick meant to show the “culture change” Helton has instituted. Just like when Helton “yells” at players now, supposedly.
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Drew Richmond could be a great addition. 6’5″, 315, 3 year starter in the SEC, the Pac-12 should be a cakewalk for him.
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You would think. But look him up. He’s the false start king. He fits right in.
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Ha! Hoping that changes…
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67 —Just what J. T. needs! Plenty of 1st and 15’s!
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Let’s get this season over with. Based on the Hawaii-Arizona game, I expect Fresno to go toe to toe with Helton and maybe even pull off the win. I’m not sure SC has anyone like Tate who can bail out the team when things go south. I expect lots of penalties on O and some bad timing and batted down passes in the passing game.
I doubt Meyer wants the job and, frankly, he’s a risk due to “been there done that” in so many places. First things first. This season needs to unfold like we all expect.
And piss on these 730 pm starts. Jesus.
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Phil:
MG and I like to dabble from time-to-time in literary and/or film references…The final episode of “I Claudius” comes to mind given your highly prescient comment…
“…let all of the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out…”
They’ve destroyed the on-field performance and 1 percented the Coliseum…might as well exhaust all of the poisons in one fell swoop (which hopefully will describe the sound of the off-season blade putting an end to this dark period)…
Whether it be Lane’s red clown shoes and bubble screen bonanza, black uniforms, the terrible helmet change in 1992…or any of the myriad travesties apparently primed for this season (to include the scheduling downgrade announced for future seasons)…
Let all of the poisons lurking in the mud hatch out now so we will have a clean slate when hopefully better times return…if they do…
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Love it. The thing I love about SC is that we can flash back to greatness from such crap. I’m losing hope but the right coach and AD can do it. Again, let’s get this season over with. By end of September, Folt will hopefully make her move.
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James:
Aragorn: “There is always hope.”
#[ButIfWeLoseToFresnoI’llMakeTebowLookLikeJulieAndrews…]
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James, you forgot to mention that, one year, bozo u issued official fall practice jockstraps impregnated with “Cool Itch.”
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yes, and expanding the size of the decal on the helmet, playing with the color scheme shading, putting the “trademarked” lame “SC” logo wherever it could be fit in…buffooning entries into games…getting blown out of big games…mid-season coaching changes (that was a terrible idea in the past, but this year…hmmmm….)…
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one last (and there are undoubtedly many more)
#Pre-DeflateGateBallAlterationGateSansBradyFunAndGamesWithKiffy
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Owns —the ‘special jockstraps’ were left behind the previous season by Notre Dame players — we just thought we’d give them a try..
#….Don’tWorry —-WeWashedMostOfThemFirst
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That idiot Clay Helton has no clue what he’s doing, he’s just making shit up as he goes along.
All these years and he still can’t get his act together.
USC is as clueless as Helton for keeping that idiot around as long as they have.
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Perhaps Helton should tell the players the depth chart by yelling it at them.
#2birds1stone
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Arturo —Better yet, make the players guess the depth chart on their own….
#22birds,No”Stones”
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Before or after he serves them up their ice cream?
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The Notre Dame game last season drew 59,000 the lowest attendance for a ND vs USC game at the Coliseum since 1960.
It doesn’t look as though the Fresno St. game is going to draw 40,000. The Trojan Athletic Dept. is going to have to start giving tickets away…if they haven’t already.
Serves them right!
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Opening Game crowd size was estimated at 69,000 by Coliseum officials (working at night in underground tunnels) last month…..
#NumberWillBeOfficiallyAnnouncedOn8/31
#FreedomOfInformationRequestsWillBeFiledOn9/1
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Every time I hear about Ed Orgeron’s success, and where LSU is ranked, I want to seek Pat Haden out, and kick his Mother Fucking head in .
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LOL!
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May I add a little fuel to the fire for those who think USC has deliberately scuttled it’s football program? It’s been said that Haden let it leak that Orgeron wasn’t getting the head coaching job BEFORE the UCLA game so that the Trojans would play flat and he’d have an excuse for bringing in Sark….
#…BeginningOfTheEnd….
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If Owns had succeeded Mike Garrett as AD he couldn’t have done more damage to USC that Pat Haden managed to do.
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MG and GT22 — on the money.
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gt —Owns wouldn’t have tried to supplement his salary with Charity money.
#OwnsBetterThanHaden
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Yes MG>Hade(n/s)
1-Owns would know exactly what he was doing.
2-Owns would be completely candid about what he as doing.
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Yes, James –Nobody has ever accused Owns of not saying—without reservation or filters — what was on his mind…
#…EvenWhenYouDon’tWantHimTo….
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Yes-refreshing (and exactly what is needed in “our world” in these times)…and frequently humorous, which is always welcome and valued…
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Hopefully, SC doesn’t start anyone and just take the 0-2 loss by forfeiting the game.
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