Clay Helton said today he was frustrated by decision-making penalties against Arizona.
For example, linebacker Kana’i Mauga threw the ball after his interception vs. Arizona. Helton said if players commit similar penalties the rest of the season, they will be on the sideline next to him for one series.
He is just now deciding this after seven games?
I thought there was a culture change and more discipline in the season and he yelled at Michael Pittman once and everything was different? I know the media dutifully reported this and pundits applauded.
But now “going forward” you will sit out a series if you commit a stupid penalty. Amazing.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
Most people know that if you do not establish authority and meaningful discipline on a sports team, school classroom, ship at sea, or an army unit at the very first few minutes, you will never be able to recover it. Doing up/downs at practice is just simulated discipline. Why try game discipline now? He still won’t be able to establish discipline. And Helton has too many players injured. He might try getting some peer pressure through team captains. And players should never be publicly ridiculed (and there is a rule against that in the military) unless a whole unit is singled out.
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Exactly. Kids will manipulate 24/7 if it helps them get of out a physical demand. There are outliers but for the most part they’ll fake sick or injury in a lost cause season.
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Scott I know you have a hard on for Helton But for the love of God give it a rest. Chances are he will be gone next season and all will be peaceful in the land of Troy.
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Well the question is will there be hand holding? Go stand by daddy for four plays. After a stern finger wagging chewing out will the player get scratched behind the ears like Helton’s puppy? I cannot believe a grown man would wait so long before making his kids responsible for their actions.
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Heltons discipline—
A Hug—and go to the bench for time out–and all will be better.
Don’t want to hurt your feelings , because it may affect you the rest of your life.
OH, how Marv Gough must be rolling over in his grave.
Helton is a absolute pussy- weakling.
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So I returned to Clay; son of Kim Helton. Without sending everyone to Wikipedia, I can tell everyone that Clay’s father and mentor for coaching makes Clay look like a football genius. At Houston Kim was a waste of uniform space he had one winning season (7-5 sound good enough?) His first season was 1-9-1 can you imagine keeping a coach with that record? But he had a couple more seasons like that before figuring out how to win 4 games in a season. A case can be made for USC having better players, but Clay is moving away from the elite with every recruiting turn.. Pretty soon USC will resemble a gaggle of bloated teddy bears who fall over in a strong breeze.
The best a fan like myself can hope for is that the powers at the school see that this coaching tree died at the roots and the fruit at the top isn’t qualified to coach a lot of sea turtles across a bath tub. I, for one cannot wait to bid adieu to Clay.
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While Helton was at Memphis with Tommy West, he was first a RB Coach, then a WR Coach then the final 3 years the OC/QB Coach.
His three years as OC they went 15-38 .394 win percentage.
After West and Helton were fired Helton got hired at Arkansas State as OC, 22 days later after Kim Helton called Monte Kiffin to see if he could get Lane to hire Clay.
Kim and Monte were old buddies from their Tampa Bay days.
Lane need a gopher and brought him in to Coach QB’s.
The rest is history as to how he weaseled his way into the Head Coaching position. Clay Helton has been on the second team his whole life, backup QB at Auburn, Backup QB at Houston typical routine it seems for the near do Wells is to join the coaching fraternity for the soon coming fat pay checks, not because you’re good….but because you’re in the fraternity.
Notice how Clay is following a similar pattern, bringing in Harrell from the No Where Conference to lead the SC offense, it’s so damned obvious he’s lost It’s pathetic.
Notice how none of the guys ever bad mouth each other in the media, they all cover each other’s ass so they can keep raking in the loot !!!
Example: several weeks ago David Shaw was defending poor Clay about taking so much heat from the fans and media…from the looks of things at Stanford, Shaw better get ready for some heat of his own.
Your Milage May Vary
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This is what CH probably means. Example: Pittman scores a touchdown on a deep 75 yard pass and makes two guys miss. He celebrates in the end zone and draws a celebrating penalty. Clay hugs Pittman and makes him stand next to him for one series. The one series to CH is when the defense is back out on the field. The humiliation of having to stand next to CH during a game is bad enough.
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Step right up everybody! Welcome to the sideshow starring Bozo Helton the clown 🤡
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Actually, Helton has no idea on how to discipline a team. He should have made aware to the team at spring practice that there would be no tolerance for undiscpline play. At practice if a player is out of line, you punish them then and there by doing physical exercise such as doing bear crawls. You keep this over their head at practice. At game time, hopefully the player will not do incorrect things. If they do, then you get a hold of them and either yell at them for jumping offsides or if it is more subjective penalty, such as pass interference where the call could have gone the other way, you talk to them. When you get back to practice next week, players will have to do extra physical exercise for the penalities.
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