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A Road Win To Be Savored?

My guess is a large majority of USC fans want Clay Helton removed as head coach.

But there is a faction that said last night to just be happy and accept last night’s “road win” as a big deal. They said the fact USC survived is all that matters.

This is the era of low expectations. Any win is a big win. The sloppiness or lack of physicality is not to be discussed or examined. If 10 men are on the field for an extra point or 12 men on defense, just remember USC beat a 3-5 Colorado team.

No one is more important than USC president Carol Folt right now.

  • Is there a chance ESPN’s College GameDay comes to USC next weekend for the Oregon game? Pehaps the best other alternative is SMU-Memphis, which ABC is broadcasting and probably impacts the decision. The USC-Oregon game will be on Fox.

21 thoughts on “A Road Win To Be Savored?”

  1. Depends what time the college game day starts their game telecast – only real conflict is UT @ WA (1:00 pm PDT) so I’d say it looks probable the show could be at the Coliseum a week hence for the 5:00 pm kickoff

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      1. Come, come, MG, I could never surpass the Clown U Rah-Rah and Sunshine Pimps hallow FB arrogance and conceit.

        Last I heard it was 28 – 7 UCLA in the 3rd qtr.

        How ’bout them Bruins.

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      2. There have been hiccups but the trendline has been pretty visible all year – they are improving, their young QB is starting to get comfortable…
        And the Pac 12 is a soup sandwich…so why not?

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      5. Yeah then there’s those morons at bel-air tech paying $50k for that ‘Barry Scheck’
        i.e. 5′ 6″ and under…. head coach of their’s for a new ‘wardrobe’….what a putz

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  3. Why wasn’t Helton fired last night? In the days, SC had no fear and they would impose their will and wins anywhere anytime. Now, SC celebrates a win in Colorado in which SC has never lost to. This is embarrassing and recruiting is horrible. Horrible

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  4. Meanwhile in Baton Rouge the EdO’s Geaux-jans coming back against and putting away a tough Auburn team by physically imposing their will with the running game (after having featured the passing game all season) and a stifling defense. Nothing to see there…good thing Helton didn’t allow EdO to interfere with this Jedi training under Sarkiffian…

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    1. A great bowl game for the ‘bowl eligible’ trojans…LSU and the ‘O’
      or Auburn…or Michigan…Oklahoma? the south end of the Pac 12 deserves a great team to play with the way hellton always prepares for these bowl games

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  5. After watching the game again this afternoon I can say the officiating in the PAC 12 is the worst in the country. Things they got wrong but called include a horse collar tackle and offensive pass interference. Both are clear rules. The horse collar tackle happens when a defender brings a runner down using the shoulder pads as leverage. It is intended to cut down on neck injuries and hyoid bone fractures. However the USC tackler grabbed the jersey not the collar but the sleeve. Not a penalty. On the offensive pass interference, the ball had not left the quarterback’s hands when the hit occurred. Then they marched the 15 yards from the line of scrimmage. Offensive pass interference happens when the defense has a better chance to catch the ball. If there isn’t a pass there can’t be interference. It is a spot foul but the refs made it a 35 yard penalty by marching off 15 yards from the line of scrimmage.
    Obvious calls they missed include a non-catch to set up Colorado’s first touchdown. The receiver’s feet never touched the ground inbounds. He landed on top of the defender, who rolled him off the field without allowing him to touch the ground. The defender waved the catch off it should have been reviewed. Refs ruled an incomplete pass complete. Then St. Brown was rolled in a similar fashion by a defender midfield never touching the ground with any part of his body except the bottom of his feet, but the ref standing right there blew the whistle. The ball was ruled down without being down. I thought maybe the ref ruled forward progress was stopped, but the the tackle was one fluid movement nothing should have stopped.
    From the not even close call file, the targeting and non-call grounding on Colorado. The targeting should not have been called and if anything the quarterback used the crown of his helmet. Fortunately the review overturned the call. But not called was an obvious intentional grounding where the ref was only worried about whether it made it past the line of scrimmage. The quarterback dropped straight back under pressure and chucked the ball toward the sidelines no receivers in the area- intentionally grounding the ball by rule.
    And luckily knowing the rules play, where Colorado announcers wanted roughing- the quarterback at the point of the hit was a running back and could have easily pump faked the ball to gain yardage. The tackle perfectly legal and called for.

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  7. How can you savoir a win when you played one of the worst teams in Pac 12 let alone nationally. You win by 4 pts when it should have been 20, and get into a dog fight. But when you have Clancy as your DC and friend what do expect. Yes a win is a win, but look at all the yardage we gave up. Helton praises Harrell for using Amed St. Brown as a RB.. WOW. Christon is not a power back–speedster- yes– power no– to small and light.
    Clancy has had 8 games to teach how to contain the edge—still no results. Our tackling is like a Bull Fighter ” Oh Lay”.
    Then our nothing coach praises God for looking out for USC on the fumbles & game, like God has nothing to do but worry about USC winning.. Maybe that’s what ” GOD IS A TROJAN” means.
    Praises coach’s for a 4pt win over a really nothing team WOW!!
    If USC keeps Helton– they need to be admitted to the physco ward.

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  8. ‘The Princess’ got thrashed by MI….they now have 2 losses….’bingo’ they’re headed to the ‘Gator Bowl’ in Orlando-FL or maybe to the Bahamas….hey what matters is that infamous streak is one year longer…..31 yrs since they actually won a ‘nc’

    MI 45 – ‘The Princess’ …….14…’oh the (snicker) horror!’

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      1. I agree but seeing them relegated to whats they deserve is priceless….an annual fraud game that gets to never have to go through the preliminary round as the other 125 FBS schools do – a CCG

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  9. I am still perplexed by some USC fans. They seem to accept mediocrity. I am puzzled by this. USC has never been known for acceping incompetence, what is going on? Please educate me.

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      1. I do not think so. We can do both. It is not either or. Academically USC is strong. Football players are underestimated. As a matter of fact they are very smart. Football requires mental agility. Their problem in school is time. I am an Ivy League and stanford fan. And, I have been exposed to both. No one has a monopoly on smarts. My experience indicates that the educational processes are similar. And, many times better in a place like USC. But, enough of that for now. Except to repeat that excelling athletically does not preclude being as good and some cases better than Stanford. But, I do love Stanford,

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