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Clay Helton Is Finally Fired!

He got two games even though it wasn’t a make-or-break season?

Donte Williams is No. 2 even after his secondary got shredded on Saturday night?

Bohn and his lackey, Brandon Sosna, were huddling all morning. That’s one reason I had not posted much today.

They obviosly want Luck Fickell but I doubt he leaves Cinciinati at this point of the season. Some other names were watching: James Franklin, Bob Stoops, Matt Campbell, Chris Petersen and Bob Stoops.

Here is Mike Bohn’s statement:

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I’m sure that statement has been sitting on Bohn’s desk for nearly two years. I will have more today.

746 thoughts on “Clay Helton Is Finally Fired!”

  1. I hope they search the pro ranks for a new head coach. Then fire the entire staff with the exception of Donte Williams for recruiting.

    THE worst thing Mike Bohn could do is to hire from within this current staff. THE worst.

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    1. I like and admire Donte —anyone who has ever listened to him knows he’s a huge improvement over Clay. But I hope there aren’t any fans out there who think he can save this season. He can’t. Donte is stuck with a bunch of assistants who know they’re dead meat and are already looking for their next job.
      I hope Folt and Bohn have a plan beyond getting rid of Clay. And I hope that plan factors in how few top coaches will want anything to do with them.

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      2. Do you really believe that top coaches wont want the USC position? I disagree completely. Bohn/Sosna need a top coach and will need to be willing to give him full control and enough resources.

        If Bohn/Sosna hire a questionable coach and it backfires, they are in deep trouble. If they hire a top coach that the fan base celebrates and he somehow doesnt succeed, they wont be in trouble, and they will have a few years “grace period” with the fans.

        Bohn/Sosna will give the promises of control and support needed to get a top coach. They would be stupid to do anything else.

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      3. Would be thrilled if you are right, but overwhelming past history and trend analysis suggests otherwise. And you do recall that other than Urban’s interest a year ago, USC has famously face planted when attempting to attract quality candidates throughout its history (again, including recent history, most famously when it hired Sark). I hope you are right, and will be more than happy to congratulate you at such time…but until then…I will remain skeptical, given Folt and Bohn’s record over the past two years (and by extension, Swann, Haden, Nikias, etc.). Have they learned something between last January and now? It’s not like firing Helton required an epiphany…perhaps they have (ie the botching of what could have been a galaxy-shaking hire)…we’ll see…

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      4. So this is the guy you clowns say is all that, huh?

        Yeah Okay…

        LOL!

        OH MY SIDE HURTS FROM LAUGHING SO MUCH!

        AHA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

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    2. Bohn/Sosna will hire the head coach and he will have full authority to do what he wants. If they wanted to try to fix it with internal people, they would have kept Clay, who asked them how high to jump on a daily basis.

      Graham Harrell is the biggest loser in this. He was arrogant and ignorant and bashed his head coach to players. Does anyone think another head coach will want GH as their OC? He cant get a head coach job and has shown he is not a team player.

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      1. Adam Schefter thinks USC is considering hiring Eric Bieniemy as the Trojans head coach.

        Yeah, that’s not going to happen. If it did then all the proto-typical golden hair beach boy QB’s that USC is bias torwards wouldn’t have a chance in hell of starting with Bieniemy in charge. It would be all about dual-threat QB’s…USC ain’t going to go for that, it makes too much sense.

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      3. Hey rents, speaking of Traveler. I heard you’re going to make fertilizer out of all the road apples you labored to scoop up during the game…. anything to make a buck…..PATHETIC!

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      4. Here’s another big man that is trending big time to USC. C Vince Iwuchukwu now has 4 crystal ball picks to USC in the last three days after Baylor has been the leader for about a year.
        Top players taking SC seriously.

        School- Montverde Academy
        Home Town- Montverde, Florida
        7-0 220lbs
        Position-C
        5-Star
        National #16 (247)
        National #11 (Espn)

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    4. According to a board member, Mike Bohn tried to fire Graham as well but Kedon Slovis and Drake London threatened to enter the transfer portal if Graham Harrell were to be fired. Mike Bohn backed down. Both of them are insisting on bringing back Kliff Kendrick Kingsbury back as the head coach to replace Clay Helton. Mike Bohn is on the phone right now to trying to hire coach KKK!

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  2. Good points Michael! Yes, the assistants will all be looking for new jobs starting today especially our wonder boy Graham Harrell who probably thought he was next in line to replace Clay. I see conflicts ahead with Donte and Graham, but I hope they can get along, and do what is best for the players.

    I am not expecting a great season nor should others. However, there is now hope that real Trojan football will return very soon. I have a feeling they are going to go with Chris Peterson, or Bob Stoops since they will be available sooner rather than waiting for a pro coach or successful college coach who might not be available until late December or January. Neither are my top choices, but both are solid football coaches. Both know what USC was, should be, and can be by re-building this program correctly.

    I applaud Mike Bohn greatly for making the move now. His next big move will be to also sign Andy Enfield to a new contract. There have been many who tried before to build a strong basketball program at USC and failed. Andy Enfield, has accomplished that and much more so they need to keep him.

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    1. I think Bohn knows that Enfield doesn’t respect him. Bohn is looking for somebody who, at least, feigns respect…..
      #ItCouldBeAlongTimeBeforeThatGuyComesAlong
      [As for Peterson, if he didn’t like the look of things under Max and Haden, he’s gonna hate the look of things under Folt and Bohn]…

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      3. Attorney Gennaro died bravely and honorably….well, as honorably as possible under the circumstances.
        [I fear President Folt might soon be starring in the big scene involving the nanny in Jurassic World]…
        #She’sOkay…MaybeShe’sSTILLOkay…NoIGuessNotNow…..

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      4. MG – I prefer the novel to the movie (so Gennaro lives!)…unfortunately, we have Hammond and Wu in charge rather than Malcolm and Grant…if going movie route, I’d like that climactic scene to be the Ghost of USC Past in the guise of a (?sans Wiki think mosasaur or pliosaur?) jumping up to remove not just Helton but everyone associated with the past decade…and I’m dreading the need for Lost World-like us having to once again play Malcolm to Bohn(+/-)’s Nephew Ludlow (“Now you’re John Hammond…”).

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      5. It just occurred to me —the scariest part of all these Jurassic references is: the movies just keep getting worse…..

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      1. 2012 Florida Gulf Coast 15-17
        2013 Florida Gulf Coast 26-11 (NCAA Sweet 16)
        2014 USC 11-21
        2015 USC 12-20
        2016 USC 21-13 (NCAA 1st Round)
        2017 USC 26-10 (NCAA 2nd Round)
        2018 USC 24-12 (NIT 2nd Round)
        2019 USC 16-17
        2020 USC 22-9
        2021 USC 25-8 (NCAA Elite Eight)

        ***Overall 193–138
        ***Postseason Tournaments
        7–4 (NCAA Division I)
        1–1 (NIT)

        2018 USC Basketball was screwed by the selection committee. They were definitely considered a tournament team by all bracket experts.

        So I ask you……How is Andy Enfield a joke?

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      2. Literally that’s 2 good years in his entire career. Not a single conference title. 3 NCAA tourney appearances in 10 seasons during the 64 team era! The jokes tell themselves. One of the 2 “good years” coming from a dud conference during a season of upsets playing only the low seeds… USC has frankly been cheating its ass off to give him top ten talent each year, and padding the sched and this is what he did with it. And please, be honest w the schedules, – just tell you to look at conference record, and the P12 is no world beater. He’s had a losing record by a good margin to go with his lack of conference titles. That’s why you embarrassed us with the reminder of the NIT appearance with a loss in second round to fill space. Unless he’s gonna hire a guy to coach with sons that are couple of top five post players in the country every year, and have some more FBI investigations, we need a real head coach.

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      3. Buddy buddy buddy.
        Keep trying.
        Also USC just picked up a commitment USC Trojans get another major commitment in form of 5-star big man Vince Iwuchukwu.
        You dont win at a school like FGC and USC with luck my man. We were the bottom of the conference at #12 when he took over.
        Remember Floyd and Mayo buried the programs momentum and at a school like USC hes kicked a** getting the program to where it is.
        One more thing……
        He’s 4-0 against that guy from ucla.
        Good day brother.

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      4. You aren’t saying anything. First, yes, you do win once at FGCU. If you don’t know what you’re talking about stop. At FGCU, Andy never won his conference. He had a single year at the NCAA tourney. Otoh, his successor won the conference 3 times and was second 3 times and went to the tourney 2x. Lol Jesus… Mercer, the winner of the Atlantic Sun Conference was passed over their regular season champion (a story in itself).

        And seeing you don’t realize that before tourney expansion, it was just 2 wins to get to Sweet 16. Because of an upset, one of those teams was 7th seed San Diego. They lost to U Florida.

        That said, we all know the talent SC has brought in by hook or crook, including a lot of crook. No one missed the agent tell-all book about SC moving families and paying for homes and jobs and prep school, or the FBI investigation showing we had assistance paying off players. .. I don’t have a problem with that, but you don’t cheat that hard, have nothing but top 10 recruiting classes, have a powder puff schedule and STILL never win your conference, ever, ever, ever, and have one good year in ten. Smh, And no one, absolutely no one uses UCLA is not a measure of hoops quality in the last 20 years at least– but they actually went further than us in the tourney. Ha. lool

        But I appreciate that

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      6. Guys if AE has a great season, and I mean a real great season this year when he has every reason to, I’m all for him, That crap system he had got replaced but really, he just replaced it with a single dimension system that got exposed, wasting a situation and talent that by all means should have led to the NC game. Everything lined up, Andy just got exposed and wasted a rare, golden opportunity for SC hoops to raise it’s level. Hell, I was always hoping CH would stop being such a stubborn SOB with his shite offense and lack of discipline, but he chose to die on the hill, like he had to defend his incompetence. I’d love to be talking about how Helton and Enfield (sounds like a fine shotgun maker) brought home the prizes. SC gave them a really good chance.

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  3. Helton fired abruptly after Game 2. Kiffin fired abruptly early in the season as well. It would be interesting to see Haden’s and Bohn’s phone records and see who is actually running the Athletic Department and pulling the Puppet Strings.

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  5. Bru McCoy update?????????????

    You would think Charles Manson was on trial at USC. The review process for the McCoy case is too long.

    We need this guy back on the team. He is the big play receiver we need to go along with Drake. The DA dropped the case what’s USC’s problem with making a decision 1) He is allowed back in school, and back on the football team or 2) Kicked out of school, and dismissed from the football team.

    The longer this goes on the more it screws up the kid’s life.

    Make your decision USC so the kid can move on or continue his education. All the facts must be in announce your decision

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    2. Just because McCoy failed to meet criminal prosecution threshold, it doesn’t mean McCoy won’t wind up a high-profile defendant in a civil lawsuit.

      I think SUCC would like to permanently wash its hands of the whole sordid McCoy affair – the guy’s a screwball.

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      1. Except there is video evidence exonerating him. Of course the truth doesn’t matter to a lowball scum sucking twerp who’d rather slander a young man’s name than respect anyone’s reputation.

        FOAD 🖕🏽🖕🏽

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    3. Jim Mora lying to the college football world by claiming he turned down the Texas Longhorns head coaching job will live on forever in the book called “How we bRuined our life”

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      1. Not to get off topic, especially from that enjoyable memory lool (wonder what clownishness Mora is up to today lol), but I posted before finishing– Andy Andy should he win something significant this year will have my full throated support, something I hope he appreciates. Great posting, appreciate the defense made of the guy. Until then he should not even want a contract extension. My donations paid for that man’s pencils, I demand better performance.

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      2. Well…we need to remember that we’re USC Basketball and not Kansas, Gonzaga, Arizona or even Ucla so we can’t expect to run before crawling which we have and walking which we are. So you may not realize it now but we are definitely a force to be reckoned with. Enfield has brought in some talent that is paying dues now in the NBA and recruits are aware of the kids that are in the league that Enfield has coached. Guys that weren’t supposed to do too much elevated their games at the end. Julian Jacobs wasnt able to play his game under K.O. He was a player that we counted on for big plays under Enfield. Elijah Stewart wasn’t supposed to be in the class and go to Loyola Marymount but became a three year starter. If there was anyone raw and needed time it was Chimezi Metu who came along faster than everyone expected and left with quality big man abilities. I’ll say this Enfield needs to win games in Colorado when he should. Those hiccups are unexceptable now. He may not have won the conference yet but it really hasn’t made a difference up to this point but the team looks ready for bigger things so it may come soon. You and I are clearly passionate about SC and want the toughest product on the floor. Maybe I can set the bar higher now and maybe you can lower yours a little bit with Enfield. Agree to disagree. I hear you loud and clear and don’t want to set the bar at beating the Bruins. It’s definitely much higher.
        Fight On!

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    1. No man crush (please stop going there, btw). In exchange for promise not to get him fired, Donte has promised Scott exclusive access to practice and uninterrupted interview sessions with his staff (including Coach Folt)……
      #TooGoodADealToIgnore

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      1. I’m very confident Donte will do the best he can with the cards he’s been dealt …
        #ButItIsn’tTheGreatestHand
        [Practice management, Clock management, Graham Harrell management, President Folt management —a lot to ask of a guy who has never been a Head Coach]…
        #..ButAtLeastThey’veGivenHim4WholeDaysToMasterThings!

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      2. P. S.
        I forgot –Donte is STILL in charge of recruiting too…
        [I think they picked him cuz he’s the only guy on Helton’s staff Bohn wants here next year —in whatever capacity]…..

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      3. If Donte were all that, then why did the Trojans secondary, which he coaches btw, play like fucking crap?

        And Mr. All That Williams, failed to make any adjustments at halftime, what was up with that?

        Matter of fact, his players were abused even more so in the second half, that’s when they really got kicked in the ass!

        Yeah, but Donte is all that…more like a load of crap.

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  9. The point spread favoring USC has gone from 7 to 8 to 9 in the 24 hours since Helton got axed….
    #HopeVegasKnowsSomethingWeDon’tAboutTeamMorale

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    2. Since his favorite punching bag is gone, Helton. He’s retreated to his mom’s basement suffering from extreme separation anxiety. He has numerous boxes of donuts for emotional support.

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  13. Why has Wolf gone dark during the most newsworthy activity USC has had in years?

    And he claims he went dark yesterday bc he heard something was going down in Heritage Hall?

    Something smells fishy

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      1. I just hope he’s okay. We forget to think of him as a human being —who might need –for any of a thousand reasons — to take some time off.
        #OnTheOtherHand,MilkingThisWouldBeFine

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      2. Hope he’s okay too. He’s missing generating a good debate about the replacement, and what can be changed in the interim. He was also surprisingly quiet on the big pass on Texas/BYU/OK ST expansion opportunities, which he’s indicated before is a big mistake, and I agree. And he teased out a bit about the P12 already committing to nothing and actually stepping up its scheduling vs the SEC rather than isolating which was the only teeth in the “alliance”. And he really has said little about the NIL and USC players, esp as we’re seeing things like Michigan St. signing a sponsorship deal to pay every player– the pressure is on for USC and every school to find sponsors to get top pay for players which will be bonkers.

        I’m half interested in setting up an SC site just so people can talk about all this stuff w/o going to the forums.

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  16. How about them Gov. Newsome NO votes rejecting the recall. The Republicans take another major loser/SUCCer election loss in the shorts.

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    2. My take on that is that the sheeple bought the horse crap the high powered democrats were selling. I didn’t sign the recall petition because it was so close to the general election, but my wife voted No for that reason. She doesn’t like Gavin Nuisance any more than I do but she thought it was a waste of time.
      The disingenuous commercials claiming he was the savior of the state, and the recall was a Trump backed takeover were really over the top. But just what the sheep needed to hear.
      Maybe Nuisance will be ripped from the womb for the next reincarnation or two. (What the heck kill the babies for women’s rights.)

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  18. The Wolf Mystery is solved. A friend at Amazon told me he just delivered a book to him, Football Coaching for Dummies. Guess Scottie is on Bohn’s Short List for Head Coach as well as Mafia Hit.

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  21. All the speculations about Scott are interesting, and I remember him saying, “I’ll get rid of Helton if it’s the last thing I do.” Maybe it was part of the bargain to get rid of Helton that he stopped ragging on Bohn. (If that’s it, it was worth it.)
    So I haven’t seen an obituary, maybe he’s working on his book. I have a couple of good books about the football program, but none delivered the history that Scott does.
    I’m sure this is a hobby for him, and enjoyed it. We’ll be back to discussing the game by Saturday.

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  22. I believe that this blog by Scottie has the third most posts, after his bow out a couple of years ago, and when he went to SI, and Michael, GoTroy22, Pudly, and I, along with some visits from Tebow and FU, got it up to something like 3000…

    Hope Scottie is ok…we miss you brother

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    1. If I were Mike Bohn and I wanted to limit (not eliminate –that can’t be done –but limit) the criticism that would otherwise be coming my way after the Notre Dame game, I think I’d offer Scott and a few other bloggers a bit of cash to stay away from their typewriters for the rest of the season…

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      1. Looks like we’re gonna need you playing fulltime, Bourbon!
        #…AndIfWeHaveToField22Guys…
        #…MaybeIt’sTimeForMeToStopInsultingTheTrolls,Too..

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  23. What if Scott Wolf is actually Clay Helton? Has anyone actually seen the 2 of them together? The body types and hair patterns are similar. Would Clay Helton’s firing mean Scott Wolf can no longer do his job either? Maybe Scott/Clay was playing the long game and sabotaging his coaching prowess through this blog for some nefarious means?

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    2. This is all part of an “experiment.” Scott noticed that the country can run without a president…and he wants to see if the blog can run without a blogger.

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  24. Here’s a big clue something is up: How much time would it take for Scott to keep things rolling by putting up a “Discuss the Firing” article?
    #….ThreeWords

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    1. I think Scott is punking us. When London and Engleman went off the air they told their radio audience “we’ll be back with an important message after this commercial break!” …..but they NEVER came back…
      #TheyNEVERCameBack….

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      1. Good to see you, guys. I guess we better start practicing as a team or there are gonna be a lot of false starts on our part come Saturday…..

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  29. Just got off the phone with the Wolfster.

    He apologizes but he is busy getting his resume together to apply for the open head coaching position. It has been evident to all us that USC hires anyone for at least six years.

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    1. Someone needs to call Petros and find out if Scott is still responding to text messages….
      #LAPDNeedsToCheckScott’sResidence….
      #AndCheckHisCellPhoneToSeeWhoContactedHimLast…
      #IfIt’sHelton,BohnOrFoltHoldOnToYourHats….
      #USCCouldHaveAnotherScandalBrewing

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    2. boxisbento you have to get “Every Night The Trees Disappear: Werner Herzog and the Making Of Heart Of Glass” —it is fricking hilarious [and one of the weirdest things you’ll ever read]……

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      1. You mean he traded in that old pinto, nah. Besides scottie always said that if he let that pinto go he’d only do it for a vintage gremlin with original paint..

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    2. Naturally, I’m pleased about the prospect of getting Urban — but I don’t like the fact he’s been seen from police helicopter with a fake beard & holding a gun to his own head…..
      #…MurmuringRepeatedly”ILovedUSCTooMuch…

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  32. Mr. Wolf got fired, either that or he’s crying uncontrollably in a corner somewhere wondering where he’s going to come up with content for this blog now that Clay has been kicked to the curb.

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      1. Nobody ever needs to shed a tear for Helton. He gets $175,000 every two weeks for the next two years and he doesn’t have to profess love for well muscled 20 yr old prima donnas.

        #AsAMatterOfFactNooneHasShedAnyTears
        #$1AWeekWorkinForChippy
        Or
        #$2AWeekWorkingOnHisNewImageForSatan

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  34. Clay tracked Wolfie down and blamed him for his termination. Scott is now tied up with duct tape and being forced to watch games from Clay’s first two seasons as head coach, as proof of how wrong he was!

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    1. Well, in case the roughhousing gets outta hand, you find yourself in a non-kangaroo court of law, and for one reason or another, it’s determined you’re not a Sui Juris* kinda guy, here’s an option:

      *tip o’ the cap to PJM

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      1. Plug in “The Unfrozen (Mostly) Caveman President” —“I really don’t understand your system of checks and balances, I only understand what the little demon voices at the CDC whisper in my ear…”
        #…TuneInForNextWeek’sHilariousEpisode

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  36. Sorry guys but this is the last post. Time for all of you to come out from your mom’s basement and get a life. I know reality can be scary, but just remember that I’m always rooting for you.

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      1. Somewhere back there in this thread is a reply comment to this. Apparently hit the wrong reply button, and now there’s a response post that don’t make sense. Oh well, maybe that’s Jack D’s way of telling me it’s time to call it an eve!

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      2. MG

        I’ll have you know that Alan Jay Lerner’s daughter, Jenny, lived 3 floors over my head in our dorm as a freshman. I always had eyes for her. Sweetheart. But above my pay grade. Transferred to Sarah Lawrence. Never game back from the East coast.

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      3. I had a great supervising attorney named Charles Goldenberg that (I think) married her. Seriously…..
        #AlthoughMaybeHeMarriedLowe’sDaughter…
        #…[IWasn’tListeningCarefullyWhenHeToldTheStory]

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    1. My comments are so dumb that only I, Owns and Tebow predicted the loss to Stanford and gave you the game plan. My comments are so dumb that I predicted Trump would lose and told you the exact moment he lost the election. I guess you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make em drink!

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      1. Some may know but an interesting tidbit of useless info was how FUCK YOU got his name. It wasn’t at birth like many of us but in fact came as FUCK YOU was a little older.
        The story of how FUCK YOU got his name.

        Before FUCK YOU’s alledged daddy left the trailer park when FUCK YOU was three and a half; daddy would yell over the volume of the TV set, ‘ oh FUCK YOU, change the channel.’
        Well FUCK YOU’s mommy would belt out, ‘FUCK YOU, change it yourself’

        And FUCK YOU heard this so often, he just knew they were y’all talking to him.

        #NoItWasNotInRialto
        #ButClose,ItWasFontuckey
        #OrWasItSanBernardon’tGo?

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      2. My comments are so dumb that only I, Owns and Tebow predicted the loss to Stanford and gave you the game plan. My comments are so dumb that I predicted Trump would lose and told you the exact moment he lost the election. I guess you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make em drink! GOP is old and outdated. Kinda like MG and Pudly 😂😂😂😂

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  41. Okay I am going to say it. I miss my daily dose of sarcasm. I guess my next move is to visit the grownups on trojandailyblog.com
    Write if you get settled

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  42. Wow! That was a lame attempt by an ass backwards republican that graduated from a notoriously democratic school. Have you always been picked on?? 😂😂😂. Don’t be mad at me because the GOP took it right up the aaa!

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    1. Why do I find politics in everything? And how does a university be “democratic?” Do I even know what “democratic” means? Are there schools that are “monarchical?” Or am I so clueless that I’m missing my own point and don’t understand why people are laughing at me? Maybe I should aim low and get a basic cashiering job where my pea-sized brain won’t be too taxed.

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  43. I am thinking more and more that Scottie is in discussions regarding another paid gig, given he was the most vocal critic in the blogosphere about Helton, and is likely getting a lot more attention this week. Maybe a redo at SI, but more to Scottie’s design? Maybe with 24/7? Otherwise, an absence for this amount of time would certainly be a one-off.

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      5. -Washington Post headline: “Biden apparently forgets name of Australian Prime Minister —calls him ‘that fellow Down Under'”
        -New York Times headline: “Biden apparently forgets the name of our country —calls it ‘that place I don’t really govern'”

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      7. I hear Carol didn’t help herself when she told dissenting board members she could arrange for them to “meet with accidents…”
        #PrivatelySheToldBohn”JustKeepMyFingerprintsOffIt”

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      1. I know I don’t need to remind Donte (who is the real deal no matter what happens this season) that the next couple of months aren’t about recruiting players to the team or recruiting fans to the coliseum —they have to be about killer instinct on the field…..
        #…AndThat’sALLThey’reAbout…
        #TheRestWillTakeCareOfItself,Donte

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  44. A belated tribute to Scott:
    A week before my wife and I were all set to go to some downtown L. A. theater to see Richard Burton in the revival of Camelot, a L. A. Times theater critic made fun of Burton for being too lazy to lift Excalibur above his head during one of the songs. Burton was hurt by the review since he wanted to keep it from the audience that —not only was his health failing –but 4 of the disks in his spine had crystallized and he couldn’t lift anything above his waist. Burton exited the production and the lesser Richard Harris took over. All the people who wanted to see Burton do the role were screwed out of their chance by an ingrate critic. I gave our tickets to my brother and his wife.
    Scott gave us a lot. We owe him. He didn’t owe us. His “If It’s Friday” column will be remembered for a long time by all of us who followed and looked forward to it. His old Daily News column was a joy cuz it didn’t look like anyone else’s. Scott just told the truth as he saw it. [Check out the stuff that’s being written now —I mean, holy shit].
    In return, Scott had to put up with the frequent complaint (from me and others) that he didn’t jump a story first. Who cares? Scott wasn’t our investigative reporter –he was an instigator, an editorialist, a provocateur. Now, we’re left with a bunch of people who will sing happy songs [“USC will be favored to win the remainder of their games and is still very much in contention for the playoffs!”]….
    We miss ya, Scott. You were one of a kind!

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    2. To Scott’s credit, the best aspect of this blog (and previous iterations) was to not censor comments, and create a free fire zone. People could be as thoughtful or crass as they wanted. We would police ourselves and no ones comments really mattered. Just 1s and 0s in the ether. Many good laughs and levity in a world that often takes itself too seriously.

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  45. USC had a chance to get Urban Meyer 2 1/2 years ago but Folt wanted no part of him because of his past. She knew that Urban Meyer would eventually go to the NFL. So now that he did go to the NFL and everyone is mentioning his name as USC’s next coach, she knows it’s impossible to get him so she’ll say we tried but it’s out of our hands now.
    She blew it because Urban Meyer would have turned the program around within two years and it would have made her look good.

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  46. The problem with Scottie going to another platform is that it somehow doesn’t comes close to translating to this mishmash here, including the lack of a spelling/grammar check, engaging the “colorful” characters who inhabit scottieworld.

    Michael, we did do something for Scottie in that our clicks enriched his ad revenue…

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      2. Golden opportunity for someone to create Woof’s 2.0 (at least until Aussie trial of holding publisher’s liable for permitting online comments gets Big’d/Gill’d/Toohey’d is introduced for domestic ‘enjoyment’)…

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      3. Remember Alvarado? He tried it. He’s still being held without bail along with the January 6th “insurrectionists”……..
        #U.S.AttorneySezHeWillFileCharges”Someday”

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      5. General LeMay —haven’t heard that name for a long time. I remember when he told US News and World Report, “The Soviet Union has 7000 nuclear warheads, we have 8000. We can take ’em!”
        #ItMadeMeALittleWorried

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      6. Owns – if this is a Jimmy Page record label event, then you will be missed – enjoy what is off to a promising season (and unless/until Ronald McDonald is removed from driving the crosstown ship into the rocks…remains to be seen…roasting marshmallows on our dumpster fire)…

        If on the other hand by some miracle…then it will be back to the “save for the 2006 debacle…not a meaningful game since Vermeil’s Jimmy Page record label event in that stadium where you are only allowed regular season access to…” Or something like that.

        It’s like the final departure scenes in LOTR…well, maybe more like the same in Bloom County en route to Outland…

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      7. Cool reference….[Every “departure scene” in that film is cool]….
        #…AndThereAreAtLeast9OfThem….

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    3. btw, Maybe it’s not odd Scott would bow out when he was scoring over 100 hits a day…
      #HannahArendt:”TheGreekHeroChoseToEndHisLifeAtIt’sHighestArc”

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      1. I don’t think John wouldn’t mind me pasting in the column…hope this doesn’t get WordPress to shut this site down…

        Ten need-to-knows for Week Three …

        1) It’s the biggest Saturday ever for the Pac-12 Networks, which will broadcast an unprecedented seven games over the course of 13 hours.

        The logjam means three games won’t be shown on the national network:

        Oregon State (vs. Idaho), Cal (vs. Sacramento State) and Arizona (vs. NAU) will be available only on the relevant regional network and through Pac-12 Now.

        It’s hardly ideal, but there are 11 games on Saturday, and only four are on the ESPN and Fox networks. Overlap on the Pac-12 Networks is unavoidable with broadcast windows that stretch to more than three hours.

        (The previous record for games on the networks was six, set on multiple occasions.)

        2) Washington is trying to avoid its first 0-3 start since the 2008 season, when the Huskies went 0-12 under Tyrone Willingham.

        Basically, 2008 is the benchmark for any lows UW might challenge this season, although the winless record outside of league play in ’08 comes with a caveat: The Huskies faced Notre Dame, Oklahoma and BYU.

        There were no Montanas or Arkansas States on the schedule.

        3) Since joining the Pac-12, Utah is undefeated against Mountain West opponents.

        What’s more, the Utes haven’t lost two non-conference games in any season since they jumped from the MW in 2011.

        They’re currently 1-1 and a tad wobbly entering Saturday’s date at San Diego State.

        4) Remaining undefeated teams, per Power Five conference:

        SEC: 10
        Big Ten: 7
        Big 12: 6
        ACC: 5
        Pac-12: 3

        5) Stanford’s visit to Vanderbilt is the first of four matchups the teams will play over the next decade.

        The series was arranged years ago by Cardinal coach David Shaw and then-Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason, a former Stanford defensive coordinator.

        The last time the Cardinal played a road game in the SEC was … never.

        6) Donte Williams is USC’s third interim coach in the past eight years. How have his predecessors fared in their debuts?

        After Lane Kiffin was fired midway through the 2013 season, Ed Orgeron beat Arizona 38-31 in the Coliseum.

        After Steve Sarkisian was removed midway through the 2015 season, Clay Helton lost at Notre Dame 41-31.

        The Trojans visit Washington State on Saturday as an 8.5-point favorite.

        7) The Pac-12 is 2-5 against Power Five opponent with three games remaining — it can’t do better than a draw.

        Colorado hosts Minnesota on Saturday, while Stanford and USC will face Notre Dame later in the season.

        (In 2019, the conference was 5-5 against the Power Five and Notre Dame.)

        8) UCLA takes the field Saturday against Fresno State for the first time since the victory over LSU.

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        Chip Kelly with an extra week to prepare (in-season) during his time in Westwood:

        Loss at Colorado (2018)
        Win at Stanford (2019)
        Loss at Utah (2019)

        9) Washington State hosts USC for the first time since the memorable upset on a rowdy Friday night in 2017.

        What was key back then will be key again:

        The Cougars were 8-of-18 on third-down conversions, while the Trojans were a mere 2-of-11.

        10) Finally, the updated Heisman Trophy odds, via DraftKings:

        Alabama QB Bryce Young: 7/2
        Mississippi QB Matt Corral: 5/1
        Oklahoma QB Spencer Rattler: 8/1
        Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud: 10/1
        Clemson QB D.J. Uiagalelei: 18/1
        Cincinnati QB Desmond Ridder: 20/1
        Oregon TB C.J. Verdell: 25/1

        How’s that for an early-season surprise?

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    3. The Owns, goodnight, memorial, pinch-hit, this week’s Wolf’s Winner and Loser round-up.

      Winners:

      Clown U FB circus finally pulls the belated, expensive, fire Helton trigger. But was the Boner’s action wise?

      Clay Helton is carried off on his bozo shield. True, he was over his head coaching wise; however, Helton s/b respected for never whining about the harsh criticism he endured. Helton never showed up shit-faced at SUCC FB rallies or drunk ranting on late-night radio sports phone calls; no male or female reported Helton for sexual assault or harassment; he didn’t divorce or beat the shit out of his wife; he didn’t rudely chase SUCC co-ed’s on his H-D and, his players weren’t mistreated. Take a bow Mr. Helton, you did your best with dignity. Have fun spending your millions.

      Clown U Rah-Rah FB blowhards.

      The next smuck HFBC that thinks he can salvage the capsized SS bozo dingy. The SUCC dingy has serious underwater structural damage.

      Scott Wolf, the straw the stirs his crazy, outstanding, addictive Clown U blog.

      Losers:

      Stanford 42 – SUCC 13 in the 4th Qtr., at the crumbling mausoleum……..’nuff said.

      The SUCC FB team, they’re more interested in Hollywood celebrating an opponent’s TD than making a tackle.

      Kid Slovis and “The Drake,” the garbage time twins.

      The SUCC FB program loses more credibility.

      US blog followers, if Wolf has really left the building and the fat lady has sung.

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      1. Hey… it would sure make you a much more credible little biotch if you could actually boast about your school beating us…

        0-2
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        vs furd 1-10

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  49. It would be so cool if USC got into the red zone 8 times this Saturday….and scored a TD each time….
    #TimeForThisTeamToProveSomethingToTHEMSELVES

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    1. …won’t happen. The prior HC and the present OC are beyond their capabilities.
      Always sad to see an overachiever fail.
      It’s not from motivation.

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      1. On the other hand…maybe USC only wants power backs…maybe they don’t have enough of an o-line to spring guys who need the LEAST bit of help getting past the line of scrimmage….

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      4. Glad you said that. Kenan Christon did EVERYTHING that was asked of him. Great work ethic, major talent. That’s more than enough to make it under normal circumstances…
        #..ButTheseSeemToBeFarFromNormalCircumstances

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    2. Hard to understand why Helton/Harrel would recruit a gamebraking speedburning back only to have them sit on the bench.
      What are these guys thinking? That strategy got one of them fired in mid-season with the other to follow at year-end!

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      4. Kenan is truly a talent.
        Nice to see that a “knucklehead” coach who could not use that special talent is now searching the “help wanted” adds.

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