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Discuss The USC-Utah Debacle

USC is officially a joke.

It has been blown out of three home games and pushed around physically.

Let’s put this on Mike Bohn.

He has been at USC for 2 years. He has been a blowhard about all the support staff he hired and done nothing to change the program in a meaningful way.

And here we are now at 3-3 vs. a dreadful schedule.

Bohn should apologize for where he has led the program. And Todd Orlando and Graham Harrell are awful too.

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    3. Years of Clay Helton coddling players, soft practices, lack of discipline, hiring crap assistants and failure to understand the importance of a strong offensive line has led to the shit show you are now witnessing today when watching Trojan football.

      Shameful and embarrassing!

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  2. The average fan they show in the stands looks much more unhappy than the average player on the sideline. Something is very wrong with that.

    The whole football organization stinks from the head down, and I don’t know what one can do other than clean house and start all over. Total redo, and that would include Bohn. Forget the bar video and go get Urban.

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    1. Did anyone expect that USC would be able to immediately turn around a program that was destroyed by Clay Helton and Graham Harrell from the inside? Graham Harrell’s offense is a joke. He should be fired immediately. The defense cant possibly be trained to defend against teams running a complete offensive attack.

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      1. The defense cannot prepare for REAL football when they practice against the gimmick air raid. It’s why they always look unprepared in games. Harrell is a helton clone. All talk, no walk.

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      1. We all pretty much know what a screw up Harrel as an O.C. But putting him in the same category as BruinRob, who has been the Assistant to the Manager at the Cerritos McDonald’s for the past 15 years is a bit harsh.

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  4. It’s not quite a category mistake because it’s kind of an esoteric concept but the mistake people are making here is referring to this group of people as a team. It’s not a team. It’s a collection of individuals who’s priority is their advancement. There’s no one for all all for one. It’s all about building their individual brand. That’s USC’s identity, has been since Carroll started the Hollywood circle jerk. It’s like, there was a quote this week how a receiver was so happy that he was at USC because he could run into billionaires every day just being out and about. It’s not a team, it’s a production. Just like the hype videos and the stupid basketball DJ. Anyhow, thanks for attending my TED talk.

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  5. Clown U FB milks garbage time and then goes for a 2 point conversion. What a crock of sh*t.

    Next, down 16, SUCC calls T/O with 50 seconds to go, WHY? Crap, what a pathetic, no class FB program.

    #Clown U on the elevator to rock bottom.
    #I don’t care what the bozo W/L record is, this team is CFB playoff ready.

    #Cue: “How Much is that Doggy in the Window”

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    1. Well BruinRob, I remember back in the early 90s when ucla was getting the shit kicked out of them by Arizona by a score of 28-0, and they kicked a field goal to keep their scoring streak alive. But that’s ucla for. Total chickenshit.

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      1. Oh sure trojnfn4, it also must remind you of the SUCC vs Alabama game when SUCC kicked a 48 yd., FG down 35 – 3 and failed to score a TD.

        #SUCC FB: Taking the express elevator to rock bottom.
        #The bozo schadenfreude is so delicious.

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    2. Hey BruinRob, sort of like Slick Rick Neuheisal called time out in 2009 against USC and then Barkley threw a 50 yard bomb to Damian Williams? Then ucla threw a temper tantrum and wanted to fight everyone.

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  7. Swing for the fences. Go talk to Saban. I can’t believe he’d want to finish his career in Alabama when he would be a rock star in Los Angeles. Every man has his price. If you can’t get him, talk to Lincoln Riley. Open the pocket book. This is an embarrassing!

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      2. Word on the street that there was a recent sighting out in the desert. At least he knows how bad he fucked up and has gone totally underground. The DJ at Galen is still his greatest crime against humanity.

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  9. This is the residue of seven years of softness by the substitute teacher, Helton, the assistant principals, Haden, Swann, and Bohn, and the Principals, Nikias and Folt. Don’t blame the players, it’s not their fault.

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    1. Yeah, and you idiots bought the pay-site, LA Times essentially State Media smoke blowing operation the whole time. Y’all can eff-off and when you get there eff-off some more.

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  10. Congratulation carol & mike!!! Helton’s two further years of ineptitude with your aiding & abetting has done more damage to USC than the NCAA sanctions. Now if we don’t get a REAL BIG NAME COACH soon, we will continue to spiral downward as getting recruits, even with the remarkable skill of Donte, will increase in difficulty because USC will be a loser. We need
    tthe hope of a promising future. Only a major change like a great coach will spark that hope.

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    1. Bohn and Folt are on the phone right this second laughing about the mess they created: “Oh, Mike, can you imagine what all those cavemen fans are saying about us?! Oh I’m laughing so hard I can’t breathe.”

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      1. Mike and Carol talking Shilala stick…

        BTW-Even though he showed a little more heart than I thought, Fury thoroughly dominated Wilder…he had him figured out by the end of their first fight…classic boxing axiom: bullies hate being bullied…Fury is an oddity, but one hell of a combination of smarts, sneaky quickness and power and enough awkwardness to make him miserable to deal with for opponents, given that big frame.

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      4. MG – Your dead on (and I know you know your boxing)…same sort of deskilling has occurred in the heavyweight division that plagues other sports (the big power punching is the equivalent of home run derby feast or famine in baseball and how football has devolved into a throw it up for grabs version of the old single wing – Roger Staubach missed his era – he would get paid a $billion a year in today’s game)…but Fury actually defies that is some ways…for a big non-athletic looking fighter, he’s surprisingly quick, good at slipping punches, smart in making tactical changes, and it’s his jab that sets up all of the long-armed bombs…he doesn’t remind me of any heavyweights, except a little of maybe V. Klitschko…but he has a lot of elements of smaller fighters…

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      5. Astute observations –on sport in general and boxing, in particular. Fury is not what you’d call poetry in motion but he’s a natural fighter –meaning he knows how to get to you. And he has killer instinct. He’s the bigger, more dangerous version of Chuck Wepner (we know what Ali did to Wepner….I wonder if he could do it to a 280 pound version of Wepner…)…
        #IKnowThis:ABiggerVersionOfAliISN’TGonnaComeAlong

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      6. Fury reminds me of lower weight division fighters more so – I see a lot of Marvin Hagler in him (although obviously not the ripped specimen type of athlete)…combined with the effective awkwardness of Klitschko V. … yeah, the closest to a 280 lb Ali would be Lennox (wow, how good could he have been if with a different trainer early on rather than later)…but even he showed how science is a part of the science…at a certain point, limb length and need to move additional mass against gravity results in diminishing quickness and stamina…even if the fighter has great quick twitch muscle fiber percentage.

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      7. Lennox was the real deal –speed, intelligence, the whole arsenal of punches —but a questionable chin.
        #ILovedHisManager,Emanuel…MayHeRestInPeace

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      8. Lennox had it all … just harnessed it later than should have been the case (if Manny had been his trainer from day one, might have been the best – skills of Larry Holmes, body of a bigger Ken Norton, fists and wrists as big as Chicken George…and smarts…of course, that latter was what held him back, as I’m sure you’ll recall Manny’s humorous but prosaic comment (I paraphrase): “I wish he would quit playing that fucking chess!”). Fun interview…and unlike other fighters, almost without exception, you didn’t want him in a rematch – he always learned and got better. The fight with Klitschko was one of the best, if awkward…

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    1. Pudly –We need all hands on deck. Sure, this season is falling a little short of our expectations (in the sense that Carthage’s attack on Rome fell a little short –and they wound up with their fields being sown with salt and weren’t able to ever again resurrect their society) but that’s no reason not to join in the fun, is it?

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      3. I love historical references more than anyone, but you’ve used one that is frighteningly on the mark…but I’m not so sure about your conclusion (it was one thing when it was the SECNCAA on the attack, but when Haden/Swann/Folt/Bohn decided to take turns playing the part of Cato the Elder screaming “Carthage must be destroyed!” while trotting out Helton as Scipio Africanus…ie self-destruction)…

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    2. Between the assless chaps and the ball gag his mom forces him to sport I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s fallen victim to one of those Chinese finger trap things.

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  12. I agree with you. They are a flawed team. The defense was not even sound or fundamentally correct.

    On Sat, Oct 9, 2021, 8:28 PM InsideUSC with Scott Wolf wrote:

    > scott wolf posted: ” USC is officially a joke. It has been blown out of > three home games and pushed around physically. Let’s put this on Mike Bohn. > He has been at USC for 2 years. He has been a blowhard about all the > support staff he hired and done nothing to change” >

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  13. I was at the OU-TEXAS game today and that was one helluva contest. I saw one interesting thing on the Texas sideline. Sark had his merry band of Waltons standing on a bench waving their towels to whoop up the crowd.

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    1. …”New” Coach will be selected by the same fricking idiot who extended Helton and brought in Orlando……
      #TheGuyW/GoldSlacks&CardinalBlazerWhoTalks”Compatibility”

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      2. folt is his master…sc picked her to rule the roost,when they could have chosen a real univ president…all was done intentionally.

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  15. Has there EVER been a Trojan team that gave up over 40 points in 3 losing games in a row AT THE COLISEUM?
    #Bohn:It’sNotAbout”TheSeed”…
    #…It’sAboutTheHumiliationYou’veBroughtUs..
    #…ANDTheHumilationYou’reYetToBringUs…
    #[YouMotherFuckingIdiot]

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  17. Bohn needs to back away from his desk while leaving a signed resignation behind. He should then take his half of the money, he and Helton split from the University buyout, and find a place to retire where nobody has ever heard of him.
    Folt should accept his resignation and add her own. She can go back to whatever matchbook diploma mill she worked for, and start over as a clerk.

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    1. I know that nobody will agree with this but I don’t think that the problem is with Folt and Bohn. I think the problem is with everyone who came before them. Get the right coach and things will change.

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      1. Bohn and Folt were issuing meaningless, hedge their bets, aren’t I virtuous?, bullshit statements during last summer’s riots. They are a couple of phony wokesters…. disrespected by mostly everyone. Bohn smiled that sleepy smile and extended Helton after Iowa wiped up the floor with his soft, unprepared team. Folt talks crazy talk (The Path Of Righteousness) whenever she’s interviewed and is in way over her empty head.
        Yeah, I blame them plenty…for being two regular clowns.

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      3. 67 –Did you see Biden getting so mixed up today that he thanked the President of Pennsylvania (?) and, then, couldn’t pronounce the name of whoever he was talking about and HAD TO SPELL IT OUT LOUD as it appeared on his cue cards? It was one of his all time hilarious performances.
        #You’dHaveToBeSOBrainDeadToSupportHim

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      4. just 14 seconds long and this says it all, as Joe somehow integrates a ship’s quartermaster with running the lady’s department on the second floor. You can’t make this up:

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  19. I witnessed the mess from my seats in section 122.
    Less attendance than previous games due to team performance plus fucking Barbara Ferrer’s vax card requirement.
    I actually feel ok because if administrators, team and coaches don’t give a fuck, why should I?
    It was breeze getting out of stadium as well as parking structure.
    Obvious Donte is not ready for prime time as team has not improved.
    This is the worst coached defense I have ever seen.
    Congratulations Utah you kicked our ass like Stanford and OSU.
    The Fighting Child Molesters will be favored by at least 14.5 in 2 weeks.

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      1. Spoken like a true liberal. I haven’t heard one logical statement that you have made. Just name calling…..SEXIST, RACIST, HOMOPHOBE, ISLAMOPHOBE, TRANSPHOBE, MYSOFYNIST….BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. A true lib.

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      2. Barbara Ferrer’s PhD is in Public hospital management it is NOT a medical degree. So your people manager is making life changing medical decisions for the people of Los Angeles County and you are done with that? She is Joseph Geobell’s daughter has anyone seen her and Skeletor in the same room? She sleeps in a mop bucket because she likes the way her hair comes out.
        Typical Nazi rhetoric; do unspeakable things and blame the other guys. The Democratic Party is not some football team you root for, millennial, it’s people who crave power and will pay you with money they took from others to get your vote.
        Blaming the faithful few herein for this year’s team is laughable, yet you did that above along with your juvenile banter of “oh you are one too”
        When you are at the gates of hell waiting your final judgement, remember to blame Jesus for saying he was the only way to heaven.

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  20. SC is now 3-3. In 2 weeks they will be 3-4. They are not going to beat ND in South Bend. If I had to guess, I would think that they will end up 5-7 this year. But it’s too early to tell because we don’t know what will happen when Jackson Dart comes back and takes over……and he will. Slovis hasn’t played that badly but much of his production has been against weak teams or against better teams when we were way behind and they were playing a lot of prevent defense and giving up a lot of yards just to run out the clock. I’d like to say that he has had some good stretches against some of the good teams but I don’t think that they have played any good teams yet. This game didn’t surprise me at all.

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    1. Don’t play Dart until he has had the proper 6 week recovery from the menisectomy.
      He has a future–possibly a bright one–and possibly at USC!
      Let the kid recover.

      Dart has a future. This version of the USC Trojans FB team has no future. If Dart could lead us to a 9-3 season and a great late December Bowl Victory, then I’d put the kid in.
      Otherwise, let the kid recover and don’t subject him to this heartless group of coaches.

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      1. I might substitute “brainless” for “heartless” —but, yeah, that about says it…..
        #NoQBShouldBeForcedToWorkBehindThisO-Line
        #EspeciallyOneAsImmobileAsKedon…
        #WhatAPERFECTRecipeForDisaster…
        [Can you imagine how dim Helton must be to watch this line perform in practice…and still run around chirping “Happy Tuesday, everybody!”]?

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  22. Another total embarrassment… The USC players don’t even look pissed off! The coaches look like a herd of deer’s on the 405 freeway at night!
    As a former team Co Captain, this is really hard for me to take. After putting up with six years of Helton’s constant coaching failures and now this… Donte Williams is in way over his head.. Please get this season over with and Fire Bohn and Hire the best coaches away from other schools.
    Use some of the 2 billion dollars endowment fund and clean up the shitty mess that Haden,Swann,Bohn and Helton have created.. The Board of Trustees should also fire this inept,so called President Folt. USC currently looks like a junior version of the Biden administration!!
    I’d still go after Stoops, Finkle, Del Rio, Fisher and even Urban Meyer!!!
    Everyone is better than this current, waiting to be let go, staff..

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    1. Forget Stoops, Del Rio and Fisher. SC doesn’t want UM. I’d definite go head over heals to get Fickell. But we will get an outstanding coach.

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      2. You’re right about that, Tim. They’d all be solid.
        #ButIThinkWeCan..&HaveTo…DoBetter…
        #WeNeedAMiracleWorkerCoach…LikeAnUrbanMeyer

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    3. NOBODY can save this season…but the cancer treatment has started since the cancerous hellton has been removed…the cure is a real head football coach and staff…it is a 1-2 yr treatment. Remember the ‘midget minded’ BOT led the way choosing a ‘folt’ to lead the university,knowing the hellton led football program STUNK.

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  23. BAD PRODUCT- OUR DEFENSIVE AND OFFENSIVE LINES ARE A JOKE. Big waste of time even watching this team on television. You could tell in the 1st qtr Utah was too physical for USC . This is another example that the air raid offense is not unstoppable like Harrell thinks, and that football games are won on the offensive and defensive lines.

    Who in the world recommended Johnathan Smith at Oregon State as a strong candidate for our head football coaching position. Today, Oregon State got beat by Washington State. USC needs a proven winner head coach to repair this mess,not a 1 season or even half a season boy wonder.

    The Pac 12 is not even close to the Big 10, SEC, or Big 12 in talent, and the teams are well coached also in those other conferences.. I still think Kirk Firentz at Iowa would be a decent choice he has developed alot of good offensive and defensive lineman. He teaches winning games in the trenches with physical play nothing fancy but he wins games. Imagine what he could do with the type of talent USC has as it is very difficult to recruit blue chip players to Iowa.

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    2. never leave Iowa…unless his wife wants too…he is rooted in Iowa.
      Orgeron might leave,but his contract is huge at LSU…he just needs a real q/b,which he has had only 1 year….Burrows.

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      2. Not Orgerin….Please. He won the national championship because of Joe Brady and Dave Aranda. Once he lost them, he was never the same.

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    3. Yeah, give Kirk a call and see if he wants to leave the awesome program which he has built in Iowa for the Hell-hole that is Los Angeles and the Memorial Coliseum. I’m sure he’d love to deal with the Sean McVay loving/SoFi stadium loving/LA Rams loving LA fans and media.

      Iowa fans love their school and their team. Many of them are close friends of mine.
      Kinnick is notorious for being one of the most difficult stadiums for visiting teams.
      Likely not a lot of homeless beggars and common criminals hanging around Kinnick Stadium as there are at the LA Coliseum.

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  24. Recommendated Solution:

    Offense
    With a weak offensive line—–you need a mobile QB not Slovis. Start Jaxon Dart if he is available for ND. Begin to prepare for next year.

    Defense
    There’s only 1 solution- START OVER. We are getting blown off the line of scrimmage. Fire Todd Orlando, and let the young players get some experience.

    Looks like all the added resources Mike Bohn talks about are now liabilities, and must be thrown in the trash at the conclusion of the season.

    Attendance at USC games should be free for the rest of the season. Watcihng this team is a waste of time.

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      1. see above.
        This season is officially over. Don’t hurt Dart.
        Two losing seasons out of the last 3 (if you discount 2020 scrimmage season).

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      2. I don’t think Donte is ALLOWED to use Dart again.
        #ProblemSolved
        #[I’dSayUseHimIfWeHadTheBarestMakingsOfAnO-Line…
        #…ButWeDon’t…]
        Note: If Dart were 100%…and we did use him… I think he’d do wonders for the offense….all those trips down to the 20 yard line would end up as TD’s —-but it’s risking next year’s season….
        #Remember:NoDrakeLondonNextYear–ItWillBeALLDart

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  25. Hats off to our interim coach. Our boys battled all night, Utah would’ve beaten bama tonight with their passion and emotion.

    This team under the new coach has no quit in them. I think it’s clear we’ve found our coach, it’s time to remove the interim tag.

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      2. Have no issue with Donte. He inherited a S*** show.

        Coaches can be bought, but team spirit and fight — Never

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  27. Oh well, life is good:

    Dodgers win
    UCLA wins
    Utah blows out Clown U 43 – 26, in a near empty crumbling mausoleum.

    Cue: “Oh Happy Day”

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    2. and to think he was compaining about Roberts earlier in the evening and the previous day (and wanting to fire Chipper two of the last three weeks…and what might he have been musing at 17-16 3rd quarter with a QB performance reminiscent of Vince Evans 1975 “He couldn’t complete a pass to the Grand Canyon”?)…

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      1. It’s a fact, the Dodgers win in spite of Roberts. If Roberts has to make tactical game decisions, that’s when the Dodgers suffer losses. Let’s be honest, Roberts managerial mismanagement cost the Dodgers at least 10 losses during the ’21 regular season. Just halving those Roberts managerial gaffes and the Dodgers finish four games in front of the Giants.

        Hey ’86, f**k the Giants.

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      3. Just pulling your chain – but not disagreeing with your assessment as to Roberts…being a fan of the Brooklyn Abscondos bastard offspring…no, not the one they birthed with your beloved Gigantes! – the Mets…but the Royals (probably not of importance enough for most people to care, but they were literally designed on the Dodgers by virtue of Ewing Kauffman hiring Cedric Tallis from LA – reason why they built a huge park, emphasized pitching and speed, and wear uniforms that are almost identical) – it was painful to sit through Ned Yost Yosting his own team night after night…amazing they survived him to all but win back-to-back Series…so I get where your coming from (especially when it comes to mismanaging pitching changes or not changing the lineup for weeks when players are in serious slumps).

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    1. I know that Donte is stretched thin as tissue paper (and his Dad died –so last week probably wasn’t a teaching week) but, wow, our defensive backs are the worst coached unit on the field…..by far.

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  29. This is literally the worst I’ve ever seen a USC football team play. It’s gonna take a while to recover from the mess that Helton left. We really need a solid hire.

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    1. PATHETIC DEFense poor OFFense. 3 home Losses brutal COACH ing. Giving up 42 points. No Defense. No offense running the Football. Very poor showing on the Football field. Being OUT COACHED RUN over. Out Played. Look s LIKE SENILE DEMENTIA Criminal Joe Biden Destroy ing America with open borders bring ing in Moe Disease s while having a PANDEMIC.

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      1. Mostly agree …but I’m seeing the beginnings of a nice run game emerging.
        How is Ingram? Hope his injury is not serious. He’s such an inspirational player and a great young man.

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  30. The program is inarguably worse now than when Mike Bohn took over two years ago. He has had two off seasons to make a coaching change and then does it just two games into 2021, essentially sacrificing this season. It just defies good judgment and thinking. I’m not optimistic that Bohn can bring in a quality replacement and then we will be saddled with another loser coach for a minimum of 3-4 years. Bohn and Folt should be fired now. I’m glad that the Utah sh*t show was nationally televised so their incompetence was put on display for all to see. Notre Dame two weeks.

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    1. I have confidence they’ll pick a coach they’d like to work with — someone who won’t stand up to them….someone in the Helton mold.

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  32. SUCC will need their bye and a 20 lb. bucket of bondo to show up in South Bend with a shot at not further humiliating itself.

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      1. Ah no AH, UCLA lost 40 – 37

        Getting your ass kicked:

        Stanford, a 17 point ‘dog 42 – SUCC 28 (42 -13 b/4 garbage time)
        Oregon St. 45 – SUCC 27 (7 points in garbage time)
        Utah 42 – SUCC 26 (8 points in garbage time)

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  35. I think some people are starting to get the complete picture of the devastation wrought by the BOT in not hiring a real Univ President. A real one would have fired hellton on their first day with or w/out an AD. THIS MESS WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD TO OCCUR.
    Until folt is gone I don’t know if we will ever have a real football coach,she made bohn make excuses and keep hellton 2 more yrs,but attendance figures plummeted this yr, and money talks.

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    2. Tim said it. The BOT. Caruso. They have no business overseeing a university. They showed that in dealing with Max and the med school and the abuse at student health. So they picked a weak president who is good at virtue signaling, and whom they could control.

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      1. There are built in disadvantages to picking a president who is weak and stupid.
        #But,ThenAgain,ThereAreDisadvantagesToPickingAClownA.D.

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    3. I’ll bet Folt doesn’t even realize what a terrible job she’s doing at ….well, everything. No one will force her to connect the dots….
      #….That’sNotHowUSCWorksAnymore

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  36. forget this yr…but maybe help is on the way…folt and co. will decide the fate, thanks to the BOT…but they may make her shut up and let AD and staff hire a real coach.

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    1. I’m glad there is a chance Folt will not share any more of her coaching wisdom with the A. D. …..
      But… there are questions about the A.D. himself…..
      #…His”40YearOldVirginSmile”WorriesTheCrapOuttaMe….

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  37. On another blog under a different name I said “Harrell would be a manager at McDonald’s.” I was quickly told he’d screw that up too. So I reflected upon what I had seen last night and realized my mistake .
    Harrell is responsible for the entire offensive unit. So his future job is NFL owner of a chronically losing team. I only seen offensive linemen being bent backwards, as ours were last night, watching the Jets play. The Jets spend their draft picks putting glitter in their backfield and shit on the line. They wonder why their high paid former college stars cannot produce, while defenses blow through the line to stop their glitter.
    I saw our offense whiff blocks to avoid getting hit. I saw weak tackles being stood up and bent back like blowup dolls at a Bruins frat party.
    Harrell thinks protection for his stable of quarterbacks and running backs is not a necessity. NFL ownership here he comes.

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    1. We all pretty much know what a screw up Harrel as an O.C. But putting him in the same category as BruinRob, who has been the Assistant to the Manager at the Cerritos McDonald’s is a bit harsh.

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  38. I would not let one Saturday change my view of the HC search, though Jonathan Smith’s loss to a truly terrible Wazzu team in the Palouse does tarnish his resume a tad on this website.

    1. Fickell or Aranda. They know defense and can hire a good OC prontisimo.
    2. Matt Campbell or maybe Jonathan Smith
    3. Franklin….
    as expected, a loss at Kinnick has dropped him back to Earth.
    OSU, UM, and a revived MSU under a wonderful coach–Mel Tucker, loom large.
    We’ll see about Franklin. After McSorley/Barkley/Giesicki left, I’ve not been overly impressed with PSU. However, he would be an improvement for our program with consistent 9 win seasons.

    I chuckle when I hear bloggers suggest Nick Saban or Orgeron or Kiffin or Stoops, etc.
    Low football IQ.

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    1. Talking about low football I. Q. —how do you feel about the fact Mike Bohn is entrusted with the decision as to who we go with next?
      #AtLeastOnPaper,He’sEntrustedWithThatDecision..
      #[CouldBeSusanRice]….

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      1. Hey Mike:

        I think hiring a head football coach for USC is pretty easy. I don’t think it takes talent:

        Make a list of the top guys you want.
        Make a budget of how much you can spend–top dollar amount.
        Start calling.

        I think Bohn can do this. I think he knows enough about football to know who is a good FB coach. At CU, he was hampered by an uber-liberal, penny-pinching BOT which would not pay an asst FB coach above Professor pay grade. He also had to get someone to come rescue a perpetual losing FB team.

        As a HC candidate…
        The fact that the PAC 12 is shambolic is out of your control.
        The fact that LA is a $#ithole is out of your control.*
        The fact that So Cal recruits are leaving the West and going to the Big 10, Big 12, ND, SEC and ACC is within your control, and the only reason you consider the job.
        The job has to be seen as a “step-up” compared to your prior job, cuz who wants to
        compete in a shambolic conference and live in a $#ithole? Many of the names being bandied about–Urban, Stoops, etc–already have enough money that they don’t have to choose to coach in a lousy conference and live in a hot, filthy city.

        *I doubt Corvallis, Waco, or Ames are great places to live if one is a multi-millionaire.

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      2. Bourbon (sorry, I can’t resist this one):
        “At CU Bohn was hampered by an uber-liberal, penny pinching BOT …and a perpetually loosing team”…
        …Whereas THIS TIME he’s dealing with USC’s BOT & football team!

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  40. Another head coach candidate who would be alot better than Jonathan Smith.

    Mark Stoops- Head Football Coach Kentuck University

    He has built that Kentucky Football Program from nothing. Like all his brothers including Bob Stoops he is a strong defensive minded coach who wins football games in the trenches. Has he been a consistent winner- NO. But he doing some remarkable things this year in the SEC, and this is not the first time he has made Kentucky more than competitive in that very tough conference. Might be the perfect fit if we cannot land one of the big names. We need someone from the SEC not the Pac 12 conference which at this time is very mediocre in football because it is not tough enough.

    Imagine what this guy could do at USC with the large recruiting base we have compared to recruiting in Lexington, Kentucky which is not a hot bed football area.

    I am beginnng to believe by the way that the top names might not want to come to USC now based on the mess the program is in, and have to work with Carol Folt and Mike Bohn who as leaders of this university have to be the joke of the coaching football coaching community.

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    2. I’m not “liking” the Stoops idea —but you’re 100% on the notion that NO self respecting coach wants to look at Bohn and Folt’s blank, phony faces all year. They are the kind of people who –if you saw them in the interview room as a job applicant — would cause you to turn around and say, “never mind— that’s okay, I’ll show myself out.”

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  41. Clay Helton should have been fired after the Loss to Iowa in the Holiday Bowl a few years ago, and we are now paying for that poor decision.

    I am sure all the assistant coaches are telling their wives:

    “Honey this is a mess at USC even though the pay check is still coming in it’s time to do the following:

    Pack everything up we will be moving in December.
    Please send out my resume before it is too late
    Put the home up for sale
    Let the kids know we will be moving soon.
    Tell all our friends to send Christmas cards to our PO Box

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    1. Nothing funny about what you wrote, tommyd —- cuz it’s all true. That is EXACTLY what is happening. And the team sees them at their computers and hears them on their phones while they’re doing it.
      #It’sCalledASinkingShip
      [It is a measure of his absolute cluelessness that Bohn was running around before the game flashing his “40 year old virgin” smile]….

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      1. this ship is in DRY DOCK waiting to see if it can ever be repaired since the ‘folt pos’ admin is running things under the pos BOT,approval cabal.

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    1. Why Harrell? Shouldn’t Orlando get priority?
      #AtLeastHarrellHasThePlaysToGetUsDownTo20YardLine..
      #…HeJustDoesn’tHaveAnythingToGetUsPastIt(ExceptDrake)..
      #OrlandoFucksUpAllOverTheField

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  43. Clay Helton should have been fired two years ago after the loss to Iowa in the Holiday Bowl so we are all paying for this decision including the players.

    Are the coaches motivated right now to do their jobs the answer is no.
    I am sure when then heard Clay Helton was fired many of them told their wives and family the following:

    1) Honey, this job is a mess at USC right now I’ve had it. There is no job security, and future here.
    2) Please put the house up for sale we are moving again in December.
    3) Pack up everything…….be prepared to move in December.
    4) Please send out my resume EVERYWHERE!
    5) Tell the kids and their teachers we will be moving in December
    6) I will work through this for now so we still have a paycheck coming in.
    7) Change our permanent mailing address to a PO Box location.
    8) Please send this THANK YOU LETTER I HAVE WRITTEN TO CLAY HELTON for giving me this terrible/short term opportunity.

    One wonders what the players are thinking. I am sure their parents are encouraging them to transfer rather than watch the ship continue to sink.

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  44. Utah should give Carol Dolt the game ball for keeping Helton two years ago…. Then again, maybe Swan should get all the game balls from all SC opponents for Helton’s stupid contract extension. There is a long term consequence for having a terrible coach, the longer he is coach, the more devastating the results. The defense has sucked since Pete stopped coaching the defense, the offense has sucked since a brainiac decided to adopt the offense of teams that can’t recruit….

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    1. Carol needs to answer for this…oh, wait –WHO would make her do that?
      #”LongerYouHaveTerribeCoach,TheMoreDevastatingTheResults”…
      #DoesTheSameFormulaWorkForPresidents?

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  45. The Question on Everyone’s Mind: Where is USC ranked today?
    Yes, Kiff took them from pre-season #1 to 39th in country —- but Folt and Bohn took them from pre-season #16 to 101st! That probably has never been done before…
    #CreditWhereCreditIsDue

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  46. Last nights old news
    A group of us old geezers were in a joint in Prescott sharing adult beverages, pizza and sports. I stole the remote at the bar and put on the SC game and was booed loudly. I prevailed for reasons known only by those who know my negotiating skills. (Wit, good looks, charm and picking up the check)
    Final opinions. Good athletes. Not a team. No one likes SC. They will hire Meyer.

    #BruinBobIsStillFatAndShort
    #GoGiants

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    1. Hire Meyer…with special clause that reads, “Signee agrees to turn over to LAPD any and all evidence of University President abusing spouse should such evidence come to his attention… and not to be seen in presence of blonds not his wife…”
      #ProblemSolved

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    2. Dodgers 9 – Giants 2
      F**k the Giants

      Oh BTW ’86, guess what weanie Univ. FB team is in last place, in the Pac12, North. Oh well ’86, there’s always intra-mural Rugby to brag about.

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  47. Utah offense talking to Kyle during USC time out before back breaking last second TD in first half: “But isn’t it risky to go long? —they are totally prepared for that look —they saw it before the time out.”
    Kyle: “No. We’re good to go. Orlando is telling his defensive backs to be sure to let our receivers get behind them.”

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      1. I’d hate to take that exam again…. but not half as much as taking the fricking LSAT again….
        #MakeCarolTakeItAsConditionToRemainingPrez….

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      2. What a crap deal; Summer 1972 heat wave, and at the Glendale recreation center without air conditioning and hearing kids flopping in the pool outside.

        Then the “fun” started in Court.

        Fight on, so we say

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