When veteran coach Greg Brown was hired as a USC senior defensive analyst, I said it would be interesting if Brown was brought in to hold Donte Williams’ hand.
Lincoln Riley said this week Brown is here to help the entire defense.
“He’s really an overall advisor for our defensive staff,” Riley said. “For myself, he’s a great set of eyes. He’s somebody our defensive coaches can sit in there and bounce ideas back and forth off of. He can give them an open honest opinion.”
But the reports I’ve gotten is that Brown spends most of his time with the secondary. So it looks like the main priority is to help Williams. And really, that needs to be the main priority. The secondary, especially the cornerbacks, are going to be under a microscope. And the coaching there needs an upgrade.
With all the top QB’s in the Pac-12, you can’t really afford a cornerbacks coach who isn’t developing players. Who has USC developed under Williams? The best corner last year (Mekhi Blackmon) was already developed at Colorado when he arrived last year.
Whether Brown can do enough as an analyst to make a real impact, we’ll see.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT IS VERY REAL
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AND MANKIND FIRST LEARNED AROUND 15000 BC THAT SEX CAN SOMETIMES CAUSE BABIES.
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HEY
THOSE DEFENSIVE COACHES CAN BOUNCE THEIR IDEAS OFF THE OL DOG 🐕 HERE.
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AND I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO GIVE MY SEASONED VETERAN OPINION.
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FACT
A WOMANS PELVIS IS LARGER THAN A MANS.
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EXCUSE
THE DOG ATE MY HOMEWORK SISTER MARY IMMACULATE.
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Sister Mary Immaculate! My second grade teacher, George!
#DefinitelyNOTMyFavorite….
#…ThatHonorGoesToSisterMaryJanette…
#[…WhenSheKickedMeOutShe’dLetMeComeBackTheNextDay]
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ROBINSON ANNOUNCES TONIGHT
THE DOG 🐶 HERE IS PREDICTING HE WILL BE A TROJAN !!
DONT STAY DOUBTED !!
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We will see if Brown has a wrinkle up his sleeve as to dealing with the refs shaping each game to be an offensive shoot out.
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PAY THE REFS BIG $$$$$$$$$ ???????
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That usually seems to be the best answer….
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Williams is in the same boat as Grinch.Can’t fire the first year (too hasty) Second year, benefit of the doubt. Third year could be Adios……
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Your “adios” just made me wonder when Dementia Joe is going to claim he’s Mexican. He’s already claimed to be Polish, Jewish, Black, Puerto Rican, Greek, Irish and Italian.
#SeeSayPwadray
#UniqueAsBreakfastTacos
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Check out YouTube & watch Joe Rogan wondering out loud why the media allows Biden to “invent words” without asking what’s up with his brain pan…..
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Hey don’t knock it Kennedy claimed to be a Jelly doughnut. (Although there are those who claim he didn’t in his defense)
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SoCal,
As long as he does not to claim that he is Hungarian, then He is almost tolerable. When he does, then war will be declared on Biden.
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Joe told a group of Jewish leaders that he grew up in the synagogue. A few months later, he told a black audience that he attended services every week at a black church and he was the only white guy there. And of course he told the Greeks that he was a Greek orthodox Catholic. But the most offensive to me is Joe saying on Saturday that the right to kill a baby in the womb is part of what it means to be an American and that he will work tirelessly to codify this right in the Federal law and then taking communion on Sunday and proclaiming he is a devout Catholic.
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Since you are the official reporter of dementia related presidential misquotes, why haven’t you informed everyone here about Donald J. Trump telling Sean Hannity how he got us out of NATO.
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Trump did what he could —by insisting the western European countries start paying their share or the USA was getting out….
If he got his second term we’d be out by now….
#FaceIt,NATOIsAJoke….ABunchOfOfficesW/NoMilitary
#btw,IsUkraineLocatedAdjacentToTheATLANTICOcean?
#[It’sSupposedToBeTheNorthAtlanticRegionNATOProtects]
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MG,
Your response is appreciated but Donald was confusing NAFTA with NATO. I don’t have to tell you that those kind of slip ups are always reported here.
Fair and Balanced, right?
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“Nice effort, my Capitan!”
—Tyrone Power [as Zorro] to Basil Rathbone….
#…[ButThatStillLeavesUsWithBiden&NATO]
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“ButThatStillLeavesUsWithBiden&NATO”
Which leads us to…
“Game over, Man! Game over!!” – Hudson, played by Bill Paxton, in the film Aliens.
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Corn Pop played strong safety (he was a bad dude) when Joe coached at Yale.
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‘He’s a special guy.’ USC invests in teaching Raleek Brown how to play a bigger role
https://news.yahoo.com/hes-special-guy-usc-invests-235006860.html
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THANK YOU CR
ENJOYED THE READ
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So Greg Brown, what is your assessment of the 2022 SC defense?
— It stinks
Well, fine, then how about in 2023?
— It will be better than “stinks”
Thank you Greg for that incisive to-the-point analysis
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Only so much Greg can do, John. Grinch is still in charge. Differences of opinion will be resolved in Grinch’s favor —- maybe leading to a bigger mess than we saw in 2022….
#…Unless….
#…ThePlanIsToGetRidOfGrinchTheFirstTimeHeGivesUp40….
#…AndElevateGregToDefensiveCoordinator
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Oh Michael, from your mouth to God’s ears……..Grinch is marginal at best and as I’ve said before Dirty Harry has it right “A man’s got to know his limitations.” We need a world class defensive coach same as Riley is as an offensive coach……..Riley now needs to prove he’s a head coach.
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Wow! “Head Coach”!
#IHonestlyForgot…
#…IGuessIAlwaysThinkOfRileyAsOurO.C.AndQuarterbackCoach
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— Just saw that sucla’s basketball star Jaylen Clark is leaving sucla and was overheard mumbling, “Without me the little panty waists couldn’t even get out of the Sweet-16”
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hey scotty, how about a series on the evolution of football pants from below the knee to the upper thigh. our school had really old equipment for the frosh team in 1961. hip pads were on a belt you wore around your waist and thigh and knee pads were built into the pants
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Ah. The good old days….
#….IWoreThoseOldPantsInFroshFootball
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Jim Nantz broadcasts last shining moments in NCAA tournament with some mourning
https://news.yahoo.com/jim-nantz-broadcasts-last-shining-120023192.html
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Wright played poorly last year but he is young, talented, and got 9 games of experience. Covington also has some talent and started a few games. Domani Jackson has off the charts athletic ability and looked good in the few games he was able to play and hopefully will be injury free next year. It is likely that USC has a dramatic improvement in their cornerback play next year. There is typically a big jump in play between freshman and sophomore years. If that happens, who gets the credit – Greg Brown or Donte Williams.
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Carol: DONTE!
#”HeKeptUsRightOnCourseAfterClay!”
#[ALosingCourse]
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I agree, I think Carol should get ALL the credit. That lady with those legs can really coach, right MG?
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We need more than an analyst.
We need a defensive coordinator.
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And a defense to work with
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That MAY be the plan.
#SometimeInOctober: “GoodbyeGrinch…..HelloGreg….”
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Hope not, Michael, that would mean ‘Celeb’s last year is a bust
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Defense would only arm tackle in the bowl game. That was not a coordination problem. Even Bullock was only bumping and arm tackling. The players were not enforcing a norm on themselves of take-down tackling. What caused this breakdown? Defense plays as a unit. If there is a weak and porous defensive line that places excessive pressure on the linebackers and secondary, both of which were thin in talent and numbers, especially LB because of injuries. Did the backers and secondary feel they couldn’t stop Tulane?
Imagine an orchestra where the violin section has to make sounds like horns because the horn section is not making music. Then add a hypothetical competing orchestra that is trying play music that blasts out your music. That is what football is like. They live and die as a unit. Better LB and secondary play depends on improved LB play. So, where to start to improve the tackling is probably not necessarily the LB’s and secondary but the DL.
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…very nice rendition of “a chain is only as strong as….. etc.,etc….”
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You named all the reasons why Grinch is horrible.
He had top recruits at OU and was still horrible.
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Scooter,
What is your thought on Riley not firing the dc or cornerbacks coach? Is he soft and too loyal to his staff or will he fire them next year after he brought in a defensive analyist and they still did not do a good job. Let us know.
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Somehow I think the “bouncing of ideas” will begin with, “sit down shut-up and listen.” I wonder why USC didn’t hire a coach’s coach for Williams after they fired Helton? His first words would have been, “never kiss your players on the sideline (or any other part of their bodies)”
Every team has a weakness I just wish USC’s was using too much water in their sideline koolaid cooler. Between the lack of a sustained pass rush and inability to stop a deep pass, my guess is USC’s weakness is too much reliance on the offensive unit scoring every time they get the ball.
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….which is why, when Caleb got hurt against Utah, the defense said “what’s the use?”
#Let’sJustStopTackling&GoHome
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Scooter,
The 2023 Major League Baseball season has offically started. May the Cardinals or Giants play the original L.A. team, the CA Angels in the World Series.
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That would be fine with me, P.T.
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Donte has always been good at recruiting players and establishing good rapport. If he can get better from having a pro like Greg Brown over his shoulder, great!
Scott always makes it sound like the sky is falling. Maybe Riley realized that if he can make Donte a better coach, then he will have an elite recruiter and strong position coach. And it is also possible that Donte might move on to a DC position at a smaller school and Greg Brown could replace him next year.
Riley isnt going to let anything stand in the way of winning a national title. If the defense is not better this year, Grinch is gone and the whole defensive coaching staff gets turned over.
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As someone [John] pointed out that would mean we wasted Caleb [a once in a generation talent]….
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I’m pretty confident that Riley will create the next once in a generation talent again very soon. Surround the QB with a great o-line, great receiver room and a top QB coach like Riley and there are alot of guys who can be “once-in-a-generation”.
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fUCLA
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ETA 59 minutes
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