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USC Fires Alex Grinch

Alex Grinch has been fired as defensive coordinator, Lincoln Riley announced today.

Defensive line coach Shaun Nua and linebackers coach Shaun Nua have been named co-defensive coordinators. Defensive analyst Taylor Mays has been promoted to on-field coach and will work with the safeties.

REACTION: This is all a year too late. The season’s over. It doesn’t matter. Lincoln Riley blew it.

Now let’s see who Riley hires? It’s going to be critical he hires an experienced coordinator with a strong track record. Can he do it?

100 thoughts on “USC Fires Alex Grinch”

      1. ‘Ol Mule Shoe is going to need about a year of therapy to help him cope with the loss of his Grinch.

        Who knows if he’ll ever even recover. Riley has this on loop and neighbors are starting to complain…

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      2. Had USC or Jenn Cohen been smart about it and fired Grinch after that disaster of a performance against lowly Cal, maybe Taylor Mays and Sua Cravens could have come up with a simple defensive game plan to give to those two simpletons Shaun Nua and Donte Williams and Washington wouldn’t have known what to expect.

        The idiot Grinch should have been fired last year, I get it…I’m just saying

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      4. I do wonder if some USC alum players with experience at the top level could help to develop a quick defensive plan? That is a really good idea. I cant see how Odom and Nua are going to make a positive difference. This was more about getting Grinch out the door for the PR impact.

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      1. You know Patterson is washed up when he was or still is taking marching orders from Sarkisian…pass on that old has been fool.

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      3. pull your head out of your asshole, dipshit……I have been calling for Gary since the end of last season….since you like to stalk my postings, go back and locate my Patterson comments ….or STFU!!!!!!!

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      4. Forget about Oregon game, it’s gonna be bad, but beating the Bruins & winning a bowl game will take away a bit of the sting.

        Scott, can you ask a Pac 12 grad assistant who’s on the short list of candidates for DC?

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      5. I think that there are better choices than Patterson. His age bothers me. I’d go with a younger guy as my first choice. Maybe Patterson my 2nd choice. We had Monte Kiffin, who was considered the best in the NFL(a mentor of Pete Carroll) but he was older. We saw how that worked out.

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    2. 100% correct – who…or what…ever hired Kiffin, Sark, Helton, and then OU-SC…until that is fixed, nothing will change. Those on this board who keep ra-ra’ing are fools. USC got lucky with Pete because no one else would take the job and he needed it due to Parcells having tainted opinion about him around the league. McKay was also a lucky hire. You have to go back to Howard Jones to find USC doing what other top programs due routinely (hiring a program-worthy head football coach with sufficient assets and authority to succeed).

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      1. I still want to see if Riley has the ability to turn it around….He deserves a chance since the main cancer has been removed….IMO!!

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      1. why can’t you meet up with Gabby and express your feeling instead of being a coward talking shit from your keyboard…you truly look like mini mouse…man up pussy boy

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      2. Board Coward, Zero Football IQ Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka Cowardly Gabby/TebowObama, you admitted you lied!

        Here’s Board Coward, Zero Football IQ Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka Cowardly Gabby/TebowObama admitting all:

        Gabby (original)
        JULY 8, 2023 AT 3:06 AM
        no one is going to fight someone over comments made in a blog…..plow is an old man just popping off…and you fucking know it…

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      3. Says the Village Idiot who refers to herself in the third person.

        No reason anyone should have to drive to Barstow, when you’re the one who wants to prove you’ll back up all the shit you talk. I told you on Friday where I would be yesterday. You chose not to show up.

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      4. You don’t fight someone where 1000s of people are in the area… Quick way to get arrested…. You just wanted to look tough when cry wolf…. Pussy boy…

        Barstow…. Or be the other blog coward

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      5. You fight someone at a gym, you pathetic coward! Board Coward, Zero Football IQ Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka Cowardly Gabby/TebowObama has done it again! What a moron!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      7. So, the Village Idiot will incorrectly claim that our MG committed a crime, yet volunteer to commit a real crime, as long as he doesn’t have to pay the consequences for it. LMAO

        That’s a real pussy!!

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      8. You’re talking in circles again… Pull gotroys dick out of your mouth and translate. Thanks.

        It’s fucking creepy how you continue to throw shade on MG who was an imposter. Go get your head checked out… There is something really wrong between the eyes.

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      9. Talk about creepy, Board Coward, Zero Football IQ Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka Cowardly Gabby/TebowObama.

        Which is it, Sybil?

        Is MG a criminal or your friend?

        stmarseille14
        NOVEMBER 5, 2023 AT 5:56 PM
        RAN HIM OFF????????????????? the real MG was being impersonated by someone on this blog for many many years….that’s a fucking crime, you senile mental midget……still butt-hurt over a sock puppet no longer here to defend you…..HAHA!!!!!!!!

        MG respected my intelligence and the ability to defend and communicate my points. He may not have agreed with me, but he liked the arguments I presented….you on the other hand, couldn’t debate yourself out of a paper bag

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      10. She’ll just lie again, as in her most recent post. I’ve never “thrown shade at MG”.

        It’s hilarious the shit she makes up in her messed up head. Her POS parents failed miserably.

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      11. It’s comical how you call someone out for lies yet in your own words you exposed yourself as a habitual liar regarding leaving for the football games and tailgating. The actual truth, coming from the words you typed, said you never had season tickets for the past two seasons……let me remind you what you said

        So Cal
        OCTOBER 29, 2023 AT 10:26 PM
        That’s why I laughed 2-3 weeks ago at the ticket office for not caring if long time season ticket holders let our tickets go the past year or two, because we didn’t care for all of the changes. Previously, we had stuck through thick & thin because we enjoyed knowing our seatmates, watching their families grow and getting old with each other.

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      12. PS….how am I “making shit up” when you made a direct quote……

        there you have it folks, the blog dunce

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      14. Mr. slo pa-troll: STFU…….no one on that clown show scott wolf blog gives a shit about what you say…..How many times have you been depressed because no one responds to your political bs….I know you don’t go there to talk football, you have no football knowledge.

        Quit arguing with people and go get me an extra large bottle of lube…..Tiny is a calling

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      3. Boogs was making a joke, you idiot. Not shocked you were too stupid to comprehend that.

        ZING! Right over her head.

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  4. Criticize rightfully Grinch’s glass jaw and his incompetent gamelan for the fight, but at least stood in the ring and took the punches and beatings that came. Meanwhile our ad whose salary is paid by the football program hides in the shadows. #CohenNext

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    1. She did get him fired i.e. it had to go through her to sack Grinch in fact FRiley was probably already made aware of the intent prior to the debacle last night if what did happen did go down.

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    1. “Meanwhile our ad whose salary is paid by the football program hides in the shadows. #CohenNext”

      Gabby, my point, is the AD supposed to hold a presser, during the season, regarding the DC??

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      1. Hold a press conference….why? Sadly but bluntly, Grinch fired himself. I think we all like an AD who is rarely seen or heard as long as the athletes are real (Singer) and doing honor to USC.

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  7. The Season’s over, too little too late?
    Did you know that SC still has a chance to play in the Pac-12 championship game but of course it requires beating Oregon and sucla
    so the Wash loss was immaterial because SC still would have still had to beat the Webfoots even with a Wash win

    This of course depends on what Utah (at Wash and Arizona)
    and Oregon St (Wash and Ore) do but if Troy wins out they’re probably in a re-match with Wash and wouldn’t that be something

    Now about those pesky little Webfoots, they can be beaten at home because I witnessed Leinart and Bush do it in 2005

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    2. To beat Oregon, this team needs some genius help on the defensive side of the ball. Someone that can come in and modify the mess that Grinch has created to make it a real defense. Doing that in less than one week would be a miracle.

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      1. Dumb had this exchange–
        Dumb (to a pretty girl) What are the chances of going out with you?
        (Pretty girl) About one in a million
        Dumb– So you’re saying there is a chance

        Beating Oregon is not a one in a million

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  8. Is it a fact that any football firing has to go through Athletic Director
    ‘Ol’ Jen, and if so where are all those Trojans castigating her for being a “no action AD?”

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    1. I respect what you’re saying Sparrow but rubber stamping a year overdue action can’t be interpreted as being proactive. The fact is Cohen’s lack of transparency throughout the tenure is concerning. The lack of forthrightness on such a critical matter indicates the ship will sail where the fair winds blow. That’s not in an ad description. Fortitude to lead when the situation gets bleak is. Right now there needs ro be a resolute adult in the room to counter lr’s petulant spoiled brat routine. Cuz lr ain’t going anywhere, it’s simply too expensive.

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      4. Nope. It’s your mom after a hard night of turning tricks on the strip, in order to pay you rent. Shame on you!

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      5. WIT-LESS PUSSY BOY….YOU SOUND LIKE SOME WET NOODLE 7TH GRADER…I SEE WHY YOUR FAMILY HIDES FROM YOU…

        WHEN ARE YOU MEET UP WITH GABBY…YOU’RE OVERDUE FOR AN ASS WHIPPINH

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      6. They don’t. But everyone on this blog knows why this is the highlight of your day. You’ve accomplished nothing in your life and your angry posts are your deranged way of dealing with it. So sad & pathetic.

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      7. So why don’t you just ignore me if I am a broken cause…..you look like a fucking idiot for taking the bait every fucking time….stop responding, show some fucking tolerance….you sound like a scorned little bitch……always crying about what Gabby says….just fucking ignore it…..

        You have some mental issues!

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      8. Tough year for SC. They are rated #28. Shades of 2012 when many picked them to win it all and they ended up 7-6. Huge mistake to bring back Grench. Calebs last year was wasted.

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      9. Everyone on the internet knows you shouldn’t feed trolls like you. But making you cry is hilarious!

        You can lie all you want about that being what is going on, but everyone else knows it is. That’s why nearly a dozen people have called you out, including MG before he stopped posting.

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    1. Would be curious to see what NFL team wants a QB who runs to cry on Mommy’s shoulder after a loss. Not knocking him, just stating a fact.

      Might be good for him to stay another year and grow in ways not measured by statistics.

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      1. Real men cry…you fucking idiot… it’s called emotions….something you never learned suffering from the Napoleon complex….go fuck yourself with Tiny and leave us alone.

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      2. Speaking of someone else who loves to cry. LMAO

        Shedding a tear or four, while standing on the sidelines or sitting on the bench with your team is NOT the same as running to cry on Mommy’s shoulder, you idiot.

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      4. And GFY with the “us” comment. You do NOT speak for the blog. As Plow said, you don’t fit in here and never will.

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      5. This is an issue between you and Gabby. Stop bringing other names into it. If you are truly a “man” then you need to make the same perverted comments to his face. You talk the talk now walk the walk and meet him, or you need to call yourself a pussy who hides behind his keyboard. This has gone on far too long. Test Gabby and see if he’s actually a “wuss”.

        Go ahead, make up some more lame reasons to get out of it. You’re nothing but a little instigator, with the Napoleon complex…..embarrassing

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      6. I have to agree – many here ripped Dorian Thompson Robinson last year when they lost to USC. Suddenly it’s now excusable because it’s Caleb?

        Not a good look couple that with the painted fingernails and all the incredible money he’s garnered since he transferred to USC. DLB loathe QBs – he’ll have a huge target in his back especially if he decides to enter the draft. As legion of players have said he’s not going to find anything resembling the ‘college experience’ in the NFL.

        He’s a born leader – time for him to act like a man.

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  11. Great. Now the horse is out of the barn CLR buys a new barn door. CLR and USC screwed this up by not firing Grinch after the Cotton Bowl has come back to bite them in the ass.

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    1. Fuck it, there’s no time for any strength and conditioning, those girls need PED’s and quick.

      Someone at USC has to know how to get in touch with the Ting brothers.

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  13. You have to hand it to Grinch though, he learned one defensive gane plan, one concept from WAZZU, try and get to the QB on every play, even on obvious rushing plays, forget the RB, don’t worry about him, get to the QB and try to accomplish it with defensive linemen that that are outweighed 60-70 lbs.by their counterparts across the line.

    He sold that shit for a number of years, amazing isn’t it, the bullshit people will believe. LOL!

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  14. The simplicity of Riley’s air raid concepts are also being unmasked. Without Superman, this team might have troubles on both sides of the ball. I hope the new AD helps Riley to see this. He is a real smart guy, if he wants to change, he can do it.

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    1. Yep, next year going into the B1G with either Miller Moss or Makayla Nelson at QB, USC is fucked!

      Serves Lincoln Riley right though for being in denial with Grinch, shooting to hell any chance at a second Heisman for Caleb Williams. Hell, I could see Riley leaving USC before next season and I don’t think it would phase him one bit what people would think of him bailing on the team.

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  16. Grinch fired is a good and overdue move. Strength & Conditioning next would also be good. But the main problem with the D is that all they saw in practice is the “air-raid” – and when real balanced run/pass offenses show up, they can’t stop them. Moreover, and what is really troubling, is LR’s total abandonment of the running game, especially late when it can be most effective. If we give the ball to our running backs 30+ times in a game, we likely score 1 additional TD and/or remove a TD from the other team due to time-of-possession and a rested D. Our opponents have been watching our game film, and they know we have a weak O-line and that they can put pressure on CW, and it boggles the mind why LR cannot see the answer in establishing and maintaining the running game all 4 quarters. Tragedy. Pure and simple…

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  17. What a joke Grinch’s speed defense was. Defensive lineman looking like linebackers, and linebackers the size of defensive backs. Mckay would never would have hired him not many would. We need leaership, size, speed, and fire on defensive this finesse stuff doesn’t fly even in the Pac 12 surely not the Big 10.———ED Orgeron ???

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  18. Why the call for Orgeron. There is a reason he was fired at LSU, the program collapsed. And when he won the national championship it was because of Joe Burrows and the offense. The LSU defense was a disaster. LSU outscored their opponents. When Burrows left, it was over at LSU. Admittedly, Coach O can recruit but that is not enough.

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  20. Scooter,

    Who fired Grinch? Was it Folt the Dolt, Sorority girl aka the AD, or Riley? What time was he fired? Was it after the game or Sunday morning? It makes a difference who fired him. If it was Folt the Dolt, then she/he/it had pressure from the alumni. If it was Sorority girl, then I am suprised. If it was Riley, then he grew a pair. If that is the case, then will he fire Donte Williams afterwards and the oline coach? Will Riley keep Taylor Mays as a permanent safety coach? There is a lot going into this firing. We need to know Scooter.

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