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USC Morning Buzz: A Good Step But Not Nearly Enough

Let’s be honest: The firing of Alex Grinch, while necessary, is hardly the only step Lincoln Riley needs to take to fix the coaching staff.

He needs to do something about cornerbacks coach Donte Williams, who has not developed the cornerbacks. He needs to look at his linebacker coaches (Brian Odom, Roy Manning) and question what they delivered the past 2 seasons? They are his Oklahoma buddies so it would really be difficult for him to do something there.

Look at some of the underachievers on the defensive line this season and defensive line coach Shaun Nua deserves scrutiny too. Riley also needs to figure out why the offensive line struggles and whether offensive line coach Josh Henson is culpable?

If Riley does go after a big-time defensive coordinator, the guy is likely to want to bring some of his own people with him, so Riley might be forced to make some of these changes.

  • No one else is going to say it, but buried in the details of Sunday’s moves is something that showed maybe Riley isn’t up to the task. He decided to elevate former player Taylor Mays, who has never been a position coach, to an on-field position and coach the safeties. That’s probably popular with some fans because they remember Mays.

But why didn’t Riley elevate analyst Greg Brown, who has been a defensive coordinator three times and coached defensive backs at Alabama and Auburn, to an on-field role? Doesn’t that make more sense? Brown knows more than Donte Williams and could have coached the entire secondary.

If Riley had some fortitude, he would have made Brown (or someone with a similar background) the secondary coach before the season. But then again he kept Grinch, so he doesn’t have any fortitude.

78 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: A Good Step But Not Nearly Enough”

  1. I don’t care about the coaching situation right now, I just want SC to give Oregano
    a game, and if SC wins and beats sucla they are most likely in the Pac-12 Championship game for a re-match with Wash, a game that SC might be favored

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      1. No, I received the “memo” that Celeb still has a chance to go out as a champion with a Pac-12 title

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  2. Well, at least Grinch won’t ‘steal’ a second Christmas, and has any sports figure in memory ever taken such a fast steep fall as Wiley has?

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    1. That idiot Alex Grinch stole the entire year. An entire season of Trojan football went right down the shitter because of Riley and Grinch.

      You want to know what Alex Grinch got you fanboys for Christmas, a Christmas Day bowl game invite to some shit bowl, that’s if you’re lucky.

      That’s what you fanboys get for your time spent praising Lincoln Riley and Alex Grinch, all the time spent defending those clowns, a shit bowl game invite…LOL!

      MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS!

      AHA HA HA HA HA HA!

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    1. This is just another predictable college football equivalent of Congress “kicking the can” to the right on the calendar. Another half measure like expelling Pendergast or Kiffin M. The administration remains incompetent and will let LR ride out his contract and allow the program to further deteriorate. Not the first time this show has appeared on the Coliseum stage. If LR was competent (to reference “Dr. Wolf’s” loaded question – by the way Doc, not “Just What The Doctor Ordered”) to make such a hire to affect such change, it would already have happened. Thankfully, hockey season rolls around right on time every season as another USC coaching disaster further reveals itself.

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      2. So correct! I made this comment after last year- the guy wants yes men that wont ruin the passive, non physical culture he carefully wants to maintain. Stay tuned- if he hires a guy that LR forces to keep the existing position coaches- we are doomed

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      1. I’m not a fan of either team per se, but appreciate good hockey – sports or management/execution in general – but LR and the USC head shed should be forced to watch and take a quiz on last night’s Anaheim 4 goal 3rd period outburst in coming from behind to give the defending champion Knights their first loss after a torrid…record in fact…start. Then have a live Q&A with the Ducks coach…where LR is forced to hear the obvious: “How did you pull that off Coach?” “We kept working hard, grinding and being physical, for a full 60 minutes … we were hungry and wanted it more … we hit harder and paid the price … but it only mattered for that game … now we need to do it again and again and again …”

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      2. I go back to the 1908’s Islander’s vs. Edmonton Cup final that the Isles took in 4 straight. Gretzky and Lowe walked past the Islanders dressing room and they weren’t jumping all over the place, they had ice bags all over their bodies, right then they both realized what it took to win the Cup.

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      3. As good an example as one could point to (especially given what it gave rise to) – the Red Wings learned the same thing in 1995-96 from the Devils and Avalanche … if only LR was Glenn Sather or Scottie Bowman!

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  6. Forget about the Utah, Notre Dame and Washington games. Remember Arizona and Cal. That is the level the program is at, even with Caleb at QB. Now USC has another Helton who needs someone to pick his assistants for him.

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    2. Right on the $ (pardon the pun)! In retrospect, as much as a debacle and sometimes embarrassment as Kiff’s short tenure was (tarmac and all), he is the only post-PC coach who at least had a plan and could assemble a good staff…he just wasn’t ready…too bad the current Kiff (not that he’s perfect – he still hasn’t gotten over the hump at Ole Miss, but relative to that program’s means, he’s now exceeding expectations) couldn’t go back in time with that staff to 2010. But such is life … the McKay and Pete lucky accidents happened … given enough time, hopefully it will happen again, since it really does just require competent coaching (and all that entails, to include understanding that even in this era, toughness and physicality still are part of the winning equation, along with physicality – ie being clever alone is not enough) to be successful at USC, and anything beyond that has championship potential.

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    3. I disagree completely. Riley and Helton are complete opposites.

      Riley needs to learn how to be a great head coach. Hopefully, the new AD is talking to him about that. It means putting the needs of the team before his personal friendships. I think he will do that, maybe not completely, but enough to turn this ship. He also needs to grow beyond his air raid roots and make sure his offensive schemes are not stale.

      Riley will be able to reconstruct an effective offense next year, so it really only comes down to the defense. That can be solved with a great DC.

      Helton was the slow learner in the class and really didnt have the intellect to run a team at the highest level.

      So these situations are night and day. Riley simply needs to embrace the tough changes that are needed. Helton was good at hugs, but couldnt embrace anything more complex than a child’s game.

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      1. Gomer and Riley are carbon copies.
        Neither has any connections to get top assistants.
        Neither plays physical football.
        Neither has hard physical practices.
        Neither has any game management skills.
        Neither had a top S&C coach.
        Both had to have inept assistants fired from their staffs because they couldn’t do it.
        Both shunned special teams.
        Both are pass happy fuck the run coaches.
        Both suck at recruiting OL & DL.
        Both could recruit the shit out of the QB & WR positions
        Both have their buddies on their staffs.
        Both suck keeping top talent in state.

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  7. Jeff Fisher is currently an adviser to the Nashville Kats in the Arena Football League. Maybe he should be considered for the defensive coordinator position

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    1. Sports jobs are best when you become a millionaire even though you fail to do your job properly and can’t stop UW’s offense on their last drive and force them to punt so Celeb can drive the team down the field and lead SC to victory.

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  10. It is ‘out of style’ to show compassion these days, but my wife said she felt sorry for Grinch, and I was wondering how a guy who undoubtedly is a workaholic (aren’t all coaches) woke up this morning
    with no job and nowhere to go

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    1. He’ll find another job; his agent is undoubtedly already putting out feelers. He’ll probably have to take a job as a position coach or analyst though, at least for a couple of seasons.

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      2. There is no way Grinch will find another DC job at the Power 5 level. His reputation is trash. He will need to be rehabilitated. Maybe a stint as an analyst at Alabama.

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  11. Both the LAT Ryan Kartje and SCNG Luca Evans beat reporters wrote very blunt assessments of Riley’s refusal to sack Grinch at the end of last year. It was these two who quoted defensive players post-game.

    It is Bill Plaschke’s column that really bit hard letting AD Cohen understand her lack of willingness to direct Riley to have done this months ago comparing what finally happened with what IA’s AD Beth Goetz did to their OOC Brian Firentz (son of head coach Kirk Ferentz), ordering his dismissal.

    Side note – in addition in today’s LAT, sports editor emeritus of the LAT, Bill Dwyre, penned a no holes barred critique of Bobby Knight and used the sacred totem of LA icon John Wooden as his foil. He barely makes mention of Sam Gilbert but has plenty to say about the accurate and bullying behavior of Knight.

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    1. Knight deserves a no holds barred critique as he was just another common bully who happened to be a good coach, whereas Wooden undeservedly received high marks despite being a hypocrite with Gilbert

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      1. That’s all I was looking for an acknowledgement by the 4th estate that created the total cover-up of the corruption endemic on Wooden’s time. His successor Gene Bartow understood what Gilbert was and confronted him wherein Gilbert threatened Bartow’s life. Bartow then went to JD Morgan who morphed into a ‘referee’ between Gilbert and Bartow. Wooden got a full ride thanks to such as Dwyre, CBS, NCAA, Roy Firestone et. al.. Nothing – but plenty against Tarkanian courtesy of Wooden pointing his ire at CSULB’s coach.

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      2. Sparrow,

        Yes Knight could be a bullie and a jerk. However, he ran a clean program unlike that filthy no good lying hypocrite Johnny “Cheetin” Wooden. He was a medicore coach until Gilbert started paying the players. As far as that pyramid of success that the greatest cheater of all time said that he created, he stole that from a coach or the core thought of it from a coach from illnois and used it and expanded upon it. Wooden is nothing by a oil snake salesman.

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      3. And to reemphasize because I think like with so many things the context is both hard to get but all so important – Coach Knight must be evaluated in that time (as with, for example, a Mark Twain novel…or Athenian “democracy”) – he is perhaps the most extreme version, but one of a type that one might assert includes many other great (but flawed – in some cases so flawed that their vices outweighed their utility, admittedly) Vince Lombardi, Woody Hayes, Dick Williams, Billy Martin…more recently Bill Parcells, Bill Belichick, Nick Saban…

        Just want to ensure we look at in context and acknowledge that both sides of his – and their – nature is valid.

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      5. I was just listing the ones who are by reputation widely acknowledged to be great coaches as well as ‘bullies’ … have heard Coach McKay wasn’t always just the sarcastic quipster he’s often portrayed as (ie hard), but never heard him characterized as a bully (although someone on this site several years ago accused him of being racist before backing away from)…nor JRob…McKay clearly is an all-time great coach and that is incontrovertible…JRob? Loved the teams his first tenure, but always kind of thought that…probably not a popular opinion, but…he was more like the way I described Dean Smith earlier today (a great coach but albeit one who did less with more…JRob had more talent than any college coach in history 1976-81…and only barely landed one of those fish while letting several swim away)…to his credit, and the other thing…besides the going away from physicality…that I find reprehensible about the recent USC program…is that he played the toughest schedule in the country (which was probably set by McKay)…Alabama under Saban adopted everything that Pete resurrected in the USC program, to include taking on anyone, anywhere, any time … that’s definitely something that needs to be fixed.

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    2. Dwyre can stick his critique up his ass. Did Coach Knight have his faults? Without question. But name me one college basketball coach who more more NCs with less NBA level talent than he did. Coach Knight had one NBA All-Star at IU, Isaiah Thomas. How many did Wooden have? Too many to count along with two of the greatest centers of all time in Jabbar and Walton. Coach Knight also graduated 98% of his players, never sold out to the shoe companies or had bag men paying players.

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      1. See my (too long) comment below for more – I agree with both sides of this and think they are both largely right. I’m old enough to come from that time when the results justified the means, and Coach Knight was revered. You nail what I was getting at in my comment (Coach Wooden is another discussion, but I tend to focus on Dean Smith, and how we was a coach who did less with more than any other coach in any other sport that I am aware of) – Knight did have a few other players (Steve Whitman, Scott May, Bobby Wilkerson, Quinn Buckner, Kent Benson, Keith Smart, Dean Garrett, et al), but nothing compared to Wooden, Smith, Coach K, John Thompson, Jim Boeheim…I’m sure there are others, but the one who I always paired him with was Lou Holtz…what would he have done with the Larry Smith 88 and 89 teams? At any rate, agreed and great post.

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    3. All of you are correct about Bob Knight – reference the excellent “Season on the Brink” book written about him during the end of his prime with IU … but don’t forget to mention (I am paraphrasing a line from “Moonshot” where Deke Slayton notes that while the other astronauts weren’t always fond of Buzz Aldrin, you better give credit where credit is due to someone who was brilliant and accomplished, particularly in an area where the others were not) that he was all but certainly the finest college basketball coach of all time (he was…and unfortunately, just like Lou Holtz, especially during his ND torment of USC…the epitome of what was said about Bear Bryant: “He can take his and beat your’s, or take your’s and beat his.”) – I didn’t like him, but I’ll never forget the night of Hinckley’s assassination attempt against the then new President Reagan where Knight put on a master class in leading a barely qualified for the tournament Indiana team to a national championship come-from-behind blowout win over an NBA star-laden Dean Smith North Carolina team (the same team that won the national title the next year with James Worthy, Sam Perkins, etc – yes, Jordan arrived the next year…but he wasn’t Jordan yet! well, until that game-winning shot in the final…). Knight’s methods were not justifiable, according to current mores, but they came from an era in America were results justified means…for those not aware, in addition to the above, and a final title in 1987 again coaching a largely outmanned squad against NBA talent, he also was the coach of the last undefeated champion in 1976, which in the process included putting an end to the UCLA era of college baskeball in the Final Four.

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      1. Remarkable memory you used to compose that response sir….my applause for your words and I sincerely mean that….incredible memory!

        I have posted this before so here it goes once more. In the Summer of 1971 I snagged a job as a night copy boy at the old Herald-Examiner. One night Doug ‘E’ Krikorian came ambling in and spotted me as a rookie who hadn’t heard his ‘war stories’ on who what where and why in his career. He went on how his writing got Jim Mulvaney fired as the Lakers coach (it did) but a week or so later ‘Wooden’ came up and Krikorian looked both ways and then focusing in on his sole audience said “….I was about to run a story on Sam Gilbert a couple of years ago. Gilbert got wind of the upcoming column. He phoned me and made me understand if that column ran he’d make sure it was the last thing I ever wrote. It was no idle threat – I knew exactly what that meant. Column never ran…’ I thought he was blowing smoke until the obit on Gilbert came out as a ‘bagman’ for criminal interests financing the ‘Bicycle Club’ in Bell Gardens and dropping dead mere days before he was indicted by the So. FL Federal Court in 1987.

        Couple that with the stones Gene Bartow had when he ‘face-to-face’ confronted Gilbert when Bartow understood what access Gilbert had and what control he had over the entire mens basketball program at bel-air tech. Gilbert threatened to kill Bartow as I noted earlier today Bartow went to the other slimey bookend of this scandal JD Morgan…..Gilbert slithered away and nothing more was said until a full 5 years after Wooden was retired.

        I often was amazed how Steve Lavin refused to ‘….kiss the ring…’ of Wooden when he’d (Wooden) would pop up at Pauley. It was noticeable and then I realized why. Steve Lavin was coached and played for Bobby Knight and knew enough of who was the real and truly flawed soul and who was the ‘protected’ demi-god no one ever dared whisper a word about. The worst graphic hypocrisy was Peter Dalis (Ucla AD) going apoplectic over Jim Harrick’s expense report who was the last coach to win a Mens title for Ucla.

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      2. Thank you for that remarkable insight – I just remember reading back at the time (in a ‘reputable’ – read compromised part of the industry probably threatened with loss of access just as you describe – source) that Coach Bartow left because he ‘couldn’t handle the pressure of following Coach Wooden’…the same excuse given for when Coach Cunningham also left, to be replaced by a more fitting successor in Larry Brown (one of the few coaches of Coach Knight’s ilk in terms of coaching prowess, with not a shred of his integrity).

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      3. He was the best ever basketball coach. He developed his players to run his system,and they were not all 5 star likes some coaches had. When it came to basketball he was the ichiban…period. He even developed Texas Tech who knew he was the best basketball coach,into a powerhouse.Indiana has never been the same,they proved stupid is as stupid does.

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      4. Tim-The discussion of yesterday led me to, in addition to watching a variety of tributes and interviews (to include with Dan Patrick, Bob Costas, Steve Alford, Jay Bilas, Gene Keady, and John Feinstein), rewatch the 1981 NCAA Final broadcast (which is worthwhile for multiple reasons) – a virtually unparalleled ****ing masterclass in coaching.

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  12. Riley is in a position he hasn’t experience before – (1) losing, (2) doing that in a big market, and (3) being revealed as a guy who doesn’t have the wherewithal to right the ship.

    Miller Moss is probably a good QB, but if he had been starting this year (assume Williams wasn’t on the team), the record this year would be 4-5 right now. Nothing on Moss, rather, the team is underperforming like nobody’s business, and many of the wins are because Williams is a once in a generation talent, gone after three more games.

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      2. Bird boy, if Coach 162 had paid the least bit of attention to his defense and fired the inept Grinch & Donte clown show before the season and hired a hard nosed DC and capable DB coach, they might be undefeated.

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    2. trojan1967,

      I respectully disagree with your assesment of Moss. In one area, I think Moss is better than Williams and that is to get rid of the ball faster than Williams. However, he probably does not move or scramble better than Williams. You might be correct about Moss and his record of 4-5, or he could be 5-4, which i think would be his record or now. Thank you.

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  13. Should be interesting to see what defense shows up for SC at Ore and sucla– maybe if the Trojans players are left to their own devices
    (instincts) they’ll do better

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  14. Whoever is the future SC quarterback won’t be the runner Celeb is but Washington showed how it is done with Penix, a non-runner but prolific passer behind an excellent protective offensive line.
    Now where does SC find that kind of line?

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    1. I know it is a rhetorical question and you know the answer like many of us do – sorry Coach Riles – or Dabo – but you aren’t exactly plying your trade in aeronautics or microbiology (and isn’t it amazing that in a generation we’ve mutated from complaining about players who are selfish, pretentious, and thin-skinned to head coaches who exhibit the same traits!)… Grinch wasn’t the only staff change necessary, the one you identify along with S&C being next … and even then, Riles still has to commit to something I suspect he doesn’t have a clue about and isn’t capable of doing: culture change in the program. But I aint exactly a rocket scientist either, so am perfectly willing to see if he proves people like me wrong. BTW-I like all of the monikers, but especially Riles, since as an oldster, I remember the old “Match Game” show that included Charles Nelson Riley.

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  15. This goes back to what I posted last night, the obvious problems that USC has right now go beyond Grinch and are the result of CLR and his philosophy of patty cake football. Three changes need to be made when this disaster of season mercifully comes to an end. 1.) Fire the entire defensive staff and hire a competent Defensive Coordinator and let him choose his own defensive staff that has a history of developing players for the NFL. 2.) Hire a new strength and conditioning coach who going to develop a physical mindset in the weight room. 3.) Hire a new offensive line coach who is also going to challenge the offensive line to have a more physical mindset and stress run blocking fundamentals. Again, CLR has been to the CFP three times and two of those games his OU teams were physically manhandled. But looking into the near future all of this conjecture could be a moot point of CLR takes the Raider or Bears job.

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    1. 4.) Stop relying on the transfer portal–which really just populates your team with cast-offs and second stringers from other teams–and start recruiting the sh*t out of southern California. The portal was fine in year one to help re-make a lousy roster but it’s not a sustainable solution. You need highly talented recruits to come in Day 1 and develop–physically and through coaching–as well as a part of the overall team chemistry.

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      2. I don’t think that is an accurate assessment of the athletes in the portal. Some have graduated and want to try another school or conference while getting another degree perhaps where thy would like to work or live or get a better chance for an nfl appraisal. Some just want a fresh start,did you ever want one?

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    2. Coach 162 is NEVER going to pound the rock, NEVER, it’s just not who he is, he’s not going to change. He’s not about physical football, never will be.

      I remember when Gomer Helton said that SC was going to be a physical running team, how did that work out ?

      All the pansy coaches USC has hired since ROBO 1 have been ex QB’s, none of them play physical football, never did never will. The latest ex QB has to be shown the door if he doesn’t change his philosophy next year, contract be damned.

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    3. trojanfn4,

      Riley needs to understand that physicality on both sides of the ball and a aura that SC is invicinible from their pyhysciality. You want the opposing team to give up before they get on the field due to SC playing ball the way it is supposed to be and that is destroy everything in sight.

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      1. Great post. Tried posting previously, so if redundant apologies…will never be like opponent staring at Munoz, Foster, Van Horne, Budde, Matthews, Mosebar…or Baker, Justice, Kalil, Matui, Rachal, Smith, et al…but should be a lot more like that than it has been since the 2009 Ohio State game.

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  16. Greg Brown’s been a journeyman DB coach for the last decade, never staying anywhere more than 1-2 years. (And as for his DC credentials–he’s even worse in terms of Scoring Defense than Grinch.) Given that, I have two comments: 1) Why not give Taylor Mays a shot? 2) How did this guy end up on our staff?

    Then again, if he just sticks to teaching the fundamentals it could be a huge positive. That’s exactly what these players seem to need.

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    1. OK, he’s a journeyman coach, who has Donte coached up since he’s been at SC ? Duck fans were thrilled when he left Oregon. Mays may turn out to be fine, but don’t you find it odd that when the defense can’t stop anyone you’d go to an unproven commodity over a proven one ?

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      2. Why have they never used Darwin Barlow. At SC he’s carried the ball 24 times for 177 yards. That’s 7.4 yards a carry. In his college career he’s carried it 181 times for 993 yards. That’s a 5.5 average for his career. This guy is an outstanding running back and they never gave him a chance. I don’t think that he is as good as Marshaun Lloyd but I do think that he is every bit as good as Jones.

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      3. Budda,

        Taylor Mays played and played in the nfl. Now playing and teaching are two diffferent things and sometimes former players don’t know how to coach. Ted Williams was one of them. However, there are only two games left. Let us see what Mays has in terms of coaching.

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      4. Mays said he takes great pleasure in slapping racist trolls around….you have been warned!!!!!!!!!!!

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    2. I wrote this below, but I think Taylor Mays can do more in just a few weeks than Burns, by far. Years of experience is highly overrated. Mays was a player at the highest level. He can do a better job of motivating the guys and getting them to understand what they are doing right and wrong. This is about triage and an ex-player can do that faster than a coach.

      And after all, Burns has supposedly been working on this defensive scheme with Grinch, so why would we think he is the solution to anything?

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  17. Scott I am agreeing with you more and more, but disagree that Taylor Mays was a mistake. Greg Burns is probably better working on the overall scheme and Taylor Mays has playing experience and in the short time period can probably make more of an impact than Greg Burns. At a minimum, he can probably motivate the players to really put out effort and make sure they are in the right positions. I think these players will listen to a player more than another old guy.

    Burns might also not have wanted to step into that role and have his rep tarnished, given the short timeframe to make a difference.

    Not every move Riley makes is a sign of a problem with the program.

    Regarding other defensive coaches, it is my assumption that every coach is on the chopping block and a new DC gets to pick his staff. If we get a quality DC, then they will know whether these coaches are the problem or not. I cant imagine that the linebacker coaches are kept. If Donte is still around, it is only a product of his recruiting ability. Not only should the coaches be evaluated on their ability to develop players, but also on how they are recruiting. Too many players going elsewhere.

    Regarding o-line, although we are disappointed with the results, there seems to have been some amount of improvement over time. To me, that is what is important. I think bringing in Tarquin, Kingston and Pregnon and trying to integrate them into the line was difficult and the older guys were OK, but never going to be great. I think that Monheim is also playing out of position (would be better at guard) and is not playing lights out either. I think the bigger question is whether he is developing players for next year (Paige, Noa, Pregnon, Murphy, etc). If he has got those players to a point that they can form the core of next year’s line, then he is an effective coach. So if we see a whole bunch of experienced transfers to the o-line that are expected to start, that is a problem in my mind.

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  18. I wonder if putting Odom and Nua in charge of the defense is a way to make them responsible for results? So if they actually make big changes that work, they can claim it was all Grinch’s fault and save face?

    At least Riley didnt put Donte in charge.

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  20. I do agree Brown should have been the one elevated to temporarily replace the grinch but the lincoln for unknown reason left him where he was…we may know more later.

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  21. Good to see a former USC player Taylor Mays on the staff. Never heard of Greg Brown … maybe Riley wasn’t planning to bring him back.

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