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Alex Grinch Returning To Coliseum

USC hasn’t seen the last of Alex Grinch after all as Wisconsin hired Grinch to be its safeties coach.

Did you just lose some respect for Luke Fickell?

Grinch (and linebacker Tackett Curtis) return to the Coliseum on Sept. 28.

If USC doesn’t win that game, there will be hell to pay on social media.

Grinch inherits All-Big Ten safety Hunter Wohler and replaces safeties coach Colin Hitschler, who went to Alabama.

Well, with USC in the Big Ten, we’ll all have a reason to monitor Grinch.

37 thoughts on “Alex Grinch Returning To Coliseum”

  1. Lincoln Riley’s offense and lack of running game contributed to USC’s lousy defense, and not to mention mediocre talent. It wasn’t solely on Alex Grinch as the fanboys tried to claim.

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    1. P. S.
      I just HATE the way we all placed the blame on Alex —and never said one discouraging word about Lincoln or Donte…
      #IJustHateItSoMuch…..

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      1. Notice how Jake from State Farm (horrible insurance company) picked up Wolf’s fanboys putdown because they both are way ahead of the curve

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    3. It was all on Alex Grinch. The Holiday Bowl proved that with just a little decent coaching, the defense could get much better in just six weeks and with a depleted roster.

      Maybe Grinch is decent as a safeties coach, he was not getting a job as a defensive coordinator again.

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  2. This move suggests that Grinch may have influenced Tackett Curtis’ transfer to Wisconsin. Sleazy but doesn’t really matter. Wisconsin will not benefit. A move to Georgia Southern would have been a better fit. Now if Georgia Southern could only land Donte Williams and Domani Jackson they would possess all the fire power to defeat East Los Angeles Junior College.

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    2. It’s called “falling forward”………Sark and Kiffin were experts at it!

      I will say, at this point in their careers they have evolved into solid coaches

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  4. We don’t know. Maybe he was a very good safeties coach when he was at New Hampshire, Wyoming and Missouri. Luke Fickell is a very good coach. He must have seen something in him. One thing that we do know. He was a horrible DC

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      1. LIKED!….. Grinch played favorites – Curtis and Shaw.

        No doubt about that. …..Shaw was just not athletic enough and Curtis was lost and late on his reads. Cobb was also another liability who played more than he deserved. When the numbers are down at a certain position the quality of play on the field takes a hit.

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    2. All believed, with equal judtification, that both Layne Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian were awful hires and coaches. Nick Sabin aaw sonething in them both and resurrected them. Not saying Grinch is all that good but no one hits 1.000 unless you get the gig of a lifetime the way the good ole “Vin dawg” Scully did…..

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      1. …especially since he wasn’t physically present for some of those games…. and it was only because of his recruits and philosophy that we lost…

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      3. In a lot of ways that was Grinch’s finest hour…. no, his finest hour was the Notre Dame blowout…..no, I think it was giving up the lead to Utah in the last minute…no, on second thought it was…

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      4. C’mon bro. USC had the personnel to compete with any of those teams. Half time is provided to fix things. Not lose in 70 yard drives at the end. Player development on the D side was glaringly seen as deficient when it was needed to knock the momentum of our opponents down.

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      5. I’m not saying that Grinch didn’t give it his best shot. But the catastrophe of 2023 has to be laid primarily at the feet of Grinch’s humongously terrible defense. Oh, there were other minor problems like the O-Line but the offense still finished in the top 10 in the nation in most categories. They went out and brought in good defensive players after 2022 and the defense got worse. If they would have had a decent defense in 2023, they wouldn’t have lost anywhere’s near 5 games. The 2023 defense was one of the worst SC has ever had and they had a lot of talented players on that defense. Sorry, Alex. But if you want to see where the brunt of the problem lays for the 2023 catastrophe, just look down at your feet.

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  6. “Number of college football teams that, added up, account for 50% of the total Nielsen-rated game viewership between 2016 and 2023—while the other half was spread across 130-plus schools—according to Sports Media Watch. The group of TV viewership heavyweights include six teams from the SEC, four from the Big Ten, three from the Pac-12, two each from the ACC and Big 12, and Notre Dame, an independent. (Conversely, a mere 10% of viewership emanated from the bottom 71 schools, comprising 53% of the total schools.)

    The 18 teams in the big-draw group: Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn State, Southern California, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.” – Front Office Sports

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    1. Guess we’re gonna be getting some great Nielson ratings…
      #GladSomethingGoodIsComingOuttaThisMoveToBig10…
      #[OfCourseLosingInFrontOfALargerAudienceIsn’tExactlyGood]

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