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Morning Buzz: USC Provided Nice Landing Spot In Coaching Carousel

I hear when new USC defensive line coach Eric Henderson was offered the job, he made it clear to the Rams he was willing to stick around because the defensive coordinator’s job was about to open with Raheem Morris becoming the Atlanta Falcons’ head coach.

But the Rams declined to offer Henderson the defensive coordinator job and instead promoted linebackers’ coach Chris Shula to defensive coordinator.

It still worked out for Henderson, who got a big raise from USC. But if he wanted to become an NFL defensive coordinator, he’s going to have to put that on hold.

So when people inevitably say Henderson is making a dramatic impact at USC, that means the previous defensive line coach, Shaun Noa, wasn’t do so great, right? No, no, no, no. Of course not.

  • Did any recruits wear USC gloves at any combines? It’s obviously a very important detail (this is sarcasm, by the way).
  • It’s USC QB commit Julian Lewis with Georgia coach Kirby Smart. Nothing to see here.
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      2. Yet she claims I’m obsessed with HER. Her stupidity is unrivaled on this blog.

        As always, she’ll make excuses for it. What a sad, pathetic life.

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  4. Henderson is already making a big impact. He has made recruiting visits to places like Georgia and is getting the top DL prospects interested enough to commit to a visit to USC. According to one podcast, Henderson does not lack confidence. He tells recruits that he is the best DL coach in the nation – college or pro. He also drops lines such as “you have an exceptional frame for the interior defensive line, you remind me of Aaron Donald.”

    And I don’t understand taking a shot at Nua. You can have an upgrade with Henderson coaching the interior lineman and Nua moving to the rush ends without concluding that Nua was a lousy DL coach. Nua coach the edge rushers at Michigan and put players into the NFL.

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      1. Buddha: Cash is important but for some, not the only consideration. USC brought in the top interior offensive lineman in the nation last year as well as two four star defensive lineman. Virtually all these guys see themselves playing in the NFL and if you convince them that coaches like Reilly on offense and Henderson on defense will prepare them and increase their draft stock they will come.

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    1. The portal & NIL already changed NCAA football as we knew it.

      USC & SUCLA leaving the Pac-12 was the death nail, but understandable considering the horrible leadership we had in the last two commissioners.

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      1. Agree on portal and NIL So Cal, but if you get the Big 10 & SEC going off on their own, the little schools will fold, no on will care. How close was Hawaii to folding football a few years back, why would UTEP, New Mexico St and others even bother? Why would any “minor” school field a team in the future if they are just going to lose money with little tv revenue or in game fan support ? Florida St is running a deficit and they went 13-0, Cal & ucla are so far in debt they can’t see the sky and all are in power 5 conferences, how many other schools that aren’t in power 5 conferences are in the same boat ?

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      2. Hawaii will never give up football! To paraphrase Coach Riley, “We’re closer to the playoffs than you think!”
        #Translation: “ItMayHappenSometimeWithinTheNext200Years”

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    2. Thanks for the article Buddha. I think the SEC and BIG forming their own committees to ostensibly displace the NCAA is potentially a good development. We need NIL/payola rules and an arm to enforce them and since the NCAA doesn’t do it some other group needs to pick up the slack.

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      1. The SEC has been writing the rules for years, how has that worked out for everyone other school that isn’t in the Big 10 or SEC ?

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      2. The Pac-12’s proposal (soon to be Pac-2)

        At their meeting ahead of the national championship game in Houston, the CFP Board of Managers, encompassing a university president from each of the 10 FBS conferences and Notre Dame, was poised to move the 12-team expanded playoff from what’s known as a 6+6 format to a 5+7 model — a decision corresponding with the Pac-12’s realignment shakeup by decreasing by one the number of automatic qualifiers and adding one at-large spot.

        However, the vote was delayed by the Pac-12’s representative on the board, Washington State president Kirk Schulz, whose vote in a format change is necessary. The decision must be unanimous to change the format for the final two years of the current contract in 2024 and 2025.

        According to those with knowledge of the situation, Schulz introduced to CFP leadership a proposal that seeks a guarantee of voting rights and revenue distribution to the Pac-12 (soon to be the Pac-2, with only Washington State and Oregon State) beyond the 2025 season. The proposal, presumably tied to his vote in a format change, was met with pushback.

        Schulz declined to comment through a spokesperson earlier this week. The status of his proposal is unclear, but the topic is expected to be addressed during CFP meetings Monday and Tuesday. In interviews recently, the four major conference commissioners declined to get into specifics about the format situation.

        That said, the CFP format is at the center of ongoing debate — both the number of overall participants as well as the number of automatic berths. The CFP Board of Managers approved an expansion format in 2022 that grants automatic spots to the six highest-ranked conference champions and at-large spots to the next six highest-ranked teams.

        Given the latest realignment wave — the four power leagues swelled to 16-18 members each — the format is back under the microscope for further examination. Petitti has discussed with commissioners expansion models that include 14 and 16 teams with multiple automatic qualifiers to major conferences, sources told Yahoo Sports.

        Sankey and his corresponding representative on the CFP Board, Mississippi State president Mark Keenum, have suggested in the past that the model incorporate only at-large selections.

        The debate rolls on.

        -Yahoo Sports 2/5/23

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      3. Your right Buddha. There are only about 25 or so schools that make serious money from college sports and virtually all of that is from the football program. Football finances all the other sports.
        If it becomes a payola game, virtually everyone other than the top 10 to 20 schools are going to be unable to compete. This NIL garbage and payola along with the transfer portal will ultimately kill competition and weaken collegiate sports to the point where it will no longer make sense for most colleges to field a team and consequently less athletic scholarships. This will hurt the kids from poor neighborhoods who relied on these scholarships as a means to changing their future. But all you read about was how the old system was exploiting athletes who earned millions of dollars for a few high end schools and did not participate in the earnings they helped generate.

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      4. Horse, NIL is not going away, the schools want no pat of dealing with Congress over that and any attempt to limit what a kid can get, cap what a school can spend or any other revision aside from maybe paying it out over 4 years or whatever will be met with severe push back from the lefties in Congress and I’m not sure they’d be ok with spreading out the money.

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      5. Grabbbyy, the Pac 12 will eventually, I think, swallow the MWC if they can get all the legal bullshit and tv deal’s worked out, but it may not matter because of what the SEC & Big 10 have planned.

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      6. Solution: There shouldn’t be any limits placed on the market value of incoming high school players…. however…. in the words of Kamala Harris, “This absolute Rule should have 2 Limiting Qualifications”: (1) Team members should be free to aggressively demonstrate their envy toward players making in excess of 100 million dollars —- by way of physical attacks up to and including cannibalism …and (2) 95% of all money over 100 million must be donated to DEI Training.

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  6. Lefties should be okay with spreading out the money. It is the equity part of DEI. “Just because Zachariah Branch is a better receiver than me doesn’t mean he should make more NIL money That’s not fair. It’s like years ago when admissions were based on grades and SAT scores and not skin color.”

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