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Who Does These USC Buyouts?

Has anyone at USC the past 10 years ever expressed a doubt about the buyout policy with football coaches?

Lincoln Riley is currently holding USC hostage with his massive buyout ($50-60 million). But before that, there was the same issue with Clay Helton.

Helton got $4.2 million from USC in 2024 and has made $13 million since being fired. He was the third-highest paid employee at USC in 2024 and never had to set foot on campus.

You know what they say the best job in sports is? Fired football coach.

33 thoughts on “Who Does These USC Buyouts?”

  2. Scooter,

    SC can fire Riley on breach of contract and not fulfilling his job to the best of his abilities. SC needs to tell him go pound sand. Let him sue SC. They will settle for $20 mil. Lot better than paying $50 mil.

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  6. I accept the pathetic skill Grinch brought from OK when he accompanied Riley back in late 2021 let’s accept that as valid a flat out awful hire/retention at such a key position but why is there no mention of the: ‘….aw shucks Gomer Pyle/William Bendix…’ clone that Helton was. Couple that with the merry-go-round of athletic directors and the almost monthly scandals elsewhere all over the university plus the arrival of a ‘HRH’ as the new president of the school the program had no other option then to stick with Helton. Bohn pulled off a great hire then he ‘left’.

    Riley knows he’s gone next year unless he goes deep into the CFP. USC has if not the toughest at least in top 3 toughest schedule of any program even w.o. ‘the princess’.
    I expect great things with Patterson’s hire as well as Maiava staying – this is it and I believe it shall be stunning.

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      1.  KAM: Cowardly Gabby aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Buddhakarma &LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf & Kathy & Foreskin Thoughts & Frank Young and Dan and Moderator?

        DON: She is such a loon.

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      3. KAM: I loved it when Plow Horse shamed Cowardly Gabby after she claimed she lived in Las Vegas and was best buddies with Dana White.

        DON: That was one for the ages. Yet she still comes back and shows her face after that humiliation.

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  8. white is a degenerate gambler who will not be the first one to not blow his fortune on same. The bad Karma points hé racks up by exploiting his underpaid and brain-damaged fighters, as well as for pallin’ around with a sexual predator, cannot be escaped. He gets credit for recognizing his customers are uneducated trash who wallow in grievance and bigotry but the laws of the Universe say he is in for a hard fall, personally, I’m here for it!

    #SoLetItBeWrittenSoLetItBeDone

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      1. KAM :Weird how  Cowardly Gabby aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Buddhakarma &LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf & Kathy & Foreskin Thoughts & Frank Young claimed to be Dana’s buddy.

        DON: Now she claims she detests him.

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      2. I’m not sure they are the same guy …. I can’t remember Charlie ever typing 2 paragraphs all in capitals or mentioning street fights in the lovely city of Barstow, California [that stuff seems specific to Sybil]…..

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      5. KAM: Charlie Bucket and Cowardly Gabby are the same person. They gave themselves away years ago…

        DON: They stupidly use the excact same “c r o t c h k ick ” line over and over.

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