USC now has two special teams coaches.
Ryan Dougherty, who is Lincoln Riley’s friend and worked with him since Oklahoma, will continue to coach kickers and punters. Mike Ekeler will coach the rest instead of Dougherty.
“When we’ve evaluated it, there’s certainly been some areas we’ve been really strong special teams-wise, and there’s been some areas that have held us back and obviously need to do better, plain and simple,” Riley said. “We felt the combination of Coach Ekeler and Coach Dougherty will be pretty tough to beat.”
USC has more coaches than ever. They seem to have three linebacker coaches because Rob Ryan is still around with the title, “assistant head coach for defense.”
The only thing missing is assistant to the assistant manager of the movie theater like Mark “Rat” Ratner of Fast Times At Ridgemont High.
- An Associated Press reporter in Seattle became the first media member to finally ask Eric Musselman why he dismissed Chad Baker-Mazara from the USC basketball team.
Musselman declined comment last night.
That’s a weak response from the guy who likes to wear a football uniform and seems to have something to say about everything except the biggest development of the season.
USC put in a meek performance last night, losing to Washington, 91-72. The Huskies had only seven players so let’s not whine about USC being short-handed.
Washington forward Hannes Steinbach had 22 points AND 24 rebounds. His 12 offensive rebounds were as many as the entire USC team!
That should just about end the NCAA Tournament hopes and UCLA comes to the Galen Center on Saturday. Musselman is already 0-3 against the Bruins.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
This must be a truly humbling experience for Rob Ryan. At one point, he was the NFL defensive coordinator of the year. Now he is relegated to walking around a college practice field with the coaches and players essentially ignoring him. Actually sad to watch.
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Currently acting like a Yahoo –whatever your glorious history—- will only take you so far……
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P. S.
It’s being reported Riley signed off today on Ryan’s request to be appointed Vice-Assistant-Deputy Coach of Miscellaneous Matters.
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…Unfortunately “Miscellaneous Matters” includes cleaning Carol Folt’s pool on Fridays….
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Maybe Ryan can be the head coach of the scout team. His son can be assistant linebacker coach for the scout team.
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Cleaning Folt’s pool brings to mind the Caddyshack scene.
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Anyone who’s ever had a pool party with lots of neighborhood kids has been there…
#[….Well,NotThe”EatingIt”Scene]….
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Sort of makes sense that you would have a coaches for the kickers and punter and a separate coaches for the rest of the special teams. But three linebacker coaches? Seems as thought USC does not concern itself with such mundane things as payroll costs.
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It will be worth it if we beat Ohio State….which Sports Illustrated has picked us to do. Along with beating Washington…..
#….WithLossesToOregon,PennState&Indiana…
#[IDon’tBuyTheLossToPennState]
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KAM: Wait, we went from no Special Teams coach to two?
DON: In 2023 we were told that Riley Coyote didn’t believe in having a Special Teams coach.
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Riley: This year when we give up 99 yard returns I get to say, “See, it didn’t make any difference did it!?”
#”ButIPromiseThis:WeWon’tGetBurnedByNotreDameThisYear!”
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O U C H !!!!
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Is the strength and conditioning coach for our basketball team [which loses the second half of games by 20-30 points] the same guy the football team relies on?
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KAM: Ruh roh!
DON: Better scratch that prediction on beating the Buckeyes.
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How many coaches does a high school team have?– Why so many college coaches? Can you imagine being a coach and at a party you are asked what you do, “Oh, I teach the SC linebackers how to line up”
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Or as they said in the Flintstones:
Miss, what do you do? I am a jellist – I put the jelly in the jelly donuts.
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Whenever Fred mows the lawn with Dino it just cracks me up….
#NeverGetsOld
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Sparrow: “My job? Oh, coaching linebackers —this week I’m concentrating on cutting down the 90 yards of offsides penalties we racked up blitzing last week…”
#”SometimesIDon’tThinkI’mWorthAMillionAYear..”
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Musselman must go! He is being paid as one of the Top 12 coaches in America, and has failed at USC. Those that think he will turn this program around are dreamers. His teams lack discipline, fundamentals, and too much NBA D-League and one type of individual play which does not work in college basketball.
Eric Musselman’s salary was around $4.2 million annually at Arkansas, earning him a top-12 spot nationally, but he is now the head coach at USC, with reports placing his new compensation at approximately $4.25 million per year, making him one of the Big Ten’s highest-paid coaches, though exact figures for his USC deal vary slightly across reports.
The guy has never won anything. How could his market value put him as a Top 12 paid college basketball coach in America. Another big hiring mistake by Jen Cohen our so called AD. Where is the revenue coming from to pay this fake basketball coach last time I checked attendance is way down, and we are paying a ton of NIL for a bunch of NCAA Basketball / NBA D League rejects.
Since we are not getting a return on our investment on Coach Musselman. Let’s let him suit up for Spring Football, or ride the Trojan Horse during Football Season with a sign on his back ” ANOTHER FAILED AND OVERPAID TROJAN WARRIOR.
The Muss bus now has four flat tires, a blown engine with a cracked head gasket, and now the driver of the bus has transferred to Chico State.
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