Offensive Issue

Texas coach Mack Brown went out last January and hired Boise State offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin. In 2008, Alabama coach Nick Saban hired Fresno State offensive coordinator Jim McElwain.
Isn’t USC on par or even more prestigious historically than those programs? So shouldn’t it also go out and hire the best playcaller in the country?

12 thoughts on “Offensive Issue

  1. Mack Brown and Nick Saban are veteran coaches who are secure in the place in college football and in themselves.

    Lane Kiffin is not.

    Anyway, who cares? Kiffin will be gone for to 2013 season.

  2. Kiffin won’t hire anybody to take over the offense. In his mind he’s the best person out there. Obviously, he has a distorted self-perception.

    That Pat Haden character won’t ask Kiffin to hire anyone either. Haden is too busy cowering under his desk and pretending that nothing is wrong with the state of affairs within USC athletics.

    But it doesn’t matter. USC is screwed regardless.

  3. With Kiffin’s style, he’d probably hire his mom or his wife as OC anyway. This program is sinking into a muck too foul and hideous to be described.

  4. He can’t do it now, nobody could understand his offense taking over in mid season. Hell, he doesn’t understand offense, even his own. Too bad Haden won’t take control of things. I agree, right now football at USC is in the toilet. BUT, not as bad as cross town.

  5. Kiffin is a narcissist, he’s great it’s everyone else who sucks.

    Haden is a grab the ankles and take it AD, his predecessor was a minority hire who was lazy as well as stupid, he gave USC this idiot, that’s Ironhead Mike.

    USC football is fawked for this decade at least.

  6. If the SC administration wants this program to fall off its pedestal built by PC & MG, it has the perfect stooge to reck it in Lane Kiffin who will work himself (and his ego) half to death in trying to save whats left of a once great program.
    BY THIS I MEAN… I AM CONVINCED BY THEIR ACTIONS SO FAR, PAT HADEN & MAX NIKLAS CARE LESS ABOUT KEEPING ANY REMNANTS OF WHAT BROUGHT THIS PROGRAM GREAT SUCCESS FOR 10 YEARS. I WOULDN’T BE IN THE LEAST SURPRISED TO SEE THIS WHOLE COACHING STAFF GONE IN 2-3 YEARS.

  7. Kiff is here to recruit. Nothing more and nothing less. Take 8-4 with a top 15 class and be happy. Once the sanctions have expired, we will take the best available on the coaching market and be off and running. Simple as that.

  8. Anyone who thinks Pat Haden isn’t committed to Trojan athletic success is on crack. You’re not going to find many more dyed-in-the-wool Trojans than him. That being said, he has come in under very difficult circumstances with only one real mandate: to get USC free and clear from NCAA mandates and raise the funds necessary for the school to compete against other programs. Anyone who’s seen student-athlete facilities at Texas, Oregon, Alabama and Florida is not going to confuse USC with the term “state-of-the-art,” which is why raising the money for the McKay Center is the top priority.

    The other priority is to get away from the Garrett era of thumbing our nose at the NCAA. No matter how much we think a Paul Dee-run organization is corrupt, stupid and vengeful, we are simply stuck with it. So the sooner you make nice, the sooner you can get on with the business of rebuilding a program.

    Institutions think long term. They’re not worried about the next three years, they’re worried about the next ten because they have to plan for capital campaigns (of which USC has just launched the largest in higher education history with a $6 billion target over the next seven years), they have to plan for TV contracts, they have to schedule non-conference years in advance and the have federal Title IX requirements for women athletics that have to be funded on a comparable level with male sports.

    So you can imagine that Haden and Max Niklas view Lane Kiffin as an able stop-gap to get them through the sanction period. He’s proven to be an able recruiter during this time so they’re willing to let Kiffin play himself into job security. If he can improve last year’s 8-5 record and win something like 10-2, then they will probably extend his contract, but if he goes lower than that, he will likely be gone after the 2012 season when his buyout will be relatively painless for the university.

    Remember that with the new ESPN contract kicking in next year, USC is going to be flush with cash so they can do buyouts without too much trouble and recruiting a new head coach during the sanctions period is pretty much a waste of time. They’re also not likely to approve a new OC and inherit a new $750K contract with a buyout clause even if Kiffin saw reason and decided to go find one…which he won’t.

    So for now, don’t expect much for this year, bank on Kiffin getting fired after 2012 and look for USC athletics to really rebound in 2014 when the scholarship sanctions finally run out and the McKay Center is up and running and hopefully USC will gain the master lease to run and upgrade the Coliseum.

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