Sunday Night With Sarkisian

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USC coach Steve Sarkisian was in a reflective mood tonight as he analyzed the Boston College debacle.

“Tonight doesn’t feel any better than last night,” Sarkisian said. “We did not play very good football last night & that is a direct reflection on me as a football coach to get that fixed.”

Sarkisian said he will consider passing more as he tries to evaluate the playcalling following Boston College game.

`We need to get in a rhythm. We were choppy,” he said. “(The loss is) hard to swallow. Quite honestly I’m glad we have a bye week.’‘

20 thoughts on “Sunday Night With Sarkisian”

  1. Sarkisian, consider “thinking” !

    Consider “adjusting” to the game as the game “progresses” !!

    And “remember”, if you keep running the football on “every” 2nd Down, “You’re” the only one who knows that !!!

    Genious.,.

  2. I admit, upfront, that this is a petty point —but I’d like for Sark to stop introducing every sentence with “quite honestly.” It sounds too much like a politician or a public defender.

    But, then again, he has bigger things to think about this week…

    • Clearly, Sark has stepped into bad territory, especially since he may be better suited as a public defender or politician than he is as the coach of a storied football program.

      I’d say his life has changed dramatically in the last 24 hours. Fair or not, “the world became a different (not better) place,” to paraphrase Lyle Lovett in Her First Mistake.

      • Now that I think about it, Jack, you’re 100% right. The thing is, we’ve gotten used to politicians not getting anything done and public defenders who make a career out of losing. As you suggest, expectations are a bit higher at USC. Didn’t Lyle also say something about “I don’t want to give anybody a thousand ‘second chances’?”

  3. bottom line : this loss never should of happened. There is no excuse at all for this. Just on talent alone we should of won by 21 points. all due respect to BC but they are not a very good football team. I know beating stanford then going cross country is tough, but come on. This is 100% on sark’s shoulders as a coach who did not have his team prepared. Then we we start losing he had no idea what to do. He was like a deer in the headlights. I have had it with these ridiculous loses to oregon st and stanford and BC. season tickets turned back in I will watch someone else on saturdays.

    • Good point , Fred.
      One of the reasons I prefer college to pro football is because the underdog gap can be bigger but somehow they can rise up and beat an opponent that is vastly superior in talent. Good example is Michigan – Appalachian State.

      Football is a funny sport. The team you lose to one week gets stomped by an even weaker team the next. We, as fans follow a team composed of 19-23 year old kids. How did your mind work when you were 18 or 19? Mine was a little jumbled.

  5. When you win everyone proclaims you to be a genius. Lose and you are an idiot. Noticed that he did not take the blame for the game results but did indicate that it was his responsibility to fix the problem. Unfortunately, he needs to accept responsibility for failing to properly prepare and execute a game plan against an opponent that clearly was not as good as SC. Knowing the numbers of players he had he should have realized the need to slow down the game, get rest to his defense and make correct defensive adjustments. He failed to do any of that. Please, Sark, take responsibility for the results of the game.

  7. It’s a bad loss, but not as bad as some might think. This team was never going to get into the championship playoff with the deep limitations in depth and scholarships. So if you have to lose one, better it be a non-league game with a bye week to follow. And another thing…the BC game wasn’t that far from becoming an SC rout if Dixon holds on to the catch going in for a score on the perfect pass from Kessler.

  10. I think Sark did take the blame and this was better than hearing Kiffen’s excuses. But is Sark really a big time coach? We’ll find out this year…

  11. MAYBE…should have passed more and maybe in the future…a 5 yrd pass completion beats a minus yrd run…when they do not believe you will pass on first down,you are going to lose yardage running…doomed if one can’t learn from this;there is no one on this schedule that can’t stop runs always on first/2nd down,Boston played the same as others will.

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