Sideline Antics

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When you win, you can do whatever you want. That’s why I nicknamed Pete Carroll “Caesar.” But when lose, it makes some of the behavior on the USC sideline even more intolerable.

There is so much jumping up-and-down, towel waving and sprinting toward wherever a player gets tackled out of bounds, it is hard to imagine a serious coach keeping his concentration during a game. Some of it is staff members. Sometimes strength coaches. But it looks totally out of control at times, especially when USC can’t even defend a Hail Mary pass at the end of a game.

42 thoughts on “Sideline Antics”

  1. Please focus on what’s going on between the goal lines. Nothing wrong with celebrating within the rules of the game.

    • Celebrating is one thing, dancing around the entire game & throwing yellow towels in the air constantly is another. USC looked undisciplined on the sidelines

      • Sark has placed himself in a screwy situation here—if he tells the players they are now free to knock off the enforced celebrations, they’ll go back to chewing the fat with each on the sidelines (as they were doing during the Boston College fiasco). On the other hand, if they are instructed to go on doing what they’re doing, they’ll continue looking as spontaneous as factory workers in North Korea celebrating a visit by the Great Leader. But let’s be honest with each other, either scenario will be easier to take if USC takes down Arizona on Saturday.

        • Winning not always justifies the means, but SUCC continues to pursue winning by cashing checks of poor judgement and cheesy just win strategy.

          • Quotes marks are appropriate Hilary /Helen. Al said that, you didn’t. You just approve of his FB attitude. Just remember H/H, Al died a lonely, bitter, loser recluse.

  2. Agreed. The walk-on towel waving cheerleaders are a horrible, horrible look on TV. I can’t imagine they’re any better in person. To me, it comes off as punk kids clowning Sark’s directive to be energized. Not that there’s anything wrong with clown kids. I was one and remain one. But it’s a football sideline!!! Act like you belong there!!!!

  4. many a youth coach has suggested that if you can’t play ball, at least look like a ball player. SC’s not getting either done.

  6. It looks bad. They are out of control and need to temper the antics down. I would not want to be a walk-on and be told I have to do what those players are doing. This is not SC behavior and the players know it.

  7. It is pretty forced, but, in Sark’s defense, he is trying to instill a little life on this team.

    They have had four head coaches in one year. They suffered through three years of the joyless Saban-wanna-be Lane Kiffin. They have had three entirely different defensive staffs in three years.

    Look at the bench during the BC game. It was dead, I don’t blame the older players from checking out. After a certain point it is just another in an seemingly endless secession of loud-mouthed coaches screaming “Grrrr! Grrr! Grrr!” at you, people who didn’t recruit you and people you wouldn’t necessarily want to play for, if given the chance to be recruited all over again.

    • Winning creates a positive vibe on the sidelines. Sark should be more concerned with coaching than what the guys with clean jerseys are doing on the bench.

    • Good points. USC had Orgeron. The players played hard for him. Uko might have stayed for “O”. If Coach “O” had stayed they still might be 3-2 but they would not beat themselves. Why Haden picked Sarkisian is beyond me. This guy was no Don James at UW. My second choice would’ve been Mike Norvell over at ASU.

  8. Let’s face it. Sark’s clearly in a bit over his head here. He’s only 1/2 way into his first season and he already looks dumb as hell.

    Silly, comical looking walk-on player sideline demonstrations, calling Haden in to admonish refs (boy, was that a doozy), leaving his teams woefully unprepared for totally mediocre outfits like BC and ASU, both of whom embarrassed USC badly.

    I’m not sure just how much some of the Trojan players would be respecting Sark now, especially since he doesn’t play to win and compromises his own team with his silly play calling and tactics. He doesn’t seem to be smart to the general public, so what must his own players think?

    Ever heard of a Hail Mary Sark? ASU seems to think your completely clueless about the tactic and they would be correct.

    And by the way, USC should beat Arizona, unless Sark finds a way to screw it up.

    • I don’t know, AZ has better D and O than Az St.; and, Az will have had 10 days to digest the Oregon victory and focus on the home game with SUCC, plus, Az has greater incentive to win because the Pac-12 conf. south is up for grabs.

  9. DAMN DIVA Wolf! Stop complaining about the sideline(walk on’s).. they are trying to get the crowd and team hyped up..

    • More than anything,I think they are embarrassing themselves, and the USC fans. They look extremely silly.

      • SO what? rather them be on the sideline trying to pump up their team than sit on the sideline quiet and pathetic..

  10. Scottie: you gave Coach Carroll a nickname because you’re a childish, hack beat reporter who, like your troll friends, get your kicks by hiding behind the Internet.

    • are you condoning their childish behavior on the sidelines by them players that act girlishly excited every time they get shown on the screen?

  11. If the walk ons are genuinely cheer leading, great, if it’s forced and it kinda looks that way that’s lame. They ought to be told to be into the game, leave it at that.

  12. I was gonna saaaaay, those players on the sidelines are extremely annoying, it seems they enjoy being cheerleaders more than football players, perhaps they can change uniforms and their waving towels for some cheerleader skirts and pom poms…everytime they showed them on the screen they are like: “look look they are showing us!!!” and they act worse than when the fans are shown…as a viewer, I find that fricking annoying, not even high school players act like that when their games are being televised.

  13. It does indeed look forced. The non-playing kids are all full of smiles as they jump up and down waving a towel.

    Cut it out unless SC does something to warrant that kind of celebration

  14. There’s “NOTHING” more stupid than the “jumping up-and-down” !

    That’s humiliating to “EVERY” true Trojan Fan !!

    Why doesn’t Pat Haden put an end to it ?

  15. A Trojan team in the glory days would have never behaved that way on the sidelines, especially against a mediocre ASU team….WHEN THE GAME WAS BASICALLY TIED. If they were doing that per Sark’s instructions, it says a lot more about him than people already think.

  16. Several times at the ASU game I thought there was yellow penalty flag thrown, but it was only a players’s towel. The towel swirling looks bush, makes the players look like wannabes. It also reminds me of the former UCLA administrator/coach who used to waive a giant, white beach towel

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