When 7-4 Feels Worse Than 5-7

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Think back to Paul Hackett’s final season in 2000. USC went 5-7 but the Trojans beat UCLA 38-35 on David Bell’s 36-yard field goal with nine seconds left to win the game.

22 thoughts on “When 7-4 Feels Worse Than 5-7”

  1. Hmmm? Appears the only way SC can try to stop UCLA is to have Scott lowball them in the AP poll.

  2. Welcome to Ted Tollner part two.

    His teams had no fire, no halftime adjustments, poor assistant coaches, and Tollner should never had been hired to be a head coach.

    Fast forward 30 years and you’ve got the fatter version of the same thing.

    • Please show a little class.
      “Welcome to Ted Tollner part two” should be “Welcome to Ted Tollner part deux”. A little sophistication, por favor.
      A very mean thing to say about Siete, as Tollner was clearly the worst football coach in USC history.

      • Tollner did take over during a probation period brought on by J Robinson. I’d vote Larry Smith as the worst, tied SDSU and lost to Fresno in the Freedom Bowl. Tollner left Smith with a great team in 1988.

        • I don’t believe that Rodney Peete would agree with you. It was impressive the way he and Smith bonded with one another.

          Regarding the predictable Fresno St fiasco…It was fairly obvious that an upset might be in the mix when the opening line dropped so much prior to kick-off.
          Other than Sample perhaps…the fans, alumni, AD, players,and coaching staff would have rather eaten a bug than to play in that game which so many thought was so far beneath them. This certainly did not reflect positively upon the SC community, but it was what it was. I recall that my own personal reaction to the game was ‘MEH’…not proud of that, but that’s what transpired.

          ucla trolls need not respond. We don’t give a hoot what you think or what you do. If everyone was perfect, walking on water would be a snap.

          • Yes, Lardog, SUCC didn’t belong in the Freedom Bowl because Fresno State ran the ball down SUCC’s throat. Mighty SUCC couldn’t stop Fresno’s ground attack.

            I’ll never forget Fresno State last TD – the F. St. RB ran right through and over MCGinnis and put Willie on his back like a turtle in SUCC’s end zone – knocked Willie into the next day.

            Compared to F. St. LarDog, the SUCC FB team were a bunch of cheap tomato cans decked out in Ripple and Puke uniforms but SUCC was more talented than F. St. Isn’t that a SUCC loser excuse. Yes LarDog, SUCC tradition crawls on.

            Please respond LarDog, please, please. please. LOL, what a joke.

  4. The game was won and lost in the trenches- surprise! SC’s 3 down line men couldn’t put pressure on BH. Kessler was zoned in on Agholor and doesn’t seem like a QB who can make his team better. UCLA might win again next year if SS keeps calling bone headed plays like Allen and Vainuku up the middle on 3th or 4th and short. SC’s O-line looked like a bunch of freshmen and Tuerk is a terrible center.

    • Tuerk is a terrible center? Au Contraire! He is not that good as a center. Just because most believe him to be the best LT in the P-12 does not necessarily give him Carte Blanche at center just because his coach has no clue as to where he would be the most productive. When Max is eventually drafted into the NFL, you can bet your britches that it won’t be to play center. Sark has done a huge disservice to him as far as his career is concerned…but the kid is a true Trojan through and through and does what he is requested to do.
      If he were to have been at LT against the bruins, I wonder how many sacks on Kess would never have come to fruition.

  5. Why haven’t we heard from the everything SUCC expert Cigar Butt?

    For instance CB, why did SUCC kicker Headari (?) don a pink kicking boot for Sark’s bomb FB performance. How many bottles of Scotch did Haden consume yesterday? I need details CB, so man up.

    • So you keep masturbating, fantasizing about the phantom victory from yesterday? You call that a win when the opponent had 48 scholarship players? How low can you get, loser? You do know you’re screwed up, don’t ya? LOL!!!

      • Yawn, Three Ball. UCLA 38 – succ 20. Shouldn’t you be making sure a fox isn’t guarding your hen house?

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