Morning Buzz: Can Andy Enfield Turn USC Around Next Season?

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With USC headed toward a second straight last-place finish in the Pac-12, the question now is how much better the Trojans can be next season?

“How can you be below Washington State (in the standings) when you’re in Los Angeles?” said a former Pac-12 coach, who asked not to be identified. “They are not even relevant. They have no identity.”

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20 thoughts on “Morning Buzz: Can Andy Enfield Turn USC Around Next Season?

  1. He gets one more season to turn it around, Scott…….let’s first see what kind of a recruiting class he can bring in next season, then feel to judge him…..

    • Agree a very young team. But there is no progress this season, unless losing a lot of games close at the end is progress. Need to be a .500 team next year or he should go.

      • I completely agree….. they need to be at least make a tournament next year…..I’d even settle for the NIT….meanwhile, teams like Kentucky continue to bring in multiple McDonalds All-Americans, while we can’t even get a decent point guard…. we wind up with Five Guys All-Americans, like Scott….

          • Just eat one of their double meat cheeseburgers, with everything on it, a large order of Cajun fries and a sack full of peanuts, without taking a breath (like Scott), and you too will become a unanimous choice for Five Guys All-American

  2. ” ………logic dictates young players usually get better, so maybe the Trojans will improve next season.” …. Scott always hedges his bets and leaves himself an out…….

  3. It kind of all falls on JMac, which probably isn’t fair to put on an 18 year old who will never cash an NBA paycheck, but since Enfield gambled his future on him . . .

    JMac is not a true point guard in the Pac-12. He would have been great in Floyd’s and O’Neil’s offense — walk the ball up, stay up top, play the inside-outside game, run the break from time to time, hit an occasional jump shot or drive and find the open man to keep defenses honest.

    But to ask him to be the man the offense goes through? He isn’t Derrick Rose or Russell Westbrook, he isn’t even Derrick Rose after three knee surgeries.

    Enfield gets next year if for no other reason than to USC to say to prospective head coaches “Hey, we will give you time.” Plus I doubt there is any decent coach that wants to take over this trash fire after this year. Maybe after next year when Martin, Stewart Jacobs and Marquetti are upperclassmen — provided they don’t transfer out.

    Better than 50% chance Enfield is gone after the 15-16 season. The Pac-12 will be better, so maybe five or six conference wins next year. He might get the final year of his contract if USC he wins 7 to 9 conference games and he gets a decent recruiting class.

    But JMac will continue to be the player he is and not the player Enfield wants him to be, they still will not play defense, they will struggle in half-court sets and the players will accept losing as part of the Enfield experience. He gets next year, MAYBE the year after that, but there is no way Enfield will ever get a new contract at USC.

  4. brutally honest assessment wolfman!!

    you highlight the disastrous failure of the O’Hadden administration, and more importantly, the one dimensional nature of Southern Cal!!

    Southern Cal is simply not in the league of the Stanfords, the Michigans or the UCLA’s of the world!!

    Southern Cal is a one-dimensional school, like Duke, except Duke occasionally wins a real Natty, something Southern Cal has never done!!

    #TotalSuccess

    #ClownCollege

  5. Well, we can’t go down any further. How can Enfield tell the Times that the team chemistry is “awesome” but yet he has to send players home and a couple get into a scrap. I’d hate to know what a bad team chemistry is…

    • Bad team chemistry?……just look across town……heck, Alford was doubled over in agony after their last game, then he had hernia surgery earlier this week, but then they realized it was actually his team that caused him such excruciating pain….

  6. The answer is NO! USC would have to win EVERY Conference game for the next two seasons just to have a winning record. Not Happening. Enfield is NOT the answer. Last year it was ” he doesn’t have his players”. Well, this year most of the players are his, so now what. For those who like excuses and poor showings by USC Teams then yes, one more year. I think SC should cut it’s loses now and move on AND he can take weak Pat Haden with him. If you like mediocrity then you most likely you love Haden, Kiffin and the rest of the weak SC bunch.

    • No, he doesn’t seem to have a discernable offense. They just run down the court and gun it like a bad CBA team.

  7. You could literally drive around to a couple of courts in Watts, gather the best team, and have them play without a coach and they would do as well or better in conference play. 1.5 wins a season?

    Obviously he should be fired now. Each day of delay is a setback for the program. But Haden won’t admit he messed up again.

    But next year, unless we are in the Final Four, which obviously isn’t going to happen, that guy has to go.

    Oh, and did this clown Andy Enfield actually insult and talk ish to Tim Floyd??? Heck, O’Neill on his worst day and worst behavior was more successful than Enfield.

    All Enfield has done is lowered the bar as far as it can go.

    • NICE!!!! and I’ll bet those straglers picked up on the basketball courts in WATTS would all be admitted under your ZERO REJECTS admission standards….
      Now that’s some tradition!

  8. No. Fire him now. We need a big time coach, not someone who lucked out at a 5th tier school, Florida Big Gulp or whatever.

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