ESPN analyst Jalen Rose was asked by a fan what team he would to coach?
“This school has a coach who I like. I’ve also been a commercial with this coach. By no means am I lobbying for any job . . . Which team would I like to coach? The USC Trojans. I think that’s a gem of a program near downtown L.A. With a terrific football team and history and pedigree as well.”
The comments occur at the 1 hour, 15-minute mark.
He couldn’t be worse than last place each year here. And he’d be a recruiting monster and could relate to kids. But we blew our “take a gamble” hire on Amblin’ Andy.
No, he could not be worse. The Isaac Hamilton disaster proved that. Maybe Don McLean is right and the kids will get better with experience. But without teaching fundamentals, Enfield is, with luck and if everything breaks his way, at the very best a .500 coach in the conference, and more likely a 5-6 conference-win team next year.
At the time, the vast majority of people thought the hire of Enfield was a bold, forward thinking move. Can’t really blame Haden. He needed a splashy hire, and he got one. The only one who consistently threw cold water on the hire was good ole Scottie, who noted that two Tournament wins really wasn’t a good basis for a hire. And Haden has a weird fixation on preferring someone with head coaching experience, so we get Andy. You know who else had previous head coaching experience? Lane Kiffin and Kevin O’Neill.
Anyway, Enfield will be gone after next year, unless to some five-star one-and-done type who’s presence alone guarantees seven conference wins decides not to go to Kentucky and go to USC instead.
But that ain’t happening,
So Rose might as well start updating his resume now.
Jalen Rose is not going anywhere for a decade or so.
Still, nice words from him
And he is right. SC is a diamond in the rough. Downtown Los Angeles is now the soul and center of L.A. County, Galen is one of the best arenas in the country, and SC is SC.
There are a lot of SC basketball closet fans. I recall in the ’90s when the arena was packed and going crazy as Harold Miner slam-dunked SUCLA 4 games to 2 during his tenure.
The worm will turn, eventually.
BS!
Running out of words to bark, SUCCee? LOL!!!
But you aren’t at 3am. Washing dishes must be exciting.
What, you mean you wait for my replies all night long…seeing visions and hallucinating? LMAO!
The plane! The plane!
coming from a WORM….I’ll think about your post for a few moments….
enough…
You tossed us a curve…..i didn’t realize WORMS could actually be RAH RAH’s at the same time…
Thanks Paralegal
figt Un!
Downtown LA is fun. USC is most definitely not in Downtown. That’s misleading to say or imply. USC is technically in the South LA area, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Take the main drag, Figueroa Street, and after Staples, before you know it, you are at Adams, Fraternity Row 28th Street, and then Galen Center and USC
I would say SC makes up the southern boundary of downtown, but it is a matter of semantics and proportion.
Wolcott, I believe your logic is flawed on this one. DTLA’s boundaries are pretty clear to see on a map. The DTLA boundaries are: the LA River to the East, the 10 Fwy/Washington Blvd. to the south, the 110 Fwy Fwy to the west, and Cesar Chavez/the 101 Fwy to the north.
Although Downtown has a nice ring to it (especially with all the new [and old] things to do there, saying that USC is in Downtown is misleading and akin to saying that MacArthur Park is in Downtown–not true.
trOXans just can’t accept their station in life….South Central, good or bad. OWN it! EMBRACE it!!
next they’ll be calling it, SouthEast Beverly Hills!!
#11Outta12
I say give him the keys! He’s legit
A pedigree? SoCal Basketball?
Admittedly the program is a dog but a pedigree? I don’t think so.
i don’t know about pedigree, but they sure play like bi(t)ches!!
#OhNoIJustDin’t
PS,
After you give Dumb City Enfield 4 or 5 more years to turn it around, Please, please do hire Jalen Rose.
could he be worse than Enfield??