USC Morning Buzz: UCLA Suspends Assistant Adrian Klemm

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I mention this for two reasons: Steve Sarkisian tried to hire Klemm when he was named USC’s head coach. And this blog seems to have almost as many UCLA fans so I figured someone wants to discuss it.

90 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: UCLA Suspends Assistant Adrian Klemm”

    • So, he got a paid vacation. They should suspend him for spring practice and maybe the season.

      • Really Bucket? You’re calling a USC fan totally obsessed with UCLA on a USC blog? You, and some others, spend every waking hour on this site lapping up every single anti USC morsal your hero, Wolf, dishes out. Is there a OCD-USC class offered at the UCLA Extension that all you parasites are enrolled in? Noticed how I said UCLA Extension. You aren’t bright enough to get into the regular university.

  2. How would you know about the sucla trolls, Scott. You don’t read the comments, right?

  4. What’s there to say Wolf, we all know that you will find ANY angle to make Coach Sark look bad by saying that he at one time “tried to hire him” well who cares if he tried to hire him? It’s the CULTURE of the university that enables the man to act the way he does.
    Anyway, this all kinda reminds me of a great passage that states “don’t judge the splinter in your brother’s eye, when you got a freaking TREE in your own,” Wolf.

    • Even if you are right, UCLA will take a hit in recruiting. Parents of recruits will stay away from any controversy.

          • Up to a point….even at SC. Recruiting can dry up more with poor coaching, at any school.

          • Yes, but only temporarily…..USC will pay whatever it takes for a good coach/recruiter….just like Alabama and Ohio State… Michigan coughed up the big bucks for Harbaugh…. the jury is still out on Miami and Texas…..and if the head coaching jobs at USC and UCLA became available tomorrow, which would be more desirable?….

          • SC obviously…but UCLA job is a better job than it was 3 years ago. Probably 3rd best job in PAC, right behind USC and Oregon.

          • No argument that UCLA has vastly improved the perception of their football team, even on a national level….but my point is that some schools are more vulnerable to coaches than others, when it comes to recruiting……

          • That is true. The traditional powers have a definite advantage in hiring, although even schools like Alabama, SC, Michigan and Notre Dame have had their share of misfires in hiring coaches. And don’t even get me started on UCLA basketball hires.

          • In another words, USC recruits itself no matter who is coach, from Larry Smith and Paul Hackett to Lane Kiffin and Sark.

          • The only advantage Scottie provides is the lines at Fat Burger are shorter because he’s at Five Guys.

          • The only insight the Rachel Maddow of Inside USC provides is that arrogance and stupidity is a really bad lifestyle choice.

        • I wouldn’t agree with that. USC lost out on some top recruits due to the sanctions. USC survived the sanctions but it surely hurt them.

          • I would agree if UCLA got hit with major sanctions like SC, but it appears minor. Had Garrett handled things differently it might have lessened SC’s pain. But that has been debated and debated.

          • That’s funny, SC was preseason #1 while on sanctions, Rachel Maddow of Inside USC. Kiffin botched a national championship caliber team he was handed.

          • Sorry GayToy, wrong again. Preseason rankings have nothing to do with losing recruits.

          • Sorry Rachel Maddow of Inside USC, the football world knew USC was loaded with talent and picked the Trojans #1 in 2012, not realizing that your hero Lane Kiffin would coach the talent down to 7-6.

          • … and don’t forget the first to bolt –
            Seantrel Henderson (but I’m glad actually he did because he was a 5-star bomb).

          • Sorry Owen, wrong again. Baxter signed with USC and involuntarily left a year later.

          • You lost those recruits because there was years and years and years of “lack of institutional control” then someone had the brilliant idea to stonewall the NCAA for almost five years. Luckily, you were able to make Reggie Bush the lone fall guy and made a deal to limit your sanctions!

      • Not sure little gutties will take a hit. Doubt it. Should all blow over soon. ucla’s a sacred NCAA cow. Klemm’s either stupid and can’t read a calendar or dishonest but knows he can get away with it. He’s at home eating donuts right now and getting ready to watch The Chew.

          • I think it was reported that they offered 900k. Adrian went to HS with my son. He was a good kid that I never thought would be making this much coin! Hoping it is much ado about nothing. Time will tell. The jury is still out on his actual coaching ability. He has brought in talent but the OL has been poor at protecting the QB.

      • That theory would be with the fact that SoCal had a great recruiting season. Obviously, recruits don’t care.

      • Once again the Rachel Maddow of Inside USC assume everyone else is like her and has no life and obsesses about recruiting minutiae.

    • I wouldn’t hang much on the paid leave angle. If he is consider a state employee he could have Skelly protections. Unpaid leave under Skelly is consider disipline before a hearing. Most state workers are protected and Skelly requires a hearing before disipline. Are ucla employees under state authority?

  6. Scott Wolf tried to hire James Franklin. The same James Franklin that lied, and then changed his story, when his players were investigated and later charged with the rape or an unconscious woman.

  8. Translation: I like to post troll bait to increase page views and bring in advertising revenue… it pays for my Five Guys burgers.

  9. Meanwhile… Bob Connelly is getting rave reviews for his handling of the USC OL during spring ball. Scottie has not posted anything negative about the guy since his initial hire, which means even he agrees that Connelly is awesome.

      • Or more accurately, in the Scooter Wolf blogisphere no negitive story implies a positive situation currently exists. You must admit Wolf is quick to latch onto anything negitive. Connelly still has a lot to prove.

        • Correction: Scottie is quick to latch onto anything that he can put a negative spin on, even if it is incorrect.

    • “If its not broken why fix it” – B. Donnelly

      I love that guy already… .

  10. So what were the “alleged” NCAA rules violation, Scott?…. or is that Wang’s job?

    • Wang posted too. No facts are out. I would hazard a guess at contact during a dead period, too many phone calls, some Twitter crap or something like that because he was suspended with pay. We will see. If something more than that, not good at all.

      • Yes, but, at least Scott would hazard an “educated” guess on the outcome, like he did when he unequivocally proclaimed that Bryce Dixon was dismissed from the team….

  11. Wolf – please get some real inside info and find out who exactly made the NCAA “aware” that these dumbbells were breaking the rules
    #WishItWereMe

        • Duhhh u r dummm – read my comment closely, as you always do – did you even go to college? Be truthful.

          • Go look up the definiotion of “dumbbell” and it will show a picture of you, RahRah4SC.

      • Tell it to NBC Sports, they are reporting something else.

        “Adrian Klemm has been “placed on suspension with pay” after the school “was recently made aware of alleged NCAA rules violations involving” the offensive line coach.”
        The school was made aware. It says later the school notified the PAC 12 Klemm had been suspended.

  13. if the NCAA gets really pi$$ed, they’ll put Southern Cal on an additional year probation!!

    HAWR-HAWR!!!

    you Dummies will soon see the kind of POWER Dapper Dan Guerrero HAS with the NCAA!!!

    #SlapOnWrist/KissOnCheek

  14. Innocent until ‘proven’ guilty…whatever that means…suspended with pay…so not much there, there,etc…

    and it is worth mentioning only because Sark wanted to hire him? I almost care…

  15. This is what he did … He made initial contact with recruits , during the no contact period …. that’s it …trying to get the upper hand before Spring Evaluations.Right now , I don’t think this will lead to any major sanctions …. UCLA isn’t a National Power for anyone within the SEC, i mean the NCAA to care to punish….

    Right now coaches can’t make initial contact or meet with a recruit outside of campus , but a recruit can visit a school and meet with the staff ….this goes from 2/6/15/ -4/15/15 …. When spring evaluations open, and Coach can hit the recruiting trail

  18. I am surprised how much UCLA alum are into their sports and are knowledgeable and funny or in some cases just funny.

    I just have a hard time placing it with UCLA students, most of whom seem, if they follow sports, may chiefly be concerned with table tennis or changing written reference to UCLA female teams to ‘womyn’.

    The fact that they know enough to be obsessed by USC athletics as much as their own speaks well of some of these Bruins. Huh, who would have thought. Enjoy following SC during your own probation. LOL

  19. Where are all the stupid, ignorant and classless bruin trolls when you need them?

      • I owe you an apology ThaiMex. I never took into consideration that with your bruin background, you have trouble processing information and have a limited capacity for expressing coherent thoughts. You don’t know what you don’t know, so why try and explain it to you. Now you can go back to your mother’s basement.

  20. Tradition continues, The great Johnny Cheetin’ Wooden, the great Jim Harrick, and now the not so great Adrian Kleem. Let the tradition continue.

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