USC Video Of The Day


Here’s my thoughts on today’s events and a mini-rant at the end of those who claim they were unaware of any problems with Steve Sarkisian.

30 thoughts on “USC Video Of The Day

  1. I can’t imagine you were all that good at geometry in school, Scottie. You throw out all these unconnected thoughts without establishing your proven givens. You have to lay a foundation for your conclusions. You come off as very immature in your analysis. “SC is trying to make themselves look good!” Wow! Breaking news.

      • Thanks for the props. Simply suggesting that Scottie doesn’t lay proper foundations for this opinions. It’s one thing to be an opinion writer, but without the reportage, it falls flat.

  2. You can’t make this stuff up.
    SoCal is the gift that keeps on giving!
    Did I miss the mini-rant?

    • No, some are maxi-rants!

      But you’re right… the days of discussing football are long gone.

  3. Per the typically pathetic video summary report above regarding what Clay Helton had to say when speaking to the media, Coach Helton actually provided the Inside USC, pardon the pun, information for Trojan fans; to enable us to know and understand the mental and emotional aspects about what is happening with the individual players the team, the coaching staff, the athletic department and the university. I recommend correcting the video as follows; Delete: “He didn’t really say very much.” Insert “I didn’t understand most of what Coach Helton was saying.

    • Helton received rave reviews for the press conference on other web sites. So I think you’re right about not understanding.

  4. I still think PH should be fired. At the press conference he just got up there and defended himself. He said that he successfully guided the team through the NCAA sanctions. The truth is he did nothing. He just accepted whatever the NCAA gave him. In dealing with the NCAA he was a Casper Milktoast. He said that they won more games during the sanctions than all but two of the Pac 12 teams. That had nothing to do with him. With the exception of the baseball coach hire, almost all of his decisions were wrong. Any CEO of a big corporation who made that many bad decisions would be fired. But PH is an icon at USC and Max Nakias loves him. So it looks like he’s going to around for awhile. In some ways, that’s probably a good thing. He absolutely cannot afford to make a mistake this time around. If he makes a second bad decision concerning a head coach and fans have to sit through another 4 years of 7-8 win seasons, he’ll be publicly tarred and feathered. I think he’ll do things differently this time and make the right decision. After that, hopefully he’ll retire. But, make no mistake about it, we missed out on a great coach(Peterson) because of Hadens lamebrain decision.

    • He let NCAA violations happen with baseball forcing him to change, so he gets no credit there.

      And he isn’t the icon as much as the beneficiary of USC.

      We all know until the last year, with Swanny and AD, that he was a weak armed interception machine. SC put the talent there, it gave him the cache, and USC pushed for the Rhodes Scholarship (schools have committees and at that time per stipulations one had to be successful athlete and blacks were all but excluded).

      Pat would have never had all that he had without SC and I’m happy for him and proud!

      I know you’re not saying it but other people are acting like USC owes Pat something. Nope. He got a job, I wish it turned out well but instead he really stinks at it. No problem, it happens but he has to do what is best for SC and leave.

      • It’s true. SC in those days was tailback U not quarterback U. He was a good QB but never a great one. I still don’t think that they will fire him. I think that most of his decisions as AD were bad ones. But even if they were good ones, the one that counts was horrendous. Football is a major supporter of the university itself. It’s not like hiring a womens soccer coach. You can’t get that decison wrong. To pass over a great coach, with a 92-12 record, for a mediocre coach with a 34-29 record, is unforgivable. Again, what was he thinking? Maybe he has a drinking problem. Hopefully, he’ll retire soon.

    • Yeah, JiM!. You got it right. First of all, haden should have absolutely nothing to do with the new coach hiring. He’s already screwed up with sark and enfield. He did absolutely nothing about the sanctions when not a single university in the entire country with worse “transgressions” than USC was accused of got anything. Even after all the info in the Todd McNair case has come out, USC hasn’t said a word or does anything. #HadenMustGo

  5. How about Haden resigning from College Playoff committee so he can focus on getting his University moving in the right direction?

  6. If PH really wants to do the right thing, then pack up and get out. You are part of the problem, not the solution.

  7. Looks like Sark checked out of rehab just long enough to hold the camera for that video report.

      • All kidding aside, the DTs might not set in for another day or two. Rough stuff. If he can stay sober and rebuild his life, it would be a good redemption story. But people don’t always win these battles. I don’t know anything about Sark’s parents, but I hope he still has some family to support him.

  8. Haden said that he ‘owned” that decision to hire Sark. So, in a sense, he was admitting that he made a mistake. But then he defends himself by saying that hiring a head coach is not a science. Well, that’s true. It’s not a science in the sense that you have a formula that you can plug in some statistics and say this is the guy. But, in the same sense, when you are at a school that has this kind of tradition in football(11 national championships) and the best wheather in the world and your backyard is a hotspot for recruiting and your school is probably the 2nd richest school in the world(according to the Wall street Journal), so you have the money to pay coaches and build facilities…….It’s also not rocket science. Great coaches are not going to want to go to Cal Poly but many of them should be interested in USC. True, hiring a coach is not a science, but it also isn’t rocket science.

      • AND wolfman PREDICTED the implosion of this “coaching staff” when everyone else was planning their Champeeeenship parties!!! remember the guey with the 15-0 tag??? i think MOST on here BELIEVED the trOXans were top 4 material while the WOLFMAN said MAYBE top 20, and he was CRUCIFIED for his beliefs!!!

  9. I find it fascinating to read the posts on this topic and the other topics as well. Some folks are trying to have a rational conversation and express a reasoned point of view; while others simply want to spew invective after invective. IMO The hiring of Sark was a mistake and there have been some terrible missteps in the handling of the entire affair. But, to discount or deny the other contributions by PH is wrong. One may not place as much importance on the other contributions, but they are contributions none the less. It is very easy to sit on high and make pronouncements of righteousness. But being in the arena is another matter. One of my closest work friends was elevated to a position in senior management and it wasn’t long before his outlook changed–in explaining a decision one day he made this statement–“if you were in the room you would have made the same decision”. We don’t know all the facts and circumstances in what went into making decisions so I am willing to assume positive intent on all concerned. But to many, no matter what PH says or does; it will not be enough or correct. Sad days for USC–no winners to be found. Not even those who were screaming for blood last year and from the day Sark was hired.. You got your way and you are still spewing hate

    • That’s a bunch of politically correct rubbish. Next thing, you’ll be calling us intolerant and haters. You said “we don’t know all the facts and circumstances”.Here are the only facts and circumstances that we need to know. Chris Peterson was 92-12 as a head coach and had a phenomenal record in the previous 5 years that he was an offensive co-ordinator. He’s had great success everywhere he went. Sark was 34-29 at Washington…..just 5 games over 500. The Husky fans were thrilled to get rid of him. It took UDUB less than a week to hire him after PH rejected him. We passed over a great coach to hire a mediocre coach. That’s Hadens fault. It has nothing to do with spewing hate. It has to do with holding PH responsible for his mistakes and they have been many. PH may be a good person but as an AD he is incompetent and saying so is not spewing hate.

  10. Nikias needs to find a new AD. As soon as he does, Haden needs to quietly go back to the board of trustees or head a committee for Coliseum renovation. Helton sounds like a stand up football guy, if he succeeds, he should be the next Head Coach. Otherwise let the next AD do that. If Enfield has another bust of a season, he’s next.

    • Enfield has done his damage. The search should quietly go on now.

      I agree with the rest re Haden. If he is working in in some non AD capacity then he keeps face and the playoff committee situation, etc. No one owes him keeping face, but Pat should help out by not forcing it to an ugly conclusion.

      Keep it simple and shuffle around some guy like Steve Lopes- he practically runs the department as it is, and he has the academic background.

      Or put a front guy by pulling out another articulate SC gridiron great (what’s Marcus doing these days?), and get some great worker bees behind him. Remember how Garrett referred everything to Mark Jackson and Jackson was so boring you forgot what the question was? We need that.

      But Pat has lost all credibility even as public face for SC. Pat looks like he is always in crisis mode, like a suburban principal at a rowdy inner city school.

      I still think CEO solidifies things, but I’m cool with Whittingham, etc. He knows PAC 12 schools and LA recruiting. Maybe he even gets Norm Chow, his old OC to come back???

      No NFL guys who can’t stop CFB offenses, don’t know the culture and are using SC as a pit stop. We’ve been there before.

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