USC Coaching Candidate

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I’m putting together of coaches USC is going to consider. Here’s one: Houston coach Tom Herman.

Pros: With the Cougars off to a 7-0 start, the first-year coach will be deluged with offers after the season. Another plus is Herman was raised in Simi Valley and played at Cal Lutheran. If USC can never hire Urban Meyer, it might as well look at someone who worked for him.

Cons: Will one year of head-coaching experience turn off Pat Haden? How nimble would USC be competing with other schools for Herman?

32 thoughts on “USC Coaching Candidate”

    • Seems only Scottie has given up on Whittingham, the rest of us realize you can’t win every game. When Houston loses its first game then Scottie will throw him aside too.

      #ThatsHowTheCookieCrumblesChuckie

      • It’s only a matter of time before Scott dangles the name of Toledo’s head coach in front of our faces

  3. So you’re suggesting Urban Meyer-lite?… since we can’t get Nick Saban, shall we get back Lane Kiffin?…..(kidding)

  5. Herman’s is a good candidate. He helped Urban Meyer build up Ohio State and has Hiuston winning games. We have to go for the best coach possible, and aim high. That being said Herman is in the list but I have a few coaches ahead of him

  6. Scottie, your analysis is wrong on some many fronts. Getting an old assistant of a successful coach does not guarantee similar results (see Kiffin and Sark); USC needs a proven coach, and not one based on 7 games; anyone raised in Southern California is not a potential candidate (see Sark); last I checked, Cal Lutheran was not a football powerhouse.

    Why don’t we just leave coaching candidates to the big boys and wait till the end of the season when this topic occupies some of Haden’s bandwidth.

    • I can’t wait to see the unveiling of his list……It should be better than any of David Letterman’s Top 10 lists…..

      • I’ll still pick Letterman’s list. Number two probably Anthony Weiner and number one,……………………
        Monkey on a Rock.

    • I’ so agree with you.let’s play the season.The real conversation doesn’t begin til end of Nov.Focus on players. But doesn’t the real question lye with if the new coach will let Adorre skip spring ball to focus on long jump*? SW needs to stand by his convictions.

      • Adore trying to be Superman is the least of the new coach’s problems, though it is a problem that could set precedent. Hopefully Adoree will realize he is not the best thing since sliced bread and will work to improve; skipping Spring ball is not how you do this.

        I wonder how Scottie’s campaign of Adoree for the Heisman is going these days?

        Who would have thought that a freshman MLB would have three more interceptions than Adoree at this point?

    • Herman is the real deal. Ask Ohio State fans. Don’t ever compare him to trash like Sark and Kiffin

      • John, I didn’t compare Herman with Sark/Kiffin but Scottie’s logic (also referred as Wolfian logic) that just because he was an assistant to a successful head coach doesn’t guarantee he will be a clone of that coach. He must stand on his own merits.

  7. Scott,
    Someday, they will listen to you.
    How many times does history have to prove you right before the huddled masses get it?
    In the meantime, all you can do is tell them what will happen next.
    #Likeyoualwaysdo

  8. You gave up on your #1 team and its #1 coach ?
    USC beat down overrated Whitiingham and his boys
    Vegas knewway before the scribes

    Matt Campbell is a very bad fit way too Ohio for USC
    Matt Rhule about to get beat bad by Domerboyz
    prolly not an ideal resume for the USC job
    Herman or Fuente ?
    Fuente kicked butt on an SEC team that beat Bama
    And they play.

    At least you aren’t pretending like some other writers
    that a coach is going to leave an NFL playoff team
    to coach here

  9. “I’m putting together of coaches USC is going to consider.”

    Interpretation, please.

  10. Tom Herman is a great coach and a member of mensa. He should be the #1 canidate. This is what he said when he took the Houston job

    ” But we needed to do a 180 with the physicality. For 100 years in football, no one has won a game because of their finesse. I don’t know any team that ever won a championship while playing soft. So, when we got here, physicality was nonnegotiable.”

  11. I like Kyle Wittingham, and John Harbaugh at this point, because I both coaches will hit the ground running at USC. I’m just not comfortable with Tom Herman, because there’s a vast difference between SC, and the University of Houston .

    • Herman is enticing because of what he did at Ohio St as the OC and qb coach. He coached up the 2nd and 3rd string QB’s to a National Championship and they have struggled this season offensively without him. Then he goes to Houston and immediately changes the culture and has them undefeated and top 5 in the Nation in offense. Herman is Urban Meyers greatest pupil and look at his coaching tree: Kyle Whittingham, Charlie Strong, Dan Mullen, and Steve Addiazo. All are successful. Herman is going to be the best of the bunch.

  12. Normally, I would say that Herman only has one year of head coaching experience so you are taking a big chance of making another mistake but with Herman I think that I would take the chance. This guy could very well be the next Urban Meyer. He’s had success everywhere he has gone, either as an OC or a HC and whenever he left, the team he left behind didn’t do as well the next year. He’s very hard nosed……definitely not mister nice guy. He believes in physical smash mouth football. I think that it was just last year that ESPN or one of those media organizations rated him the top recruiter in the country, ahead of Tee Martin. I’d take a chance on him.

  13. Herman makes too much sense…bright, young, tough, winner, So Cal raised…nothing to see here…move on…

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