USC Recruits Well Except For Athletic Directors

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In the history of USC, only one athletic director was actually an athletic director being being hired. Jess Hill and John McKay were football coaches. Mike Garrett and Haden worked in the private sector. Only Mike McGee, hired in 1984, was an actual athletic director when hired from the University of Cincinnati. I find that to be amazing.

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  2. Would you rather have fat “Chianti Dan” over across town? He hasn’t missed a wine and cheese party in 20 years.

    • Dan’s fat but harmless. Pencil pusher, bureaucrat dude. He stuck ucla with a mediocre BB coach so I’m good with that. Mora’s already peaked out, having somehow never accomplished anything on a national scale and can’t win the Pac-12. I root for Dan to stay in Westwood.

      • once every four years…..soso cal finds a winning combination and beats the UCLA BRUINS…….CONGRATS……your winning percentage is at 25% Some tradition.

        • Says the Troll on a USC blog because we’ve got the tradition and you don’t. You wouldn’t catch me dead trying to score points on little gutties on one of your vacant graveyard blogs.

          Since we own you 47-31 and have 24 Rose Bowl wins to your paltry 5, and 11 NCs to your 1 (back before we were all born), I’ll let the numbers do the talking – assuming you can count.

          We don’t even care about basketball at USC but since beating you has been so easy this year, you’ve actually got us all fired up. Thanks for rolling over this year in both football and hoops. Now that we’ve got our scholarships back, you’re dead in football again. And my bruin friends hate your hoops coach. Good luck with that.

          • the only time i think of so cal is when i’m driving my car and the gas gauge says i’m down to 1/4 tank….

          • what car is that? A 93 Toyota with 300K miles on it. I know, I know, that is what the swing shift at Jack-in-the-box pays….right Hector – great name again.

        • You have a very short attention span – four years. You are a joke, much like your name – Hector!

    • AD should be a big picture guy with smarts and connections. Delegate to experts for data, insight and operations. Word to the wise – don’t ever run down to the field of play to assist your flailing HC on the sideline with the refs.

  4. Being being a good writer isn’t important to the Daily News. I find that to be amazing.

  5. Geauxtroytwentytwo is skott Wulff! I had to spell it wrong in order to get it by the sensors. My comment will soon be deleted, because the daily news always deletes it, when I make that accusation. Geauxtroy’s views match up to Wulff’s like a T. When you agree with Wulff’ 22 upvotes you. When you make fun of him, 22 insults you. It happens all the time.

    • You just gave yourself away, gee nerd sock puppet. I’ve never talked to you before and yet I insulted you? LOL Good luck at the contest tonight in Cedar Rppids.

  6. Jess Hill was more than a football coach,he was a tremendous multi sport athlete,and multi sport coach…all first time AD’s should have played a sport ,preferably more,and have coached and more than one preferably or assisted…if some business ,great…any mixture of these great also…or be buds with wolfie…

  8. As if having previous AD experience trumps real-world smarts. Are you kidding? Haden is one of the smartest dudes ever to take the AD job at any school. Sure, you may disagree with his decisions, but he outclasses you and the naysayers in terms of pure mental horsepower.

    • Book smart doesn not mean he had common sense, as evidenced by his antics at the Stanford game.

  9. And McGee was the worse of the lot by at least one magnitude. I do agree, if not a Marcus Allen type, then Greg Byrne would be a winner. AD department has to really be overhauled at the leadership level.

  11. And which past ADs had the best runs at USC?

    McGee and Haden clearly the best overall success. Galen Center, McKay Center, Coliseum-Sports Arena take over, Swimming Complex, Track Stadium upgrades. Numerous national championships. Hill and McKay had successful programs, but no where near the capital facility improvements. Which leaves McGee, steady hand but little to show for his years in HH.

    • McGee fired Stan Morrison, the last men’s basketball head coach to lead USC to a conference title and replaced him with Jim George Raveling. Morrison’s blue chip recruits Bo Kimble and Hank Gathers fled to Loyola where they had great success before Gathers tragically died of a heart defect, while USC mens basketball imploded for the next decade. McGee also gave us football coach Larry Smith.

      • Morrison was not fired per say. The University and Stan came to an ‘agreement’ that it would be best for all concerned if he ‘voluntarily’ left for greener pastures. The blue-chippers (Also Tom Lewis to Pepperdine… thought at the time the best of the 3) left and a crisis was averted. Redacted cliff notes available.

        Next decade implosion? Well, it indeed was tumultuous. Our record in the ‘90s was 152-135. It included Rav being awarded COY, going 24-5 in ’92 until eliminated by James Forrest in the big dance, Colemans sister, the Miner years, the Parker disaster, Mole Man (BHBEDBMF) appearing on the scene causing Cam to bail during the season as well as Jones, our starting center, Damien Dawson, Maurice Strong, and Craig Slaughter to quit after the season. The final year (’99) saw the inclusion of Trep, Sam, Granny, Big Red, El Rifle, Quincy, Bluthy, and Adam (Oregon still doesn’t believe it) Spanich.

        Bottom line…McGee saved our bacon with his negotiations.

      • Oops. I must have been still asleep when I posted earlier. I meant “Garrett and Haden” clearly had the best success. Definitely not McGee.

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