A No-Glitz Breather

HELTON.NDThis will be the first time in years that attention should be solely focused on the players at USC instead of the coach. One could argue that Pete Carroll swallowed a lot of attention but he always put the players first. Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian tended to become a focal point that overshadowed the players.

21 thoughts on “A No-Glitz Breather

  1. This is the first time in years that attention should be solely focused on the players instead of the coach————-so of course you bring up the 3 previous head coaches. JEEZ!

  2. I asked this earlier, but it may have been lost in an older post–or no one wanted to answer.–How does a blog such as this or similar type blogs generate revenue? Do they generate revenue? Is the blog connected to the DN or is it a sole entity?

    • Because the blogger is a master at teasing his audience into lots and lots of angry replies —-he looks good to advertisers (such as the ones appearing directly below —e.g., “Say Goodbye to Snoring”).

      • … and more than half the posts are troll-related tit-for-tat posts or replies. The amount of football-related posts are dwindling daily.

      • The ads do not have much cache so I suspect the revenue is fairly insignificant. It seems to me that blogs connected to or accessed from newspapers & other organizations with editorial oversight, the quality of the blog content is higher versus “stand alone” blogs. There is a media blogger in Nor Cal not connected to anyone but himself and he spews some of the most childish insults it is funny. And the quality of reader comments is childish as well.

        • His dating site ads are Ucla students and Rimmer is the Pimp daddy!

    • Stop stealing my identity slightly ( Trojsteve5 ). Your statement above has nothing to do with the subject matter presented by the blogger. Who cares how and why they exist. Helton has already proved he can lose big time on the road even at a neutral site. Kiffin pushed Barkley for the Heisman while Sark focused on Juju for the publicity. They were not looking for the limelight themselves. The real culprit was AD Haden who fired both of them under strange circumstances leaning on Helton both times to save the day.
      Alabama goes for Saban, Ohio St. goes for Urban, and Michigan goes for Harbaugh. Trojans go for a lifetime assistant to resurrect the program. Good luck!

  3. If Coach Helton doesn’t figure out how to use ALL his weapons on offense or leaves an obviously struggling Browne in against Alabama —he’ll be “swallowing” plenty of attention from everybody.
    Including you.

      • All the great western philosophers—from Plato to Berkeley (and, now, Wolf) have, from time to time, struggled with this one, Ben. (Scott has promised me personally he’ll resolve the cause/ effect question before the Alabama game).

  4. That’s because Lane Kiffin, and Steve Sarkisian were both Clowns that were handed positions they did not earn. And they both proved early on that they were immature egotistical, fools , and that’s why the attention was always on them .

    • Sam, stipulating that all you say is true, the question remains. Why continue to write about them?

      • I guess Scott Wolf will have to change the content of his topics, and maybe talk about the future.

        • Fred, just noticed I typed in the wrong first name earlier–no ill intention. Sorry

  5. Does that mean we won’t see any snarky Helton posts from the Blogger?

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