USC Picture Of The Day

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This is actually a picture of the Oregon coaching staff in 1967. Former USC coach John Robinson, former USC assistant/Cal and Arizona State coach Bruce Snyder and San Francisco 49ers coach George Seifert are all on the staff. Ask yourself what USC staff in the past 15 years could produce three “successful” head coaches. That means don’t try to say Lane Kiffin, Steve Sarkisian, Nick Holt and Ed Orgeron became head coaches.

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  1. Of course John Robinson was my favorite USC coach, and he had some pretty talented staffs himself. But according to espn, no top assistants wanted to join Steve Sarkisians staff, which was very obvious with a coach like Bob Connelly on his staff. And I would imagine Lane Kiffin was too arrogant to attract any top assistant’s either.

    • Sark and Kiffin weren’t exactly asst coach magnets. But USC’s chances of landing a terrific HC after Carroll left were nil. Not many coaches like to follow legends, number 1. It’s generally a losing proposition. Much better to come in after the replacement leaves. Nobody was going to duplicate Carroll.

      Number 2, USC was headed to super bad probation and Carroll’s leaving was a total shock if you remember. Another giant scare away to coaches. I always thought that was one of the reasons Kiffin got the hire. Not many coaches would leave a great job 2 1/2 weeks before LOI Day at the drop of a hat and USC wanted to keep its class together.

      Some would say that the way Kiffin took the job was the first sign he would never be successful, and I agree.

      There were some other better choices out there but the vast majority would have turned down USC because of the horrible timing, the immense Carroll footprint and the long NCAA investigation which had everyone at USC upside down with worry, especially since Reggie Bush never once said a positive thing about USC except that his family did nothing wrong, even though his parents moved out of their stucco San Diego abode as soon as all hell broke loose.

      • I think number 2 was the big factor. If we didn’t have sanctions and Pete just left we would’ve had a few legitimate coaches who would’ve sold their kidney to take over.

  2. Todd McNair was a top coach in the dog fighting profession, wolfman….or do you still refuse to give ANY props to a trOXan??

    #SnarkySnarkenheimer

    • Not to mention, that Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkissian both have better winning percentages, as head coaches, than Bruce Snyder and that Snyder only won more than 8 games 3 times in a 21 year career. I guess the 3 years that he didn’t have a sub .500 Pac-10 record were particularly “successful”.

      Now go back to complaining about salaries. Maybe you could revisit Tiffin & Sark?

    • I’m sure the Duck fans didn’t mind the horrible season. They were just giddy that their freshman coach would one day be the coach of the 49ers.

  4. If you are measuring “success” by how much money the head coached made (and that is what the Blogger seems to gravitate towards these days), then those mentioned fit the bill.

  5. Someone needs to look up the Daily News sports staff ten years ago and see what successes they’ve all gone on to…and then there is Wolf.

  7. Well, I don’t think it did much for Oregon at the time. In 1967 they went 2-8.

    • They also got shut out for three weeks straight. I guess Wolf was impressed by the way that they bounced back to score in all of their final five games and managed wins over Idaho and Washington St.

  8. Don’t forget to include DeWayne Walker (New Mexico State) and Norm Chow (Hawaii) as USC assistants who became HC’s that didn’t pan out.

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