Clay Helton’s rocketed to the top spot on coacheshotseat.com. Does anyone remember USC was picked second in the Pac-12 South in the preseason media poll and received the second-most votes to win the conference title game?
Clay Helton’s rocketed to the top spot on coacheshotseat.com. Does anyone remember USC was picked second in the Pac-12 South in the preseason media poll and received the second-most votes to win the conference title game?
I just spent 45 minutes of my lunch hour listening to the Paul Finebaum show. Lots of good talk about LSU football and what their coaching search might look like. Pretty standard talk show fare–but the real entertainment was (were?) the callers. USC fans and probably all other fan bases cannot match the crazy that is the SEC. If you get a few minutes give your self a treat & listen.
You could have called in and said Clay Helton was available Sunday morning at LAX
Lol
Lynn Swann is traveling as we speak. Maybe he will have something when he gets back. Im fine with Miles, he would be KING in the Pac. Recruits would say Ucla who?!
Recruits already do say ucla Who? We can do much better than Miles, who should have been fired last year and is definitely trending down.
Herman, who was raised in the Simi Valley and was an all-Conference WR at Cal Lutheran and won the Broyles Award in 2014 at OHIO ST, is the dude. If we let him go somewhere else, you’ll know where Nikias’ priorities lie.
I understand JB, but the monies will not add up for USC to move on Herman!
You’re obsessed with that sewer across town, why?
Not at all. Just messing w the trolls. All USC. 46 years!
Don’t bother with him. He takes every word here literally. I learned that yesterday.
He seems ok, Some comments are rough, but he seems to know some about USC, like SW.
I was throwing hypotheticals around, what ifs, just playing and he took it dead serious. No playfullness reaction whatsoever. But worst of all he judged my opinion and had no kind of statement or opinion of his own. Just a Monday morning QB. I hate that.
I have been around the program 46 years, know the people with answers, Helton will NOT be the USC coach in 2017. The End!
That means you actually know Swann’s already seen all he needs to know. Correct? A simple yes or no will do, That would also mean Gomer knows he’s gone.
I don’t believe that, but I hope you are right and I’m not.
YES!
Good enough for me. But you already know we won’t stop gossiping until that day arrives. That’s just who we are.
The reason for our existence on here.
Lol! Yep!
Yeah, a couple of old bags
My wife confirmed through her father, A windfall of changes are coming to sweep USC from mediocre to greatness. Lynn is travel mode with someone who is not happy and wants a new coach in place sooner rather than later.
Sounds like promising news. Now we wait.
It may be like when the brooms come out when the Dodgers sweep the Giants.. USC is too valued a piece to keep from playing a plus football.. And I kicked the crossing guard to the junk pile.. Smells like a Ucla troll.
You smell like a Cow Poly Ag major whi just cleaned out the pig pen, CowPolyFan3.0. Imagine when your new predictions don’t come true.
I want to win the WS, BUT If we don’t at least get to face the Cubs in the NLCS it will have been a disappointing season.
this team is special. we’re going to win it, go big blue!
I agree Tim, this team is special. Toles, Seager, Urias, etc. all these young kids are putting in work!
dont forget puig. he finally got the message, and will definitely be a factor. foolish to trade him for roid head and mvp thief braun
Puig has been a pleasant surprise. I only fear they will force Ethier into games and it will hurt us. Braun stole Kemps MVP. I don’t want him.
exactly. i dont know why zaidi and friedman would even consider it
Kershaw and Rich Hill give us a tough 1-2. Maeda is a solid #3. And Urias is really good option as a middle reliever or #4 if need be. If our hitting stays on point we should make a good run.
I know people in the organization. When they sent Puig down to AAA, it sent a message to everyone in the organization.
i just hope theyre not set on trading this guy. i think he got the message
Washington played well, Baker is a great manager, it comes down to the LAD playoff roster. 40+ guys deserve to be on the 25 man roster.
Kershaw
Maeda
Hill
McCarthy
DeLeon
Should be the 5 man
Urias
Jansen
Blanton
Are for sure pen guys
Grandal, Chooch
Gonzo
Utley
Seager
Turner
Pederson
Hill
Kendrick
Puig
Hernandez
From there Roberts and the BOps have to be creative.
no McCarthy…
I noticed no JP Howell. He’s been a letdown. I like him, but he’s sketchy. Seager, Turner, AGon, Kendrick, have to be in the lineup no matter what. Our biggest obstacle right now is hitting lefty’s. X-Factor will probably be the production from Grandal and Pedersen. Pedersen has to have quality at bats.
Your wife the real SC grad, CowPolyFan3.0?
Therefore, my premise that USC football needs a complete housecleaning may come true.
Don’t let CowPolyFan3.0 snooker you, sas. I don’t care if the morons like Jacqui the trans fall for his crap but you are a good guy.
I will stay out of your affairs.
You know squat
I know more than you think. Especially when your wife’s father is a BOT!
CowPolyFan3.0 is very whipped to his wife the real SC grad.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, now that’s funny
CowPolyFan3.0 knows about Cow Poly mens soccer.
Sure CowPolyFan3.0. You’ve been around your wife the real SC grad for 30 years.
You were dead serious
That picture of Bill Belichick is dead serious. I was throwing around ideas, fairytales.
You like fairytales, and you were dead serious
Les Miles !!!!!!!!!! jack Del Rio !!!!!!!!!!!!! Get a clue homer
What are you? Your the guy who bashes USC when we’re down, and wets the bed when we win.
Get a new mattress.
You shouldn’t bother with CowPolyFan3.0.
Then why post about them ? Block the trolls and then you don’t have to deal with them
Lol..I did!
Sure you did, CowPolyFan3.0!
It’s a mystery because he’s a Cow Poly Ag major loser who lives in Pahrump mowing lawns who has been bounced from the blog more times than a bartender throws out the town drunk
Don’t tell me you are buying this guy’s crap?
Don’t tell me you believe CowPolyFan3.0’s crap?
Not him.
Sure it is, 53, wife a SC alum and talks big money and how important he is.
He brings good USC insight to this blog and is a good dude. What do you have against him?
Besides the fact he’s a psycho and he was a CowPoly Ag major who mows lawns in Las Vegas but pretends to be big money Beverly Hills and a lot of jewelry?
Some great men wore a lot of jewelry.
Liberace and Mr. T come to mind.
But they weren’t psychotic frauds.
If I were Clay Helton I would avoid LAX for a few weeks. All he has to do is get the talent to show what they can do and he’s back a few rows on the hot seat. I do not see him as a long term head coach, but I was wrong about Ed Orgeron ever being a head coach again too.
Gomer’s probably had the worst first month of a season in the history of college football, though Miles and Kelly are right up there. But Miles was already in hot water before the season started and Kelly has enjoyed some success.
Gomer came in with his shiny brand new staff, a nice recruiting class, and generally a lot of optimism. He seemed to have done a lot in the off-season that was positive – that was, until ALA showed us he had really done nothing.
Now, he’s 1-3 and yuk yukking about always seeing improvement. Well, since he finally corrected his QB mistake by starting Darnold at Swann’s request, that’s the only reason for any improvement, Our defense has regressed, if that’s possible.
Good to see Gomer’s seat is as hot as fire. He earned his distinction, and is getting very well paid for it.
I’m leaning towards Miles, LSU is responsible for $14.5 mil buyout and he will probably come in at $7 per year for USC. Herman’s buyout is $6 mil, USC has the money, but don’t see them cutting monies to Helton, Houston and Herman. Thats nearing $16 mil. No WAY that happens!
That doesn’t change fact that Miles is trending way down and has always seemed a little oily to me. So we compromise with Miles? Not much of a shot in the arm but would be typical USC nowadays.
Someone will get Herman. That’s the team to watch for the future.
Miles is what 62, Saban owns the SEC, he wore out is welcome trying to compete with Saben.. Miles would be KING in the Pac conference, how many retreads in the conference have NCs ..Zero! Miles brings name and a great resume to USC if hired .. Career #s 144-55.. What coach in the pac has those numbers, Zero.. Lol.. Miles would chase Mora out of Ca. Miles and the right support staff would build recruiting options in the SEC region heading east, Ca recruits would line up wanting to play for USC and Miles. Proven winner!
He’s still trending down though. Glossy numbers were awhile ago. He’d have to be the Lee Iococca of coaches and somehow get reborn. Is not a proven winner in today’s game.
I’m not worried about recruiting. They always line up to come to USC. It’s all the rest of the program issues that are what holds USC back nowadays. We just got beat by a team with a talent disadvantage. Coaching killed us, because our kids played hard – just not smart.
We’ll probably look at Miles if he’s interested in coming out west. I still hope we do better and catch someone who’s headed up and not some old guy who’s just been booted from someplace else.
Been doing Pixie dust lines? LOL.
If Coach O didn’t fit, neither will Miles.
CowPolyFan3.0 actually has these guys believing him.
LSU has had top 10 recruiting classes over the last 5 years, and Les Miles still couldn’t get the ball rolling. It’s not the fact he’s in the tough SEC, because they constantly lose games out of conference.
Fred, you and I both know he’s had one main problem. Finding quarterbacks. And that is totally amazing considering the talent that is in and around Louisiana/SEC country.
But Jack, Miles doesn’t “know USC”. That is a big hurdle to overcome.
ND would pay that. Will be interesting to see if they make a move. They’re in as bad a shape as we are and at ND, there is no ambiguity about the importance of football – as there currently is at USC.
Good lord, SC can do better than Gomer Sr
Ok
Yeah, ok. He’s 61 , look at his recruiting class the past 4-5 years and see what he did with them on the field, not much, unless you think the Texas bowl is where you want to be
I was going to say the same thing about Helfrich…my Oregon alum friends are not happy.
Think CK would do a encore with the Ducks?
He might, he was certainly the king of Oregon and with Nike $$ could name his own price.
I agree. USC botched that one but then again they have no trophy in the case, like ucla or Furd.
Does Cow Poly have a trophy in the case, CowPolyFan3.0?
Pete Carroll started 1-4, but I think we’ve seen enough to know Helton is cooked.
Ya, and John McKay started slow (with zero talent) and John Robinson got walloped in his opener against Missouri. The Gomer will never succeed like those men so why are we wasting our time? Let him finish 2016 but I hope we are moving forward to do what Haden pretended he was doing but never did.
I seriously hope we can send some pigeons with little notes on them that say “help wanted” to Tom Herman, Petrino, etc. That way we get the jump on the coaching search and don’t get in trouble for violations. It’s time to lay the Benjamin’s on the table and negotiate with a proven coach.
Pigeons work with me. Hopefully, Swann’s got connections inside the game, both college and pro, that can fill in any gaps he has and guide him in ways that Haden was obtuse to. Swann’s our only hope right now, whatever he decides. If he gets this right, it’ll set the course for USC football for the next 10 years. Another wrong move and…
This was supposed to be the “easy part” of the schedule. It looks mighty legit now. Two losses in October may get the ball rolling for a new guy.
63 says it’s already done. I hope he’s right.
Helton needs a football miracle at the moment. Those don’t happen overnight.
I can’t believe you are falling for CowPolyFan3.0’s latesr sock puppet reincarnation.
Petrino ? That guys slimier than Hillary and Bill combined !
Do you call the cops on your neighbors when you hear music and see fun????
WTF are you talking about ?
You know LSU has already contacted Herman’s people.
That’s for sure. They don’t play around in that part of the football world. I’m sure they’ve sent a welcome basket to his agent.
Have we hired Les Miles yet ? Or jack Del Rio ? !!!!!!!!
Dude you are the wimpy hall monitor of this blog. You have no opinion, but love to blow the whistle.
Keep blowing.
I think its SW .. Sam!
No, SW is not that dull.
A troll pretending to be a USC guy.. Yeah USC is dead ..
That’s you, CowPolyFan3.0. Yeah, you are a real SC insider for a CowPoly Ag major living in Nevada.
It’s CowPolyFan3.0!
Dude you are falling for CowPolyFan3.0’s line of crap.
Stop it
Wake up!
We have a good back and forth GT22. I just don’t get why you dislike him.
Because he’s a pychotic phony going back 15 years as T-Fail.
What is T-Fail again?
TrojanFan, Trojan Fan2.0 and Trojan Fan3.0 before they were all banned for his obscene meltdowns.
Oh, you mean 8Krap? He’s around somewhere. Not here though.
No that is Garry Bleauz. He actually went to SC and goes to all the practices. He isn’t a fraud like CowPolyFan3.0.
Definitely not a fraud. I like him. I thought you and him bumped heads.
CowPolyFan3.0 is a fraud. He lives in Vegas and has no clue what is going on.
DMH63 is not CowPolyFan3.0
I think I was probably the first one here who talked to him and felt him out. He’s been a stand up guy since he came. He’s not CowPoly.
In other words….These are not the droids you are looking for–Star Wars
Yes he is, CowPolyFan3.0 was banned and then he returned as DMH63 with the same line of patter that always gives him away. Look at how many posts he has in less than a week of existence.
If you are banned you are monitored and cannot return. Not even under a new name. It’s not him. You may owe him an apology.
Wrong, many posters have been banned and just change to a new handle.
I don’t live in Vegas, I have lived in So Cal for 53 years ..I grad from USC in 86 and returned to get my law degree .. I also have a masters from UNLV. My wife grad from SC in 91 she is a entertainment atty, I have a daughter at USC and 2 HS aged sons and a jr HS age son. We live in Westlake Village. I also played baseball at SC .. Nothing has changed .. I run a sports and entertainment company.. No reason to lie.
Boom!
Classic Cal Poly talk about himself.
Time to make up a new name.
No reason to lie.
It’s sad that sas is fooled by this fraud CowPolyFan3.0.
He thinks thats me ?
He said no. 8Krap was banned from this site by Wolf. But he was well respected here.
Ok.. Just find him obnoxious.
You are the same creep that posted this:
USC 55 • 12 hours ago
Rents and the trolls are in Mora heat.. He’s a guttie for sure .. Takes it in the rear.
Nope . sorry
Yep, that’s you, emoticons, bragging about yourself, 53 years old and all.
I just point out your stupidity
But Pete’s teams fought hard, and didn’t lose by big margins like Helton’s.
No argument here. Helton’s teams are the opposite right now.
Pete Carroll never was blown out and the talent level was low Sunny Byrd at runningback? lol
Sunny is a good dude..lol be nice!
CowPolyFan3.0 knows Sunny Delight…he drinks it every day.
Your preaching to the choir
If he loses saturday, I think helton will probably get fired after the game.
Not happening
Why not?
I see a change coming!
I will be at the game Saturday. I want to win, but a part of me feels winning would be to lose=new head coach.
Same here.
REAL USC fans don’t want to lose no matter what
Ouch. Somebody call a doctor.
Helton won’t be fired until the end of the season, if he’s fired at all
They’ll give helton time. They did look a lot better in the Utah loss.Besides who would take over that’s any better.
Don’t be so quick on the trigger… firing their coach whom they spent big money hiring a national search firm (and then ignore its findings on the last 2-hirings) after only 4/5 games would be an admission they screwed up. No, not this administration. Their crony-istic minds wouldn’t accept that accusation.
Hope they kept the paperwork….won’t cost as much. Just look at the top 10 they DIDN’T hire.
It just shows there are some college presidents who are willing to demand success relative to its capability (like LSU). Unfortunately, we are “stuck” with a stiff who is more than willing to allow USC football to be the laughing stock of the sport. The USC administration ought to write a book on “the fine art of cronyism”.
I’m the last person to defend the USC administration, but you are aware USC has fired their last two coaches in September aren’t you?
Kiffin fired, Orgeron not given a chance, Sarkisian fired, Helton given the HC job only to flop soundly. Not much of a track record to brag about, is it? And look at the AD’s hired (with their non-experience & non-qualifications other than being jocks). I’d say it is the blind leading the blind.
Hiring a known drunk over Ed is unforgiveable.
But Sark gets SC.
Well, technically Les Miles is number one.
Helton on the hottest seat basically because of only 3 offensive touchdowns against Power 5 schools despite having the best talent in Pac12. That and bad decison making from the start
There were two polls. One was for major college football programs that have coaching hot seats. The other was for programs that don’t matter with coaching hot seats. Jim Mora was #1.
UCLA football coaches seat is very well insulated.
There are de-emphaszing football there.
They loved him until Saturday night.
What major organization makes almost the exact same mistake 3 times over the course of a few years in a high level hiring decision? Kiffin, Sarkisian, and Helton. All were hires with no established record of success in the capacity of HC. You almost would think that the first two failures would have guaranteed that they would choose someone with a clear track record. This now looks comical.
But you’re forgetting one thing…Sark gets SC.
Swan should do him a favor and get him OFF the list
If we actually hired a national search firm , lets hope we never use them again based on what we ended up with
Well, didn’t the search firm say Sark was the one.
When I saw the comical football staff that Clay Helton, and Steve Sarkisian put together when they were named head coach, that’s when I knew they would both be failures. Helton was so obviously insecure when hie didn’t go after top coordinators, but he rather beg a defensive coach that really didn’t want to be here.
I don’t think Helton was insecure, I just don’t think he could attract anyone to be on his staff, he has no gravitas. PC had that, Harbaugh has that, Saben, Meyer, Helton, uh no
Tell us something we don’t know. Seriously, give us a real opinion. LOL!
Miles is on the downside of his career, and should spend a few years as a DC or something before he goes back to HC job. USC can do much better that Miles.
Agree, but read below, the insanity and dilusion is staggering
how can they do better, herrmann?
How soon the annual display of pre-season delusion and cluelessness fade away! It took all of one game this time around…
Nope it took Friday night to finally demoralize the rah rahs.
Why does the ‘contraire’ in me always come out when everybody is piling on to some idea such as Helton being the worst thing to happen to planet earth since the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs?
Well, the remaining games are all winnable, so I feel the jury is still out on Mr. Helton, and I am willing to wait to the end of the season to pass judgment, unlike apparently 99% of Trojan “fans.”
i stand with you, John Wolcott. FIGHT ON !!!
Pete played to win not to loose the game