Sign Of The Times

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Maybe this sign outside the USC locker room was enough for Clay Helton to have “total faith” in the Pac-12 to determine when it’s too hot to play a football game.

29 thoughts on “Sign Of The Times

  1. Our boy Sammy is tops in the nation in TQBR

    Field temperature doesn’t matter when you are throwing fire

  2. Worried about player safety ? Naw

    Worried about the TV money ? Oh yeah

    I have total faith that Larry Scott will try to find every single way he can to make money for the PAC 12 Presidents even if it’s at the expense of game quality and player safety and fan enjoyment, he may even find a way to get DirecTV to broadcast the PAC 12 Network, maybe.

  3. Looks like one team was unprepared for the heat…and it wasn’t SC… Guess Helton knew what he was doing… Dont forget The Flounder picked SC to barely win…even lose if things didn’t go right… Now, U of A is a cream puff (an item The Flounder is undoubtably familiar with…)

        • No kidding, as long as they have the money flowing in to build more building on campus, it’s all good, screw the players

  4. Back off of the horse, he’s had enough! This is your fifth post about the weather. The funniest part of this is how absurd the exaggeration is. You do realize that the highest verified temperature on Earth… ever… is 134 degrees… in Lybia, yet your whiny day in Tucson trumped that by 3 exceeded the highest temperature ever recorded in Death Valley by almost 8 full degrees.

  5. Because poking the powers that be in the eye has worked so well for you guys in the past.

    • Ummm 3-4 .. You sure you want to talk smack about USC and what happened last year basketball and football.. But then again you “maybe” being a San Jose State LA campus grad, is happy with mediocracy!

  6. By the way, if kickoff was at 7:30 the blogger would complain there’s too many night games, no national exposure, etc. It’s such a tired act but so typical of a SCCC grad. No talent, all bluster.

  7. Perhaps just maybe Mr. Helton was being diplomatic. It is entirely possible he agrees with those saying extreme heat is not conducive to playing physical sports, but saying so would cost him and the school money.
    Everyone knows the field is crappy and exposure to the sun doesn’t help fake grass. It is probable we lost a wide receiver to the poor choice of playing field. But that is the game of football.
    In recent years I have seen the final few minutes of a game delayed as much as an hour because lightening struck the ground 10 mi8les away. In the good old days they played like mailmen. Neither hail nor snow nor dark of night would stop them.
    The TV station needed to fill the time slot. that’s the long and the short of it.

    • Maybe they delay games now due to lighting because they now know that lighting can travel 8-10 miles and KILL someone. They used to use asbestos in the good old days, wanna go back to that ?

      As for filling a time slot, then why not put the ucla game at 12:30 and the USC game at 7:30. Warmer for ucla, cooler for USC and maybe better played games.

      • My point exactly if they know about lightening they know more about predicting heat.

  8. The “warning sign” outside of the opponent’s locker room is a fairly well-known psychological tool used by Arizona. It was even brought up during the telecast.

    • That’s fine, but it still doesn’t get the conference off for scheduling a game in AZ at 12:30, it’s just a money grab by the conference and it puts the players at risk a swell as the fans.

  9. I remember the 1997 game against Purdue with Palmer starting and Drew Brees playing at the Colisuem. It was 117degrees in the stand and around 130 on the field. But the Colisuem used grass as the field. I pray to God that they don’t replace the grass field with plastic at the Colisuem. Let the entertainment attraction called soccer run on plastic.

  10. It shows you that USC is in shape to play in the heat and not drop like flies. They are well conditioned.

  11. Don’t be wuss, you didn’t see any players complaining or taken out of the game for heat exhaustion. Play On.

  12. I enjoyed myself. Beautiful day. Wore my SC sun dress without under garments. LOVED IT!

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