USC led Washington, 9-1, in the second inning last night. But this is college baseball and the Huskies came back to win, 11-10. It’s been that kind of season for the Trojans (20-33, 7-21).
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Worst USC team ever. Futility and ineptness like never before seen.
Hubbs is secure for another year minimum.
Trojan baseball tradition is officially prehistoric. Same thing has happened to women’s hoops. Neither program is in the nation’s top 60 let alone a real competitor for post-season play.
I saw some teams at the end of Rod D’s tenure that were really really bad.
Record-wise, none were worse than now I don’t think. USC baseball is just so bad now and hasn’t been good since ’98.
We’re just like a nothing program now. Never thought I’d see the day for the 11 time national champs.
Someone should write a book about this complete decline of an American sports dynasty. It’s quite a fall and teams like ORE have been built from scratch in the last 10 years and are now completely superior to USC.
I went to a game at UCI where Dedeaux showed at in the 2nd or 3rd inning wearing slacks
When you are the Coach of the Century and you’ve won 11, that’s right, 11 NCs (.699 ave) and during one stretch 5 in a row, you are forgiven for showing up in diapers.
Hubbs has never won anything and never will.
Dedeaux needed to go, what was scarey is his son Fredo wanted the job, thankfully it went to Gillespie.
Having been around the team then, you would not believe how poorly things were being done all the way around
Nobodies disputing Dedeaux was old and done. Gillespie was bad at the end with USC too, but somehow revived himself at UCI. But at least those men were great at one time for USC.
Hubbs has never been any good, but at USC, that’s good enough nowadays.
I’ve never rooted against any USC team obviously, but if I accidentally turn on SC baseball live, a strange thing happens. I don’t even care if they win and can’t watch for long. Never experienced that before about USC. They’ve been so bad for so long and always love to dish out their BS excuses.
Hubbs is a Trojan, so I guess it’s all okay. USC baseball is a national joke. It’s also a regional joke. That’s what happens when you lose for years and years and nobody knows how to fix it.
Must be a very tough problem. I remember Haden saying something publicly about college baseball being a complete mystery to unwind, since all your best commitments don’t ever come and the rides are so limited. USC just seems to be a lot worse at it than most.
I can’t believe how poorly things are being done all the way around with the baseball program that blows 9-1 leads, allows the other team to steal home and gets swept at home by f uucla and is outscored 19-2.
Baseball had a few good years in the early 2K’s when Prior was there and made the CWS at least twice if memory serves me well.
One big year with Jeff Clements losing in the Super Regional last game think in 2005. Hubbs is the not the man for the job. The telling factor for me is the complete wildness of the pitching staff which is Hubbs specialty when an asst. at Cal, and then here.
I disagree with you on women bball. They will be better this year and years to come. You really do not like this coach it’s obvious. I believe these young ladies are going to do something special this year. I love USC women bball and a high priced coach is not going to make a difference. This is LA, if the high priced coach doesn’t produce we will run em out quickly.
Trakh has an abysmal lifetime career .595 record and while previously at USC for 5 years never finished higher than tied for 4th in the conference and had a lowly .584 ave (.578 in conf) before he was fired.
Then in the WAC with NMS, he never got out of the 1st round in the NCAAs and only had a .565 record.
Not sure what you like about that…but it’s well-known USC settled for Trakh after losing out on a championship and program building coach with an .830 winning ave.
Too suggest Trakh will EVER be any good flies in the face of his entire history. One thing is for sure. We sure don’t have to worry about having a high-priced women’s BB coach at USC because we’ve got a routine journeyman who has never experienced anything other than mediocrity.
Gee, were I at ucla, STAN or ORE (just to name a few), I’d be really worried about USC’s aging 62-year old retread coach. I’m sure they’re shaking in their boots. Not really. They’re laughing at USC’s big step backwards for a coach who was already canned for failure to perform big-time here.
No idea why you think he’s gonna suddenly make USC “special”. Obviously, I don’t buy that for one second.
Especially when the “new” coach is 3 years from Social Security.
Swann needs to get a coach who has had success at a private school ( Tim Corbin Vanderbilt ) or beat the bushes for a young coach who can beat the scholie limitations at USC. And since SC is so cheap and lazy, I’d expect USC to hire a dud.
And please, lets not talk about Gillespie who is 77 years old.
If an administration is unable to look at a coach who has made only one postseason appearance in five years and buys the rebuilding angle, you would be correct in them hiring a dud and having no idea who to hire.
That’s only 15 years older than the women’s basketball retread hire.
OW!
According to another website (Scout) Hubbs has another year on his contract and has a vote of confidence from the administration. The article went on to say that Hubbs will start out next year on the warm seat, not hot seat, but warm seat. Honestly, I don’t believe that Swann knows how to conduct thorough coaching searches. Nor does he have the insight to know what is needed in a new coach for a given sport.
To be fair you left out part about losing 12 guys to majors
All other PAC-12 teams lost 7-10 players to the majors. I read an interview with lars Nootbar wherein he said that “most of the players are just now learning the game”. Ouch!
That’s not unique to any program let alone USC – it’s been a reality for decades – Hubbs is a bad coach period
Ya, we lost 12 guys and we still weren’t any good last year. Then Hubbs follows it with one of the worst USC teams ever fielded. If you ever want to watch some sports blooper comedy, turn on USC baseball. Hubbs needs all the excuses he can muster. I would love to hear what great USC players have to say behind closed doors. Bet it’s not pretty.
I would love to hear what Mike Gillespie has to say about USC Baseball. No disrespect to Dan Hubbs but it was evident in the regional two years ago against Virginia that he’s not head coaching material. He gave the ball game away by not putting down bunts in the later innings in a tight game, loser goes home, yet he continued to swing away. His baseball IQ wasn’t good enough in the moments where you have to play smart and not leave anything up to chance. He wouldn’t bunt men over late in the game when base runners were rare that day. The crowd was ripping his a**. But the point is a good coach at least makes the attempt to put the game away. Hubbs hasn’t shown me anything since he came on. And before i forget he needs stop with all the Oregon Duck costume changes with our uni’s we don’t even wear our whites at home anymore or our greys on the road. 9-1 lead and can’t hold on for the win this late in the year??? That’s ridiculous.
You obviously know a lot more about baseball than I do.
I’m afraid that based on the Trakh hire, Swann isn’t shooting too high, which bodes poorly for sports like baseball too. I know Swann took some steps to get CH on the right track, but I’m not confident he knows diddly about what could fix our baseball program, assuming USC even cares that much about it.
I don’t know if we can even take for granted that USC expects to field championship baseball teams any longer. Frankly, it doesn’t seem that way.
We stayed in house and had confidence in Cynthia Cooper and Dan Hubbs because they were part of successful USC teams. Both programs haven’t moved up at all. We should look at some assistants who will get the kids that are high level players and won’t hope that the projected 1st round recruits decide to go to SC because Oregon St, ASU, Arizona have all had success balancing their priorities in recruiting and they win.
Face it. The days of USC in the College World Series are over. Long, long gone. USC doesn’t even make the tourney 90% of the time.
So strange how USC just let an entire big-time tradition lapse into the sunset. Private schools can still win it all and at least get to Omaha. Not USC though. That’s just not our gig any longer. Same for women’s hoops, where basically USC is happy if it beats ucla. Nothing more required.
Perfectly said. We have an uphill battle and I won’t be getting my up any time soon.
But on a different subject. I was at the new Nike store in Redlands yesterday after taking my son to the batting cages and one of the employees saw my SC hat and told me that he just finished up his internship and he got to know Adoree Jackson real well over the that time. He said Adoree is probably the nicest guy that he’s ever met and no matter what was going on he had a smile on his face and that he was really humble. Thought I’d pass that along.
One of my favorite Trojans ever. Hope Adoree does vey well in the NFL and so glad to hear he signed a nice, big K. He will be missed, and on our track team too.
You never know when a truly great one is coming in. I think Adoree was one of those, even though he got beat pretty regularly as a CB. He still always made his mark and affected games positively, sometimes spectacularly.
He lived up to the hype and he made a huge mark similar to Reggie Bush when you consider how many kids are gonna say that Adoree Jackson was the the player they wanted to be like and/or the reason they like USC. I think he’ll do well in the pros.
Big difference between Adoree and Reggie though. Adoree was always a stand-up guy and wasn’t on the take.
Reggie was a cheater and he completely sold USC down the river. Reggie brought down USC football more than any other single Trojan player in the history of the school.
Adoree would have never have stooped to Reggie’s low level. In the end, Reggie was too good to be true. Adoree wasn’t. He was just plain great – unless we hear down the road that he and his mom were on-the-take, in which case USC football will never be the same. But that’s not happening. Adoree has twice the humility, grace and respect for others that Reggie never had.
So I think it’s a big mistake to compare the two. Entirely different animals.
Reggie Bush’s treachery should never be forgotten.
How could it be?
He’s literally banned from the USC campus.
Evidence of every award he ever won is removed permanently.
He literally had to return the Heisman Trophy. Good job Reggie.
He never said nor did one thing to help USC while it was going down in flames (for years) and 30 young men couldn’t go to USC because of Reggie.
And after all this, Reggie had a mediocre, injury-riddled career where he was often beat out by much lower drafted people.
Reggie’s a pile. What goes around has obviously come around on him.
Watch yourself with ‘jack B’ if you disagree with him he goes ‘fe-malie’ real fast –
Actually, you left the part out about them going to play in the “minors” and not the “majors”…but maybe the key is to play a schedule at home against powerhouses like Coppin State and Holy Cross and then tell your admins “we are still rebuilding.” That should do the trick.
True. USC baseball is a complete dumpster fire. Hard core SC fans might deny that but I’d like to see their numbers supporting otherwise.
At least football is super high profile and on track again after the dark NCAA probation investigation and subsequent penalties.
This could be a great season for USC football. Hope to get a crack at ALA at season’s end. Wouldn’t that be nice! Playing teams like ucla just isn’t any competition any more.
How’s the bozo u Women’s Softball team doing?
Poor Gooolly-Noide finally snapped: A Phoenix police arrested Thursday for carrying four loaded guns inside the Phoenix Convention Center during Phoenix Komi-c#n has been booked for attempted murder and several more charges. A judge set his bond at $1 million on Friday.
Not the turnaround I thought I was coming from a couple seasons ago…This is all bad.
The light at the end of the tunnel was a freight train.
Worst USC team ever. Futility and ineptness like never before seen.
Hubbs is secure for another year minimum.
Trojan baseball tradition is officially prehistoric. Same thing has happened to women’s hoops. Neither program is in the nation’s top 60 let alone a real competitor for post-season play.
I saw some teams at the end of Rod D’s tenure that were really really bad.
Record-wise, none were worse than now I don’t think. USC baseball is just so bad now and hasn’t been good since ’98.
We’re just like a nothing program now. Never thought I’d see the day for the 11 time national champs.
Someone should write a book about this complete decline of an American sports dynasty. It’s quite a fall and teams like ORE have been built from scratch in the last 10 years and are now completely superior to USC.
I went to a game at UCI where Dedeaux showed at in the 2nd or 3rd inning wearing slacks
When you are the Coach of the Century and you’ve won 11, that’s right, 11 NCs (.699 ave) and during one stretch 5 in a row, you are forgiven for showing up in diapers.
Hubbs has never won anything and never will.
Dedeaux needed to go, what was scarey is his son Fredo wanted the job, thankfully it went to Gillespie.
Having been around the team then, you would not believe how poorly things were being done all the way around
Nobodies disputing Dedeaux was old and done. Gillespie was bad at the end with USC too, but somehow revived himself at UCI. But at least those men were great at one time for USC.
Hubbs has never been any good, but at USC, that’s good enough nowadays.
I’ve never rooted against any USC team obviously, but if I accidentally turn on SC baseball live, a strange thing happens. I don’t even care if they win and can’t watch for long. Never experienced that before about USC. They’ve been so bad for so long and always love to dish out their BS excuses.
Hubbs is a Trojan, so I guess it’s all okay. USC baseball is a national joke. It’s also a regional joke. That’s what happens when you lose for years and years and nobody knows how to fix it.
Must be a very tough problem. I remember Haden saying something publicly about college baseball being a complete mystery to unwind, since all your best commitments don’t ever come and the rides are so limited. USC just seems to be a lot worse at it than most.
I can’t believe how poorly things are being done all the way around with the baseball program that blows 9-1 leads, allows the other team to steal home and gets swept at home by f uucla and is outscored 19-2.
Baseball had a few good years in the early 2K’s when Prior was there and made the CWS at least twice if memory serves me well.
One big year with Jeff Clements losing in the Super Regional last game think in 2005. Hubbs is the not the man for the job. The telling factor for me is the complete wildness of the pitching staff which is Hubbs specialty when an asst. at Cal, and then here.
I disagree with you on women bball. They will be better this year and years to come. You really do not like this coach it’s obvious. I believe these young ladies are going to do something special this year. I love USC women bball and a high priced coach is not going to make a difference. This is LA, if the high priced coach doesn’t produce we will run em out quickly.
Trakh has an abysmal lifetime career .595 record and while previously at USC for 5 years never finished higher than tied for 4th in the conference and had a lowly .584 ave (.578 in conf) before he was fired.
Then in the WAC with NMS, he never got out of the 1st round in the NCAAs and only had a .565 record.
Not sure what you like about that…but it’s well-known USC settled for Trakh after losing out on a championship and program building coach with an .830 winning ave.
Too suggest Trakh will EVER be any good flies in the face of his entire history. One thing is for sure. We sure don’t have to worry about having a high-priced women’s BB coach at USC because we’ve got a routine journeyman who has never experienced anything other than mediocrity.
Gee, were I at ucla, STAN or ORE (just to name a few), I’d be really worried about USC’s aging 62-year old retread coach. I’m sure they’re shaking in their boots. Not really. They’re laughing at USC’s big step backwards for a coach who was already canned for failure to perform big-time here.
No idea why you think he’s gonna suddenly make USC “special”. Obviously, I don’t buy that for one second.
Especially when the “new” coach is 3 years from Social Security.
Swann needs to get a coach who has had success at a private school ( Tim Corbin Vanderbilt ) or beat the bushes for a young coach who can beat the scholie limitations at USC. And since SC is so cheap and lazy, I’d expect USC to hire a dud.
And please, lets not talk about Gillespie who is 77 years old.
If an administration is unable to look at a coach who has made only one postseason appearance in five years and buys the rebuilding angle, you would be correct in them hiring a dud and having no idea who to hire.
That’s only 15 years older than the women’s basketball retread hire.
OW!
According to another website (Scout) Hubbs has another year on his contract and has a vote of confidence from the administration. The article went on to say that Hubbs will start out next year on the warm seat, not hot seat, but warm seat. Honestly, I don’t believe that Swann knows how to conduct thorough coaching searches. Nor does he have the insight to know what is needed in a new coach for a given sport.
To be fair you left out part about losing 12 guys to majors
All other PAC-12 teams lost 7-10 players to the majors. I read an interview with lars Nootbar wherein he said that “most of the players are just now learning the game”. Ouch!
That’s not unique to any program let alone USC – it’s been a reality for decades – Hubbs is a bad coach period
Ya, we lost 12 guys and we still weren’t any good last year. Then Hubbs follows it with one of the worst USC teams ever fielded. If you ever want to watch some sports blooper comedy, turn on USC baseball. Hubbs needs all the excuses he can muster. I would love to hear what great USC players have to say behind closed doors. Bet it’s not pretty.
I would love to hear what Mike Gillespie has to say about USC Baseball. No disrespect to Dan Hubbs but it was evident in the regional two years ago against Virginia that he’s not head coaching material. He gave the ball game away by not putting down bunts in the later innings in a tight game, loser goes home, yet he continued to swing away. His baseball IQ wasn’t good enough in the moments where you have to play smart and not leave anything up to chance. He wouldn’t bunt men over late in the game when base runners were rare that day. The crowd was ripping his a**. But the point is a good coach at least makes the attempt to put the game away. Hubbs hasn’t shown me anything since he came on. And before i forget he needs stop with all the Oregon Duck costume changes with our uni’s we don’t even wear our whites at home anymore or our greys on the road. 9-1 lead and can’t hold on for the win this late in the year??? That’s ridiculous.
You obviously know a lot more about baseball than I do.
I’m afraid that based on the Trakh hire, Swann isn’t shooting too high, which bodes poorly for sports like baseball too. I know Swann took some steps to get CH on the right track, but I’m not confident he knows diddly about what could fix our baseball program, assuming USC even cares that much about it.
I don’t know if we can even take for granted that USC expects to field championship baseball teams any longer. Frankly, it doesn’t seem that way.
We stayed in house and had confidence in Cynthia Cooper and Dan Hubbs because they were part of successful USC teams. Both programs haven’t moved up at all. We should look at some assistants who will get the kids that are high level players and won’t hope that the projected 1st round recruits decide to go to SC because Oregon St, ASU, Arizona have all had success balancing their priorities in recruiting and they win.
Face it. The days of USC in the College World Series are over. Long, long gone. USC doesn’t even make the tourney 90% of the time.
So strange how USC just let an entire big-time tradition lapse into the sunset. Private schools can still win it all and at least get to Omaha. Not USC though. That’s just not our gig any longer. Same for women’s hoops, where basically USC is happy if it beats ucla. Nothing more required.
Perfectly said. We have an uphill battle and I won’t be getting my up any time soon.
But on a different subject. I was at the new Nike store in Redlands yesterday after taking my son to the batting cages and one of the employees saw my SC hat and told me that he just finished up his internship and he got to know Adoree Jackson real well over the that time. He said Adoree is probably the nicest guy that he’s ever met and no matter what was going on he had a smile on his face and that he was really humble. Thought I’d pass that along.
One of my favorite Trojans ever. Hope Adoree does vey well in the NFL and so glad to hear he signed a nice, big K. He will be missed, and on our track team too.
You never know when a truly great one is coming in. I think Adoree was one of those, even though he got beat pretty regularly as a CB. He still always made his mark and affected games positively, sometimes spectacularly.
He lived up to the hype and he made a huge mark similar to Reggie Bush when you consider how many kids are gonna say that Adoree Jackson was the the player they wanted to be like and/or the reason they like USC. I think he’ll do well in the pros.
Big difference between Adoree and Reggie though. Adoree was always a stand-up guy and wasn’t on the take.
Reggie was a cheater and he completely sold USC down the river. Reggie brought down USC football more than any other single Trojan player in the history of the school.
Adoree would have never have stooped to Reggie’s low level. In the end, Reggie was too good to be true. Adoree wasn’t. He was just plain great – unless we hear down the road that he and his mom were on-the-take, in which case USC football will never be the same. But that’s not happening. Adoree has twice the humility, grace and respect for others that Reggie never had.
So I think it’s a big mistake to compare the two. Entirely different animals.
Reggie Bush’s treachery should never be forgotten.
How could it be?
He’s literally banned from the USC campus.
Evidence of every award he ever won is removed permanently.
He literally had to return the Heisman Trophy. Good job Reggie.
He never said nor did one thing to help USC while it was going down in flames (for years) and 30 young men couldn’t go to USC because of Reggie.
And after all this, Reggie had a mediocre, injury-riddled career where he was often beat out by much lower drafted people.
Reggie’s a pile. What goes around has obviously come around on him.
Watch yourself with ‘jack B’ if you disagree with him he goes ‘fe-malie’ real fast –
Actually, you left the part out about them going to play in the “minors” and not the “majors”…but maybe the key is to play a schedule at home against powerhouses like Coppin State and Holy Cross and then tell your admins “we are still rebuilding.” That should do the trick.
True. USC baseball is a complete dumpster fire. Hard core SC fans might deny that but I’d like to see their numbers supporting otherwise.
At least football is super high profile and on track again after the dark NCAA probation investigation and subsequent penalties.
This could be a great season for USC football. Hope to get a crack at ALA at season’s end. Wouldn’t that be nice! Playing teams like ucla just isn’t any competition any more.
How’s the bozo u Women’s Softball team doing?
Poor Gooolly-Noide finally snapped: A Phoenix police arrested Thursday for carrying four loaded guns inside the Phoenix Convention Center during Phoenix Komi-c#n has been booked for attempted murder and several more charges. A judge set his bond at $1 million on Friday.
Not the turnaround I thought I was coming from a couple seasons ago…This is all bad.
The light at the end of the tunnel was a freight train.