Chip Kelly is making less money at UCLA than he would at Florida. But Kelly knows from previous experience the Pac-12 is not the SEC. You think playing before 36,000 at Martin Stadium in Pullman is tougher than 92,000 at Georgia?
No, Kelly knew he could handle the Oregon States, Cals, Arizonas, Arizona States of the world. And really only need worry about beating David Shaw. Chris Petersen’s hardly invincible and why would USC scare a good coach in its present form?
That’s a lot less to worry about than Nick Saban, Kirby Smart, Gus Malzahn and the chance Tennessee or Arkansas might get lucky and hire a good coach.
Sounds like SW is saying that Show Cause Chip doesn’t want to compete and that STAN and UW, two teams that were hammered by USC when we last played them, are the P12’s only strong teams. Curious thinking there.
Meanwhile, most the teams in the SEC are crap and Show Cause Chip has had difficulty winning the big one before. Now I get it.
We knew all along that Mr. Show Cause was afraid of the Gator gig. So did the Gators after they first spoke with him a week ago. I’m glad post-NFL Kelly is officially a bruin now. I never wanted him to be a Trojan, that’s for sure. Seems like it’s worked out perfect for all involved.
He can’t wear powder blue, I wonder if he is petitioning for a color change?
That would be a tough look for big CK.
He will have 40 different colors in a few years.
Yes….if he lasts that long….
I guess the bRuins are happy to hire a guy who prefers a mediocre program with low expectations and a fan base of 20,000 season ticket holders. Sounds like a pretty good transition to retirement for him. CK’s time in the NFL showed that he is a guy who can’t lead an organization to get close to their potential.
I remember when he was fired from Philly that one of the Philly o-linemen was quoted as saying something like “It wasn’t so much the offense didn’t work any more. The league did catch up with it, but rather it was everything else about CK that didn’t work.”
I thought that the holier than thou UGLY bRUINS would want nothing to do with this clown. Hypocrites always.
Absolutely. Seems times have changed over there, what with the 3 shoplifters and all….
Just weeks ago, some high-minded Trolls were saying ucla would never accept Show Cause Chip in Wimpwood. Then came the banners.
If ucla hire Alfred E Newman the trolls would be excited about it. What, me worry?
Ruinville, where coaches go to die (professionally).
How true that is. The list is endless. Dorrell at the top.
IDK but both teams at the Iron bowl has some ‘big in the a**’ lineman in the trenches that would give us fits. Let’s win the conference and play Georgia or OSU
That’s what Helton’s got to fix at USC. If he doesn’t, bye bye.
100% …I love Sam D But until we have dominant OL and DL and pipe line behind them we remain a step away from playoff
So true. We aren’t there by a mile yet. Just hope Helton’s focus is on the trenches, both with new talent and a better OL coach. It’s Helton’s future, or funeral.
We will have to recruit better east of the Mississippi, lineman wise.It seems west there aren’t deep classes. OL coach a must.
All In. Gotta fix this problem which has been holding us back for so long now.
As long as Shaw is up north,and that will be a long while,any young man with brains and braun is going to look hard at Stanford.
The quicker way is to get a brilliant OL coach.
complete garbage. Chip went to UCLA because Florida cut bait, they would rather have Scott Frost.
Go Auburn!
Alabama is having problems, they don’t look that well coached today.
2 plays in a row with a bad snap count…who would have thought that for Bama?
Crowd noise, nobody can hear anything. Center needs to look back.
Nice stop by Auburn…I can’t say that Biggie or JJ would have made that 4th down tackle
They would have faked out.
And how….
Fire saban!! Quick! The game has passed him up!
Alabama making USC style mistakes. What is Sabans buyout.
There is 3 powerhouse teams in the SEC. Florida used to be one too. If you think you are a good coach why not go play against the best and find out. I think he was afraid of his image getting stained more, or he knows he isn’t that good. ucla is a safe place for him I guess. Like I said earlier, I don’t know who to feel sorry for, Chip or ucla.
FLA made the right decision.
Ya think?
If they get Frost and are patient with him I think they will have a winner in time. Like Herman at Texas.
AUB routing ‘Bama in 4th. Put those ripped jeans on Saban. The Kiffer is laughing.
Dilly, Dilly
Fire saban!! Quick!!
I hope this doesn’t ruin Nick Saban, but Jalen Hurts is wearing a white sock and a crimson pad. No discipline at all.
Scott Wolf and OCD: A Blogger’s Tale
More like Saban’s job on the line now.unless they rally.
Kelly is not a SEC kinda coach.
Now Gruden that would be interesting.
Have you researched why Tennessee lost interest in Gruden? Some good thinking went into that.
He doesn’t want to coach.
I had heard once that Tennessee is someplace he would go to.
From Tennessee people projecting their hope.
Probably you are right. I personally think Gruden would fail in college ball.
He’s a Super Bowl winning coach. Why would he put himself into that position. If he wins, no big deal people expect it. If he loses, his reputation takes a big hit. Plus most people don’t remember his “chunky” personality during news conferences. Could’ve gotten real ugly.
Gruden seems like a very happy man just where he is now.
Laughing his way to the bank every Friday..
I think he banks more often than just Friday,ha ha.
Was as much a joke about Gruden.
This is college football, it’s all crazy.Yet crazy good.!!!!
Ha! Classic.
Jeff Miller, of The Press Enterprise reported that, “There are issues with his employment in the SEC because of new rules in the conference about hiring coaches with NCAA baggage. Florida was reportedly concerned about these issues.” That may have been the main reason Florida may have backed out of running.
But, there may be some irony to that statement.
A query from Eeyore (a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic, old grey stuffed donkey): “Why would USC scare a good coach in its present form?”
A query from the Trojan Family — Why hasn’t the Daily News reassigned Eeyore (a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic, old grey stuffed donkey) to the Obituaries section?
Instead of doing research on the deceased, he would have filled up the space with an update of Western Michigan football or truck racing…
He could always cut and paste obits from the Times.
If Wolf took this blog at all serious it could be one of the best in the country with all the great minds (except owns and cortez) that post on here. As it is now, we carry him and his idiotic posts.
Absolutely – SW seems lazy (where is the news/research that would be useful), and he seems obsessed with irrelevance (how many times do we need to hear more about Western MIchigan).
Go Fresno!!!
Have Trojan’s coaches in the booth chewed out Darnold or any receivers on the red phone his year?
You would have to ask someone on the “inside” for that info.
You mean he wasn’t reassigned to the obits column?
Saban out of time outs? With 2:32 in the 4th qtr? Fire his asz!
Bama doesn’t look so good playing catch-up football…
They’ll still make the POs. Watch.
Charles Barkley guaranteed this win this morning.
If that is the case, then USC needs to go. Bama didn’t win their division, played a division 2 team and only played 8 conference games. No way should they even sniff
This could get VERY interesting if USC takes care of business and wins the conference.
Jeeze, talk about raising expectations and excitement for the pac12 championship. I will give my wifes predictions when she has them if anyone wants to bet on the games. LOL
I would be the last person to put pressure on anyone —-especially you, my bud —-BUT I am waiting for your announcements on the Pac 12 CG and Fiesta Bowl outcomes. [I’m thinking of putting everything we have on the CG and then letting it ride in the Fiesta Bowl].
#What’sTheWorstThatCouldHappen?
Right, who needs a house and food to eat, go for it my man.
Ha! Sounds good.
They should, they are a very good team.
Ad for tv ratings, remember when LSU and Bama played 2x
That was a blood bath too. Fresno and Boise will be next week.
Power football. Hard to play from behind.
Ummm, prior to this season, Gus Malzahn went 8-5, 7-6 & 8-5. That’s almost Mora bad. You can’t just make things up.
Clown Blog.
And…the 2017 CFB season is on drugs. One of the best I’ve ever seen! No way to script this. The Committee has its hands full.
Darn near about to pull names out of a hat. Conf championships are going to very weighty this year. This is why I love college ball over pro
CFB is so far ahead of the NFL as a pure game. It’s unbeatable.
We just have to figure out the targeting penalty. I don’t know how defenders make tackles today with any kind of confidence.
Just think how did they do it with leather helmets and no face masks.
Told you. Even if we don’t get in, they’ll be talking about us if we win next week.
If Wisconsin loses next week (leaving no undefeated teams) and USC takes care of business and wins the conference, you can bet we’re gonna be talked about, Pudly.
#EvenMoreThanLastYear
Long shot for sure, but a shot none the less
You’re right —but, after South Bend, it’ll be nice to be back in the conversation. [I always like the “nobody wants to play USC now” talk that comes at the end of the season].
Not sure I’d go that far, we haven’t really been winning with the same energy we showed last year.
We’ve lost some luster, that’s for sure, Pudly. But, overall, we might be JUST ABOUT as good as last year. Arizona and UCLA were a lot trickier games than last year. And, then, there’s the absence of Adoree.
#AndThePresenceOfJackJones
I do believe if we played tonight rather than last week, people wood feel better about coming away with the win. Most the games have been close or upsets. Rather be us than Miami or bammy this weekend.
Good point. I think you’re right. Factor in the fact that UCLA was the pre-season pick to finish second in the South and they played their hearts out AND we still beat them.
After watching those upsets…
man, don’t remind me about Jones.
He’ll be a big part of the CG. I’m just praying they get him out of man coverage. I have never seen a corner get turned around as easily as poor Jack.
Unfortunately unlike a lot of years in the recent past including the Pete Carroll era, we haven’t looked the part of a playoff team in 11 of 12 games this year.
My wife just asked me, if Georgia and Auburn play for the SEC championship and the winner goes to the playoffs, how do they justify taking Alabama over the loser of the SEC championship. Tough question.
Answer: Alabama looks f**ked right now.
The later you lose the worse the result.
That shill Gary Danielson says Bama should still be in.
Conference pays him. They’d fire him quick if he’d think an original thought
Yep. Alabama just went from front row to outside looking in, Pudly.
Put her on the Committee. You married up!
She sits in front of the tv all day with a schedule and standings on a clip board and a tablet giving her conference standings. Blows me away.
You’ve taken her to your favorite Vegas sports book I presume. Sounds like a dream weekend getaway in the fall with her!
Good idea. She picked Pittsburgh and Auburn and she picked S. Carolina coming up. So far since yesterday she has missed on two games.
She picked PITT?! Sounds like a football savant of sorts.
This all came about this season, it is kind of scary. But it sure leads to some great conversations that blows others away.
Especially because Georgia and Bama never played.
Only team to worry about from the sec is auburn. If they lose next week that will be 3 losses and need to be ranked below sc
Amazingly, Malzahn was total toast after the LSU loss. Now, he’s a God and ARK will do cartwheels to steal him away.
sEc is very strong on the lines but not up to par to the PAC 12 qb’, receivers, and db’s. PAC is more sophiscated on offense
Heck, even no bowl CAL beat OLE MISS.
If the Trojans played an SEC schedule under Clay Helton the only team USC would beat would be the FCS OOC opponent.
Maybe.
LMFAO!!!!!!
Sure thing troll. Because Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, miss st, ole miss, Arkansas, Vandy, A&M, Missouri, and LSU are murderers row.
All those teams and an FCS team put up more points on Alabama than USC with all their 4 & 5 star talent who were coached by Helton…remember 52-6?
I thought Trojans were in a position to compete with Bama or anybody else at end of last season
Top tier SEC teams would mop the floor with any Clay Helton coached team, doesn’t matter what time of the season.
You been hitting the moonshine again, tooo baaadd bout bama, booohooo.
BAMA didn’t look very good. Not a sterling Saban look today. Even the best get eaten alive every once in awhile.
And we all know it’s only a matter of time before Alabama falls back to the crowd. This is possibly greatest run ever, but like all runs, it will end. It will end for the same reason, other schools hire away assistants. Just the nature of college football.
Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you…especially in college football.
That’s why we finished #3. IMO, we need help in the trenches and 80% of our problems will be fixed. You put a few legit AAs on our OL, coach ’em better, and we would be so much more fun to watch. We could take it all then.
After last year’s ND game, there was in interview on ESPN radio with a couple of Vegas bookmakers. Both said that on a neutral field, Trojans -Bama would be a toss- up in terms of odds…you can see why, looking at how Trojans performed after early October of last year.
Hey 88Straight tell us all again how “smart” Nick Saban was going with a true frosh QB in Hurts last year. Funny how they seem to lose in critical games NOW and make bonehead plays. LOL!!!
Backfired on you yet again.
Saban even won a championship with a way less talented graduate transfer Florida reject but he was a 5th year senior. LOL!!!
I repeat…any head coach resorting to a true frosh QB is pretty much dumb. Don’t even know how it ever came down to a true frosh QB for Saban but he had 4 previous recruiting classes to address this but didn’t. The same went for Jim Mora. He thought he could go with Josh Rosen and now he is fired.
How did Matt Barkley work out as a true frosh. it was Pete Carroll’s worst year since his 1st season.
I hate true freshmen with a passion. They are NOT ready. These high school punks think they can do it all and rarely ever come through.
So funny. Trolls come here just to talk with other Trolls. How popular is USC!
Pete ruined Barkley as a freshman and he never recovered from it.
Yeah…buy me a beer. I’ll throw it on a true frosh. LOL!
Scooter, leave, just leave. U are useless in giving ur blog pertinent information. Ur bama will not even go to the conference playoff and they always have an easier schedule than USC. So in the words of My DAD,” Blow it out of your ears”. He also said that if somebody like u were in his foxhole, he would worry more about you than the enemy. U are nothing more than a pencil neck geek, from Freddie Blasse
Are you sure you’re Hungarian? Because my dad never said blow it out your ears, he always said azs
Nice!
That’s what my mom used to say long ago actually. She was a real classic, and a big USC fan.
Yes, I’m Hungarian. Dad was from St. Louis.
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to question you, I was funning around. More about the saying. Just havin fun.
You think like such a defeatist. But what else is new. I think if you have Chip truth serum, none of that garbage would rank.
Fire Saban. Now.
Next week Fresno and Boise face off AGAIN. That will be a total blood bath. A must watch.
Let’s see those playoff predictions: here’s mine
1. Choklahoma
2. Clemson
3. Auburn
4. Bama
Clemson has to win out. Bama never played Georgia, so how do you rate #3 over #1 or #2 depending on next week. Kind of premature right now.
Your right, Auburn has its top 3 RBs hurt, so switch Georgia for Auburn. The order don’t matter.
What do you do with Wisconsin if the go undefeated?
They won’t, Buckeyes will beat them and the big10 will be left out. Sooners beat TCU to get in, Clemson beats the U to get in. Winner of the second CG gets in, and bama slides in.
USC could come out of the next two weekends looking pretty darn good. Only Wisconsin stands undefeated and they could well go down next week. Forget Kelly for now. Let’s enjoy the rest of this season and take care of that little fat f**k next year.
If there is a god, please let USC win the PAC 12 Championship, make the playoff so that Clay Helton gets exposed against a true quality opponent not from the PAC 12’s soft sister conference Big 10.
Like last year when Penn St came and got beat
Penn St. is from a conference as soft as the PAC 12. Try and keep up, huh?
I’m not sure if you’re a UCLA troll or not; but I agree with just about everything you post.
No allegiance to the bRuins.
That makes you a hillbilly idiot too. Perhaps you two could hook up and go out and get off of here.
Oh yeah, duh , oh yeah, here’s my question stupid. What’s USC’s record s the sec the last 15 yrs. You have nothing in your pants little boy. Like the rest of your kind you can’t figure it out. We just win when it counts, doesn’t matter how we look going in
And none of those wins can be attributed to Clay Helton. THANKS FOR PLAYING.
LOL!
Keep on Hillbilly.. drinking moonshine all day doesn’t do you any good.. you still stupid..he beat Penn St last yr
Wolf has a massive man crush on Chip……he can’t get the pimple to go down……beefcakes feels betrayed
I don’t think any SEC team would leave Pullman on a frigid, icy night thinking it’s an easier place to play than Athens. Be real, Wolf. An overflow crowd of 36k in a small venue like Martin can be as loud as one thats three times the size.
While we’re at it, tell us all how “terrifying” it is to play at, say, Kentucky, Vandy or Miss State. A big crowd at the Rose Bowl, Coliseum, Husky, Sun Devil, Eccles-Rice, or Autzen matches any in the SEC.
Went to Tennessee game, never experienced so much orange and noise in my life.
Sounds like Tennessee is talking to Greg Shiano, maybe Dan Mullen and Mike Leach seems to come up a lot. Leach may leave the pac12 for the sec, interesting.
Gabby and Pudly76 are really going at it to see who can ride Helton’s crotch the best…Helton says it’s too close to call. The winner gets to rub down Helton every day in the offseason.
CROTCH KICK ON THE BOTH OF ‘EM
LMFAO!
Every time you’re asked a question about stats or numbers you run like the pos you are.
Ahh bammy lost.. pot rosita…que pasa
Despacito. Le duele mucho amor.
Cabron
He sounds more and more like Charlie Bucket Boy all the time. Troll city. Just infecting this place like a disease, under other names as well.
Speaks ill of everything USC. Serves no useful purpose, if he was a dog, well never mind.
He’s just a hillbilly troll, useless except to stoke the still..
Helton would have coached this years Alabama team to a 1-11 record. His lone win would have been against Mercer.
WTF is with your handle, a play on ‘good’ and ‘evil”?
Remind me, but didn’t David Shaw lose to USC?
Something off topic, I don’t know how many vets are on here but I hope they all know they can now shop at the exchange online. I got signed up and they have some GREAT buys. Just want everyone to know, it is a brand new benefit they came out with this month.
He definitely has to worry about Petersen.
Pac12 is filled with so called parity aka mediocrity…and a few that decide to excel thanks to their coaches… practices and serious effort to compete. It would appear Ariz teams are going to move up, a lot of young good players will be taking the field next year…maybe the south Div will win one title sometime.
Why don’t you ask James Franklin about USC? SC has tons of talent, and that’s enough to scare anybody.
It will be interesting if TCU beats Oklahoma and Ohio State beats Wisconsin. Would the committee screw TCU in favor of Ohio State again like in 2014? Would the Committee use the “Conference Title’s Matter” and “It was early in the Season, Ohio State is a much Different Team Now” arguments to screw Oklahoma in favor of Ohio State despite the Head to Head.? In either scenario, a 2 Loss Pac 12 Champion USC will get ignored. The Big 10 has lost 69-0 in the last two playoffs. And someway they will find their way in again.
Yes, the PAC 12 is a easier conference for Chip Kelly, and he could pretty much dominate it, especially if USC keeps hiring mediocre coaches. Kelly could probably take UCLA to a higher level then he did Oregon, because he has immediate access, to more talent .