The Silent Bowl
With so much talk about the USC-Oregon game, it's easy to overlook the Raiders play the Titans. The big question is who will acknowledge who first? Lane Kiffin or Norm Chow. The easy answer is neither since they have not spoken in several years. Heck, they weren't speaking when they worked together at USC.
Why is it the assumption that Kiffen is the jerk? Maybe it was Chow who treated Lane like a child?
How many times were you around Lane and Norm off the practice field? You think you know things that you really don't. Everyone that follows SC football knows you're a D bag!
Norm Chow talks?
the players had no respect for LK either.
How mant Head Coaching job offers in D1 or NFL has Norm Chow had?
Miagi is a great karate teacher but do you want him as Supreme Allied Commander of US Forces?
No matter who was at fault for whatever falling out these two may or may not have had, the fact remains that Norm Chow was/is a transcendent offensive coordinator who has succeeded at every stop. The guy is just absolutely brilliant.
Thing is, his biggest dream seemed to be head coach at the collegiate level and I think that is the one position he's not suited for. I can't picture NC getting the troops riled up to do battle with Oregon or Cal or Oklahoma. That kind of laid back attitude can work somewhat in the NFL, but not in college (even Tressel gets fired up occasionally)
On the other hand, Pete Carroll's biggest dream seems to be head coach at the NFL level, which again, is the one position in which I think he's least likely to succeed. His "rah-rah/hyperactive/just one of the guys" style works perfectly as a head coach in college, or as a defensive coordinator in the NFL (see the 1994 49ers) but not as head coach in the NFL. He's perfectly suited to do what he's doing: take the best collegiate athletes in the nation and lead them (copious injuries aside) to multiple National Championships.
What we need is a big time (read: BIG MONEY) booster to beg Chow to come back to the Land of Troy and sprinkle his pockets with cash.
Fight On!
oh my god. drop the chow delusions already.
Sorry, all the big name boosters are busy lining the pockets of players!
Why would Chow want to come back to a program that will shortly be on probation for a long, long time? Forget Caesar! All hail, Reggie Bush!
Any leftover booster money is likely going to OJ Mayo!
Right, like he really called Floyd out of the blue!
Bill-
I heard Utah is still scoring on the vaunted Bruin defense. Looks like UCLA's tank job to Notre Dame will be the only highlight on the Irish's 2007 DVD.
Bill..ever hear of Sam Gilbert?
If Norm Chow's dream was to be a HC on the college level...why did he stay at BYU for 27 years? Pete Carroll did all kinds of favors for this guy. I'm sick of all these "pseudo-football experts", cherry- picking one play from the Texas loss, and judging the whole game (on that one play). "If Chow was here, this or that would have happened". Bullcrap! USC made good/bad plays, on both sides of the ball, in that game. Against OSU, UCLA, and Stanford...they needed Marv Goux, not Chow. Don't get me wrong, I think Chow was a great OC, but evidently, the chemistry wore off. And for those who say "it was an ego thing with Carroll"...gimme a coach with an ego, demonstrable enthusiasm, with a personality, etc. And last for now...I can't believe a "sportswriter", and/or "beatwriter" for his alma mater could make a statement that: USC will never win another NC without Norm Chow. A knife in the back of Pete Carroll (who he says he has a good relationship with). By the way, when is the "Don Rickles Show" on this week?
Sorry! I missed the "Rickles Show", before I made my comment.
1. Chow stayed at BYU because he thought the job was his and as QB/WR/OL and OC he was the man, making more top QB's than you can shake a stick at and bringing in a Heisman and a NC with absolutely no athletes and a bad D. Instead BYU went with a white, Mormon coach whose family goes way back in LDS history.
2. Chow went to NC State and turned Rivers into a HT candidate and top draft pick and broke virtually every O record at NC State.
3.USC under Chow... shiyit don't act like you don't know how he turned shit to gold.
4.Chow was pushed out by PC and it was covered absolutely everywhere including here and the DT. Chow with kids at SC was practically begging to stay.
5. Chow has stated his desire to come back to college as a HC but only in the West. PC and my beloved SC did what they should as the PAC 10 economic 800lb. gorilla and have pushed to keep him out- something also covered on this blog. (And I don't feel bad about it at all.)
6. All of the players have spoken about Chow in the most glowing terms including ML, RB, LW, CP, DJ, SS, etc. not to mention Sark who calls him his mentor and speaks with him regularly he says.
7. He is doing great things with a totally difference O at Tennessee.
8.What favor did PC do Chow but collect two NC's? Don't confuse the redneck coaching carousel with someone who actually had to fight and prove his way through without "Yo' Dadday gave me a job so I give you job..." crap.
9. Question compare accomplishments and ask yourself why they have to make a rule for an interviews for black coaches in a 77% black league and 98% white coaches and ask what's up with all the losing asshole personalities who leave a wake of scandal and then ask the dumb ass question
again. When you're at compare Kiffen and Chow and then kill yourself.
Let me comment on this statement by someone who obviously doesn't know Coach Chow.
" Miagi is a great karate teacher but do you want him as Supreme Allied Commander of US Forces?
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Do you even know his background? He is part Native Hawaiian and happens to be a pretty big guy. Don't let the Chinese last name fool you. You obviously know little about us Native Hawaiians and our ancestral roots
One could argue that he had a lot of talent to work with, but the one thing people forget is that players wanted to be a part of his offense. Who could blame them. He coached many BYU teams full of slow white guys, but he still found ways to win. How could the team in 2005 with all that talent lose? I can only point in 1 direction. The play selection. How do you not have Reggie Bush in on that 4th and 1 1/2. Must have been a genius who called that.
Hey bruin bill....and remember that while Sam Gilbert was buying and supporting all of those players "His holiness" john wooden was looking the other way! what a hypocrite he is!!!!!
Hey, wait a minute. Do we really need to make references to "slow white guys" and other negative racial references? Several of those BYU teams were very talented, and upset many top ten teams. Steve Young and Jim McMahon went on to win Super Bowls. Give them (and Chow) credit. Sometimes, you people amaze me.