Staying Put
In today's paper, I wrote about offensive line coach Pat Ruel saying he would return next season. He received job offers from NFL teams the past two years.
``What I really want is another championship. I want to be back in that atmosphere,’’ Ruel said. ``It crushed me that we didn’t make it back last year.’’
If only the O-Line could have provided Booty with more protection in the FUCLA game, and avoided the plethora of false starts.....
How's he gonna get that??
PC does not trust the skill players. He hasn't since we lost to Texas and Matt/Reggie left.
So we run a vanilla, predictable, run- and short pass offense. The other teams loads up 8 in the box and..whammy! 2 or 3 losses for USC each year.
Don't see it changing anytime soon.
That's the bottom line.
It's not like USC doesn't have skill players. My god...Turner Hazelton Johnson McKnight..we could score.
But the braintrust of Carroll & "Sark" calls 11 runs up the midde + 11 slip screens per game, and telegraphs every play. It's a wonder we get any points.
And the shame is that they are wasting the talent of kids like Hazelton, CJ GAble, et al