Lol, I see some USC fans are pissed (comments from several YouTube vids). Why? It’s a meaningless poll. It’s created for clicks. Probably drawn up by a writer from the south. Who knows, who cares……. But let’s play along and face facts.Coach Riley had an extremely disappointing season in 2023. Knowing what we know now, I’m surprised the team posted 11 wins in 2022. I guess you can say he overachieved his first season at USC considering he had the worst defensive coach in the history of the program running the other side of the ball… his fault btw.
CLR is not dumb. He made the big move one (1) year late, but he made it. More importantly he hired several coaches who have had tremendous success, as well as a great deal of respect from fellow coaches and former players.
JMHO, CLR will post 10-11 wins in 2024. He will reclaim his spot in that worthless espn poll and all will be well. I’m rah rahlly high on this defense this season. To those who disagree, I completely understand.
So USC will not win the natty in 2024. Having said that, my expectations are high. I’m not calling ‘24 a rebuilding year. It’s all about the W’s. Anything less than 10 (bowl game inc) and I’ll call it a disappointment.
FWIW, Vegas has an early line of the USC over/under win total at 7.5 (reg season schedule only). I’ll take that bet…. 8-4 makes me money? All day.
LOL. Riley is only a HC by name. He's awful at hiring, recruiting, defense, special teams, game management, program management and alumni/NIL relationships. He's a cute play caller in 50% of drives and makes good friends with his QBs. He's not even in the top 100.
Java, you're like RFK Jr. Some days your takes are brilliant, the next day you say some of the dumbest shit that has ever been spoken. Entz is a 2 time national champion in the FCS. The FCS plays high caliber football with countless NFL stars from FCS and 100s of portal transfers. They also play a 24 team playoff to decide a champion. ENTZ has won TWO in 5 years. He took the job for 2 reasons. 1) Jen needed him to fix the defense and game and program management. 2) Succession planning. Entz WILL BE the next USC HC if there's a tarmacing (50% chance over the next 2 seasons).
you do get why people either ignore you or laugh at you right?
By your logic Bruce Rollinson should be hired because winning is winning and Bruce won a couple of national championships and many state championships. You do realize how idiotic that sounds right? By your logic, they should hire the best community college coach in the nation. I’m not even gonna spend any more time validating division two football
And you were completely wrong on both counts of why he was hired..
Yeah. I am sure that ESPN is petrified that SC picked up some 3 and 4 star high school verbals in the last couple of weeks. Those verbals created such a panic at ESPN that the network decided that they needed to take action. No other tream has been picking up high school verbals recently. Only SC. And given this amazing, deeply threatening turn of events, ESPN felt compelled to put out a fake poll that puurposefully excluded Lincoln Riley as a way to counter-balance those handful of 3 and 4 star recruits.
My Coach Rankings are better.
Lol, I see some USC fans are pissed (comments from several YouTube vids). Why? It’s a meaningless poll. It’s created for clicks. Probably drawn up by a writer from the south. Who knows, who cares……. But let’s play along and face facts. Coach Riley had an extremely disappointing season in 2023. Knowing what we know now, I’m surprised the team posted 11 wins in 2022. I guess you can say he overachieved his first season at USC considering he had the worst defensive coach in the history of the program running the other side of the ball… his fault btw.
CLR is not dumb. He made the big move one (1) year late, but he made it. More importantly he hired several coaches who have had tremendous success, as well as a great deal of respect from fellow coaches and former players.
JMHO, CLR will post 10-11 wins in 2024. He will reclaim his spot in that worthless espn poll and all will be well. I’m rah rahlly high on this defense this season. To those who disagree, I completely understand.
So USC will not win the natty in 2024. Having said that, my expectations are high. I’m not calling ‘24 a rebuilding year. It’s all about the W’s. Anything less than 10 (bowl game inc) and I’ll call it a disappointment.
FWIW, Vegas has an early line of the USC over/under win total at 7.5 (reg season schedule only). I’ll take that bet…. 8-4 makes me money? All day.
Rah
LOL, Day is 7 spots behind Whittingham who he beat in the Rose Bowl. Other than Smart, what a screwed up list.
Amazing how smart kalen deboer got when he arrived in Alabama
no, hes not. whittingham has owned him.
frankly, there aren't 10 decent coaches in the game. when you are listing sark and kiffin, you have run out of juice.
LOL. Riley is only a HC by name. He's awful at hiring, recruiting, defense, special teams, game management, program management and alumni/NIL relationships. He's a cute play caller in 50% of drives and makes good friends with his QBs. He's not even in the top 100.
ESPN is protecting the SEC by going after USC considering the recruiting run that USC is on IMHO