staff begging remaining targets and others To put off signing until Feb window to get some additional bites at the apple. Also will give them a chance to evaluate the portal. Will have a hard time filling all the spots. More roster pruning soon will be lucky to have 75 to 78 scholarship players come spring ball, maybe as low as 72. Last note is this recruiting class will not crack the top 15 more likely a 28-22 range. To many ships have sailed. Helton didn’t even try to recruit the top 100 guys. Just lip service and form letters. It was a monster year for Weat Coast OL especially the Pac NW and Helton and Co didn’t even try. they were recruiting like USC is Oregon State. Helton that mother f’er should be fucking hung from a sour apple tree. Admin will not admit any JC’s.
gonna take 2 to 3 years to rinse Helton’s stink. 7-5 will be a success next year with the pieces of shit Helton left. The top players were very good, but there were only like 2 or 3 very good player. everyone else is broken and beyond repair per the initial assessment by the new staff. per my source Helton was worse than sanctions.
The Oklahoma fans will be ecstatic if USC loses 5 games next season. Riley has never lost more than 2 games in a season. I would hate to see that streak end.
Clay was bad, no question there. I too have a well placed source on payroll and on campus daily and the word is all of Clay’s boys were on the Tangerine Dream Criptonic Supersonic. Which would actually explain A LOT.
But as we send out our holiday blame cards let’s all remember that Clay didn’t happen in a vacuum.
Swanny, no prior experience as an AD at so much as the JUCO level but was it too much to ask that he’d get football right?
Hayden “Mr. Faint on Field” and oh hey let’s rob a charity while we’re at it! Thanks Pat, appreciate that. YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SMART ONE!
Max “Party while Rome burns” Nikias, who OK‘d a severance package for Tyndall aka Dr. Rape. Pufalito blowing sherm in his on campus office with his teenage hooker girlfriend. Oversight, what’s that?
Moss and Lori and that total goat fuck. Which, isn’t over. There’ll be more bad press for Donna and Jovan when they get led away in chains by the bailiff.
And the ENTIRE board of trustees, the power behind the curtain.
Like all of us I give thanks to the one true GOD for Lincoln. And yes, Clay was a fat little zit of a man.
But it took a lot to cripple SC and Clay was just a symptom, he had an all-star supporting cast who put him there, and kept him there.
I wish Marv Goux was still with us, a whole bunch of so called SC fans need to be bitch slapped and told to stand in the corner.
Insightful Conquest. I believe ALL of this. The product on the field validates this.
Also explains why Bohned canned him early on This season. It was a necessity.
@Conquest2000 Been saying it for years, what the ncaa did to SC was nothing - nothing - compared to the self sanctioning SC did with the coaching hires. The damage from Helton goes far beyond the wins and losses. Even the four and five star recruits he got have for the most part regressed under the coaching they have (not) received. Johnson is a prime example.
Such bullshit. HCLR AND DONTE COMPLETELY WHIFFED!
FUCK YOU BOHNED! SKI ON!
I heard something similar, but an anecdote about a HS FB coach from a big school meeting Bohn and another school offical at a social occasion (unrelated to athletics etc) and telling Bohn that kind of thing ( no visits or attention) before the Helton firing.
It may come as a shock Conky but HELTON is no longer the USC coach. there is a reason Riley was 55-10 in five years at Oklahoma. He can flat out coach. As for this years recruits let’s wait until the recruiting cycle is finished. The portal has changed the game and there are still some good players to be signed. Despite what you say there are enough good players for us to be successful next year. You are a pessimist I am an optimist. Relax I think you will be pleasantly surprised next year.
That’s just hard to fathom. SMH
I will admit this is USC Athletic Dept cya for what’s gonna be a poor 2022 class but per my source, when Riley and Co showed up at Servite they said a USC coach had not been to Servite for 2 years. Granted Covid but come on. They quickly realized Helton had fallen asleep at the wheel. Was lazy, a loser and honestly derelict. Hadn’t been to Loyola High in 4 years, Notre Dame Sherman Oaks ever, Crespi ever. never visited a whole host of other schools that are historically good Oceanside, Norco, Paraclete maybe not yearly 5 star factories but you press the flesh and when a blue chipper does show up you have an inside track.
FYI heard a similar story about Chip and staff. He has only visited a handful of LA City schools. Per a ucla booster at Lakeside you could count them on one hand. He went to an Intersectional game a few years ago and saw a kid on a city team and was like who is that guy. He had to be told he was a top 100player in the country I am pretty sure it was Raymond Scott.
Thanks Conquest.
And to think, there were several people on this board that not only defended the guy, they actually argued he was a good coach.
More than that very little interaction with Trinity League, and Mission League coaches. Just kept beating the bushes of Lubbock, Amarillo and Texarkana. zero or very poor connections with HS coaches in Phoenix, Houston, Las Vegas, Metro Miami or Denver.
HS coaches would cold call Helton to tell them about 3 Star prospects they should look at.
riley prepared to suffer next year I am hearing. Gonna be bad next year. LAX practices under Helton led to horrific habits that will need time to break. Staff gonna use this last period for Hail Mary’s at 2022 kids and host as many 2023 kids as possible. Don’t be surprised if Jan OV weekends are mainly or only 2023 kids.
helton is the worst coach in football history.
Yup a story I heard was that the GA's were better recruiters then the staff and that players tht did bother to visit were more impressed with them then they were the coaches...