Told you it wasn’t Lynn

Or Sark. Or Lane. Or our AD hires of Garrett, Haden and Swann. Hiring familiar faces has been a USC fallacy and trap for too long. We broke tendency with Pete and Riley.

The only real parallel there, in terms of needing to hire a coach on short notice, is Kiffin. Carroll left fairly late in the cycle, although not nearly as late as Kelly left. So I'll cut Jarmond a little more slack than I gave Haden for Helton; hiring Helton after a two-month corporate search was just lazy.

But athletic departments are bureaucracies and we shouldn't be surprised when they operate like bureaucracies.

This is ALL Jarmond's fault. Chip may have been a dickhead doing whatever the fuck he wanted, not recruiting for shit, and basically just being an asshole. But it was Jarmond who let him do it. He's supposed to be the athletic director, and he didn't have the balls to fire Fatty when he should have DEFINITELY been shitcanned following the Kal debacle. I think Fatty should have been fired following ASU, but that was USC week -- and God forbid you run the risk of losing to USC. Turns out, Jerry Neuheisel could have been the coach that week and probably would have beaten USC.

No, fuck Jarmond. He's a complete incompetent, and this hire of Foster proves it.