This can only mean that Sark will sacrifice Wilcox at the end of the season to save his own ass. He'll keep pumping up Wilcox until after their shit-tier bowl in December. Then, the axe will fall.
I have to agree, in fact I think a few of the coaches will leave soon. Being tied to frat boy for long could be career ending for coaches who want a long term career.
My only hope is that Sark is still coach the next time USC comes up to Seattle.. I hear 2016 is going to be special once CP gets his guys in.
I'm really not sure how long he's going to last down there. Like Tequila mentioned, Sark has started the implosion process much faster than we expected.
This may have to do with the fact that fans & media in SoCal are not going to let him get away with anything. Maybe deep down he knew this. He probably also thought that he would produce more wins, based on talent alone.
The coaching and winning thing aside, this whole sideline $75K dancing thing has totally backfired. Troojans are embarrassed by this... as they should be. Again, thinking that having his players jump around like douchebags on the sideline was going to be okay with USC fans is totally FS. The shitty loss just put the whole thing under a bigger magnifying glass.
This can only mean that Sark will sacrifice Wilcox at the end of the season to save his own ass. He'll keep pumping up Wilcox until after their shit-tier bowl in December. Then, the axe will fall.
Do the Trojan fans realize that Sark can't be held accountable for his team's performance until the yesr after he fires his buddy defensive coordinator?
I hope someone explained the Fleenor Amendment to Haden before he signed Sark's contract
Seven had a willing group that would have thought that any coach was better than what they just had in Tyrone. Seven comes in, promotes an upbeat vibe, promotes fun, the players start enjoying the simple act of playing football again ...
Seven is able to live off of that for a few years before everybody starts looking around and figures that the team should be better than their performance. The (Remember The) Alamo Bowl loss to Baylor gave Sark an EASY scapegoat by going after Holt and the defensive staff (EXCEPT FOR NANSEN) ...
The next year Wilcox comes in, the defense turns things around, and the offensive struggles are blamed on a lot of young players, a young OL, etc. Nobody really questions too hard why in Year 4 Sark's OL is still terrible (see bad recruiting) ... but whatever. Then in Year 5, the whole 5-4 > 5-4 > 5-4 > 5-4 comes into play and the shine is off Sark because while the house looks great on the outside, everybody knows that 5-4 was under performance.
So Seven takes his act down to SC, throws a few kick ass pressers while hopped up on something (allegedly) ... everything looks great when he beats Stanford (thanks to David Shaw and Kevin Hogan). The shine starts coming off when he loses to BC on the road (not surprising), particularly when you see that the BC QB couldn't throw the ball yet Seven and his staff show a continuing theme of never being able to make adjustments during the game. They blow a game to a ASU team that not only were they 2 scores ahead of with the ball and 3 minutes to play, that not only had a backup QB shred them, but also got run out of the building the week prior on NATIONAL TV to the hated cross-town rivals in UCLA.
The SC players are one year removed from having Lane Kiffen FS being their head coach ... another Petey disciple that never understood the underlying detail underneath Petey and only saw the glitz and the glam. At what point do the SC players realize that really what they have as a coach is KiffieFS Part 2? At what point do they start to tune Seven out? At what point do they not give a shit about a 7-5 (or heaven forbid worse) record?
Seven was able to glide free and clear at the UW for a few years simply because of the fact that not only had the program been beaten down for so long that any winning was considered good, but there were a lot of idiots that had forgotten the reasons behind winning football. He won't get away with that shit down in LA though because SC's one of those programs where most of the alumni know what good football looks like. And they know what they are seeing right is slop. They know they are seeing lipstick on a pig.
Seven had a willing group that would have thought that any coach was better than what they just had in Tyrone. Seven comes in, promotes an upbeat vibe, promotes fun, the players start enjoying the simple act of playing football again ...
Seven is able to live off of that for a few years before everybody starts looking around and figures that the team should be better than their performance. The (Remember The) Alamo Bowl loss to Baylor gave Sark an EASY scapegoat by going after Holt and the defensive staff (EXCEPT FOR NANSEN) ...
The next year Wilcox comes in, the defense turns things around, and the offensive struggles are blamed on a lot of young players, a young OL, etc. Nobody really questions too hard why in Year 4 Sark's OL is still terrible (see bad recruiting) ... but whatever. Then in Year 5, the whole 5-4 > 5-4 > 5-4 > 5-4 comes into play and the shine is off Sark because while the house looks great on the outside, everybody knows that 5-4 was under performance.
So Seven takes his act down to SC, throws a few kick ass pressers while hopped up on something (allegedly) ... everything looks great when he beats Stanford (thanks to David Shaw and Kevin Hogan). The shine starts coming off when he loses to BC on the road (not surprising), particularly when you see that the BC QB couldn't throw the ball yet Seven and his staff show a continuing theme of never being able to make adjustments during the game. They blow a game to a ASU team that not only were they 2 scores ahead of with the ball and 3 minutes to play, that not only had a backup QB shred them, but also got run out of the building the week prior on NATIONAL TV to the hated cross-town rivals in UCLA.
The SC players are one year removed from having Lane Kiffen FS being their head coach ... another Petey disciple that never understood the underlying detail underneath Petey and only saw the glitz and the glam. At what point do the SC players realize that really what they have as a coach is KiffieFS Part 2? At what point do they start to tune Seven out? At what point do they not give a shit about a 7-5 (or heaven forbid worse) record?
Seven was able to glide free and clear at the UW for a few years simply because of the fact that not only had the program been beaten down for so long that any winning was considered good, but there were a lot of idiots that had forgotten the reasons behind winning football. He won't get away with that shit down in LA though because SC's one of those programs where most of the alumni know what good football looks like. And they know what they are seeing right is slop. They know they are seeing lipstick on a pig.
Seven had a willing group that would have thought that any coach was better than what they just had in Tyrone. Seven comes in, promotes an upbeat vibe, promotes fun, the players start enjoying the simple act of playing football again ...
Seven is able to live off of that for a few years before everybody starts looking around and figures that the team should be better than their performance. The (Remember The) Alamo Bowl loss to Baylor gave Sark an EASY scapegoat by going after Holt and the defensive staff (EXCEPT FOR NANSEN) ...
The next year Wilcox comes in, the defense turns things around, and the offensive struggles are blamed on a lot of young players, a young OL, etc. Nobody really questions too hard why in Year 4 Sark's OL is still terrible (see bad recruiting) ... but whatever. Then in Year 5, the whole 5-4 > 5-4 > 5-4 > 5-4 comes into play and the shine is off Sark because while the house looks great on the outside, everybody knows that 5-4 was under performance.
So Seven takes his act down to SC, throws a few kick ass pressers while hopped up on something (allegedly) ... everything looks great when he beats Stanford (thanks to David Shaw and Kevin Hogan). The shine starts coming off when he loses to BC on the road (not surprising), particularly when you see that the BC QB couldn't throw the ball yet Seven and his staff show a continuing theme of never being able to make adjustments during the game. They blow a game to a ASU team that not only were they 2 scores ahead of with the ball and 3 minutes to play, that not only had a backup QB shred them, but also got run out of the building the week prior on NATIONAL TV to the hated cross-town rivals in UCLA.
The SC players are one year removed from having Lane Kiffen FS being their head coach ... another Petey disciple that never understood the underlying detail underneath Petey and only saw the glitz and the glam. At what point do the SC players realize that really what they have as a coach is KiffieFS Part 2? At what point do they start to tune Seven out? At what point do they not give a shit about a 7-5 (or heaven forbid worse) record?
Seven was able to glide free and clear at the UW for a few years simply because of the fact that not only had the program been beaten down for so long that any winning was considered good, but there were a lot of idiots that had forgotten the reasons behind winning football. He won't get away with that shit down in LA though because SC's one of those programs where most of the alumni know what good football looks like. And they know what they are seeing right is slop. They know they are seeing lipstick on a pig.
Seven had a willing group that would have thought that any coach was better than what they just had in Tyrone. Seven comes in, promotes an upbeat vibe, promotes fun, the players start enjoying the simple act of playing football again ...
Seven is able to live off of that for a few years before everybody starts looking around and figures that the team should be better than their performance. The (Remember The) Alamo Bowl loss to Baylor gave Sark an EASY scapegoat by going after Holt and the defensive staff (EXCEPT FOR NANSEN) ...
The next year Wilcox comes in, the defense turns things around, and the offensive struggles are blamed on a lot of young players, a young OL, etc. Nobody really questions too hard why in Year 4 Sark's OL is still terrible (see bad recruiting) ... but whatever. Then in Year 5, the whole 5-4 > 5-4 > 5-4 > 5-4 comes into play and the shine is off Sark because while the house looks great on the outside, everybody knows that 5-4 was under performance.
So Seven takes his act down to SC, throws a few kick ass pressers while hopped up on something (allegedly) ... everything looks great when he beats Stanford (thanks to David Shaw and Kevin Hogan). The shine starts coming off when he loses to BC on the road (not surprising), particularly when you see that the BC QB couldn't throw the ball yet Seven and his staff show a continuing theme of never being able to make adjustments during the game. They blow a game to a ASU team that not only were they 2 scores ahead of with the ball and 3 minutes to play, that not only had a backup QB shred them, but also got run out of the building the week prior on NATIONAL TV to the hated cross-town rivals in UCLA.
The SC players are one year removed from having Lane Kiffen FS being their head coach ... another Petey disciple that never understood the underlying detail underneath Petey and only saw the glitz and the glam. At what point do the SC players realize that really what they have as a coach is KiffieFS Part 2? At what point do they start to tune Seven out? At what point do they not give a shit about a 7-5 (or heaven forbid worse) record?
Seven was able to glide free and clear at the UW for a few years simply because of the fact that not only had the program been beaten down for so long that any winning was considered good, but there were a lot of idiots that had forgotten the reasons behind winning football. He won't get away with that shit down in LA though because SC's one of those programs where most of the alumni know what good football looks like. And they know what they are seeing right is slop. They know they are seeing lipstick on a pig.
As always, praise be to PatHadenFS.
Everyone just picked up and ran with that 3 minutes left, possession and up two scores thing.
But it didn't happen. As epic as the collapse was the last time USC had the ball up two scores was 6:30 to go when Kessler quick kicked for 16 yards.
Seven had a willing group that would have thought that any coach was better than what they just had in Tyrone. Seven comes in, promotes an upbeat vibe, promotes fun, the players start enjoying the simple act of playing football again ...
Seven is able to live off of that for a few years before everybody starts looking around and figures that the team should be better than their performance. The (Remember The) Alamo Bowl loss to Baylor gave Sark an EASY scapegoat by going after Holt and the defensive staff (EXCEPT FOR NANSEN) ...
The next year Wilcox comes in, the defense turns things around, and the offensive struggles are blamed on a lot of young players, a young OL, etc. Nobody really questions too hard why in Year 4 Sark's OL is still terrible (see bad recruiting) ... but whatever. Then in Year 5, the whole 5-4 > 5-4 > 5-4 > 5-4 comes into play and the shine is off Sark because while the house looks great on the outside, everybody knows that 5-4 was under performance.
So Seven takes his act down to SC, throws a few kick ass pressers while hopped up on something (allegedly) ... everything looks great when he beats Stanford (thanks to David Shaw and Kevin Hogan). The shine starts coming off when he loses to BC on the road (not surprising), particularly when you see that the BC QB couldn't throw the ball yet Seven and his staff show a continuing theme of never being able to make adjustments during the game. They blow a game to a ASU team that not only were they 2 scores ahead of with the ball and 3 minutes to play, that not only had a backup QB shred them, but also got run out of the building the week prior on NATIONAL TV to the hated cross-town rivals in UCLA.
The SC players are one year removed from having Lane Kiffen FS being their head coach ... another Petey disciple that never understood the underlying detail underneath Petey and only saw the glitz and the glam. At what point do the SC players realize that really what they have as a coach is KiffieFS Part 2? At what point do they start to tune Seven out? At what point do they not give a shit about a 7-5 (or heaven forbid worse) record?
Seven was able to glide free and clear at the UW for a few years simply because of the fact that not only had the program been beaten down for so long that any winning was considered good, but there were a lot of idiots that had forgotten the reasons behind winning football. He won't get away with that shit down in LA though because SC's one of those programs where most of the alumni know what good football looks like. And they know what they are seeing right is slop. They know they are seeing lipstick on a pig.
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This may have to do with the fact that fans & media in SoCal are not going to let him get away with anything. Maybe deep down he knew this. He probably also thought that he would produce more wins, based on talent alone.
The coaching and winning thing aside, this whole sideline $75K dancing thing has totally backfired. Troojans are embarrassed by this... as they should be. Again, thinking that having his players jump around like douchebags on the sideline was going to be okay with USC fans is totally FS. The shitty loss just put the whole thing under a bigger magnifying glass.
I hope someone explained the Fleenor Amendment to Haden before he signed Sark's contract
Seven had a willing group that would have thought that any coach was better than what they just had in Tyrone. Seven comes in, promotes an upbeat vibe, promotes fun, the players start enjoying the simple act of playing football again ...
Seven is able to live off of that for a few years before everybody starts looking around and figures that the team should be better than their performance. The (Remember The) Alamo Bowl loss to Baylor gave Sark an EASY scapegoat by going after Holt and the defensive staff (EXCEPT FOR NANSEN) ...
The next year Wilcox comes in, the defense turns things around, and the offensive struggles are blamed on a lot of young players, a young OL, etc. Nobody really questions too hard why in Year 4 Sark's OL is still terrible (see bad recruiting) ... but whatever. Then in Year 5, the whole 5-4 > 5-4 > 5-4 > 5-4 comes into play and the shine is off Sark because while the house looks great on the outside, everybody knows that 5-4 was under performance.
So Seven takes his act down to SC, throws a few kick ass pressers while hopped up on something (allegedly) ... everything looks great when he beats Stanford (thanks to David Shaw and Kevin Hogan). The shine starts coming off when he loses to BC on the road (not surprising), particularly when you see that the BC QB couldn't throw the ball yet Seven and his staff show a continuing theme of never being able to make adjustments during the game. They blow a game to a ASU team that not only were they 2 scores ahead of with the ball and 3 minutes to play, that not only had a backup QB shred them, but also got run out of the building the week prior on NATIONAL TV to the hated cross-town rivals in UCLA.
The SC players are one year removed from having Lane Kiffen FS being their head coach ... another Petey disciple that never understood the underlying detail underneath Petey and only saw the glitz and the glam. At what point do the SC players realize that really what they have as a coach is KiffieFS Part 2? At what point do they start to tune Seven out? At what point do they not give a shit about a 7-5 (or heaven forbid worse) record?
Seven was able to glide free and clear at the UW for a few years simply because of the fact that not only had the program been beaten down for so long that any winning was considered good, but there were a lot of idiots that had forgotten the reasons behind winning football. He won't get away with that shit down in LA though because SC's one of those programs where most of the alumni know what good football looks like. And they know what they are seeing right is slop. They know they are seeing lipstick on a pig.
As always, praise be to PatHadenFS.
But it didn't happen. As epic as the collapse was the last time USC had the ball up two scores was 6:30 to go when Kessler quick kicked for 16 yards.