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The Reality We All Knew - Men of Troy in Ruins
Beno4Life
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And another wake-up for Jen and Jimmy about lazy recruiting and LIPO...
https://theathletic.com/2843190/2021/09/23/how-usc-crashed-a-friggin-ferrari-of-talent-and-what-it-means-for-the-next-head-coach/
Excerpts:
“Looking back on it,” the coach said, “he didn’t hire the right people, and maybe I am one of them. That sounds bad.”
“He had guys on the staff who he let not recruit at all,” one of the former assistants said. “He got away from what USC is.”
Said one former recruiting staffer, “Coaches on the 2018 and 2019 staffs didn’t recruit. Didn’t care. No leadership. Acted like it was a country club to hang out rather than compete. It was 1,000 percent laziness.”
“If we signed 25 kids there were 10 of them that were that way. We had so many (four and five-star guys) who were just terrible. We signed one five-star linebacker and he would’ve been a really good player 30 years ago when it was just going from A-gap to A-gap but not these days when you gotta go tackle perimeter screens now and go sideline to sideline. Look at all those cats that Alabama is running around with. Saban turns down 10 five-stars a year because he knows they’re not good enough.”
“USC was coming off the scandal, and he’d been part of that staff coming back. We couldn’t play the game the way the game is played at that level. Now with NIL, you can do it, which is why they created the BLVD (USC’s in-house partnership with J1S, which focuses on helping student-athletes maximize their market value). That is gonna be huge for them.”
https://theathletic.com/2843190/2021/09/23/how-usc-crashed-a-friggin-ferrari-of-talent-and-what-it-means-for-the-next-head-coach/
Excerpts:
“Looking back on it,” the coach said, “he didn’t hire the right people, and maybe I am one of them. That sounds bad.”
“He had guys on the staff who he let not recruit at all,” one of the former assistants said. “He got away from what USC is.”
Said one former recruiting staffer, “Coaches on the 2018 and 2019 staffs didn’t recruit. Didn’t care. No leadership. Acted like it was a country club to hang out rather than compete. It was 1,000 percent laziness.”
“If we signed 25 kids there were 10 of them that were that way. We had so many (four and five-star guys) who were just terrible. We signed one five-star linebacker and he would’ve been a really good player 30 years ago when it was just going from A-gap to A-gap but not these days when you gotta go tackle perimeter screens now and go sideline to sideline. Look at all those cats that Alabama is running around with. Saban turns down 10 five-stars a year because he knows they’re not good enough.”
“USC was coming off the scandal, and he’d been part of that staff coming back. We couldn’t play the game the way the game is played at that level. Now with NIL, you can do it, which is why they created the BLVD (USC’s in-house partnership with J1S, which focuses on helping student-athletes maximize their market value). That is gonna be huge for them.”
Comments
No fucking shit
That has to be Palaie Gaoteote from Bishop Gorman.
Smalls is a prime example of a 5 star that really didn’t have blue bloods that wanted him. Saban does turn down 5 stars every year.
It’s not as easy as getting top rated guys. Sure, Alabama, Ohio State, etc get the top classes and are consistently winning big, but it’s not as simple as that and TSIO and Sub K bullshit they spouted was often exactly that.