USC loses at home to Cal...

[McNabb2Brominski]

ughhhh not a good loss for Helton's job security.

 

[djorange1989]

Don’t worry, if they fire Helton they will hire a USC guy, it’s what they do. Or a big name guy, bigger name than Dino

 

[FRANKIEFAN]

Might not be a bad time for Carroll to bail on Seattle and return to college.

 

[raf4488]

Stop. They have like at least 10 guys they're calling before Dino, and they might not even make a change

 

[texascpa]

Who cares? Why do we have a thread on a specific Pac12 game/team? (I know why we do, it's just stupid that we do).

 

[721Comstock]

USC has 2 games left - vs ND (chalk that up as a loss 95% of the time) and "@" 2-8 UCLA.

Yeah, if they lose both, then his seat might be pretty warm.
If they win vs. UCLA and make a bowl, regardless of what does/doesn't happen vs. ND, does he get canned???

That's a bad look, given his overall results there:

It didn’t take long for Clay Helton to make his mark as USC football’s head coach.

The 46-year-old Helton is 27-10 (.730) as the Trojan head coach, with 9 victories over AP Top 25 teams, including 3 in the Top 5. He went 11-3 in 2017 with wins over No. 14 Stanford twice (including in the Pac-12 Championship Game) and No. 23 Arizona, 10-3 in 2016 with wins over No. 4 Washington, No. 5 Penn State in a legendary Rose Bowl thriller and No. 21 Colorado, 5-4 in 2015 with wins over No. 3 Utah and No. 22 UCLA, and 1-0 in 2013, beating No. 21 Fresno State.

He is the first USC head coach to have 10-win seasons in each of his first 2 full seasons and he has more wins (21) in his first 2 full seasons than any USC coach. He has led USC to an active 16-game home winning streak (its longest since 2001-04) and a since-snapped 13-game overall winning streak from 2016 to 2017 (its longest since 2003-04). He is 16-0 in the Coliseum. He is 20-5 (.800) versus Pac-12 foes. Two of his career losses came while serving as USC’s interim head coach.

In 2017 while guiding USC’s 125th team, his Trojans were 11-3 (ranked 12th in the final AP poll) despite playing all 12 regular season games without a bye. It was USC’s most wins since 2008 and its first back-to-back 10-win seasons since 2007-08. He led USC to an 8-1 Pac-12 record (the loss was by 3 points on a Friday night on the road on a late field goal) and its first Pac-12 title since 2008 by winning the Pac-12 Championship Game (the first ever by a South Division team). Troy played in the Cotton Bowl Classic. He was the 2017 AP Pac-12 Coach of the Year and a finalist for the 2017 Paul “Bear” Bryant Coach of the Year Award (the second consecutive year he has been a finalist).

We'll build Dino a statue here if he gets those kinda results.
Or he could be the next coach USC fires because they think they're better than that.
(See also: Nebraska)

Helton is making $3.8M.
Now, we may or may not be able to/choose to pay Dino quite that much (or maybe we can? ACC $ baby!!), but - making say $3.5M (assuming we extend him & give the raise he's so richly earned) with virtually iron-clad job security in an inexpensive place to live, with the ONLY DOME in all of college athletics -
"neener neener neener! We're Syracuse and we have a Dome and you don't!!" -
and a clear path to possible championships here (we've beaten Clemson, and were literally 2 plays away from being undefeated THIS YEAR) -

IF that job opens up, and IF he's even offered - why would he take it?

Dino's a helluva lot smarter than that.

 

[elimunelson]

If it opens and if he was the choice, he’s gonna take that job. That’s the type of job that is a dream type gig that most coaches would relish. The rest of the stuff (money, assistant money, etc) gets taken care of in Troy.

Not sure why this would be considered remotely controversial. I think Helton is gonzo (that part is easy) but would they consider Dino is the bigger question. I’m sure they have a list of guys who are bigger fish for sure but from what we have seen, Dino is the right choice for any program. They are unscrupulous about winning maybe Urban bolts for LA? That’s the type o name they chase first

 

[texascpa]

USC has 2 games left - vs ND (chalk that up as a loss 95% of the time) and "@" 2-8 UCLA.

Yeah, if they lose both, then his seat might be pretty warm.
If they win vs. UCLA and make a bowl, regardless of what does/doesn't happen vs. ND, does he get canned???

That's a bad look, given his overall results there:




We'll build Dino a statue here if he gets those kinda results.
Or he could be the next coach USC fires because they think they're better than that.
(See also: Nebraska)

Helton is making $3.8M.
Now, we may or may not be able to/choose to pay Dino quite that much (or maybe we can? ACC $ baby!!), but - making say $3.5M (assuming we extend him & give the raise he's so richly earned) with virtually iron-clad job security in an inexpensive place to live, with the ONLY DOME in all of college athletics -
"neener neener neener! We're Syracuse and we have a Dome and you don't!!" -
and a clear path to possible championships here (we've beaten Clemson, and were literally 2 plays away from being undefeated THIS YEAR) -

IF that job opens up, and IF he's even offered - why would he take it?

Dino's a helluva lot smarter than that.

It's been reported that Dino makes close to, if not $3M per year. He will get a bump when he's extended after this season. Other than the weather and a bump in recruiting, can someone tell we why he'd just jump on USC? Actually, please don't we already have enough threads on that.

 

[MSOrange]

It's been reported that Dino makes close to, if not $3M per year. He will get a bump when he's extended after this season. Other than the weather and a bump in recruiting, can someone tell we why he'd just jump on USC? Actually, please don't we already have enough threads on that.

Yeah seems like I sure have seen a ton of USC talk around here. Guess we'll see

 

[texascpa]

Yeah seems like I sure have seen a ton of USC talk around here. Guess we'll see

Without any spec of evidence, some have worked themselves to a lather that USC is going to come calling and Babers will jump on it.

 

[Frozen]

Might not be a bad time for Carroll to bail on Seattle and return to college.

Pete Carroll is going to be 68 in September. I’m discriminating against him based on age.

 

[721Comstock]

Without any spec of evidence, some have worked themselves to a lather that USC is going to come calling and Babers will jump on it.

Belief without evidence.

 

[KaiserUEO]

Without any spec of evidence, some have worked themselves to a lather that USC is going to come calling and Babers will jump on it.

Rule #1...

Say it with me now...

THE BOARD IS ALWAYS WRONG.



Enjoy your Sunday folks, good slate out there.