Instead, USC has had a coach that has actively underperformed and gone out of his way to lose winnable games. That is, enough talent to put together 9-10 win seasons every year (even if they just squeak by a number of teams) and remain in the playoff discussion until a late-season meltdown each year. I’m of the firm belief that in the Clay Helton era, had USC even a semi-competent coach, they’d probably be sitting where Oregon is now. I’ve only watched a handful of Oklahoma games in the Riley-era, but it’s hard to imagine how this could possibly work out well for non-USC fans (unless Lincoln Riley only moved to Los Angeles to support his out-of-control drug habit or to facilitate his human trafficking business). It sends a loud and powerful message to the college football world that WE ARE BACK TO BEING OUR USUAL INTOLERABLE SELVES. Translation: It was never our goal to be SO FREAKING AWESOME, but we did exactly that. It sends a loud and powerful message to the college football world that this sleeping giant is wide awake, standing up and fighting on." "It was never our goal to change the landscape of college football with one of the biggest moves in the history of the game - but we did exactly that," Bohn proclaimed in his opening remarks Monday in formally introducing Riley in a ceremony atop the Coliseum. USC Athletic Director Mike Bohn announcing the hire: And now you’re telling me that they’re going to be good again? But USC fans were already absolutely insufferable for the past… well, my entire lifetime (you don’t even need to know how old I am for this statement, because it’s true for your lifetime as well). USC being back to national relevance is good for the entire conference, I’m told. Of course, Pac-12 fans are supposed to be happy about this. Lincoln Riley is simply assimilating himself to the local USC culture, by making himself the most detestable, untrustworthy, back-stabbing snake he could possibly be as quickly as possible. Oklahoma just suffered their own Tosh “Benedict” Lupoi moment, losing their coach and all their recruits without all that much time to do anything about it. Even that article was significantly altered from my initial early-season vision, which was a pièce de résistance on the Kedon Slovis to Drake London connection.Īt the time of this writing, they’ve just poached Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma to be their next coach, and they are currently in the process of flipping all of those 5-star Oklahoma recruits over to USC (and probably spent a significant amount of time recruiting players to USC while still employed by Oklahoma, a definite “gray area” of recruiting, to be generous). I already put together a rough draft before Cal was originally scheduled to play USC, but those same jokes (“haha, their coaching is bad and their team is bad”) aren’t so funny anymore. USC has been the hardest team to write about in advance.
USC is back, baby!… back to cartoonish levels of villainy.
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