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The problem is that if USC doesn’t start winning ASAP. pretty soon they’ll have crowds around 10K at the Coliseum. That’s the problem when you’re a program in a huge city with great weather. You’re not the only Coca-Cola in the desert and people will just tune you out.

You think Cignetti will get poached? By whom? We had a conversation about him recently here. He’s almost as old as Whitt and is in his first year of a contract that runs through the 2029 season. He’s also never coached west of the Mississippi (except for two years at Rice almost 40 years ago), so that kind of limits his appeal and reach.…[Read more]

I agree, but how do you differentiate between a Cignetti and a Napier? Frost seemed like a great hire at the time, but we saw how that unfolded. Dabo and Day were promoted from within and have thrived. Whether hiring internally or externally, there are only a handful of truly great coaches out there.

Yup, Scalley becoming HC will likely be the final nail in the coffin for Utah.

we are very not that far off what did we start 12/13?

and not an in-house hire who spent multiple years as the Head Coach in Waiting. I keep saying that there are good coaches out there if you are willing to find them.

luck in a single instance can be true but it’s not sustainable over the long term. at some point you have to credit their focus and preparation. things can turn around for them just as quickly but I wouldn’t attribute that to bad luck.

If they kept Helton 5 years past his expiration date because they couldn’t afford the buyout, Riley ain’t going nowhere he don’t wanna. SC is still paying for all those scandals

Every year at least one preseason top 10 team finishes unranked. Florida State is taking it to new levels though. Can we make a pact that Utah is never higher than 15 preseason? A couple of losses are acceptable from that position but at least you can also get forward momentum.

Oh, and add Tyler Shough to list of QB’s available in the portal…[Read more]

Yeah, I don’t really count the Baylor game as one of those because they had a big lead during the entire contest that they frittered away. They remind me of one of those teams that jumps off to a great start of the season, lose once, and then proceed to lose many more times before the end of the season. There’s absolutely nothing that says to me…[Read more]

Even Baylor was super close.

Florida St is a cautionary tale of what happens when people give up.

It’s not only that they’re 1-6, but they’re a bad 1-6. They’ve looked like trash in almost every one of their games. FSU picked a horrible time to give Mike Norvell a massive EIGHT YEAR extension at ~$10M per season during this offseason. That makes for an eye-watering buyout.

USC and Oklahoma are the new Nebraskas. They better start overpaying recruits but even that might not help them.

they have had the luckiest streaks. they should honestly have 2 if not 3 losses.