Who Deserves to Get Fired First?

[Junkyarddog]

Which L.A. head coach deserves to get fired first? Clay Helton at USC or Chip Kelly at UCLA?

USC is 3-2 and is facing what amounts to a sure loss at Notre Dame this Saturday. They have games at Colorado, Arizoan State, and Cal on the road, and Arizona, Oregon and UCLA at home. 4 of those 6 teams will have better records than USC after this week's games. USC needs to win at least 8 games this season for Helton to have a chance of saving his job. At this rate, 6 wins looks like what they will end up with. USC has had injuries this season, but not enough to mitigate their disappointing record.

Chip Kelly at UCLA has no real excuses. They are currently 1-5 after a very embarrassing loss to Oregon State at home. They go to Stanford, Utah and USC, and host Arizona State, Colorado and Cal. They currently have the worst record in the Pac 12. This is the 2nd season in a row that UCLA has started out 1-5. Nobody thought that UCLA would be this bad. There is a real possibility that they go 1-11 this season. Kelly has shown a total and complete lack of interest when it comes to recruiting. He also seems to have a lack of interest in playing defense. It seems as if he is just at UCLA for a paycheck.

There is a real possibility that USC fires Helton at the end of the season. It is doubtful that UCLA fires Kelly because AD Guerero, who is guiding UCLA athletics down the drain, does not believe in firing head coaches. He just let's their contracts expire.

 

[Old School]

Who is the AD at USC?

 

[Junkyarddog]

Who is the AD at USC?

They do not have one. Lynn Swan "resigned" about two weeks ago. He was actually forced out by the new USC President Carol Folt. Folt was the lady who cleaned things up at North Carolina. She knows that the Alumni (the MONEY) wants Helton out and she knows who the Alumni want in. Apparently she is not a big fan of Urban Meyer. Helton's job is safe as long as there is no AD to fire him. It can only last so long. If it comes down to a battle between Folt, and the Alumni, whose donations add up to milions a year, we know who wins that battle.

 

[Old School]

She has to be smart enough to hire an AD who hires his Coach..

 

[Old School]

She has to be smart enough to hire an AD who hires his Coach..

Then the new AD takes over the the duties of the department as he should .

The new coach leads USC back to a national power where they should be recruiting blue chippers to

sunshine and babes and Hollywood.

Just like the good olde days...

 

[Junkyarddog]

I can tell you one thing. ESPN knows who they want USC to pick as their new Head Coach. What could be better for them than to have Urban Meyer as the Head Coach at USC when they open the 2020 season on September 5th. in Dallas against some guy named Nick Saban and Alabama.

 

[Old School]

The PAC 12 needs a Power team and no better location than USC.

The whole brand of college football needs a fix from the boring rut it is in now .

Saban sees the handwriting on the wall when he calls for the Power 5 playing a Power 5 Schedule

It can't continue with Ala.:0008 Ga.:0008 Ohio St. :0008Clemson playing 3 games a year in their schedule

that might warrant getting out of bed for and hoping Auburn and LSU or Wisc find a QB under a pillow in a

dream.

Really need the West Coast to become a power player again have the supposed 20 battle Sept-Nov..

and then a 8 team playoff DEC. and Championship JAN.

 

[Junkyarddog]

The biggest problem you are going to find going to an 8 team playoff system is that the College and University Presidents do NOT want it. An 8 team playoff would require teams to drop a game and go from a 12 game schedule to an 11 game schedule. That means 122 teams out of the 130 now in the NCAA Division 1 will lose revenues from a lost game and there is no way the University presidents will go for that.

Logistics would also be a nightmare. Teams know at least a year in advance who they will be playing and where on any given week and have plenty of time to get hotel rooms, plane tickets, meals, and everything for their team, band, and fans. With an 8 game playoff schedule, teams would have to go from one venue to another with just 7 days max notice. That is not nearly enough time to get things organized. This is why you will not see an 8 team playoff very soon. In hoops, colleges only have to prepare for 13-15 players who will be in the same venue for two games, and know ahead of time where those games will be played. An 8 team Football playoff would not have that luxury.

 

[Old School]

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/7/24/17609764/playoff-expansion-scott-frost

Scott Frost?s 8-team College Football Playoff vision is the most feasible expansion plan

 

[Junkyarddog]

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/7/24/17609764/playoff-expansion-scott-frost

Scott Frost?s 8-team College Football Playoff vision is the most feasible expansion plan

That still does not solve anything. Is he still going to have Conference Championship games? Let's take tis year as an example. The CC games are scheduled for Dec. 6 and 7. That would give schools two weeks to prepare for games on the 15th. Two weeks to find hotel rooms, plane tickets, and everything else involved for a game. If they opt for these games to be played as bowl games, that is very little time to get a team ready, as well as find rooms for the band, students, and fans who want to attend the games. There is no way that University Presidents will allow a 1 hosts 8, 2 hosts 7, etc... set up because they are NOT going to give the top 4 schools a home field advantage.

Then, two weeks later, the winners get to do it all over again. Add on the fact that we are now looking at the possibility of a team playing 16 games in a season (the same number as the pro's do) and one can easily see why the University Presidents will NOT allow this to happen. There is one other little hitch in the plan. Many schools have finals during the weeks between the CC games and the bowl games. How many players will flunk those exams and be academically ineligible to play? Normally the more time they have to study, the better their chances are of passing.

My solution is simple. 4 Super Conferences of 16 teams each, in two divisions. Cut the season to 11 games. 8 Conference games and 3 Non-conference games between teams in the Super Conferences. The 4 conference winners automatically get invites to an 8 team playoff. The other four spots are at large picks. Play the playoff games at current bowl sites. Out of the 6 "New Years" Bowl games, two will be the host for the Semi-finals. The other 4 will host the quarter finals. Problem solved.

 

[Old School]

USC retains coach Clay Helton despite fan dissatisfaction

https://sports.yahoo.com/usc-retain...ite-fan-dissatisfaction-224409468--ncaaf.html