Reading Bruce Feldman’s article on Clay Helton, this stood out as sounding pretty familiar:
“USC has as much, if not more talent than anyone in the Pac-12, but according to sources close to the program, Helton’s team simply didn’t practice hard or physically enough during the week to develop that talent and build themselves into an elite program. One former USC assistant praised Helton personally but said his biggest shortcoming as a head football coach was that he was trying to be everyone’s friend and players — and staffers — took advantage of that. Another former staffer likened him to a substitute teacher.”
Don’t know if it’s true of Manny, but sure sounds Iike it, and we play like it.