This is how I know our fans don't pay attention to much. USC did have significantly more talent, because Clay Helton, despite being mediocre was significantly better than Manny. Even when SC was struggling the last couple of seasons, they never looked as slow, as unathletic as we did. Never mind the fact that Lincoln Riley did a **** of a job of stripping the OU Roster and bringing a ton of those guys with him. He has been able to upgrade SC with experienced, HIGH END talent, combined with solid young guys. It also helps that Lincoln is one of the best playcallers in the business, and the install process was simplified, because SC was already running the same system under Helton.
Miami on the other hand had a completely broken culture, no depth, and Mario wasn't able to overhaul the roster through the portal like we wanted. Honestly, that's my biggest issue with Mario, he should have hit the portal harder than he did, because anyone that watched the film realized that we had little talent on the roster, and you needed to get rid of the cancers and the incompetence. Mario also didn't bring nearly as much talent over from Oregon as he should. Imagine if Mario would have been able to bring Dye the running back over, imagine if Miami would have been able to get some of Oregon's higher end OL and speed guys. Mario wrongly assumed that "Miami Talent" was better than what it was.
