I keep hearing this, but is that only because he was fired early in the season. This was his 7th year at USC and has been on the hot seat for 4 of those.
They weren’t exactly trigger happy in removing him. USC have been criticised for years about their poor administrative hires and their apparent lack of care for the football team. I don’t get how USC haven’t cared for years, but with one early season firing, they now do care.
Obviously Georgia Southern care the most, they fired their coach first.
His Head coaching record was 46-24, 36-13 in conference. Last year they only played 6 games and he went 5-1, so that doesn’t really count as a season. His “first” year he went 5-4, but he took over for Sark and was the interim, so that doesn’t count either.
In 2016 they went 10-3, 7-2 in conference, and won the Rose Bowl and finished ranked #3 AP.
In 2017 they went 11-3, 8-1 in conference, which included a Cotton Bowl loss, and finished #12 AP.
2018 was his truly bad year, he went 5-7, 4-5 in conference.
2019, his last full season was 8-5, but 7-2 in conference and included a Holiday Bowl Loss, and finished #22 AP.
That’s 4 full season of going 34-18, 26-10 in conference with 3 end of season top-25’s and 1 top 5.
Compare that to Mandy, who is 16-13, 11-7 in conference. Only ranked season- last year #22 AP. If Mandy had made two top-5 bowls and finished the year #3 and #12 (#10 coaches) do you think people would be so ****ed? No.
USC fans were ****ed after two bad years that followed two pretty damned good ones. We have had two pretty crappy ones, maybe you can say last year was “ok” and now are a train wreck.
See the difference???
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