USC makes changes-- Drevno to coach OL
I think Helton is feeling the pressure and realizes his job is at stake. Mid-season coaching moves like this are never good.
https://usctrojans.com/news/2018/10/29/usc-football-head-coach-clay-helton-to-take-over-play-calling-duties-offensive-line-coach-neil-callaway-relieved-of-his-duties.aspx
October 29th, 2018 at 6:19 PM ^
You mean Drevno isn’t working out!?
October 29th, 2018 at 6:22 PM ^
At this point Helton thinks he's working out better than some of the other coaches...
October 29th, 2018 at 6:25 PM ^
That’s a big ole Yikes if that’s the case
October 29th, 2018 at 10:56 PM ^
Stop dumping on Drevno . He is a west coast guy and they underestimated the clickiness of the high school coaches in the Midwest and he couldn't get good players he neeeed. Wasnt a coincidence we'd keep losing our targets late...many in the midwest we're working hard against him. He is a good coach and will do great things, and I will root for him, unlike many dickheads here.
October 30th, 2018 at 3:57 AM ^
Where did you get this info? And while people were miffed about recruiting, it was OL improvement/performance that most have a problem with. It's at least worth exploring why a new OL coach this year really improved things where they got worse under Drevno.
October 30th, 2018 at 11:36 AM ^
He is also the WEST coast guy that offered a certain 4* OL target on the west coast but never contacted him again until he couldn’t close the deal on a certain 5* and then began to blow him up a basically beg to meet and talk.
Drevno set up a recruiting visit at this WEST COAST guys school w the head coach and player etc: and wouldn’t u know he NO SHOWED and never contacted this player or coach again to cancel explain etc:
Said kid now is a Remington watch kid and probably gonna leave after his junior year is one of the top OL man in the country. I know this story to be fact and true. Drev is about Drev and has always been. No love lost here.
October 29th, 2018 at 6:26 PM ^
Whatever tickles his pickle I guess
October 29th, 2018 at 9:00 PM ^
Ah, the ole Hugh Freeze mantra.
October 29th, 2018 at 6:22 PM ^
OT but I read a tweet today that said,
The reason the Chargers don't play in the LA Coliseum is because Philip Rivers can't be in the same place as Trojans.
October 29th, 2018 at 6:26 PM ^
A joke referencing condoms bc he has 7? Maybe more? Kids. You saw that from a parody account.
October 29th, 2018 at 7:06 PM ^
he's up to 8 now. Can't manage that rhythm method, I guess.
October 29th, 2018 at 7:33 PM ^
Yes we all understood it was a joke.
October 29th, 2018 at 8:10 PM ^
Oh shit that's good.
October 29th, 2018 at 6:23 PM ^
Doomed.
October 29th, 2018 at 7:07 PM ^
But are they McDoomed?
October 29th, 2018 at 6:25 PM ^
Poor damn USC
October 29th, 2018 at 6:28 PM ^
Really breaks me up that USC is having a bad season. Couldn't have happened to a nicer university.
October 29th, 2018 at 6:45 PM ^
.....oh I can think of several other "nicer" universities, several that are in our conference even.
October 30th, 2018 at 10:09 AM ^
I second that. I could think of several schools I would love to see having a worse season then USC
October 29th, 2018 at 7:23 PM ^
A bad season? Shit’s been rough (off and on) for awhile and I’m losing no sleep over it. They haven’t been a contender since Carroll left.
I've said it before, if they were smart they’d hire Leach.
October 29th, 2018 at 8:01 PM ^
I really hope that does not happen. I like rooting for Leach.
October 29th, 2018 at 9:14 PM ^
Used to like Leach but now it's fuck his Trump loving ass.
October 29th, 2018 at 9:23 PM ^
I know it's so awful when people hold opinions that are different than your own. But I promise as you work through each day with that knowledge, it'll get easier to bear.
October 30th, 2018 at 9:50 AM ^
There isn't a single person that I once liked that I will stop liking because I find out their politics are different from mine. Ever. I try not to the a dick that way
October 29th, 2018 at 8:30 PM ^
Brohm
October 29th, 2018 at 8:48 PM ^
Mike Leach has never won even a division title as a head coach.
October 29th, 2018 at 7:53 PM ^
fuck 'em
October 29th, 2018 at 6:25 PM ^
I could be overreacting here, and if I am, do feel free to say, "LSA, shut up" and I certainly will not take offense. Is this not the sort of move that you make when you've been, well, talked to by the USC administration?
October 29th, 2018 at 6:35 PM ^
The USC administration doesn't talk to you. They just leave your ass on the tarmac.
October 29th, 2018 at 7:01 PM ^
It is. If a coach is going to get fired if he keeps losing, he might as well call his own plays.
On the other hand, Drevno wasn't really hired to coach RBs and Tee Martin as an OC is an ace recruiter.
October 29th, 2018 at 6:28 PM ^
so Pee Fartin is not fired, just demoted? I'm sure that won't affect his performance at all
October 29th, 2018 at 7:27 PM ^
"Pee Fartin"? Really? Take that shit back to RCMB.
October 29th, 2018 at 7:39 PM ^
usually it gets a good hearty laff. oh well
October 29th, 2018 at 8:08 PM ^
I upvoted because it's your schtick. Keep telling people to smell your ass and that you have diarrhea.
October 29th, 2018 at 6:30 PM ^
That one in particular.
October 29th, 2018 at 6:30 PM ^
Cue the "Bold Strategy, Cotton" memes.
October 29th, 2018 at 7:23 PM ^
let's see if it pays off for him
October 29th, 2018 at 6:31 PM ^
We will see how good Tim Drevno is at coaching an offensive line. USC is currently ranked 116th in the Nation in rushing (120.9 per game), 53rd in passing. We will see if those numbers go up.
Florida St, with Greg Frey coaching the offensive line, is currently ranked 128th in rushing (83.5 per game), 36th in passing.
October 29th, 2018 at 6:47 PM ^
It still boggles my mind that we had frey here just screwing things up, so glad Warinner is here now.
October 29th, 2018 at 7:08 PM ^
I think Frey is a decent OL coach based on his overall track record. I recall some insider buzz that he actually didn't really do any coaching on the OL, 99% with just the TE's. The whole interior OL with one coach and exterior with another was just weird to begin with as well.
Either way, I'm very glad we ended up with Warinner. Definitely the best we've had here in a long time based on early results.
October 29th, 2018 at 7:38 PM ^
Been looking at OL minutiae partly for fun, and then some more as I put together the diary I posted today. And, wow, are things different with Warinner here. Looking at footage from last year's line is just torturous.
We'll never know exactly how responsibilities were divided (and how they changed) through the course of 2017. But it was bad, bad, bad.
October 29th, 2018 at 8:34 PM ^
warriner knew about zach smith
October 29th, 2018 at 8:58 PM ^
Yup. And he took it to Urbz and Urbz said “fuck off he’s my homie” and so Warinner fucked off to Michigan.
EDIT: I also could have gone with “Yea, Warriner knew but Michigan’s OL coach Warinner didn’t.”
October 29th, 2018 at 6:51 PM ^
What is funny to me is that if anybody had asked me last week what Drevno was doing now, I'd have said, "He went back to USC and is the OL coach there..." I'm not sure I ever knew that he went back as coach of running backs and "passing coordinator."
Are memories so short, that no one remembers Drevno coming to Michigan, and people here raving about Drevno's success at USC and Stanford coaching up those offensive lines?
October 29th, 2018 at 6:57 PM ^
Of course we remember that. We also remember last year's offensive line.
October 29th, 2018 at 7:08 PM ^
He did well at the 49ers too. The 1 year the 49er O line was bad when Harbaugh was there, the last year he was there, Drevno had left the 49ers and was at USC. The 49ers were bad that year, mainly the offensive line was bad. Remember the Thanksgiving game that year, against Seattle? Frank Gore had 28 yds rushing. That game was also the beginning of the end for Kaepernik at San Francisco.
October 29th, 2018 at 6:33 PM ^
That plan has “genius” written all over it. Or, perhaps “desperate”?
October 29th, 2018 at 6:44 PM ^
With the insane buyouts that are now standard in the contracts that big time football schools are giving their head coaches I expect to see a lot more of these types of moves in the coming years.
October 29th, 2018 at 6:45 PM ^
how bad is your OL coach that you promote Drevno to take over those duties? oooof.