Dr Hilarius

I am very surprised by the existence of even a scintilla of self-reflection from U$C fans. I don’t remember the last time I saw a post about USC on this site that wasn’t about the Pac/media deal, or an upcoming game, or to make fun if their obsession with us. Was it the Lane Kiffen tarmac firing or maybe the Sarkesian debacle? Did OBD Forum even exist then?

Everything is right in the world. 💚

I would love that!! I was already thinking about going to that game, and now you’ve just motivated me more. Let me see if I can swing it coming from LA. Great idea!! ❤️

I love reading these opinions! However, IMHO… Hard disagree… MH’s biggest losses were off the field. Darren Carrington MISSED THE NATTY BC OF A POSITIVE DRUG TEST. Colt Lyerla is a case study in undeveloped talent and poor mental healthcare. I remember every week there being another scandal. Oh, and ALL MH’s teams led the league in penalties. His special teams players got worse under his tutelage. Even his own play-calling got sloppy and lacked nuance. MH is simply a classic case of someone being smart and nice but not a leader.

Wow—she didn’t just break the record, she obliterated it. For a sense of scale, Ionescu scored 37 points. The next best score in _history_ is Steph Curry’s 31 points. Someone send Curry a Ionescu jersey.

Yes—I could never figure out why—but now I know. MH was an awful recruiter. Honestly, he was just a really bad coach. The off-field issues his teams had were terrifying. OR was a national brand that played for 2 Natties in 3 yrs. MH couldn’t capitalize.

This!! Herbert’s dominance in the NFL makes Mari look baaaaaad—like reeeeeeeeeal bad. What QB in their right mind would want to play for Mari??

I said this exact thing at the time Frost said it. And I have considered Frost an arrogant, idiotic, a-hole since then. I have not been proven wrong.

I *think* this should put us over both FL and ND into #4 on Rivals. Rivals 2024 Rankings

Riley is a whiney loser. The more that’s on the line, the more Riley whines (and loses). I would take Lane Kiffen over Riley, and Kiffen is baaaaaaaaad. Whittingham, DeBoer, Stewart are all great. I wouldn’t take them over Lanning.

Those 4 decisions in July line up awfully nicely with Stein’s 4-Duck tweet.

I would like to propose a new nickname for the improved edge rushers: The Bruise Brothers.

I am with you and don’t want to take this thread in a prohibited direction. I’ll just agree that it would have to be handled extremely delicately. Bringing religion into a public education setting is dicey. As an non-Christian athlete growing up, I would have been pissed if my coaches ever started talking to me about faith.

Yeah—that def reads artificial. I have seen a lot of AI-generated articles related to sports starting ~’18. Sports are pretty easy to summarize from just a box score.

It makes you wonder how Ajani will grade out against Pac competition.

This is 100% on UCLA. The Pac should not cover for them, full stop.

I don’t check the forum in the middle of the night if I still want to sleep bc it will keep me awake with ideas. But I do check in first thing when I wake up. Sometime last week I woke up to a spam attack and deleted >= 30 topics and comments that were clearly spam. It was kinda fun.

What I remember about Ty’s high school tape was that it was a lot of great comebacks and late game heroics. He looked otherworldly. Now I have to wonder why his team was always in a position to have to make a comeback.

I was way more worried about the DeBoer hire than the Riley hire. DeBoer does more w less. Riley does less w more.

Why do people underrate Utah every year?

I am clearly a fellow “old guy” bc I loathe that court design. My hubbie won’t even watch home games bc of it. I agree w many of your other comments… Altman’s teams are incredibly inconsistent. Inconsistency is a sign of a _bad_ coach. But the biggest problem is that they don’t improve over the season. How many elite players have we seen flame out for Altman? A good coach actually coaches players up to make them better. Basketball is a game where a single player can make a coach _appear_ great. Think Brooks, Pritchard, Ionescu. If the players don’t want to give 100%, that’s a prob w the coach, not the team. Personally, I think we are several years overdue for new men’s and women’s basketball coaches. Combine that w the abuse delivered by the women’s track coach and the ineptitude and arrogance of the former football coach, and the obvious conclusion is that we need a new AD too. Mullens is the Larry Scott of Oregon.

Not to be a downer, but I read somewhere that something like 90% of transfers land in a less competitive league than the one they started in. In other words… P5 to G5. G5 to FCS, etc. So this stat might just be SEC/B1G to Pac12. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll take it.

Yeah—I think I got one free article but am blocked now.

This is the first I’ve heard of Tulane in the mix, and I am loving it! A 4-pod of mountain/central time NOLA, Denver, Dallas, and SLC? That’s thinking outside the box. What a great way to get the pac recruiting in the rich Louisiana territory.

It’s obvious—Graves is the problem. I have personal experience w male coaches coaching female basketball, and they are the worst. My HS bball coach was voted coach of the year bc his team if FIVE freshmen won the Or state championship. He proceeded to suck for 3 years bc he couldn’t coach and was a physically and verbally abusive a-hole. In bball, one good leader can absolutely change the complexion of a team. Sabrina was that leader. Graves needs to go.