He seemed pretty objective in his analysis of Sam after the cotton bowl.

I love this guy but damn he is a turn over machine. This is getting ugly

We outgained OSU 413 to 277, 23 first downs to their 14. Turnovers are the story, and that has little to do with coaching. Sam was not very good tonight, neither was the O-line, and our O-coordinator needs to learn how to slow down a pass rush with screens(even bubbles) .

Anyone that was worries about their blood pressure, this was a year to avoid watching.

But if you enjoy a rollcoaster of emotions, this year was a lot of fun. Talk about a lot of fun, close games to anguish over!

Season finale Ended poorly unlike last year but USC played a MUCH better team. This team continues to progress on their record in the last 24 months. Major improvements are needed to be nationally relevant.

In my opinion, in order:

1. O-Line Recruiting/Coaching change
2. DB Recruting/Coaching Change
3. Special Teams Coaching Change

There will be a lot of negative posts out there, naturally on Clay and Tee, and even our defense will be questioned.....which is down right laughable. If you’re a real fan of the team, shrug it off. Helton still deserves every right to show this is His job and we should all expect some positional Coaching changes to help the team grow. Don’t bite into the Helton should be fired non sense. It’s troll city, we all know it.

Team had a pretty solid year finally bringing back a conference championship to USC. They should be proud of that and be focused on working to be a national powerhouse within their next 24 months. Championship programs aren’t built over night. I hope Helton makes the necessary changes in the off season.

Fight on, this has been a great year talking with all of you!

Sad to say

Costly turnovers killed us. Ball was moving upfield. Just couldn’t convert. Shot ourselves in the foot.

Wow that’s rough, could have been much more but Sam got away from some of them

There's no way you can compete for Final 4 CFP without beasts on O-Line and D-Line.

Football is pretty simple...

Whoever controls the Line of Scrimmage wins...

Skill Players are over-rated.

I asked Uchenna about the sideline altercation late in the game, said he came in to protect his QB after the late hit... "Late hit on our QB late in the game which was unnecessary, unclassy by Ohio State, I had to be there to protect my QB who fought hard this game ... A lot of emotion was involved."

They should be ashamed of themselves. The interior OL are just terrible.

Mckenna Keil, Adam Maya and I will be posting in this thread all night long. Stay tuned and enjoy the game!

Analyst Yogi Roth offers his takes on whether Darnold will turn pro, his podcast, USC's coaching vacancies and the Cotton Bowl vs. Ohio State.

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24-7.

You never know.

I guess we have an absolute disaster on our hands with 2 punters and 2 kickers on scholarship and all of them are bad and underclassmen. Do we have to ride it out with these guys? Can we yank their scholies and start over? We can’t have a 65% kicker moving into next year.

How hard is it to recruit a punter?

I was very impressed with Tyler Vaughn and Pittman. The fact that Burnett might come back means we could have the best WR/TE in USC history.

Darnold looked pretty terrible but I blame a lot on the o line. We need to recruit 5 o line every year

lets stay away from Dallas.

All season’s luck fest ran out just like many of us knew it would (save for the homers):

Soft OLine
-No penetration Dline
-How’s that strength and conditioning program showing up? Homers think it’s good. Many of think it needs work.
-No true run game against decent teams
-Bad play calling
Ourcoached: Helton not able to see all second half was four down territory
-Underprepared just like in south Bend
-Usc is a pac 12 tower but a paper tiger against hr big boys
Outphysicaled again against out of conference big dog teams

Disappointing that usc didn’t even make a game of it. That’s the real issue

I’m a usc fan, and will have my season tickets renewed, but got to call truth when you see it.

Do not expect anything from this coaching staff. If I were his brother I would push my father to tell Lynn that if he brings real head coach Sam will stay to improve some of his weaknesses, if not then better to go pro he can be coached by real coaches to improve.

They have NO reason to hang their heads.

Played lights out tonight.

Proud of them.

1. Team hasn't been properly prepared to compete.
2. Offensive play calling easy to read.
3. Defense came out conservative before deciding to make Barrett beat us.

Then too much pressure place on Darnold and he throws a pick six.

We won't be an elite team until
1. Blow Helton and staff out (keep only Deland and BKU)
2. Hit a lot more in practice
3. Get a top end strength coach

Today after the UN voted against Trump's Jerusalem decision, and when he threatened the Countries who voted against him. This is great!

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And here I thought Pac12 refs were the worst.