Watching “THE PLAN” unfold is a glimpse into why our Saturday game plans always fail.
This is a nice little macrocosm view of the dysfunction of the Usc football program and why Usc football the last few years has come out of the gate in games strongly only to degenerate into haphazardness and ultimately chaos resulting in a loss or a near loss.
Consider the start to THE PLAN. It was identified in the Swannogram, the VAST issues with the program and that there would be sweeping changes to address them just like Notre Dame. Essentially signaling, Helton and company were done wanting to be Stanford when they grow up and now wanted to be like the new successful flavor of the month, Notre Dame, when they grow up. They have a new hero to follow. Gag. [I call this the “we gotta watch the tape and clean some things up” phase of THE PLAN.]
Moving on, they came out of the gate after their identification of the issues and resolved to set their jaws and get right after it. Clean up those physical beats and get these widespread changes in motion. And out of the gate they came, just like the team, starting fast, following the game script and letting a handful of assistants go while nailing the top offensive coordinator on the market. Usc was up 14-0 before the opponents knew what hit ‘em. Just like all season.
But then time wore on and THE PLAN started to lose a little steam. All those changes! Being like Notre Dame! Well, chummy chummy hughug Clay got cold feet on changing out dear ol Clancy P and so he got to stay. The DC would not change. And further no changes would be made to the S&C program that has been a relative disaster for years. Oh and that special teams unit that couldn’t seem to ever field more than 10 men for a play over and over? Well maybe another time. Baxter is such a dear dear friend.
So THE PLAN finds itself down at halftime after a fast start. A couple scores along the way with a RB coach hire and a DL coach, but the game slipping away. Clancy staying and Clay’s tenuous existence as head coach has apparently made it hard to hire a DB coach. Several have said “yeah, no thanks.” And THE PLAN finds itself being adjusted at halftime. Don’t worry this intrepid group will surely make amazing adjustments at halftime and get THE PLAN on track. They just have to! They were brought to USC, the best and the brightest and the most experienced as a blue blood program would obviously hire.
“THE PLAN” will rise once more! Oh wait, hold up, no it won’t. Kevin O’Neill just staggered up to it drunk and urinated on the letter N and then Andy Enfield let Benny brick a 3 pointer off the A and THE PLAN just toppled over. Someone could pick it back up, but because it was a non contact day when THE PLAN went down, Helton ordered it undergo concussion protocol. THE PLAN is out of commission for the foreseeable. That is if the Usc Title IX hearing doesn’t expel THE PLAN for being alone unsupervised with THE PROCESS.
But I digress, it’s pretty easy to see why our game plans are such a mess on a weekly basis when observing the disorganization and disconnect between THE PLAN as proposed and the actual execution or lack thereof of THE PLAN.
But, I’m sure it will all turn out swimmingly. Like that time back in September of ‘18 when we went to Austin for a weekend...
#itwillbegreat
#THEPLAN2018
#faithfamilyforeplay
#heltonforlifetimeterm
This is a nice little macrocosm view of the dysfunction of the Usc football program and why Usc football the last few years has come out of the gate in games strongly only to degenerate into haphazardness and ultimately chaos resulting in a loss or a near loss.
Consider the start to THE PLAN. It was identified in the Swannogram, the VAST issues with the program and that there would be sweeping changes to address them just like Notre Dame. Essentially signaling, Helton and company were done wanting to be Stanford when they grow up and now wanted to be like the new successful flavor of the month, Notre Dame, when they grow up. They have a new hero to follow. Gag. [I call this the “we gotta watch the tape and clean some things up” phase of THE PLAN.]
Moving on, they came out of the gate after their identification of the issues and resolved to set their jaws and get right after it. Clean up those physical beats and get these widespread changes in motion. And out of the gate they came, just like the team, starting fast, following the game script and letting a handful of assistants go while nailing the top offensive coordinator on the market. Usc was up 14-0 before the opponents knew what hit ‘em. Just like all season.
But then time wore on and THE PLAN started to lose a little steam. All those changes! Being like Notre Dame! Well, chummy chummy hughug Clay got cold feet on changing out dear ol Clancy P and so he got to stay. The DC would not change. And further no changes would be made to the S&C program that has been a relative disaster for years. Oh and that special teams unit that couldn’t seem to ever field more than 10 men for a play over and over? Well maybe another time. Baxter is such a dear dear friend.
So THE PLAN finds itself down at halftime after a fast start. A couple scores along the way with a RB coach hire and a DL coach, but the game slipping away. Clancy staying and Clay’s tenuous existence as head coach has apparently made it hard to hire a DB coach. Several have said “yeah, no thanks.” And THE PLAN finds itself being adjusted at halftime. Don’t worry this intrepid group will surely make amazing adjustments at halftime and get THE PLAN on track. They just have to! They were brought to USC, the best and the brightest and the most experienced as a blue blood program would obviously hire.
“THE PLAN” will rise once more! Oh wait, hold up, no it won’t. Kevin O’Neill just staggered up to it drunk and urinated on the letter N and then Andy Enfield let Benny brick a 3 pointer off the A and THE PLAN just toppled over. Someone could pick it back up, but because it was a non contact day when THE PLAN went down, Helton ordered it undergo concussion protocol. THE PLAN is out of commission for the foreseeable. That is if the Usc Title IX hearing doesn’t expel THE PLAN for being alone unsupervised with THE PROCESS.
But I digress, it’s pretty easy to see why our game plans are such a mess on a weekly basis when observing the disorganization and disconnect between THE PLAN as proposed and the actual execution or lack thereof of THE PLAN.
But, I’m sure it will all turn out swimmingly. Like that time back in September of ‘18 when we went to Austin for a weekend...
#itwillbegreat
#THEPLAN2018
#faithfamilyforeplay
#heltonforlifetimeterm
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