The Press is Going Nuts Part II
by Paragon SC on Sep 24, 2009 11:32 AM PDT
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This one definitely has me shaking my head...
Jeremy Bates: Should he stay or should he go?
September 24th, 2009, 8:45 am · posted by Brian Perdue
Scott Reid wrote a feature on USC assistant coach Jeremy Bates, whose offensive play calling has come under criticism in the wake of Saturday’s 16-13 loss at Washington.
What do you think?
NO!!
Jeez, people need to take a deep breath. You have a freshman QB and QB who we thought was going to be a suitable replacement and it hasn't worked out the way some had hoped.
It will be fine...Do I wish Bates was a little more comfortable with the college game? Yes, but he is not a failure...
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Wet hen in chief
Is this some sort of joke? This is the sort of hysterical overreaction you see in the sports pages of English tabloids about the national soccer team. Three games in and we’re sayid heads must roll?
Pardon my Dutch but give me a motherfucking break. You don’t even have to be a football expert to see what a cosmically stupid reaction that is. There are rare ocasions as a manager where you have to cut someone loose early on, but just pulling the plug is the sort of suggestion made by someone who couldn’t manage a piss up in a brewery.
It’s not that I’m jumping around at the prospects for this season but instead of waving my hands around and running in a circle like a hysterical shrieking 12 year old I’m going to watch and see if the coaches can do what they’re paid for and the players are as committed as they claim.
Jesus and the baby orphans, what manner of panic is this?
by DC Trojan on Sep 24, 2009 1:59 PM PDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs
Where is Morton?
I’m curious as to why Bates is taking all of the criticism and responding to it. Where is offensive coordinator, John Morton? And, how in the heck does the process work between coordinator Morton, play caller Bates, and head cheese PC? You would think that Morton has the biggest influence on designing the weekly package and making game-time adjustments with Morton focused on the situation and play calling during the game. Yet, our body of work has PC written all over it – conservative play, poor game management on the offense, etc. I think that Bates and Morton are just PC’s offensive assistants. Two young, relatively new assistants in a weird working relationship with PC ultimately calling all the shots. Not hiring an experienced coordinator to replace Chow continues to be PC’s, and our, achilles heel.
by DFWTrojan on Sep 24, 2009 2:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Hey Tex!
Are you still watching The Jay Leno Show? Apparently we were right about the thing being a real mess. To put it mildly, it REALLY REALLY SUCKS!
LA Examiner
by Locoweed 1.1 on Sep 24, 2009 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Replicating Kiffin and Sarkisian in other words?
by DC Trojan on Sep 24, 2009 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't think they had an anointed "playcaller"
I still think PC is micro-managing the offense. I’d love to hear Bates say, “That was Pete’s call”.
by DFWTrojan on Sep 24, 2009 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is about when I check out for the season
Although DFW will be thrilled, no doubt, but this is time — when panic ensues and retribution is demanded — that my involvement other that watching the game and reading the LAT’s rather vanilla day-after write-up, comes to an end.
It’s early this year. Last year I think I began tuned out after the Cal game. Two years ago it was Oregon.
Unlike like a lot of fans, it seems, I actually enjoy football for what it is, a game. All this panic and accusations and QB controversies and champs vs. chumps B.S. and trolling, when the media coverage of USC becomes a bigger story than the team itself, this is when I tune out.
And that means not participating much anywhere, not here or the Wolfbag’s blog, nor reading the blogs as frequently. Nothing personal regarding anyone on this site, I just want to enjoy USC football, and all the hand wringing and “season is over” hysteria makes it impossible for me to enjoy it. Unfortunately, to read and participate on the blogs and fan boards regularly requires that I become versed in all that I hate about sports just to know what everyone is yelling about. It just makes it all a huge drag to me.
I’ll check in from time to time, and maybe, after the season but before a bowl game, I’ll give my two cents on this year’s model.
Anyway, flame away. I won’t responding, so have at it!
by Zoulou on Sep 24, 2009 3:01 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
No flaming form this angle. It might be a little hard to tell from my incoherent rant above, but this “story” has morphed into the sort of hysteria that I find objectionable in reading about my other preferred sport. You’d think that lives were on the line or something.
A lot of what I’ve seen this week reminds me of something that my wife’s stepmother says to my father-in-law when he gets bent out of shape about Michigan football (he’s not an alum, but years of teaching there have made him partial): don’t put too much of your happiness in the hands of a bunch of 19 year olds.
Like you Zoulou, my main interest is in watching the game. To the extent that I’ve been jumping in over this nonsense, it’s because I can’t really help myself. It’s a bad habit.
by DC Trojan on Sep 24, 2009 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's a fantastic cartoon!
No “f-”ing WAY? DC, my man. . . .I’m totally picking-up what you’re putting down. I’ve been thwarted. By DC.
"As for being a Raiders fan, I wouldn't wish that fucking shit on anybody." [the venerable OTS at Roll Bama Roll}
by BixBeiderbecke on Sep 25, 2009 1:01 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
www.xkcd.com
It is non-stop hilarity so far as I am concerned.
by DC Trojan on Sep 25, 2009 7:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't think anyone here thinks the season is over here
I can’t comment elsewhere.
I post these things so that people who actually have their wits about them can see just how crazy the rest of these people are.
I actually know very little about this game I just enjoy watching it…but that doesn’t mean I don’t have some questions…
I think it is safe to say that we don’t get too crazy here
by Paragon SC on Sep 24, 2009 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The King is dead, long live the King!
by Locoweed 1.1 on Sep 24, 2009 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
LOL!
I couldn’t resist.
I’ll be there with Sam Smith, Charles Oakley and Daniel Hackett.
Lil’ Romeo is entertaining.
by Zoulou on Sep 24, 2009 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
FTW Desmo, got ya!
BTW, are we cellar meat this year under KO? I think we can get 15.
by Locoweed 1.1 on Sep 24, 2009 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I here these dudes are coming too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9R4t_Nwy5E
Paul D. Kelley
It's not about doing your job, But can you do it with a TENNIS BALL in your throat!
by so.cal.native1952 on Sep 25, 2009 7:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This puts it all in perspective, thx Adolph
worth the watch
by DFWTrojan on Sep 24, 2009 9:57 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
“if Pete Carroll is fired…USC will just end up with some asshat like Norv Turner or Dave Wandstat”
I fear that more this any Ayatollah or dirty bomb!
by Locoweed 1.1 on Sep 24, 2009 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
1) The BN List of Doom just got another addition
2) Best quote:
“This is nothing, you should have seen him during the Freedom Bowl back in ’92”
I was tempted to invade Poland after sitting through that fucking game in the stands.
by DC Trojan on Sep 24, 2009 10:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
We were welcoming our first baby and endured that torture on television. I would have enlisted with you on the spot brother!
by Locoweed 1.1 on Sep 24, 2009 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’d just spent a shitty first semester in grad school in Rhode Island and I thought, well at least I can watch the team play in bowl game while I’m back in southern California for the holidays. That was about the bloody limit for the final quarter of that year.
by DC Trojan on Sep 24, 2009 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s a long way to Tipperary,
It’s a long way to go.
It’s a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It’s a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart’s right there.
by Locoweed 1.1 on Sep 24, 2009 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ireland… the Irish are welcome to it. And should have been a long time before they were.
by DC Trojan on Sep 24, 2009 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The 90"s
Indeed we suffered like the Ulster Irish
by Locoweed 1.1 on Sep 24, 2009 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The only Irish in my background were all Protestant Ulstermen – the only people likely to be more anti-Catholic than my western Scotland forebears. It’s quite the heritage!
by DC Trojan on Sep 25, 2009 7:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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