If the USC job is available I think he will not only be considered but be the leading candidate. Especially if O continues to do well at LSU. The guy who posted above about what his USC friends have told him is what I have always heard. Haden is not at USC anymore.

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Ed Orgeron, USC’s interim football coach, had fans, alumni and players in his corner. But USC athletic director Pat Haden wasn’t impressed.

Lane Kiffin couldn’t win with the same players Orgeron won during an amazing run with the Trojans.

Haden will need to explain this one

Kessler, former USC Hesiman winner Marcus Allen and other alumni were on a futile campaign in backing Orgeron. Haden never was going to hire him

https://www.dailynews.com/sports/20131202/from-coach-o-to-oh-no-usc-spurns-ed-orgeron-for-steve-sarkisian

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USC's hiring of Washington's Steve Sarkisian as its new head football coach seems to have had the exact opposite effect of the effect hirings are supposed to have.

To be fair, the glum mood seems not to come from any pre-existing feelings about Sarkisian, but rather the resignation of Ed Orgeron, the wildly popular interim coach

This shite was sad:

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How hard will Sark's job be? Players openly crying after Orgeron's departure. #USC

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#USC players were instructed to not comment on coaching situation. Some left meeting with visible tear marks

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It got worse when the players got to Twitter:

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Three players on the team literally likened the move to the death of a father. Let that settle in. Three players on the team literally likened the move to the death of a father.

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@_mcmxcv__ Feel like I lost my dad again........

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@_mcmxcv__ If you think Coach O was just a football coach then your missing 99% of what he was to us!!

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@somavainuku Coach O was more then a coach, he was a father to us, and treated us like we were his own sons... Nothing but good things coming his way!

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Note: this is not including the semi-breakdown suffered by an LA Daily News reporter

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As he was leaving Dan Weber asked Pat Haden "How's it going" and he responded, "I've had better days." #USC

THAT'S THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR. THAT'S THE GUY WHO MADE THE HIRE.

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/12/3/5168222/steve-sarkisian-usc-coaching-search-ed-orgeron-reaction

This post was edited on 10/29/16 at 8:52 pm