USC to retain Helton

I know USC fans are thrilled at this news

It's a stay of execution.

Sad. I don't know what they're doing.

CFB is better when USC is relevant. They're not getting back to that anytime soon with the 76th rated recruiting class. I don't even know how that pathetic of a recruiting class is possible with their prestige.

I like getting Cali recruits in the meantime though.

Urban must really be retired this time

That'd be a blessing in disguise for them. That way they'd be forced to move on.

What does Helton bring to their program at this point if recruiting has fallen off this much?

This is awesome news and shows that usc has a moral backbone

Helton is maximizing output with what he has to work with

Next year he will take them to playoff

Shoot, if that's true Ole Miss, Arkansas, and Mizzou should all take a look at him

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When you imply the dude is toast all year with no plan for what's ahead that will get you the 76th recruiting class.

If they don't have a line on someone for next year that they are extremely confident about (and I highly doubt that is even possible to plan for) this is just asking for trouble either way the season goes.

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I think just putting him out of his misery and moving on is the better move for both sides. The damage has been done. At this point, they're just prolonging it by keeping him. Problem is they're delusional about who they can get at this point.

They should be looking at Fleck, Whittingham, Rhule, coaches like that.

USC is a historically elite program. This makes no sense, they can do so much better.

This reeks of monetary issues. Can’t remember who’s show I heard it on because it was at night and I’m usually not listening to the radio at night but someone was talking about the USC situation a couple months back and said money could be an issue. Not money to hire a head coach but that it was getting harder and harder to get assistants and these newer shadow staff types to go there. The living situations for assistants and their families on their size salaries isn’t what it was just 10 years ago and this guy was saying that it’s a real problem for all the Cali football programs. Don’t know if he was right but it’s hard to find any other logic behind USC keeping Helton.