November 17, 2013

After a long week, there was no Super Play on Saturday. We apologize to the zero people who were impacted by its exclusion from their weekend routine. Last Sunday, we offered up more fade material, missing with the Bears. The lost dropped our record to 7-11 for the year. 

A couple thoughts before the Super Play, which is a guaranteed winner, our Five-Star, AAA-rated Play of the Year...

The national media has its tongue down Ed Orgeron's throat this morning, with slew of columns (here and here, for instance) circulating  suggesting that USC athletic director Pat Haden should take the interim tag off 'Coach O' and make him the permanent head coach of the Trojans moving forward. 

That would be ridiculous. 

Sure, Orgeron has injected new life into the program after taking over for Lane Kiffin in late September, since leading the Trojans to a 5-1 record and into the thick of the Pac-12 South race. And by all accounts, Oregeron is a wonderfully engaging guy and a dynamic recruiter with an infectious personality -- all attributes that any athletic director should be looking for in a potential head coach.   

But as was pointed out on Twitter by Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times last night, this isn't exactly an underdog coming together as one and overcoming enormous odds to achieve an impossible dream. This is a roster full of five-star recruits and NFL prospects finally accomplishing the bare minimum of what they should have been doing in the first place.

And while Orgeron has been cathartic for USC players and fans after the Kiffin clusterfuck, there's no way Haden can give him the keys to the Trojans full-time. 

USC is basically a multi-million dollar corporation, and its next CEO must have an established track record of successfully managing large enterprises. Given his 10-25 record at Ole Miss, his only other stint as a head coach, it's impossible to say that Orgeron is that guy...

Condolences if you had the Bulldogs +3.5. Incidentally, Gary Danielson of CBS suggested afterward that it was hard to fault the Georgia defensive backs who tried to make a play on the ball rather than knocking it down -- as they are no doubt taught -- saying their instinct took over. 

Absolutely not. 

What is practice or film session, if not an every-day effort by coaches to tone down and harness the natural instincts of each individual player in order to successfully integrate them into a system that seeks the betterment of the overall team. It's not hard. Knock the fucking ball down...

Super Play 

Jags +9 

*NO CARSON PALMER QUARTERBACKED TEAM SHOULD BE FAVORED BY MORE THAN A TOUCHDOWN ON THE ROAD, EVER.