USC has been running on fumes with a Rose Bowl win and a Pac 12 title under Clay but it is inescapable that the recruiting over the last few years is going to plunge them to the middle of the bottom
The next coach is fucked. They will teach this in school on how not to run a program
SC is never fucked
Next coach comes in and sells opportunity, early playing time, and the chance to take SC back to the heights it should be at
The problem with that is a team will never be good pretty much exclusively depending on true freshmen. These shitty recruiting classes definitely will be a set back for a new coach. That said, it’s only really been this year. If you added McCoy and Steele to last year’s class, it’s a highly ranked one.
Didn’t say back in Year 1
Said that a new coach can come in and sell opportunity and playing time
That leads to huge recruiting classes at a place like USC
Any new coach that brings excitement will have a huge first class at USC. Even a bad coach.