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wow. based on those highlight tapes, I am not impressed at all. He looks like a division 2 player, not a pac-12 calibur point guard. fire coach KO. Please.

Fixed it for you. The majority of players KO has offered or brought in aren't PAC12 quality players. Most are barely mid-major guys.

The longer KO stays... the longer SC bball stays in the Pac 12 cellar.

Some of these highlights... I kid you not... look like my nephew's JV games. Good grief.

Still looks like a very low level player and his offer list says that much. I have seen better players and more competition at the Lyon Center.

Dukes is being targeted by Quinnipiac, Towson, Vermont, St. Peter’s, Robert Morris, Boston University, St. Bonaventure, Florida Atlantic, Richmond, Cornell and others with MAAC, A-10, NEC and America East offers.

Thats a BS excuse. KO has been the same at every coaching stop. Poor to average seasons with middling recruiting. USC is no different.

One of the big problems is that the early recruiting signing period take place BEFORE the season. There's nothing KO can do between now and then to change his image. IF the Trojans have a very good season it's then more likely that USC could sign more high profile players AFTER the season.

He inherited a much better team and talent then any of the players he brought in. The mess is now not the team he inherited.

He also ran off Leonard Washington, couldn't make it work with Bryce Jones (he may be a headcase, but I have a hard time thinking it was all on the kid, and not at all on KO), and essentially just kicked Alexis Moore, Garrett Jackson, Evan Smith and Curtis Washington off the team since we needed their rides to bring in his transfers. He complains about the recruiting class that bailed when Floyd got axed, but he doesn't ever point out that had Floyd not been axed, Kevin O'Neill would have never had the opportunity to coach at USC. His teams have underachieved (this last team was decimated by injuries by the end of the season, but what about the rest of the year?), and he can't recruit high school talent. Think I'm wrong about that? He's planning on starting Jio Fontan, JT Terrell, Ari Stewart, Aaron Fuller, and Dewayne Dedmon. Fontan is a transfer from that basketball powerhouse Fordham, JT Terrell got run from Wake Forest for drunk driving, Ari Stewart left Wake Forest, and fair or unfair, the fact that he was recently arrested for possession raises character questions, Aaron Fuller is a transfer from Iowa who's an extremely undersized 4, and despite KO saying that we'd be lucky to have Dedmon for more than one year because he was a sure fire lottery pick, he looked absolutely lost when he was playing for us. I hope they win games, but god why can't we get guys from high schools who want to be Trojans?

We love Kiffin's prep not hype slogan, and KO is the absolute opposite, hype not prep. Mike Gerrity was billed to be a savior for us, and he was a solid player but nothing special. Then Jio was going to be the guy, and he was solid, but not a big difference maker. Then Dewayne Dedmon was a sure fire lottery pick, and yeah....he struggled mightily when he played. And when it comes to the prep part of the equation? Well the night before his biggest game in his SC career, against UofA in the Pac10 Tourney a couple seasons ago, he decided he'd scouted Zona as much as he possibly could have, and decided his time would be best spent getting bombed at the Marriott and picking fights with Arizona boosters. Yeah, KO isn't the problem, it's what he inherited....ok.

can someone explain to me why KO loves undersized guards?