What's the Deal with the USC Attraction Factor?!?

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WestTennesseeVol said:
Not sure how your individual travel experience dictates the quality of the USC job, but I’m sure Lincoln Riley took it into account
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You acted like LA is some Mecca for football when in reality living in California sucks and the Pac12 is a bad place for football. For several reasons
 
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IluvdoubleD's said:
creates smart phones, data mining, data storage, digital coins, and then has the BALLS, the unmitigated Gall to claim to be environmentally aware and cautious, and blame the rest of the world for global warming. Creates the internet and then claims foul because of the security and personal surveillance THEY, themselves create. Enjoy your power outages cali, and stop ****ing up Texas. Drown in your own waters.
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So, how do you feel about California?
 
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excuse me, "europa report". also the movie "moon", staring david bowies relative. There has been a bout of quality sci fi the past few years. I watched prometheus for the fist time the other day (prolog to aliens) excellent.
 
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mad4vols said:
Why isn’t the UCLA job on par with USC?
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USC was a traditional power way back when. Honestly from the time I was really old enough to understand CFB (mid-80's roughly) until the Pete Carroll era they sucked. Then they controlled the world for a decade there, and have been back to sucking for 15 years. Living on a past name.

I never really understood the fascination with USC in terms of the academic side. It's a decent school and all and if I was going to film school, it would be at the top of my list. Otherwise, it has always seemed kind of meh to me. Never was really impressed with their graduates I have encountered. Trust fund kids born standing on third base and thought they hit a triple.

UCLA focuses more on STEM as a university. The fact that they play their home games in the Rose Bowl, which on your average Saturday traffic takes roughly 90 minutes to get to from Brentwood doesn't really help matters. Destroys the student atmosphere and makes tailgating a pain. The Pawley Pavilion on campus or whatever they have renamed it to these days is a great place to take in a basketball game though.

Both USC and UCLA fans are more of a wine and cheese crowd which is completely different than what we are accustomed to in the South.
 
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stolitonic said:
USC was a traditional power way back when. Honestly from the time I was really old enough to understand CFB (mid-80's roughly) until the Pete Carroll era they sucked. Then they controlled the world for a decade there, and have been back to sucking for 15 years. Living on a past name.

I never really understood the fascination with USC in terms of the academic side. It's a decent school and all and if I was going to film school, it would be at the top of my list. Otherwise, it has always seemed kind of meh to me. Never was really impressed with their graduates I have encountered. Trust fund kids born standing on third base and thought they hit a triple.

UCLA focuses more on STEM as a university. The fact that they play their home games in the Rose Bowl, which on your average Saturday traffic takes roughly 90 minutes to get to from Brentwood doesn't really help matters. Destroys the student atmosphere and makes tailgating a pain. The Pawley Pavilion on campus or whatever they have renamed it to these days is a great place to take in a basketball game though.

Both USC and UCLA fans are more of a wine and cheese crowd which is completely different than what we are accustomed to in the South.
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Great explanation
 
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hog88 said:
There is no such thing as a "crappy" D1 head coaching job.
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Ridiculous take. Washington St. UNLV, Rice, UTEP, Vanderbilt, Arkansas St, UConn, New Mexico St, UMass, Kansas, La Monroe, Rutgers, Kent St, Oregon St, Temple, Memphis, North Texas, etc etc
 
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unless you can win a game against people who have experience they are all bad jobs. You will fail and be ostracized. You are not special.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Ridiculous take. Washington St. UNLV, Rice, UTEP, Vanderbilt, Arkansas St, UConn, New Mexico St, UMass, Kansas, La Monroe, Rutgers, Kent St, Oregon St, Temple, Memphis, North Texas, etc etc
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The lowest paid D1 HC makes 1/2 mil per to coach football, so I say again. There is no such thing as a "crappy" head coaching job in D1 football.
 
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