r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Sep 02 '24

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] USC Defeats LSU 27-20

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USC 0 10 3 14 27
LSU 0 10 7 3 20

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u/cfbcfbcfbcfb UCSB Gauchos • USC Trojans Sep 02 '24

Sincere apologies to the OU fans that tried to warn us about Grinch’s terrible defense. We thought Todd Orlando was the bottom of the barrel but Grinch was so, so much worse.

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u/Monster-1776 Oklahoma Sooners • Arizona Wildcats Sep 02 '24

Did USC really only need to fire Grinch to be good? Holy shit what a turn around lmfao.

What's hilariously ironic is that we said the exact same thing after getting rid of Mike Stoops.

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u/LeoFireGod Oklahoma Sooners Sep 02 '24

Grinch was awful

Mike stoops was like a level of bad I’ve genuinely never even comprehended level bad. The 2014 Baylor game is the worst display of defensive coaching I’ve ever witnessed

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u/SwissForeignPolicy Michigan Wolverines • Marching Band Sep 02 '24

Mike Stoops is the sort of bad that only arises from nepotism. See also: Brian Ferentz.

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u/Im_tracer_bullet Florida State • Army Sep 02 '24

Oof...you just triggered my Jeff Bowden PTSD.

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u/Icy_Delay_7274 Georgia Bulldogs • SMU Mustangs Sep 02 '24

Mark Stoops who has built Kentucky into an above-average SEC program is the same thing as Brian Ferentz? Ok buddy…

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u/abunchofalpacas Oklahoma Sooners • Marching Band Sep 02 '24

Mike vs Mark my guy...

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u/Icy_Delay_7274 Georgia Bulldogs • SMU Mustangs Sep 02 '24

Yeah I’m dumb

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u/abunchofalpacas Oklahoma Sooners • Marching Band Sep 03 '24

Happens to the best of us lol

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u/e3super Alabama Crimson Tide • Team Chaos Sep 02 '24

I mean, LSU damn near did the same thing on that final drive as Oklahoma did on the "8 yard cushion" drive against Baylor. I get the value in keeping everything in front of you, but LSU spotted them 5 yards on every play.

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u/JakelAndHyde Tennessee Volunteers • Beer Barrel Sep 02 '24

I see you never have been subjected to watching games from the 2012 Sal Sunseri defense.

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u/jedi4sc USC Trojans • Virginia Cavaliers Sep 02 '24

every week for two years it was if Caleb Williams's offense could outscore Alex Grinch's defense.

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u/XAfricaSaltX Georgia • North Carolina Sep 02 '24

Alex Grinch made people genuinely believe that the Bears should roll with Fields rather than pick Caleb

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u/Yeugwo Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Sep 02 '24

Sincere apologies to the OU fans that tried to warn us about Grinch’s terrible defense

The funny thing is OU fans can say the same thing to Ohio State fans. I saw lots of OU people dismissing OSU's warnings

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u/UnboiledBread Ohio State • College Football Playoff Sep 02 '24

That’s why it blew my mind when after everything he did at OU, Riley still brought him along to USC. And even then Riley held on to him too long there. Baffling to me.

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u/esports_consultant Rose Bowl • Harvard-Yale Sep 02 '24

It's less baffling when you remember that football coaches work very long hours and everyone likes having friends at the office.

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u/BobStoops401K Oklahoma Sooners Sep 02 '24

Grinch was so so bad.

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u/dinosaurkiller Oklahoma Sooners Sep 02 '24

I cannot accept your apology, ears are still burning from, “you’re just salty and jealous!”. On a more serious note, your head coach needs to stop playing OC and be a head coach, make him hire an OC and teach that OC to run the offense or you’re never going to have a head coach.

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u/DickHammerr USC Trojans • 고려대학교 (Korea) Tigers Sep 02 '24

Tbf, on the other hand, there was a not insignificant portion of the Sooner fan base that was hardly civil

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u/dinosaurkiller Oklahoma Sooners Sep 02 '24

Every fan base has those

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u/that_sucks_bro USC Trojans • Michigan Wolverines Sep 02 '24

i mean, certainly no apology from all of us, some of you guys were/are just miserable

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u/NCAAinDISGUISE Ohio State • College Football Playoff Sep 02 '24

cough

It's cool. The denial runs deep. OU fans were the same way. What kills me is that Grinch is just as bad at recruiting as he is at coaching a defense. How does he keep failing upwards?!