Blake Eastman

Gotta love tampering and unlimited NIL funds!

Convinced that Lincoln thinks he gets to pocket all unused NIL funds.

@FightOnRusty Brutal timing.

USC OL Coach Zach Hanson protege at Tulsa will make his 2nd Pro Bowl appearance ✌🏻 Hanson + OL = 📈📈 #FightOn✌🏻

@TrojanFBx We don’t have a GM. No GM wants to work with Lincoln. Fairly straightforward.

Just saying I would have matched whatever Pregnon was offered. Whatever it took to keep him on the squad. Good on Pregnon for looking out for his and his family. Respect. Now, we gotta look up higher. Why didn’t we open up that check book? Or make his accommodations for him to stay? Or it could be something personal we just don’t know about. Whatever it is, I’m proud of Emmanuel Pregnon. I thank him for his services here at USC. And wish him the best of luck. He’s going to ball and go 1st round. Fight On!✌️

One step closer to the end of Lincoln Riley.

Main concern going into the @Mariners season - what can fans realistically do to initiate a change in Ownership?

@AriWasserman Honest question from a USC fan - would you pull the plug now?

What an idiot.

Lincoln Riley closes in recruiting about as well as he closes in actual games.

Pathetic. Pathetic team. Pathetic coach. Pathetic program

Fire Lincoln after the Notre Dame game and just move on.

It’s time for Lincoln to hand over play calling. Focus on recruiting and roster building. Get out of your play sheet.

I'm sorry, but there needs to be way more creativity in the red zone. Lincoln Riley is Mr. Offense. A lot of these plays have had no chance.

USC should be winning this game handily, and they're not even playing particularly well. Now they're in a position where one big play by UCLA could win the game for them. And that's on Lincoln Riley. Trojans should be up 21-3 right now.

@am_greos @JimboMeiners Yeah, but to be fair he actually shows up and puts in the effort. I think the NIL thing has been a convenient scapegoat for recruiting. There is hardly any guys with SEC ties on the staff that grinds on the trail.

@Beastman_Crunch @JimboMeiners Right, going back to where the gap lies. It's the surrounding infra. I'll gtee you Lanning isn't in charge of building that recruiting machine. He shows up and does the speech.

USC hired Sark and Lane about 10 years too early. Lincoln is not built for the modern era of college football.

@am_greos @JimboMeiners Would agree but at this point we’re basically just praying that recruiting rules / structure change so that we’re no longer at a massive disadvantage from a recruiting standpoint, which who knows when that happens. At this point, I would just go all in on the transfer portal

@Beastman_Crunch @JimboMeiners There are very very few guys you'd rather have as X/Os in-game strategist. Think the more the game professionalizes, he will be even better suited.

@am_greos @JimboMeiners Yeah, which is such a bummer. Maybe he walks away if this trend continues? That’s about my only hope at this point LOL

@JimboMeiners @Beastman_Crunch End of the day, dont see any point in stressing about Lincoln. He's not going anywhere unless someone's got $80m in a spare pocket. And if they do, I can point them to some better uses of it.

@am_greos @JimboMeiners I just don't see him figuring out recruiting. I think we have to go all-in on the transfer portal. We're about to go two classes in a row where we haven't signed a QB from the high school ranks, and that should be the one position he can dominant in recruiting.

@JimboMeiners @Beastman_Crunch From where I sit, Lincoln has shown willingness and ability to address the areas he has direct control over and rang the alarm bells to people in power elsewhere on where we are clearly behind. With patience I think he figures out the little details that have tripped us up

@am_greos Yeah my point is more so Lane and Sark would be absolutely perfect fits right now at SC. We were in bad shape from an admin standpoint when we made those original hires. Lane also got a pretty raw deal having to inherit the sanctions

@Beastman_Crunch or an indictment of the support system around the program? (and lack of patience with Lane amid the sanctions)

@OriginalRichSC Year 3 and is 0-4 on the road. Just lost to a team with a new coaching staff and lost 21 of 22 starters. He makes 10 million dollars a year and doesn’t know how to build a program. It’s not getting better

All 5 of USC's losses this season came down to the final possession. That is actually hard to do. I'm not going to pile on at this point, the players and coaches are trying their best and undoubtedly feel worse than anyone. They need to stick together and tune out the noise.