Norm Chow to fUCLA?

Rumors on the Internets are that he's been offered the job. That'd certainly be interesting.

P.S. The Daily Breeze also reports that Chow is a top candidate. And late last month, Conquest Chronicles quoted ESPN's Bruce Feldman as reporting that, according to a source, "Chow really wants the job." We shall see.

Comments

[David K.]

Traitor!! Hang him by the yard harm! Draw and quarter him!

Dang it i really wanted them to hire Neu-weasel and really drive their program into the ground, but if Chow gets it its well deserved.

[Jay Johnson]

He's certainly done a lot with the high powered Tennessee Titans offense.

I kid. I kinda like the guy. Maybe he's just gotten used to powder blue.

[Sandy Underpants]

This is a dark day for all Trojans. I thought he sold us out when he took the big dollars of the NFL, but this is unforgiveable.

[Andrew]

I'm all for it. Should make for a fun next few years.

[AO]

If Norm wants the job, I'll be glad if UCLA takes him. The guy is a great OC, but he doesn't have the charisma to be a HC.

[texasyank]

Considering all the variables, such a job would be a lateral move at best.

Chow is brilliant. It is significant that Carroll hasn't won a National Championship without Chow (put Chow as OC in the Vince Bowl, and SC would have won by three touchdowns).

But Chow has spent the last half-dozen seasons lucky in his quarterbacks: Palmer, Leinart, Vince. Without them?

Charlie Weis, anyone?

[Andrew]

(put Chow as OC in the Vince Bowl, and SC would have won by three touchdowns).

So if Chow was there, Reggie wouldn't have made that bonehead lateral to Brad Walker that fell for a fumble? The refs would have ruled VY's knee down? Suddenly our freshman linebackers and walk-on DBs would have been able to tackle VY? Maybe -- maybe -- Chow doesn't call LenDale off left tackle on 4th and 2 and we get a first down some other way and run off the clock. Either way, your hypothesis is laughable.

[Texasyank]

I was thinking specifically of the two fourth and shorts (you mentioned one); the first (in the first half) seemed to go off in a maelstrom, with Carroll even with Leinart at the twenty, screaming for a time-out, and nobody on the same page.

I'm also thinking of the interception as the Longhorn DB fell out of bounds in the end zone for a touchback. And yes, Lendale behind tackle, a play Mack saw coming up the 405.

These were the specifics: drives that stalled due to poor play-calling. Beyond that, in general, there was the whiff of an offense that seemed to know the notes but not the music. They had barely escaped against Arizona State, barely escaped against Notre Dame, and a kind of dysfunction descended too often over an offense with so many weapons.

Now, obviously Bush's pitch was awful. And Chow had no control over a defense decimated by the loss of Tatupu, Cody, Patterson, et al. But the pressures on the young defense was made worse by so many offensive blunders--not a few, I submit, you could lay at the feet of the play-calling.

What is true in politics (something Hillary, Mitt and Rudy are about to discover) is true for football: everything changes everything.

It isn't my hypothesis, as it can never be tested. It's my notion. You disagree, Andrew. Fair enough.

[Sandy Underpants]

SC should've easily won that game by 3 touchdowns as it was called on that day. Reggie gave away a TD that would've put SC up 17-0 in the first quarter. The rest of that game was bogus calls by the refs that kept the horns alive. As Leinart said, USC was the better team.

[kcatnd]

I still don't understand why Bush was on the sideline for that 4th and 2 play. At least put him in the game to distract from White.

"As Leinart said, USC was the better team."
Bad sportsmanship.