First off, USC should not be ranked in the top 25 let alone top 10. My guess is they fall to 11th/12th. They will be heavily penalized for losing to an unranked team as they should be.
USC's coaching staff took a major turn for the worse following the 2004 NC season.
Pete pushed Chow out so he could promote his jerkoff godson Lane Kiffin, a guy NOBODY liked. And Sark as Co-OC though Kiffin was the main guy.
Pete also wanted control of the offense, he hated hearing things like "The Norm Chow offense" and even stated he would never have a coach like Norm Chow on his staff ever again. His ego just got too big after winning 2 straight NC and the 13-0 season. Pete is 3-9 in his only time as an OC. He's a defensive guy, his NFL conservative mentality on offense is **** in the college game. His little lackeys Sarkiffin (that's what we called them) clearly in over their heads and a huge step down from Chow who NEVER would've left if Pete hadn't pushed him out.
Tim Davis, our great OL coach, left because he would NEVER work under that jerk Lane Kiffin, like I said no one could stand that twerp. Davis left for the Miami Dolphins OL job.
Ed Orgeron left for the Ole Miss head coaching job. Nothing you can do about that one, he took a head job, fine. But replace him with someone competent. Our DL coach now is a bumbling idiot David Watson whose experience is grad assistant at Michigan St and 2 years of coaching at South Minnesota Tech U or some place no one's heard of. Typical Pete Carroll hire.
Sark as OC, he can't handle the QB/OC together, they won't admit it but our QB coach is Yogi Roth, he's technically a GA but he's our de facto QB coach. Only reason he's on staff is because he's best friends and former teammate at Pitt of Pete's idiot son, the TE coach Brennan Carroll, but we call him Spaulding (from Caddyshack, lol) Yogi is our QB coach, his coaching experience consists of being USC's video assistant in 2005 and 2006, yes our QB coach is the former video assistant, that's what his resume says. Yogi is game day QB coach. See his resume here...
Yogi Roth, USC QB coach
also if you'd like to see our QB coach during game day and if you'd like a good laugh.....see the youtube clip of Yogi 'mic'd up' The realist Trojan fans have had a lot of fun with this ever since it showed up on youtube...
Yogi in action
Without a real OC, USC will not be able to have a championship offense, the defense constantly plays a soft zone d when they have the athletes to do so much more. We have not found a suitable replacement for Ed Orgeron either.
The main thing is our piss poor OC and lack of QB coach.
I urge you guys to at least check out Yogi's resume.
Hell check out all of our coaches resumes, it's all on USC's official website. Most of them have never coached anywhere except at USC under Pete Carroll.