Twitter reacts to Clay Helton becoming USC head coach

Clay Helton was officially named the next head coach of the USC Trojans football team and here’s what Twitter had to say about the internal promotion.

The USC Trojans made it public Monday morning that they will remove the interim tag on head coach Clay Helton, as he will be the official replacement of the fired Steve Sarkisian at USC.

USC fans took to Twitter with their initial reactions to the promotion of Clay Helton to permanent head coach. Some feel that this was a logical hire while some question why USC pull the trigger so fast.

USC’s decision to promote from within had some NFL implications with regards to Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly, per NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport.

Perhaps this means that USC wanted Chip Kelly but Kelly wanted to stay in Philadelphia. USC was one of the biggest head coaching vacancies in college football. Now that Clay Helton has been given the title of permanent head coach, that means that the head coaching gig at the University of Georgia is now the most appealing following Sunday’s firing of head coach Mark Richt. Overall, most USC fans seem like they are in favor of the Clay Helton promotion. He seems like a man of character that the USC Trojans have not had from a permanent head coach in a long time. Athletic director Pat Haden also said that this hire was not contingent on Helton beating arch rival UCLA to win the Pac-12 South. From losing their head coach mid-season to winning the ultra competitive Pac-12 South, congratulations to Clay Helton and his family and best of luck versus Stanford in the Pac-12 Championship in Santa Clara this weekend.