If not Urban Meyer, who will USC want to replace Clay Helton?
By John Buhler
The USC Trojans will probably part ways with Clay Helton at the end of the season. If Urban Meyer doesn’t take the job, then who will lead USC in 2020?
It seems to have run its course. Any level of national relevance that existed with the USC Trojans when Sam Darnold played quarterback for them has dissipated into the ether. Darnold is now in his second year leading the New York Jets, but his alma mater continues to be not relevant in the underwhelming Pac-12.
This means head coach Clay Helton is likely gone at season’s end and it will hopefully be a new dawn for a new day at USC. People love connecting the dots since they were kids and these now adults seem to be doing the same thing by attempting to cherry-pick Helton’s probable successor.
Former Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer looks great on television, but will he be interested in fixing another downtrodden blue-blood by taking the USC gig in 2020? Meyer retired from coaching last year for health reasons, but this isn’t the first time he did that. He retired after the 2010 NCAA season with the Florida Gators before heading two Columbus two years later.
The candidate is out there, but does the candidate want to be a candidate. Let’s say that USC has seen enough out of Helton and wants to move off him this holiday season, but the Trojans’ first choice in Meyer tells them no thanks. What is a poor college football blue-blood to do? It’ll have to move down the list and go after one of these five candidates to fix this decadent football program.