USC football fans ask Santa for Clay Helton to be fired for Christmas
By John Buhler
The only thing that will make USC football fans happy is if Clay Helton gets fired for Christmas.
USC football fans have been through enough the last decade and want head coach Clay Helton fired after the Trojans fell to Oregon in the Pac-12 Championship Game.
The No. 13 Trojans were 5-0 and had the slightest of hopes of making the College Football Playoff for the first time. Too bad they lost by seven points at home to a team that could not even win its own division. Oregon did not even throw for 200 yards and upset USC on Friday and Trojans fans unleashed their frustration on Twitter.
USC fans want no presents for Christmas this year other than Helton being fired
Friday night illustrated Oregon is still the class of the Pac-12 and USC is still trying to get over that great big hill of hope.
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I’m honestly not sure what’s harder to watch, a Clay Helton coaching job or an Anthony Lynn coaching job.
— Boomer Kingsley (@therealmishh) December 19, 2020
No discipline, terrible execution, complete underperformance, no adjustments. Another staple game from Clay Helton. I can not believe he is signed through 2023 and is going to command a $15 million+ buyout STILL. The damage this is doing to the USC Football program nationally...
— BAlbert (@hermthegerm13) December 19, 2020
Fire Clay Helton son, that’s unacceptable
— El Guapo (@OliJawn) December 19, 2020
If this were a normal college football season, Oregon would have been the easy favorite to win the Pac-12. Unfortunately for USC, the Ducks are not going away any time soon under head coach Mario Cristobal. He has this thing humming.
Clay Helton is hustling us and whoever defends him is gullible.
— Rob Knox (@robknox_) December 19, 2020
We (USC) are who they thought we are under Clay Helton #Pac12FCG pic.twitter.com/lcVHoZItDr
— Oppa Papa (@OppaPappa07) December 19, 2020
"We're judged on Championships here" - Clay Helton
— Chris Bleck (@chrisbleck) December 19, 2020
Good. SC go hire Urban Meyer.
When I die I want Clay Helton to lower me into my grave so he can let me down one last time. #Pac12FCG | #USC
— Dustin Brewer (@dstnbrwr) December 19, 2020
Helton’s buyout may make him immune to being fired, but if the right USC booster wants to cough of eight figures and give their university a football team it can be proud of again, then I guess you cannot put a price on relative happiness, now can you?
Mike Bohn won't/can't fire Clay Helton. Remember that when you read the offseason propaganda about much things have improved for 2021 #USC
— InsideUSC (@InsideUSC) December 19, 2020
fire clay helton
— 🔟 (@10al_) December 19, 2020
Clay Helton pic.twitter.com/8gK93ACepi
— Henry Wade (@HenryWade20) December 19, 2020
If USC were to have the stones to fire Helton in the midst of a global pandemic, the Trojans might be able to land someone good who can help them win gotta-have-it games like the one they just lost. This is a job that might be enticing enough to get Urban Meyer off the FOX studio set and back onto the sidelines.
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