Interesting Football Banquet tidbit
Nick Angelich
We told you in Friday's War Room to stay tuned. That there would soon be another dot to connect, another shoe to drop, one more factoid that will give you a clue as to exactly where USC football is heading . . . and when.
Well, here it is. USC told the Monday Morning Quarterback Club folks that the 2019 football banquet will be held on Sunday, November 24, barely 24 hours after the regular season finale against UCLA.
According to long-time USC fans and banquet attendees, that's never happened before that they can remember -- the banquet so soon after the finish of the regular season or the Sunday date for it. The banquet will be held at the 1923 Club at the top of the Scholarship Towers at the Coliseum for a fairly limited group of attendees.
Also puzzling is the fact that if USC does what the Trojans have been talking about for the last month, does what Clay Helton has been promising, and seizes control of its own fate and beats Oregon this week at the Coliseum, wins out to take the South, beats Oregon a second time in the Pac-12 championship game Dec. 6 after a bye Thanksgiving weekend and advances to the Rose Bowl, that could mean a season that lasts more than five weeks past the football banquet.
Odd, no? Curious, yes?
What could possibly be going on here? Only one thing, you would think.
Now of course there's this caveat. There's always this caveat for this USC football team. Sure, it could have easily lost to the worst team in the Pac-12 Friday in Boulder before the comeback 35-31 win at Colorado. So how do you expect it to beat Oregon this weekend?
Because it's this USC team, capable of beating the best the Pac-12 has to offer -- as it already did when it whipped Utah with third-team quarterback Matt Fink. And capable of losing to the likes of BYU and almost to Colorado and any of the upcoming games against Arizona State, Cal and UCLA.
Clay Helton and Urban Meyer at the Cotton Bowl. (Photo: © Glenn Beil, USA TODAY Sports)
Which would seem to be exactly why USC could have decided it's time to make a change at the head football coaching spot if the exactly right person were available, a choice so obvious, USC would not need an AD to make it. And if that decision has been made, and if that decision will bring in a bombshell coach who will immediately impact the early signing period by flipping selected recruits on the West Coast and nationally and if that coach wants to take advantage of his arrival in the relatively short window to the National Early Signing Period that begins Dec. 19, then you would do exactly what USC is doing -- hold the football banquet as early as possible with an announcement soon thereafter.
And you would almost certainly do it at the bidding of the incoming coach, who if he's the right guy to do what must be done at USC, then he's the one demanding all of this happen on this schedule -- on his schedule.
Joe Cosentino
A rosary and Catholic Memorial Mass will be held at St. Anthony Croatian Catholic Church
712 N Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Friday, November 15, 2019
3:00 PM
Overflow parking will be provided at 713 N. Hill St.
In lieu of flowers the family asks that you please consider contributing to the United Herzegovina Catholic Benevolent Society (UHCBS)
P.O. Box 39351
Los Angeles, CA 90039
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