UCLA Calls ESPN's Chow/U$C Report Inaccurate, Daily News Now Backtracks Saying Chow Is Staying

We were going to hold out for the entire offensive line, but they’re all staying after Senora Ross’s class to clean erasers, thus getting them on the Dean’s List.

Orson Welles did this one Halloween Night and caused just about this much uproar.

But not yet confirmed.

* As of 9:13 pacific time, Norm Chow is the offensive coordinator for UCLA.

* USC is throwing piles of money at him to come join Kiffin’s crew.

* He has not accepted anything, and reports he had were premature.

* My choice of words for the headline earlier was incorrect. For that I apologize. In this 24-hour news cycle, when I hear the same thing from multiple sources, and none from others, I try to keep up with it.

and is just writing stuff that will cover him no matter which way things go.

Let’s suppose there are discussions between Chow and Guerrero. You suppose Coach Chow says, “Say, Dan, would you hold on just a minute. I have to call Jon Gold and give him an update on things.”

The concept that Gold would have any actual knowledge of what’s going on is totally absurd. It is inconceivable that he has any more idea what’s going on than I do here in Tampa. Guys, get a grip. Think about the reality of the situation.

He’ll go public when it’s all sewn up.

Thats why I was so shocked, Chow lately has been going out of his way with recruiting. Tough to swallow his leaving. At least hopefully that BS ends tonight. Still pissed at the Mickey Mouse sports network.

He’s sitting here with me and we’re laughing at all this. Right, Norm? Sorry, Norm fell asleep. He was getting bored with all this crap.

“He knows the periodic table of the elements better than the NCAA rule manual.” Which means nothing to just$c, of course, but it’s a funny line.

As A Trojan snooping around here (been a longtime BN reader for news, I’ll mind my manners in your house and not troll), I cringed at the hire. I was a bit happier to see Monte and Orgeron are coming, so at least the staff will be rockin, but Kiffin’s always had more bark than bite.

The real question is the one that’s been on all of our minds for days: What does the turnover on the coaching staff say about the NCAA investigations?

I was afraid BN’s take was right for days, that it signals much doom for SC football. But Kiffin and his staff are walking away from what looks like a rapidly improving situation at UT, and if Chow is seriously considering SC (and not just posturing for more cash, or isn’t even remotely interested despite present reports), he’s doing the same. This would suggest insiders don’t fear the No Cajones At All and its sanctions, especially from USC’s end: taking a coach in hot water for violations under these circumstances would make no sense unless USC thinks they’re not getting the hammer brought down.

Of course, it could also be that Kiffin and Garrett are idiots. That would be entirely consistent with how Kiffin acted since he got the job at UT, and how Garrett ran this coaching search.

More than anything, I think it just raises the stakes for the sanctions meeting.

a pretty decent article

He’s texting?

Our recruiting pitch is simple: “You know that coach who almost totally screwed you? Yeah, you get to play against him every year here. And live in the same city.”

Has anyone ever heard even one word said by Coach Chow or anyone acting on his behalf that he is considering leaving UCLA?

Lame was a mediocre coach and a horrible person. He was looking to set a new indoor record for ncaa violations. He was as out of place at classy Knoxville as any trOJan would be at a place where honor and integrity mean something.

So is his departure causing a riot in celebration? It should. They should do everything they can to help him get out of town. Sure, he’s trying to take his recruits, but really, if a recruit wanted to be with Lame, he really isn’t the type of character guy that we would want at UCLA, and undoubtedly the kind of guy that Vols wouldn’t want either. Lame’s star recruit pleaded guilty to attempted robbery or something like that. Lame’s response? Well, we’ve only had three guys arrested. Granted, that’s less than what he was used to looking at the trOJans, but why should the Vols be upset that this classic douchebag is leaving?

Yes my friends, Tennessee does have an inbreeding issue.

for Lane never to go to Tennessee on a recruiting trip.

The court jester now has been given the keys to the castle.

Uncanny to say the least.

I don’t care what happens, we come out swinging! Tomorrow, CNC will be with us or somewhere else. I appreciate his time here at UCLA. But I need something from CRN tomorrow if things don’t go our way; I need him to make a declaration of war against the enemy. It’s good versus evil time now.

Hiring Lame is either a big F-You to the NCAA or the trOJans do not fear them at all. I’m thinking that an organization, however irrelevant, at least has to fight back sometime. So, starting with that principle, I think that they are going to get slapped down pretty hard. If they wanted to make good with the NCAA, they would not have hired lame but rather someone who was more scrupulous, shall we say?

So that leaves two outcomes: Either they aren’t getting punished and the NCAA is a complete clown organization or they are getter slammed and can’t get any lower even if they hire Lame. I pick the latter because the NCAA has to do something about $uc* or they have no credibility whatsoever. I mean, look at the media response to all this. I think they hired Lame knowing that they are getting slammed and want to make the best with the recruits they have. That’s all there is to it.

That non-compete clause are not typically enforceable in California.

Perhaps if this move happens we might start seeing an era of team-dependent buyout clauses, however?

I could imagine a school offering a contract with higher and lower buyouts depending on whether the coach is moving up a position (OC —> HC) or not, and whether or not he’s going to the NFL, any random D-1 school, a conference school, or (trigger the big money) a rival.

Of course, assuming that’s ok with the legal beagles, but there isn’t anything that jumps out to an amateur as wrong with that.