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USC was great at a lot of things during those years. Sure, creating turnovers is nice. What is bad is if you almost exclusively rely on turnovers and defensive scoring as the centerpiece of your strategy to win at the expense of fielding a productive offense. To my recollection, very few opposing defensive coordinators lost sleep over how to defend the vaunted Bill Diedrick "bubble screen." But seeing as how many on this board see this as sound football strategy, I'll extrapolate and start to rely on my A-7 offsuit sucking out on pocket queens to help me regularly win poker tournaments.


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Another example of the shifting goalposts. CW went 9-3, therefore he can coach. TW had a good turnover margin, therefore he got lucky. TW did even have enough recruits in his bad classes, yet he had the same as Weis's 2007 class. When you get called on one, you rotate to another.

You bend over backwards to pin a bad recruiting year for 2005 on a guy who got fired in November 2004 in the midst of a horrible atmosphere-- and you give unfavorable comparisons when it certainly appears that CW is operating under different rules/guidelines. But you are one of the reasonable Domers.

But thanks for the poker analogy. It helps.