Zac Al-Khateeb is a content producer for The Sporting News. Prosecutorssay Meredithreceived $400,000 in early 2018 after falsely designating a prospective Yale student as a women's soccer recruit. Send me email updates and offers from TMZ and its Affiliates. He was two games into his seventh season as the Trojans . Heltons firing finally brings an end to one of the most unlikely head coaching tenures at a premier football program in recent NCAA history. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, How USC trainers saved Vincent Iwuchukwu after cardiac arrest, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, Yet more rain expected to hit California in March. A lifelong South Carolina native who played for College of Charleston, Lee served as a USC assistant early in his career under then-coach and current athletic director Ray Tanner from 2003-08. USC fires football coach Clay Helton . ATHENS, Ga. - Georgia linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson, the second-leading tackler for 2022 national champions, was arrested Wednesday on charges of reckless driving and racing.. USC coach Clay Helton watches the Trojans warm up before Saturdays loss to Stanford. Now its about us upholding them, or just reminding ourselves of how to get to that point. USC has fired Clay Helton, the former multi-time interim coach who won a Rose Bowl and became Rasputin. Sometimes, the right choice is not always the easy choice, he said. 3:01 PM PT -- USC has fired water polo coach Jovan Vavic and Senior Associate AD Donna Heinel. Column: 15 minutes of fame flies by. Nothing surprises me during the Lynn Swann administration. When Clay Helton was first elevated to head coach, after years of scandal and impropriety surrounding USC football, he was viewed as a virtuous caretaker, capable of restoring a troubled program with a fresh sense of integrity and stability. Copyright 2023 Sporting News Holdings Limited. We appreciate his many years of service to our university and wish him nothing but the very best.. You can be at USC and win every game but one, and if its the last one, its looked at as a bad season. Lu matched the best individual round of the week with a stellar 4-under 67, and Park fired an even-par 71 to earn her fourth top-10 finish of the season in a tie for fourth overall. 0:43. 4 seed and their fourth-straight, first-round bye, the league's second-longest active . ", Yes! Gill never found that footing at USC, finishing with a 60-59 record over three seasons. I love USC, because you know what the standard is? Thousands of pages of testimony, discovery, petitions . He simply promoted an assistant to replace successful womens golf coach Andrea Gaston. All rights reserved. It marked another black eye for an athletic department that has been rife with scandal in recent years. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "Based on the Department of Justice investigation to date, we have no evidence that the alleged conduct involves anyone else at Stanford or is associated with any other team," the statement went on. Shortly after, the announcement went out: Helton and USC were parting ways. USC is in the process of identifying any funds received by the university in connection with this alleged scheme, the statement added. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The Trojans won the Rose Bowl after the 2016 season and the Pac-12 title in 2017 while Sam Darnold was their quarterback, but Heltons teams otherwise struggled to live up to the sky-high expectations around the USC program. He led the Trojans to the national championship in 2007, his first season on the job, and made the NCAA tournament in four of his seven seasons. It reached a feverish pitch on Saturday, as boos cascaded through a half-empty Coliseum amid USCs most lopsided loss at home to an unranked opponent since 2000. Everything is in front of us as far as our aspirations to win the league still.. USC mens tennis coach Peter Smith, who won five NCAA titles, has resigned. Associate head coach Donte Williams will serve as USCs interim coach. ", Ernst was hired to coach the women's tennis team at the University of Rhode Island in August 2018. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Vavic -- a 13-time national coach of the year -- has 14 national titles under his belt during his tenure at the University of Southern California. Warmer storms could cause problems, Here are 13 candidates to replace Clay Helton as USCs permanent head football coach, Plaschke: Get it right this time, USC. The university announced Tuesday afternoon that Vavic had been fired. USC fired senior associate athletic director Donna Heinel and legendary water polo coach Jovan Vavic after they were indicted by federal prosecutors earlier Tuesday in a nationwide college admissions bribery case. The son received a conditional acceptance letter days later, noting he had the potential to make a significant contribution to the intercollegiate athletic program as well as to the academic life of the university.. USC on Monday announced the firing of head coach Clay Helton, two days after the 14th-ranked Trojans' 42-28 loss to unranked Stanford. 12 UNC At ITA Indoors. The standard is winning national championships at USC, Gill told The Times in February 2020. It appears Bohn's patience and support ran out after Helton's latest loss. That ranks ninth all time in program history but fifth among the seven USC coaches who coached at least as many games as Helton did (70). Sarkisian went 12-6 at USC, where he was an assistant coach under Pete Carroll with the program's dominant teams of the past decade. Bohn said he made the decision to fire Helton and elevate Williams with the hope of salvaging the Trojans 2021 campaign. Fight On! While Helton brought stability to a tumultuous football culture and ran a clean program that inspired loyalty and love from his players, he never won over a significant portion of the Trojans vast fan base, even during his early successes. Parker then met Freeman at Purdue, Parker the tight ends coach for two years (2013-14) and the receivers coach for two years (2015-16) before head coach Darrell Hazell was fired halfway through . 12 Partner. Swann gave a lucrative extension to Helton in 2018 over the objections of many fans. Horder got off to a lighting fast start for Tech on Monday, as the German fired three straight birdies and four in . The university confirmed in a statement that Vandemoer, who has coached sailing at Standford since 2009 and previously held the head job at the U.S. The Trojans opened the season 11-3 but fell apart, finishing 14-25 during the remaining portion of the schedule. He is an outstanding person with impeccable character and possible the best coach in NCAA tennis history. Helton also served as the Trojans interim head coach for a victory in the 2013 Las Vegas Bowl when interim coach Ed Orgeron resigned after the full-time job went to Sarkisian instead of Orgeron. The school said it would conduct an internal investigation. "Clay's a friend of mine. We are looking into these allegations to determine the extent to which NCAA rules may have been violated.". Heinel is also the senior womens administrator at the university and one of the highest-ranking members of the athletic department below Athletic Director Lynn Swann and Steve Lopes, the chief operating officer. Coach Kim Mulkey's Lady Bears then won it all in 2005. . USC Trojans. USC says Smith wants to pursue other opportunities outside of college coaching. Ryan Kartje is the USC beat writer at the Los Angeles Times. 1:26. D1Baseball first reported that USC planned to fire Gill, but nothing was made official until Monday, when baseball players and staff were asked to meet to discuss the program. 1 seed in West, Another Trevor Bauer defamation suit is thrown out, Darvin Ham says the Lakers are sitting Anthony Davis as a precaution, Despite cap issues, Chargers GM Tom Telesco says Keenan Allen isnt going anywhere, Georgias Jalen Carter charged with racing in crash that killed teammate, staff member. 6 USC Mens Tennis Stalls Out In 4-2 Loss To No. Maybe not Pete Carroll, but the power and swagger Carroll represented. He will have a very difficult time now adjusting. With that, Sporting News breaks down USC's decision to fire Helton, his career as the Trojans' head coach and where the program heads from here: Bruce Feldman of The Athletic reported Monday that USC was "disheartened" by the team's blowout loss to Stanford. After three turbulent years atop one of college baseballs proudest programs, Jason Gill is out as USCs baseball coach. Ali Khosroshahin: Khosroshahin was head coach of the USC women's soccer team for seven seasons before he was fired following the 2013 season. Heltons continued employment put a perpetual cloud over the USC program in recent years, with rivals using his tenuous status against the Trojans in recruiting. 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The former Trojans coach tells his side of the story for the first time. You come to USC to play baseball. USC football coach Clay Helton was fired Monday, just two games into the 2021 season. The official Men's Tennis Coach List for the University of Southern California Trojans. I dont really know what Swann will do look Im no fan of Swann but the school is not in the best shape financially due to the lawsuits and scandals (attorney fees) add to that Swann is not and never will take a risk 2019. "As the federal charging document makes clear, the Department of Justice believes that Yales Office of Undergraduate Admissions has been the victim of a crime perpetrated by its womens soccer coach, who is no longer at the university," the university said in a statement. " Ivy League schools like Yale do not give athletic scholarships, but its member universities have increased the amount of financial aid to admitted students in recent years, making it easier to recruit athletes who previously would not have attended those schools. Championships, Helton said earlier this summer. Athletic director Mike Bohn made the move two days after an embarrassing 42-28 home loss to Stanford that dropped the Trojans (1-1, 0-1 Pac-12) out of the AP Top 25. His assistant coach at the time, Laura Janke, has also been i ndicted on a charge of racketeering conspiracy. After an 18-13 season and no NCAA tournament bid, South Carolina on Monday fired coach Frank Martin after 10 seasons bringing to an end a tenure that included the Gamecocks' lone appearance in a . The alleged scheme was aimed at facilitating the admission of students into the university as recruited athletes, though many of them had falsified athletic credentials. The allegations spanned both the tenure of Swann, who was hired in 2016, and Pat Haden, his predecessor who was the athletic director from 2010 to 2016. Gregg Marshall file. I have total faith in the men that are in there, players, coaches. James Franklin also has a proven track record, but he has said before that Penn State a traditional Big Ten power is his dream job. We believe in the promise of USC baseball, and our expectation is to compete for national championships, Bohn said in a statement. USC fans have been calling for the Trojans to chase three-time national championship coach Urban Meyer, who is only one game into his tenure with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Decisions might be driven by the elephant that still has his big ass parked In Swanys living room. The decision was made on Monday following the Trojans' ugly home loss to Stanford on Saturday night. Meredith's charges includeconspiracy to commit wire fraud and honest-services wire fraud. He was the third consecutive USC coach to be fired in the middle of the season. The added resources carried significantly increased expectations for our teams performance, Bohn said. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Despite outgaining the Cardinal 408-375, the Trojans gave up five touchdowns in 10 drives and a 31-yard interception return for touchdown. Williams, a Los Angeles-area native and the first Black head coach in USC football history, joined the program in 2020 and has played a major role in the Trojans significant recruiting advancements over the past two cycles. Getty Images. - As if in a classic Wimbledon duel, fired women's tennis coach Tony Minnis and LSU are in the midst of a tiebreaker. The University of Texas at Austin said it has fired men's tennis coach Michael Center after they learned about his charges in connection with the college admissions cheating scandal. In this instance, they presented her as a crew coxswain for the L.A. Marina Club team and also had a photo taken of her on an ergometer. South Carolina basketball coaching history. Gill won 10 of his first 15 games as coach in 2020 before the season was canceled amid the pandemic. USC fired coach Clay Helton in September. Speaking on "The Mac . Many have called for his job for a very long time but Saturday night's home blowout loss to Stanford was the straw that broke the camel's back at USC has fired head football coach Clay Helton. Heltons continued employment put a perpetual cloud over the USC program in recent years, with rivals using his tenuous status against the Trojans in recruiting. In the spring of 2018, prosecutors say, Meredith met with the father of another prospective student in a Boston hotel room and agreed to designate the man's daughter as a women's soccer recruit in exchange for $450,000. According to the indictment, Singer sent the student's resume and personal statement -- which included an art portfolio -- to Meredith in November 2017 and promised to "'revise' the materials to 'soccer.'". Bohn replaced Lynn Swann as USCs athletic director in November 2019, and the schools aspirations for national title contention ramped up again with major infrastructure additions to all areas of the football program. His folksy twang and reputation as a consummate gentleman endeared him to administrators early on, as he stood in stark contrast to Sarkisian, who was fired in October 2015 after a series of events, including appearing intoxicated at a university event. Herald-Times. USC (3-2, 2-2) is now being led by interim coach Donte Williams. LOS ANGELES Southern California fired football coach Clay Helton on Monday, two games into his seventh season in charge. 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