Written by Matt Zemek at Bloguin
Kyle Whittingham should not be USC’s next head football coach.
The reason is simple, and no, it’s not that Whittingham’s Utah Utes were smoked by the Trojans and interim coach Clay Helton on Saturday night.
Wait — is this a trick question, then? How can it not be anything other than USC’s 42-24 drubbing of the last unbeaten team in the Pac-12… a team which is unbeaten no longer?
No worries, folks — one simple reason can coexist with another. Sure, USC’s rout of Utah did not help Whittingham’s case, if indeed he was ever interested in the USC job (something we do not know for a fact to begin with). Yet, the biggest reason why the Utah coach should not move from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles goes beyond the scoreboard. It’s a simple-enough reason, but you do have to look in the right place to find it.
Plainly put, USC needs an offense-first head coach and a stud defensive coordinator, not the other way around.
You might argue with this point. You might even have substantial grounds for doing so. Your best counter-claim would be that Pete Carroll was a defense-first coach, and USC’s defense needs more help than the offense at this point in time. Fair enough.
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