USC's slide to weakness expenses fast lane Kiffin

LOS ANGELES — Less than two years in the same way as Southern California finished a 10-2 season with a 50-point win larger than UCLA, coach fast lane Kiffin is unemployed.

Thirteen months in the same way as the Trojans were the nation's top-ranked team, they've lost seven of their precedent 11 games. They haven't looked respectable in many of their victories, either.

An elite football encode has descended into weakness, and the slide culminated in Kiffin's firing by strong director slap Haden on Sunday.

Haden believes the justification coach can plunk USC (3-2, 0-2 Pac-12) justification back amid the nation's unsurpassed, and he wanted to start the hunt while interim coach Ed Orgeron and the Trojans varnish this season.

"All our coaches are in the winning transaction,'' Haden held. "When you're a coach next to a place like USC, we own winning championships in our chromosome around now. You own to look after the other things as well. You own to perform by the rules. You own to thought around players. You own to graduate your kids. (But) next to the top of the generation, we're all in the winning transaction next to USC.''

Under the heaviness of NCAA sanctions and mammoth expectations, Kiffin not at all lived up to the USC standard usual by Pete Carroll, who won state championships and mesmerized L.A. Or hastily leaving representing the Seattle Seahawks virtually four years previously.

Carroll is still exceedingly fond of USC, and he'll be watching the developments compactly.

"It's been a troublesome stage representing the Trojan king,'' Carroll held Monday. "It's been a troublesome link of years. This is intractable, too. Transitions like this, they are gigantic. ... I've branded fast lane since he was a little delude. I feel representing him in this post. They've made a clear-thinking move, and their departing to move promote, and they'll nominate a respectable wealth and comprehend the issue departing the way they would like to make about. But it's very intractable.''

It's mostly intractable representing Kiffin, who went 28-15 in his fourth season next to USC. The mark is either a solid achievement certain the Trojans' scholarship restrictions and depth problems, or it's an embarrassment to a train laden with NFL-caliber talent to facilitate accepts nothing but once a year title contention.

It isn't tough to distinguish come again? Haden thinks, and for the most part USC alumni seem to match.

During Kiffin's successor, Haden be required for discovery a coach who can market USC's expectations while maximizing the school's many strengths. Kiffin succinctly appeared to be to facilitate coach, but previous strong director Mike Garrett's wealth representing the job not at all got at hand.

Kiffin was on top of the game in much-lamented 2011, what time the Trojans finished atop the Pac-12 South with wins larger than Oregon and UCLA.

Quarterback Matt Barkley followed by announced he would return representing his senior season, leave-taking up NFL millions representing a day to stick with his beloved train, which got to facilitate precision No. 1 place.

Numerically, the Trojans' current slide began in the same way as a 6-1 start to to facilitate season. But even Kiffin acknowledged USC hasn't looked consistently respectable representing two seasons, in concert a quantity of of the pit defensive games in USC history while failing to total an adequate amount points to nominate up representing it.

Oregon and Stanford surpassed USC atop the Pac-12, while UCLA, Washington and even Arizona State appear poised to move in front this season. Combined with the Trojans' uninspiring performances even in victory, it's more than Haden can take.

"We truly weren't making the progress I felt we considered necessary to nominate,'' Haden held.

Haden will keep his coaching search undisclosed, but to facilitate didn't interrupt everybody from speculating Monday.

Washington's Steve Sarkisian right now heard questions around his relevance in the train wherever he worked alongside Kiffin as Carroll's co-offensive coordinators.

Sarkisian, a Los Angeles-area native, welcomed the good fortune to "get the giant elephant improbable of the extent,'' aphorism he was very content with the Huskies.

The USC elephant roamed all the way through football on Monday, and won't interrupt until Haden picks a coach.

Vanderbilt coach James Franklin and Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio were asked around their relevance in the job, while Boise State's Chris Petersen, Northwestern coach slap Fitzgerald and San Francisco 49ers disgusting coordinator Greg Roman are amid the admired choices of pundits and fans.

None of the speculation way an issue to Haden, who seems to own a strong goal around his type of coach. Haden has long made it discharge he wants USC's athletes to understand there's more to college than sports, which didn't until the end of time seem to be a foremost message of the listening careful, driven Kiffin.

Carroll, who held in reserve Orgeron on the USC run what time he here in 2000, is eager to distinguish how the Trojans respond to Orgeron. Despite its unimpressive start to the season, USC still has tremendous talent directed by two well-regarded coordinators - Clancy Pendergast on apology and Clay Helton on offense.

The Trojans resume practice on Wednesday representing their then game, Oct. 10 next to the Coliseum not in favor of Arizona.

"I think he'll look after horrendous,'' Carroll held of Orgeron. "Ed has been through an adequate amount as a head coach, and he knows as much around the encode as everybody. He's got a way around him to facilitate resonates, and I think he can take control of a very intractable post and nominate something occur positively.''