2022 MEDIA SNIPPETTS
LA TIMES
Week 5, 2022
It's still very early in the college football season, but we can't help but note the Southern Cal Trojans appear to be a team on a mission this season. Through their first two games, the men of troy have scored 111 points and allowed only 14. Clearly we here at the Times thought, SC is playing exceptionally high quality football.
Thus it was much to our surprise that one notable exception to that chain of thought could be found in none other than USC's Head Coach, Bear Growlz. Growlz told the Times, "I'm not entirely pleased with how our offense has been playing. I'd like to see more consistency and a higher level of focus from our offensive unit."
Is the coach watching the same team we are?
Or is it simply that only one thing will satisfy Coach Growlz this season.
A return to The Rose Bowl and another National Championship.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS
Week 5, 2022
Coach Growlz Did it in the Library With the Candlestick
Anyone familiar with the childhood game of Clue readily will recall such a line as our headline.
But whats that got to do with USC and Coach Bear Growlz?
The Southern Cal football program has been written about, praised and cursed extensively over the past three seasons of their outstanding run of title game appearances. But one item has, unbelievably so, been overlooked by all the media scions that cover the team.
Coach Growlz is a scout killer.
Bear Growlz is in his 15th season at Southern Cal - amazing for any coach to stay with a program for so long, aside from the eternally stuffed Joe Paterno at Penn State who coaches the Nittany Lions from the grave while communicating through seances with his Psychic/Taxidermist who then relays the plays in to the quarterback via hand signals. But that's another story altogether. Let's just leave it at saying that when folks take home a Joe Paterno bobblehead from a Penn State game, they never actually know if they've got a piece of game worn Joe Paterno or not.
Anyway, while Growlz' 15 year tenure at SC is pretty amazing these days, his scouts alas, can't say the same thing. Oliver Henry lasted a year and got the axe. Wally Campana lasted two before he retired due to stress. Daryl Hester two years before he got his pink slip.
Then came Bubba Embry who lasted two seasons before he couldn't handle the stress and retired. Lance Coe, three years and the axe fell.
Finally, the longtermer - Lester Stargell, lasted four years before he retired due to overwork and stress.
Four years on the job for a Southern Cal Lead Scout?
Clearly Coach Growlz has mellowed with old age.
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