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No but he would have came much much closer. Carol got to where he is by being able to get 3 and 4 star players to play at a 5 star level. Now the 5 stars all wanna go to USC and pete gets them to play at their highest potential. We are never gonna be able to recruit like USC until we start to develop players better. under cally 3 star players play like 3 star players, carol is able to get more out of his players. Heck look at the five star players from BCs recruiting classes would you say they are playing like 5 star players? is lucky playing like the 2nd best back from his class? Not even close Let's not forget PC is in year #7. BC had to start really worse than from scratch. He had very little talent to work with, AND had to fit square pegs into round holes in '04. Everyone wants Meyer- or Stoops-like success with a NC title run in the first 2-4 years. Sorry, folks... not everyone gets that. We'll just have to be patient. We're still 2 or 3 years away from that. Hey, you know... you might want to look at Pete Carroll's win/lose record. Pete's first season was 6 - 6... then the next 6 years he was 60 - 6. Pete took what he had and made an outstanding team by the second year... that's what great coaches do. Carroll, Stoops, and many others came in, made their changes, and rapidly guided their teams to greatness. Callahan is not, and never will be this caliber of coach... the days of you getting a decade to show results is gone. At this point we've seen his best... he might hang in there a little longer if he gets new staff on the defense side, but I'll be very surprised if we ever break the top ten with him as head coach.

Personally I have to agree here. While I don't see this ever happening unless Calahan fears for his job, Cosgrove is not doing his job as Defensive Coordinator, and needs to be let go. Look, I don't care how much time you give a coach... if he can't teach his linebackers the basics like how to tackle and how to stay in your lane, that's bad coaching. Yes, Bo did a hell of a lot better with the defense... that's a fact. Back in the Solich days the roles were reversed; our defense was solid (with worse recruits) but our offense couldn't get the job done. Now our offense is showing promise, but our defense plays downright horribly, even with higher star recruits. Face it, you can get the best 4 and 5 star recruits you want... and if you don't teach them well, and don't call the right plays, and don't adjust to the opponent's schemes, then your defense will suck no matter what. USC giving up and letting us score a few touchdowns in the 4th quarter doesn't excuse 35 unanswered points. They scored more points on our field than they did against Idaho at home. This should be embarrassing, it should be brought up, and coaches should take responsibility for it.