USC Football: 5 Things HC Clay Helton must do to save his job in 2019

USC Football: 5 Things Clay Helton must do to save his job in 2019

LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 24: A banner towed by an airplane is seen above Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum asking Lynn Swann, USC's athletic director, to fire current head coach Clay Helton prior to the start of a college football game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the USC Trojans on November 24, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) /

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Patience with USC football coach Clay Helton is running thin. He needs to put together a near-perfect 2019 to keep his job. This is how he can do it.

Since 2010, Clay Helton has been at USC in some capacity. In 2016 though, he took over the program officially as the head coach. In 2016 and 2017, he had overall successful campaigns. However, 2018 was a dumpster fire of a season. Now, with so many people calling for his head, what does he have to accomplish in the upcoming season to save his job as head coach of the Trojans?

5. He has to figure out the offense, before it ruins recruiting.

Everything seemed to be turning around when Kliff Kingsbury was hired by USC to take over the offense and help the Trojans get back on the right track. However, that was derailed quickly as Kingsbury took the job as the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals.

As it stands now, this team still doesn’t have an offensive coordinator and it is costing them on the recruiting front as we inch closer to National Signing Day. Bru McCoy, the team’s lone 5-star signee from this recruiting class, has put his name in the transfer portal after being in school for less than a month.

That is bad y’all. That sudden departure says more about Helton than it does about Kingsbury. Helton needs to find an OC. Stat.

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