As a USC fan who is not like an Oklahoma fan and goes onto another teams football channels and bothers the living hell out of them and become so obsessed with a former head coach, I will say that Helton never seems to get that he can't get to a championship level team. He has never experienced championship teams in his coaching career. Even if it was the 2016 or 2017 USC teams that won a Rose Bowl and Pac 12 title, those teams had 3 losses and suffered blowout losses. He will never deliver on the expectations that he is always preaching. Georgia Southern fans deserve better than a guy who is going to act like he knows what it takes but really does not. Since Darnold left, he is 31-28. That right there says he is not a championship level coach.
Starting out at 6-2 gave us hope. It would probably been better to start out at 2-7 and win the last four games to finish 6-7. Now we have to wait nine months for Boise State to clobber us in Paulson.
Why GA Southern's AD would hire Helton as a head coach after a firing from USC is beyond me. Helton has proven he is unable to develop players, his teams are always undisciplined and his post conference after a loss is always the same. The kids worked hard, really appreciate the effort, have to watch the film, I take responsibility as the coach, etc. taking responsibility for a loss has no meaning when there is no change or consequence. Mr. Potato head here has proven time and again he is inept as a coach. Sad for the GA S fans.
Helton was only hired because of being the former coach of a blue blood. As a USC fan, idk what their AD saw in hiring Helton, but he clearly didn't do his homework
USC has habitually hired former USC jocks to be the AD. Mike Garrett, Pat Haden, Lynn Swan in that order. They don't understand how important this role is. Well, Haden removed the interim title from Helton after Sarkisian was fired and made him the head coach then Lynn Swan inexplicably extended Helton's contract when no one was even in the market for him. That doomed SC's program for years. Because of the extension, They paid a fortune to remove Helton and he immediately got a head coaching job at GS. What was the AD at GS thinking? Nuts! Helton is Awful. He inherited a team that had great players so he had some good seasons but once he started to try and develop players, the result was disastrous. Both Haden and Swan were once highly respected at SC. Not sure they can show their faces there again. SC had some bad hires under Garrett too but Helton was most egregious because we had to paid a fortune for his removal.
It is really hard to take coach Helton seriously. He has yet to develop a QB, the offense, and the QB position was just horrible this year and I hope they can turn it around. Defense was better than last year, but they had no where to go but up. This team makes too many mental mistakes, bad turnovers, bad decisions, awful coverage and tackling and you get what the team is, below average. This year really made being a fan hard, hopefully they figure it out next year, but it was really hard to watch this version of the team.
Helton does not have a clue. Next year will be 5-7, 6-6, or maybe 7-5 if a couple of teams are worse than this year. None of those records would be deserving of a year 4 for Coach Helton.
As a usc fan who had to endure this fraud for years and years, I feel sorry for you guys. Just cut your losses and fire this guy before he destroys your program. He is a used car salesman.
