Tim Floyd

What a joke this dude is.

lol?

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even though i'm a bulls fan i can't say if this dude had any coaching skills whatsoever, or if the completely unwatchable team krause was running out there post-jordan was so terrible that any coach would have failed. the dude is obv embarrassing for usc now, i guess they were hoping another failed coach from the "majors" would take them to the top the way carroll did?

what i don't understand is this: did he turn down the arizona job because he didn't think he was going to get caught or because he knew he was going to get caught? someone needs to ask him imo

Tim Floyd submitted his resignation Tuesday and Athletic Director Mike Garrett accepted it so fast he probably got a paper cut snapping it out of the fax machine. The good news, of course, is that it's only the fall of USC basketball, leaving the all-important work of preserving, defending and protecting the constitution of USC football. What happened to Floyd was inevitable and the appointed hour of his departure was inconsequential. The fact Floyd handed a resignation news cookie to a paper in his home state, Mississippi, only proves he was loyal to people other than the players he coached until Tuesday at 12:59 p.m. You need the pivotal pinpoint? March 31, the Tuesday before the Final Four, at USC's season-ending banquet, Floyd implored his prime-time fence sitters to return and make the Trojans a national title contender -- it wasn't that much of a stretch. Hours later, Floyd jumped on a plane to interview for the Arizona job. Days later, DeMar DeRozan, Taj Gibson and Hackett announced their intentions to turn pro -- so much for the national title. OK, the bazookas were gone, but the Trojans had some good recruits coming in, until book-in-the-works Louis Johnson poisoned the future with his latest contention to Yahoo that Floyd had once handed an envelope with $1,000 to O.J. Mayo. The NCAA, meanwhile, was combining the basketball and football investigations, leading some to believe a conclusion was forthcoming and the words "lack of institutional control" might lead to banishment from the NCAA tournament.

What is really weird is that the dude is a pretty good coach at the college level. I am a UCLA dude, and the Floyd-era USC games were almost always really tough, even though the Bruins were usually a better team. The Trojans were always really inconsistent (although he did tend to stock up on dudes who were raw but super-athletic, who tend to be really inconsistent), but there were a lot of games where they would click together as a unit and look really great on both sides of the floor. Maybe it is the advantage of paying for talent, I guess.

Still, the (sic) in “Unfortunately, I know (sic) longer feel I can offer the level of enthusiasm to my duties that is deserved by the university, my coaching staff, my players, their families, and the supporters of Southern Cal." warms me in the darkest part of my soul.