It’s team photo day, where you can have trouble telling if there are more players than staff members in a picture. Somehow, they survived in the 1960’s (below). Continue reading It’s USC Team Photo Day

Lynn Swann was on the Dan Patrick radio show this morning and here is the key 5-minute part, if you can stomach it. Swann talks about USC losing a sense of urgency last season and that he does not have a set number of victories for Clay Helton to save his job. What happened to USC football? @USC_Athletics AD @Lynn88Swann on the need for the … Continue reading Lynn Swann On Dan Patrick Show

Mike McGee, who was USC athletic director from 1984-93, has died. He was 80. McGee holds a distinction: He is the only known athletic director in the history of USC who had no ties to USC when he was hired. He was also the only atheltic director who was actually an athletic director somewhere before he got hired by USC. Think about that for a … Continue reading Former USC A.D. Mike McGee Dies

USC will practice at the Coliseum tonight, probably in tennis shoes again, as it prepares for Saturday’s scrimmage. These are usually the dog days of training camp but with days off and no two-a-days, this has been a pretty comfortable two weeks for the players. Linebacker Solomon Tuliaupupu was reportedly in the hospital Thursday. Was he having surgery on his sore foot? Tuliaupupu redshirted last … Continue reading If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column

Talanoa Hufanga had his third interception of training camp as he picked off a JT Daniels pass and went 50 yards for a TD at today’s practice. Jack Sears threw a 50-plus yard TD pass to Devon Williams. But the QB competition is over. Continue reading USC Plays Of The Day

Here’s a Lynn Swann quote that received less attention today: “We want to be in the picture and the conversation about the national championship, on the national scene.” If Swann really wanted to be in any conversation this season why did he bring back Clay Helton? USC might be better this season but does anyone think they can be n the national championship conversation? Has … Continue reading USC Wants To Be In National Conversation