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USC Loses Another Top Offensive Line Recruit

Francis Mauigoa, a four-star offensive tackle that some of the fanboys predicted would go to USC, committed to Miami today.

This is a real blow to the offensive line recruiting because when the USC fanboys are sucking up to a recruit, it means USC really wanted him. Mauigoa is just the latest top lineman to reject the Trojans.

Mauigoa also considered Tennessee and Alabama.

By the way, these are the type of linemen who are even more valuable when you are moving to the Big Ten.

81 thoughts on “USC Loses Another Top Offensive Line Recruit”

  1. So is it a Lincoln Riley problem, a school problem, or an offensive line coach problem? The guy they hired from Texas A&M is not exactly wooing any of these top line men to come to LA. The NIL isn’t working either. The same problem Helton had when he was here for years. Can’t get the right fit for the offensive line coach to recruit top, offensive linemen to USC. That seems to be the problem.

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    1. WAIT WAIT WAIT!….. You’re criticizing a movie before you have viewed it. A bad cast doesn’t automatically equate to a bad movie. Relax, and let the future actions on the field draw your opinion(s)

      #Confused!

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      1. I’m not talking about the movie! I’m calling how I see it of what’s been happening with the o-line, for the last 10 years. This has been a problem going all the way back to Kiffen. I just didn’t want to go back that far. When criticizing the offensive line recruiting battles. When they would all go to Stanford instead of USC. I remember and I also remember they went 4-8 last year and sucked. So let’s see how the plot plays out this year. For the movie/season to be great. Hopefully there’s no reruns or let downs, like movies from the recent past.

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    2. Glad you boiled that one down for us. So LR needs to immediately hire a new O line coach or what. Perhaps the proof will be in the pudding after the season has started and people see what the USC O line can or cannot do. I think you are just a tiny bit premature on this one.

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      1. My same thoughts! Judging the book by a cover when there’s a new sheriff in town is premature. The D-line is the real short-coming to start the season.

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      2. Our 2022 shortcoming? It’s a tie between the linebackers and the D-line…. no wait…it’s the linebackers.
        #NotABiggie….
        #We’llWin10gamesIn2022And”BuildBackBetter”In2023
        #[SeeWhatIDid,Gabby]?

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  2. Miami was the NIL $$ highest bidder. Period. Rick Caruso’s NIL donations have dried up since he has already spent $35 million on the mayor’s race, and he will probably spend more than that between now and the November election.

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    1. (1) USC has a late start developing relationships with the high school coaches and the players
      (2) Florida is attractively competitive with LA with much lower taxes
      (3) Most of these young men like to be near their families……witness Conerly who could drive to Oregon
      I’m not panicking yet. I just think we got a late start because helton didn’t do his job and Riley cannot be expected to mop up everything and get things perfect in this short time. I’m impressed with what he has done rather than complaining about what he has not done.

      Regarding NIL, with all the celebrities around SC, I think we can compete.

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      1. just opting for miami he is a multi millionaire before putting on the uniform + he doesn’t have to play in the snow and freezing weather while in the ACC at Miami like SC WILL.

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      1. Ok. So we need to build an NFL team before 2024, right?
        “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”
        —Frank Sinatra

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      2. It was reported, that Saban was livid over the loss of a few potential recruits committing to Texas A&M over, in his opinion, more lucrative NIL deals.

        Jumbo replied; “We never bought anybody.” (technically, he didn’t)

        #AlumniMakesBigInvestment

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  3. Being one of the “Fan Boys” wolfie derogatorily refers to now makes me feel so small and makes wolfie seem so larger than life. If only I could figure out his mindset then maybe I could be a football god just like him.

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      1. Hey, wait a second! I remember completely disagreeing with Scott twice this year… and partially disagreeing with him once. No, make that completely disagreeing with him once and partially disagreeing with him twice.
        [Whenever Scott says something particularly nasty about our favorite football team I try to concentrate on all the great nostalgia items he bring to us …and what an imp he is when it comes to scoring hits during the dry seasons between spring and fall practice and the football season]….
        #WorksForMe

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      2. The added context you “old farts” provide regarding the past restaurants is the real entertainment

        #OldFartsOnlyInName

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    2. The appropriate term is FanX. I’m sure Scott has offended someone with his cavalier usage of gender specific terms. I’m trying to be offended but I’ve developed thick skin in my advanced years.

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  4. Cristobal and two assistants were on this guy at Oregon. Maybe schools are recruiting against the “Air Raid”, though it’s not the Leach Air Raid.

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  5. The USC fanboys have been delusional since they’ve been saying Clay Helton will eventually turn the program around. The fact to the matter is, Steve Sarkisian has stepped up his recruiting game if nothing else, and Jimbo Fisher is right behind him. So Lincoln Riley won’t have his pick of the litter in the state of Texas, he’ll be getting what the Longhorns, and Texas A&M don’t want. And he can forget about Florida, because Mario Cristobal has a net around that area, especially the offensive linemen. Riley can’t convince any recruits that he’s going to play physical football, because Oklahoma was always a one and done in the playoffs.

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    1. How’s Texas, Texas A&M, or Miami done in the playoffs? You are a football savant! Please keep enlightening us with your superior knowledge.

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      1. Pay attention to the recruiting, numbskull, and maybe you’ll learn a thing or two about college football, other then being a Trojans Ass Suck . 🙄🙄🙄

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      2. You drained an eggplant in one of my mom’s orifices, fucking incredible. Sure beats the tennis ball through the hose thing you tried to impress me with.

        #Creepy!

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    3. losing to BAMA or Georgia ,just ask Bama, is no embarrassment…getting to the final 4 in football/basketball is quite an accomplishment.

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    4. Without calling you an arrogant asshole I have to say I truly do think you need to work on your tact and responses. If you can’t respond to people without calling them names like a wild eyed liberal does you got no business on here.

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  6. Good, stupid people are still on our planet. All of you fake football experts think USC is in trouble? Transfer Portal solves that. I’m still seeing 4 stars commit to play at USC on the o-line.

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    1. their ‘O’ line will be fine and recruits will come,if they want to play in the snow and freezing weather…so maybe some linemen from the middle north JC and high school will be recruited + portal.

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  7. A verbal commitment does not mean the game is over. If Miami falters and USC has a tremendous year offensively, the recruit may change his mind. And Yall is right, we may be able to pick-up some help in the transfer portal. This is particularly true given that some of the remaining teams in the PAC 12 are now in a very tough position and some players from Stanford, Oregon, ASU, ect. may decide to bail for SC and the Big 16.

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  8. The fanboys are out to get us! Everyone shave your head and cover it with tinfoil! Just like Scott has. He knows about them. The fanboys won’t stop speaking to me! They’re swimming in every pot and hiding under every bed. I cut the power cord with a chainsaw but I still hear their voices muttering inside the TV. They want to move over to our world. Help! They’re coming after us! They’re going to take over. Fanboys are in my soup! EVEN MY VERY SOUP is unclean!!!! Aaaarrrrgghh!!!!

    I realize now: only Scott can save us! He knows the password to destroy them all. Why won’t he use it? Why, why, oh why? Why, Scott? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? WhyWhyWhywhy Why won’t you finally get rid of all the fanboys?

    Why, Scott? Why? Oh, no! The fanboys have him. The fanboys have taken Scoot away. We’re all doomed! DOOOOOOMMMMED! ALL IS LOST

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  9. Just heard the “Herd,” and he should be running for mayor. Very convincing as follows:
    SC goes from $30 million to $75 million in 2024 and $100 mil shortly thereafter

    Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan are wonderful in the Fall, up to November 16 when the last game for SC would probably be played. Come December and the Winter, different story.

    Ancillary to that thought, is that SC probably won’t be playing in the snow. At worst it might be 42-degrees with a bit of a wind factor.

    Even travel to Utah can take up most of the day. It is not the flight time so much as the getting to the airport, waiting around for takeoff, and then settling in at your destination.

    What about 10-years from now?– What about it?– The NFL has fun games every week, whereas the colleges have only a few interesting games each week. The college game is in competition with the NFL, and placing more good teams against each other in conference is the way to go.

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    1. so never any snow or freezing weather until after Nov 16th…guess what, even Oct has seen some bad weather in B10 country,just not as bad as Nov/Dec blizzards.

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  10. WOW!!!!! Another one of Slo cal’s fellow cult members, engaged in another mass shooting.

    #RADICALIZED!
    #BanAllMagFedRifles

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    1. Disgusting comment. Trying to equate the two. Shame on you, honestly, I hope you feel shame. You see a tragedy and run to a message board to post this nonsense? Go away.

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      2. “Shame”

        I do experience shame, from the fact the vast majority of repukes in congress have failed to ban killing machines, known as an AR15

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      3. I don’t disagree with your opinion on banning AR-15’s. I think you attempt at equating SoCal with a mass shooter is disgusting.

        When you lose sight of humanity because you are blinded by politics you might be in a cult yourself.

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      4. Slo cal is my little bitch, and will be treated appropriately. It’s personal, not political!… I appreciate your concerns

        #Happy4th

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      5. He’s a child, Goose. Only a child would actually think he’s won something on a blog (i.e. be stupid enough to claim someone is his bitch).

        He proves what a whiny little bitch HE is daily. I’m not the only one who’s called him such.

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  11. I think in BOTH of these cases, the boosters of other teams have ponied up the money and bought the players. Oregon did it with Conerly and Miami did it with Mauigoa. Without a collective USC is at a big disadvantage.

    This is like fighting with one hand behind our back. Why?

    This probably comes down to a belief that collective money is dirty money, but honestly, until someone stops it, you MUST participate.

    Bohn had better wake up and realize that moving to the Big 10 with one hand tied behind your back is not going to be pretty.

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    1. “Dirty money”

      Is that similar to the Oligarch’s money trump was laundering?

      Or, is it normal to pay 100% over market value for real estate?

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      1. Go back to the Atlantic and New Yorker boards, you little bitch. No one wants your commentary.

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      2. Take your talking points and go to msnbc. Your juvenile bs is really getting mundane and repetitive. Which equates to BORING BULL SHIT.
        Like the man said earlier, “Go away”.

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      3. My suggestion is don’t read it. I have been posting off and on in Wolf’s blog(s) going back to the pre-Pete Carroll era, under a previous handle, TrojanFan. So, what’s your excuse?

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      4. BS & Steve, best to ignore the petulant child.

        Several in here are actually in the firearms biz, even if it is more of a hobby. But some whacko loses it and he brings me up, a guy who has a couple of guns for home defense purposes only. Why? Because he’s not all there.

        As I told Michael a few days back, I actually feel sorry for the pathetic fuck.

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    2. it isn’t going to be pretty anyway…SC has always been a west coast team…not a snow plow country team

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  12. This is a major problem. Henson cannot recruit period. He can only recruit 3 Stars that are being recruited by the Mountain West Conference. He has been a complete failure as a recruiter. USC has lost its future left tackle Conerly to Oregon Community College and now it loses its future right tackle Mauigoa to the cheaters in South Beach. There is no other way to call this other than a complete and utter failure on the part of Henson and Riley. By the way, where are all of the commitments that were supposed to come out of the big July 16th weekend. So far only a 3 star linemen and a 3 star corner. Totally underwhelming guys. The Blvd/Stay Doubted and Riley need to step it up. Our entire offensive line for 2023 will now have to come out of next years Portal. This sucks. You need 4 and 5 star linemen as you head into the BIG 10. Not the 3 star variety. No excuses. Get it done!! Henson you are officially on the clock!!!

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  13. I forgot to mention that Henson cannot even recruit 3 star offensive lineman. He lost a recent battle for a 3 star lineman to Washington!!! Bleeping Washington. The defensive line recruiting is just as bad!! Only 1 3 star recruit whose only attribute is that he is big 6’5? 265 but unlike SEC defensive lineman he is slow and not very athletic!!! Lincoln the honey moon is over. Recruit better in the trenches or you will become a slightly better version of Penn State and Michigan!!!

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    1. Since you’re an expert on 3* offensive linemen! Perhaps, Riley has a spot for you on the staff.
      #KeepYourDayJob

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      1. Since your an expert on 3 inch dicks. Perhaps there is a toilet you can flush yourself down.

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    2. I understand your aggravation and I am wishing they would pull in a four star just shut people up. Take a look at O lines in the B1G. Not a lot of 4 and 5 stars everywhere. College football has a backbone made of 3 star players, everywhere. Except maybe Alabama or tOSU.

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      1. Coming from you, I’ll wear that as a badge of honor. I will call out the fools who continue to use alternative facts to promote their false agenda. One must stand tough at the point of attack, right?

        #ButItFeelsSoRight

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  15. Raid the Air! Air the Raid! Run the Counter Trey and bulldoze UT @ San Antonio, and the Presbyterian Blue Hose and other cream puffs, then when there is an actual opponent with a defense unleash the Raid and Air it out! Okay, those teams actually will defend but maybe the QB can run for their life and clean up the mess, Sam Darnold style. That won’t work for long of course but Sarkiffin during their moment of falling in love before returning to Jesus (no, sorry that was Saban), and Helton and Harrell and now Big Game Riley the new Sheriff in Town that don’t need no stinkin’ Linemen.

    (Actually LR wound up not getting some of the staff he wanted, and maybe he’ll take their input and come to Saban himself. And maybe LR and staff will learn to coach up linemen… Hope springs eternal. Can’t wait to visit Nebraska, Purdue, Minnesota and Iowa the type of teams in the middle of frozen nowhere that manage to beat up gimmick offenses that have more talent, given us a bad trip in more than one way. JK, no ‘SC fan if going to trek to the Rustbelt and cornfields, me included. But I still have my fingers crossed that all of this will pan out much differently.)

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  16. It does make me mad when it comes to losing another recruit to Mario Cristobal especially when some of the studies that I have read show that when Cristobal was at Oregon he developed players worse than CH and his team of coaches developed them. It’s a myth that Cristobal and his coaching team developes players. They don’t. But, at least, Riley is going down to the wire with these 4 and 5 star players. CH wasn’t in the running. SC just needs to develope their NIL program and start a winning tradition and they’ll start getting those guys.

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  17. Troll alert:

    Either troll or wolfman stirring the pot,
    Dallas Morning News
    FAKE pudly76
    Kirby Smart
    Gavin Curry

    All the same troll,

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  18. I think Francis Mauigoa made a mistake. He’s not going to get great coaching under Cristobal and I don’t think that he will play on great teams because Cristobal is not a great coach. He’s a great recruiter. Obviously he has his sales pitch down well. But just look at what Kyle Whittingham did to him last year with much less talent. Whittingham developes players. Cristobal doesn’t.

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    1. Miami made the biggest NIL $$$ offer. Whether it was Cristobal or his assistant, it would be the same outcome. Miami supposedly bid $2 million more than the next competitor.

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  19. he doesn’t want to play in the snow and freezing temps at B10 stadiums in Nov/dec…he wants ACC country where Miami can win in warm weather,Clemson will be their main opponent.

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      1. once in a while and no blizzards, avg 6 ” a year…a year , rarely all at once …I have lived in ACC country the last 18 years in Virginia. One time we had 12″ that year,over Dec-Feb.

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    1. Keyboard tough guy: someone who is needlessly belligerent/confrontational in online settings, but is a meek little bitch in real life. Because of poor life choices, a typical keyboard tough guy works a dead-end job and lives in a rathole apartment in a shitty neighborhood or a low-budget rest home.
      He is consumed by his jealousy of people who are more successful than him and his willingness to blame everybody but himself for his problems. As a result, he suffers from low self-esteem and anger issues.
      In the online world, he can A.) raise his self-esteem by acting far more aggressively than he would ever do in real-life settings and B.) vent his anger by projecting his jealousy, insecurity, and sexual frustration onto others in a non-face-to-face setting

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      2. Coming from you, I’ll wear that as a badge of honor. I will call out the fools who continue to use alternative facts to promote their false agenda. One must stand tough at the point of attack, right?

        #ButItFeelsSoRigh

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  23. How many years does it take for a fanboy to become a fan man? I can’t decide if I meet the requirements of a fanboy or not. Bear in mind that I’ve been rooting for USC football since I was old enough to watch TV. I’ve lived through McKay to Riley. I have more USC shirts than work shirts. All of this makes me a fanboy? I don’t follow recruiting unless it makes a splash so I doubt I am an authentic fanboy.

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