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Morning Buzz: Does Pac-12 Atmosphere Prepare USC For Real Success?

It shouldn’t be an issue Saturday but a problem last weekend was USC burning three timeouts in the first half because its offense was disorganized.

That was definitely surprising with how calm and organized the offense is expected to be under Lincoln Riley.

“I thought there were some things operationally from us that we’ve got to be more efficient with,” Riley said. “We wasted some unnecessary seconds there that have got to be coached and executed better. Definitely the noise was a factor.”

Noise won’t be a factor at home games so the next time it becomes an issue is Oct. 15 at Utah. That’s an inherent weakness of the Pac-12. You can go to a mausoleum atmosphere at places like Stanford, Cal, Arizona State and Arizona unless they are having a successful season. UCLA too but it might liven up for the Crosstown Rivalry. It hasn’t recently.

Does that prepare you for a possible trip to a College Football Playoff in a domed stadium in Atlanta or Glendale, Ariz.? You know the SEC teams will be prepared.

  • Based on the number of season-ticket holders I heard from yesterday, USC failed to contact quite a few of them about getting tickets for the UCLA game.

Some said they contacted USC themselves. Others decided they wouldn’t go to the game.

  • Speaking of tickets, look at all the available seats for Saturday’s Arizona State game. USC offering a 20 percent discount through Thursday. The No. 6-ranked team in the country!

69 thoughts on “Morning Buzz: Does Pac-12 Atmosphere Prepare USC For Real Success?”

  1. These coaches and players went into a new different atmosphere unprepared for what they encountered. They overcame it in the 2nd half and used timeouts much more wisely. Now they know how to handle it together, but noise is always a hinderance in some respects. I always wonder how do all these people contact Wolf all the time, is it through his email address on this site? I thought that was just there because it helped make the site look more legit.

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      2. You know, son, God lives inside your brain, personally knows your every thought. But don’t worry, there is no Hell!

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    2. These coaches and players went into a new different atmosphere unprepared for what they encountered. They overcame it in the 2nd half and used timeouts much more wisely. Now they know how to handle it together, but noise is always a hinderance in some respects. I always wonder how do all these people contact Wolf all the time, and not me, especially since I’m the original Fanboy, USC Ass Lick Cock Sucker ? Btw Ed.G, I checked my tonsils with a dirty Dildo too, but not before I checked my dogs anus first 😀👍🏼

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      2. Ha, why is everything you post gay? Are you out? Even if you were there’s nothing wrong with it, unless you’re a homophobic like I just proved to be myself. Ugh … life of a USC ass lick Fuckboy, but I absolutely love it

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  2. The USC Trojan Marching Band should always be behind the team. And, it looks like there are available sections behind the USC bench.

    #GetTheTrojanMarchingBandOutOfTheSunDeck

    #PutTheGodAwfulDJInTheSunDeck-WithoutHisTurntables

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      2. So Cal,

        DJ Mikaski, the Polish black guy, is old and tiring. He has been at the baskeball games for 10 years now. I have asked him to play different songs and he says yes but doesn’t do it. He plays the same routine and the same songs. He is not needed at all. Maybe for a track meet in between meets but that is all i can think of.

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  3. COVID-fear is having an effect on ticket sales, some folks still have not completely gotten rid of the 7-year Ton-o-Hel “itch” (stench?), and others may not be 100% behind this peculiarly assembled SC carpetbagger team

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    1. NFL is sold out and Dodgers setting attendance record. No fear of Covid, it’s over now, new strains are nothing worse than a cold.

      Win, and the place will fill up.

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      1. Right, goose, it’s a free country, think what you want,
        but fact is COVID is not going away,
        it is here to stay

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  4. Warning– I rarely am serious, but I am as serious as a heart attack, as follows:

    –Burns me up that Mr. Wolf will entertain bitchy letters from spoiled SC
    ticket-holders, but refuses, and continues to refuse, to wipe-out, delete, and totally destroy the vile, profane trash that imitators are defecating all over his blog.

    — Some of us have used our true names here, like Michael and Charles, and to have that filth printed with our names attached is unacceptable

    — I am not talking about the likes of TB who the imitators don’t bother copying because they cannot out-duel TB’s range of profanity, and I say let TB remain, his stuff is not personal, but as for the obvious imitators, get rid of them now, Scott, or be forced to do so.

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    1. LJ
      As long as the trash and brown trout is allowed to post then it can be assured that no SEO will take place here to advance the exposure on the net. Wolf can stop the nonsense very quickly but chooses not to and the result is the blog will basically be a small inbred affair with limited exposure.

      The alternative would be a blog that would generate far more legitimate exposure and advertising revenue. Wolf either doesn’t understand this or is satisfied with what he has sowed.

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      1. Good stuff, ’75, and I might add ‘Ever think of starting your own blog
        with guys like Mike Guarino to fire up the imagination?’

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      2. Scott is in this for the advertising cash. I have been posting on this blog since Michael Lev was the beat reporter. I have had several names, changing only after trolls chased me enough to make me quit. At least a couple of times trolls sent emails to me and once mentioned my family members by name.
        “Ghost of me” is after “Me” for chased off and I closed my account for the third time. I have corresponded with Scott on several occasions. He has posted my pictures of broken seats and drunk fans in his column. So I wrote to him last season about the conditions on the blog, his response was “I don’t moderate and I don’t know who you are.”
        The most simple solution is to have everyone need a sign in to post. Then the moderator could stop the vile and needless posts easily. Scott would win also as he’d be able to.point to his account numbers as proof his blog works. I have actually posted using “madeupemail@gmail.com” and it goes in. Not much security here.

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      3. Scott: I am not satisfied with what I have sown —but drawing up & policing guidelines is probably more trouble than it’s worth.
        I keep wishing the False Ed [etc., etc.] will just die and take care of the problem for me.
        Everyone…please… join me in my wish.
        #ItWorkedForPeterPanWithTinkerbell

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      5. John,
        As someone who has always been impressed with what you say here [and formerly elsewhere], I’d like to reply to your New Concept [you are, after all, our concept guy]: Scott is amazingly adroit at keeping things moving —he’s the Bill Clinton of blogs [no rules —just come out ahead]. I don’t think we can do better than him. What we CAN do is police the blog ourselves —as you do —by belittling and/or refuting the falsies. We have the power to make it so uncomfortable for the folks who take advantage of the blog’s Wild West atmosphere that they, eventually, leave . ….which would be a holiday blessing…..except for tebow and Gabby. They actually make a lot of sense on the sports side of things — even when I disagree with them
        On a very personal note, I wish Gabby and So Cal would stop going at each other. So Cal seems offended by the fact that Gabby presents the “other side” to his [So Cal’s] obviously correct impressions of the disastrous Biden regime. The fact that Gabby has figured out clever rebuttals to So Cal’s clarity on these issue isn’t worth So Cal’s constant sur-rebuttals. We all get it. Biden is through. But Gabby should be free to impishly argue otherwise. By giving him a forum, he’s actually getting better at it —and we shouldn’t want that.

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      6. I laugh at the bs he spews. But you’re right. He’s free to do it and even I would argue for his right to do as he pleases….defend a guy who called out to a dead Congresswoman yesterday!

        “Jackie, where are you?”

        Oh, so she’s not coming? 😛

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      7. Biden should be 25thed outta office. Alan Alda did a movie about a senile senator [who had way more on the ball than Biden] and the finale revolved around the notion that the FIRST time he demonstrated his dementia in a public forum he was through. How can Biden’s obvious dementia be ignored by the media [or the repubs in congress…or his own cabinet]?
        #25thAmendmentBeforeHeMarriesHisDaughterOnLiveTV

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      9. 25th both of ’em [initiate the articles of impeachment directly after Kamala’s next statement about making the “whole world part of NATO”]—
        #…JustWaitUntilNancyIsGoneInJanuaryToDoIt…

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      10. Kamala this morning: “The United States has a strong alliance with the Republic of North Korea.”

        Yes, she really said that.

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    1. Tally-ho, Ed-O–

      More words Ed has brought down from Mt. Sinai to share with his underlings–

      (Paraphrasing) ‘ With Helton, there was never any hiccups in the road’
      — No it was more like the San Andreas Fault

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    2. ugh,for gaims in to the seezin and evry thing aint purficked,i new we wuz gunna mis r preevius couch,thare wuz nevr enny hick cups when I give steveg49 blow job. I digest everything witout problem. i tape missus dildo 2 mi forehead n walk around like mr. Unicorn last night her got excited

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    3. SoCal
      Gab is not up yet so you’ve gotten a minor reprieve. The tables can keep a guy there late. Maybe he hit a winning streak.

      What I can’t understand is why the silence on the NORDSTREAM pipeline explosions after the big guy said that the US can insure that they can(must) be disabled(and therefore Euro countries can(cannot) continue(if nonoperational)) their reliance on Russian energy)

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      2. All joking aside, you’re right. Joe said in Feb, “If Russia invades… then there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”

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      3. I’m as shocked as you, Cal75…It’s not like mainstream media to ignore a story as huge as this [that is, if you’re not counting the massive Dominion fraud in the last election, Hunter’s billion dollar deal with the Communist Chinese Government, the FBI initiated trespass of the Capital on January 6th, the unconstitutional waiver of speedy trial for January 6th defendants, the unmonitored billions of taxpayer $$ going into Ukraine, etc., etc.]……

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  6. Maybe the 7:30pm starts contributes to the poor ticket demand?
    Plus, I also think the 22 to 40 year old age group just doesn’t have that same passion to attend live sporting events like their parents.

    SC burned out a lot of its fanbase during the lost decade as well.

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    1. Didn’t think of that, YoungDole, that sports interest is down
      largely due to the 22-40 year old crowd preferring to be on their phone or computer

      “Judge not, lest ye be judged” someone once said, so I have no comment

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  7. A least Wolf could get a moderator who could delete the posts that do nothing but destroy the blog. They don’t bother me as all I have to do is look at the gravatar and move on knowing the worthless crap they post.

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    1. I don’t know, Steve, I deal with the fake LJ posters immediately,
      by posting a sharp disclaimer that I wrote the trash.

      Some folks will believe anything they read

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  8. Scooter,

    Reminder, this is all new to Riley, Williams, and Grinch be being here at SC. I think with more games and more experience in dealing with adversity, they will will get better and be able to deal with the pressure in a different and more positive manner. But you are right, for a moment, I thought Helton was back by having three time outs called real fast.

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    1. PT —Only two differences between Helton and Riley: (1) After Helton timeouts the team would come back on the field more confused than ever …(2) we’d lose the game.

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  9. …continuing with the analysis of the Under-40 crowd shying away from sports interest, and to render balance to my teasing the Under-40s (they’re so easy to pick on), but–

    There is a lot to do in the Big-City other than SC football! I have been to small towns from Ohio St to Down South Auburn, and down there
    you’re either sitting on the porch eating watermelon
    or you go to the game

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    1. LJ , another factor is the horrible traffic, parking problem. They need to take out a museum and put in a golf course like other LA based college teams. And tailgate fees? Mrs. Ghost and I take the train, but we start in Sierra Madre to cut down on the number of transient persons sharing the ride (for free). Don’t get me started on the nonuniform security at the gate.

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      1. The tailgate fees really pissed us off and a lot of people with whom we’ve tailgated. Some finally said enough is enough and are now staying home and watching on TV.

        I’m leaning towards doing the same, but the wife enjoys going to the games.

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      3. I don’t know how much. I do know they have different prices for the size of your party: 2-9, 10-20, 21-50, 50+.

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      4. Ghost,

        So you get on at Sierra Madre in Pasadena? I took the train one time from Lake Street to Union Station and it took 40 minutes. I could have driven to China Town and back to Pasadena in 40 minutes. I always thought that if i were to take the train again, I would drive to Highland Park and grab it there. It is free parking and close to Union Station. I just love seeing all the people hanging out at the stop on Lake St. It reminds me of Harvard with all the bums hanging out at the stop for the T subway.

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      6. Pasadena we drive from Rialto to get the train. We used to take metrolink from Fontana to Union Station, but there are no guaranteed post game trains on that line. There are trains to Orange County for the rich USC train riders that leaves 30 minutes (I think) after the game ends. Anyway we first took the Gold line from Azusa and shared the trip with a street person who smelled like a skunk had crawled into his back pocket. The sheriff came onboard and checked our tickets, but just nodded towards the stinky guy.
        Still it beats parking on some guy’s lawn or the congo line for parking in official lots. Sierra Madre is nice with multilevel free parking and fewer people hitting on my daughter. The drawback is the postgame crowd. We usually walk a couple of blocks to a station before USC to get a seat on a less crowded car. It’s part of our game day ritual.

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      7. I’d love to take the train to & from the Coliseum. But I’ve been on the train only a handful of times during the day and some of the people on it at that time were bad enough. I can’t imagine what it’s like after the sun goes down.

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    2. What I have read in different columns is that college football attendance is down everywhere, except a few places where there is virtually nothing else to do.

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      1. Steveg49 Earlier this year there was an uproar about tailgating fees. I looked and couldn’t find the story. You have to register for space on campus and to put up an easyup. The cost is based on the size of your party. It must be 6 weeks in advance or there is a late fee. You can start 6 hours in advance but you must end at kickoff. I think USC cut back on the fees because I remember seeing $600 being published. Checking today it’s between $40 and $75 for a permit.

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  10. Obviously Wolf doesn’t realize there are more people that have left the blog than are on it. I remember back when Nobs was on and he finally got banned. I do miss Charlie Bucket, Pudly, and a couple of others. Wolf can deal with it if he wanted to. Obviously he doesn’t care or is to lazy.

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    1. P76 rarely shows up because he has better things to do. I was not aware that bucket or nobs were given the hook. Neither reserved it if so.

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      1. Ha, I was trying to see how the fake assholes do it. Now I know. I have a friend that can virtually find the person that sends posts to a blog or sends an email. I was thinking about talking to him and have him expose the fakes on here.

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  13. Replying to MG’s advice to self-police Wolf’s blog exorcising crass imitators’ comments with our own counter-rebukes in the hopes that the vulgar imitators will eventually go away, is unfortunately dependent on one thing–
    the willingness of the vile perpetrators to quit.

    –Don’t see it happening, you are dealing (probably) with grown men who have a nasty mischievous 12-year-old boy mind. You ain’t gonna be able to reform those babies overnight!

    If this were your blog, or anybody’s blog, how hard is it to read, spot, and delete obvious filthy imitators’ profane comments? (Not very)

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  15. P.S.– Kudos to Scott Wolf for sticking with
    the ”Vile Imitators’ Problem’ a little longer than usual
    before typically abrupting the conversation prematurely while rushing off to another silly topic

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