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USC Sunday Buzz: Pac-12 Creates Crosstown Conflict

The Pac-12 announced its remaining kick off times this morning for next weekend and it creates an interesting conflict.

USC and UCLA will both play at 7:30 p.m. The Trojans host Cal on ESPN while the Bruins play Arizona State on Fox Sports 1.

You have 2 of the Pac-12’s Big 4 playing at the same time? Both L.A. teams kick off at the same time?

Does this make sense from a fan standpoint?

In the Pac-12, it’s business as usual. Kind of like bad refs.

47 thoughts on “USC Sunday Buzz: Pac-12 Creates Crosstown Conflict”

  2. 7:30 pm kickoff for two teams most likely to be ranked in the top 10. Really? 10:30 pm eastern time, 9:30 pm central time. They are flushing every viewer outside the mountain time zone down the toilet.

    #ConferenceWithLoserLeaderhsip

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      1. Doesn’t it send shivers down your spine to think it’s the administrators of the PAC12 universities that hire these clowns to manage, grow and lead the conference. I thought Larry was bad, but georgie seems more of a showboat with as little knowledge about college football as Larry. I am also turned off by Kliavkoff’s lies. Too bad he wasnt part of the helton era, they would have been fast buddies. GK’s comments about no one thinks the LA team departure is a good idea irks me. Well, if it’s those with their hands out receiving from SC, it’s not surprising.

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      2. Having this jackass in charge of USC’s destiny for the next year and a half is like having a superiors court judge preside over the trial of a former campaign donor who has switched allegiances to another candidate in the upcoming judicial election. There is such an obvious conflict of interest it would take an even bigger jackass not to complain about it….
        #CueMikeBohn

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  4. Wolf has a ‘Guess the Score’ Contest and no one takes a tally of who won?–
    LJ– SC 45-31 Off by 6-points
    CR Smith SC 42-32 Off by 8-points
    Pasadena Trojan 45-28 Off by 9-points
    Gabby 45-28 Off by 9-points

    It should be added that PT and Gabby had the game in the bag except for an exceptional last minute Arizona touchdown

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    1. Good call, John…
      #…AndAn”Exceptional”WaivingOffTheLastSecondsOf1stHalf….
      #…WhichProbablyTook7USCPointsOffTheBoard…
      #[KindaLikeTakingAnInterceptionOffTheBoardInSaltLake]….

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  5. I am not a conspiracy guy but either there seems to be something going on at Pac12 HQ. The questionable refereeing and the moronic TV scheduling makes one wonder. Can an organization be this incompetent?

    At this rate, USC UCLA game on Nov 19th will be scheduled at 8PM.

    The Pac12 commish is a clown. Everyone I speak to at the games and in my circle of Alumni friends, are ecstatic about move to B10. Yes, we are deeply sad about end of historical rivalries. However, Pac12 was nowhere to be seen to support us regarding NCAA infractions. They do not care about USC or UCLA for that matter. SEC and BIG10 support their institutions 1000% more.

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    1. The roughing penalty and subsequent cancelling out of a USC interception and the penalties on every play in our final drive in Salt Lake…. and the premature end to the half when USC had time on the clock in Tucson — aren’t random acts of witless officiating.
      Fortunately for the Pac 12 Commissioner, USC’s A.D. is a bona fide chickenshit who’d never get involved in a real fight over anything for anybody.

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    2. Great comments, YoungDole! It is mindboggling to witness the ineptitude of the conference leadership year after year without thinking the university administrators really don’t care about football and they are driven only by their own pet projects. Carol only got interested when the well was drying out because of our anger about keeping a fool at HC who destroyed the young athletes and they history and traditions of our very special school.

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  6. Nobody cares about times SUCLA is not worth watching hell there are more fans at Bosco Mater Dei high school game. We will have about 55k fans to their 15k at the Rosebowl, so it’s a home game for us. Did R. Davis get any meaniful snaps.

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    1. Even if we have 40,000 fans we’ll have four times as many as the bruins have —and, more importantly, after what our team has been through at Corvallis, Salt Lake and Tucson —the Rose Bowl will be a breeze….
      #USCHasSeen&HeardItAll…
      #We’reBattleTested

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  7. From the multiple comments it looks as if the Posters have taken SC to the’ back of the woodshed’–

    A good Defense needs 9 solid players out of 11; SC has maybe 5

    MG– “…just too many dumb calls…”

    SC was more explosive without Addison and Williams playing

    Bourbon– Can Wiley’s game management beat sucla’s
    ‘Chip-on-his-shoulder’ or Neuter Dame? However coach of the year should go to Wiles “with what he inherited”

    ‘Celeb’ is too greedy going for the big play too often which takes time to develop when he often has an open underneath receiver

    Just Owns– SC spells wine with an ‘h’ as they continue to hee-haw over the anti-SC refs’ calls thus confirming Trojans as no class babies
    –to which MG retorted with tongue firmly in cheek– “Ooh! You make me so mad”

    That Arizona quarterback had SC defenders wondering who the heck was Fran Tarkenton?

    SC needs linebackers who can run. Passing is nearly 2/3 of the game now, so give them the run but take away the pass

    ‘World’ takes the high-view road– “Just seeing the Trojans relevant again …is enough for me”

    LJ– A coach ordering an early on-sides kick will usually fail and be called a ‘moron,’ whereas if he succeeds fans say he is Einstein-ish

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  8. Just ordered “Tough Guys Don’t Dance” DVD on eBay. Hope my DVD player still works. Ryan O’Neill is a flawed human being. Watch “Barry Lyndon”. Kubrick was great.

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    1. Lee Majors: “Ryan I’m going to be out of town working on ‘6 Million Dollar Man’ for awhile. Would you mind looking in on Farrah from time to time!?” Talk about the fox in the hen house.

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    2. Re-Watch the boxing match in Barry Lyndon, Charles. Great guide on how to fight a jerk who only throws haymaker right hands —duck the right and throw a left hook. It always works — the guy’s whole right side is open after he throws and misses.

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      1. MG I knew you would know that movie ❤️ I don’t remember that scene, I’m going to have to watch it again. I remember the duel with the stepson. Kind of how imagine Ryan O’Neill in real life. Was talking to a guy once about Neptune’s Net on Hwy 1 at the Ventura County line. “I looked around and there was Ryan O’Neill at the next table.”

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  10. Regarding the scheduling: who cares? Regarding presiding over certain trials, in the jurisdiction where I rode the bench for 28 years, judges can be called to jury duty. I was called for duty in a “bad baby” med mal case over which I was presiding. When my name was called, a shock to the prospective jurors, I humbly excused myself.

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    1. Love it, Your Honor.
      [When called as a juror, I always wait till the end of voir dire & raise my hand to say “I just want to bring to the court’s attention the fact I can’t work with other people.” The the rest of the panel gets real quiet …and the attorneys quickly stipulate I need to be excused].

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      2. I’ve disrobed, but find myself on a jury panel. This past January I was among the prospective jurors on a felony possession of child porn case. Several years ago I sentenced the defendant to a four year term in the pen. Neither the prosecuting attorney or defense counsel did due diligence. Had voir dire included prospective juror beyond an initial thirty-two, I was looking forward to being asked: “Is anyone acquainted with the defendant?”

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      4. So Cal,
        Forgive me …but I feel dutybound to pass your reply on to your Jury Commissioner….
        #IKnowYouUnderstand

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      6. Ha! Somebody seems familiar with the the priest’s closing rubric in the confessional box….
        #…AndGoInPeace

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  11. jury panel occasionally
    neither nor
    prospective jurors
    I blame the editor
    On another occasion, in Federal Court, the District Court Judge, a tennis playing buddy of mine, addressed me as “Judge” during his voir dire. All the other prospective jurors immediately displayed the quizzical look of “what the hell is a judge doing on a jury?”

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    1. Trial Judge: “Anyone acquainted with the defendant?”
      You: “Permission to respond fully and truthfully, your Honor?”
      Trial Judge: “Please.”
      You: “Thank you…..here goes…etc., etc.”
      #DefenseCounsel[OneSecondLater]:”I’dLikeToRequestAMistrial”

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      1. Excellent dialogue, your honor. You’d have been welcome in the Lance Lee (on loan from Yale) playwriting class with John Ritter and, among others, moi. I thought John was a total loser. George Lucas too. In reality, I would have requested a sidebar, the trial judge would have excused me, and I would have smilingly exited the courtroom to the confusion of the remaining prospective jurors.

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      2. Ha! [I guess that marks the difference between us —you would have handled the matter correctly].
        P.S.
        #PrettyFrickingImpressiveResume,Judge

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  12. Here’s a fun tidbit, as long as we’re on the cusp of the subject of criminal law, when OJ visited USC freshman orientation week of 1966 (I was a freshman) the athletic department assigned another freshman (a basketball player) who was/is a great friend to share his room at Marks (Marx?) Tower and escort him to the various venues where he was to be courted. OJ came on a Friday and left on Sunday afternoon, back to the Bay Area Juco. When Monday morning rolled around my friend, OJ’s weekend host, discovered OJ had stolen all of his clean underwear. As time passed, and Ron and Nicole too, we freshman buddies (four of us) now realize that had OJ been turned in for underwear thievery, poor Ron and Nicole may still be alive. And, as a judge occasionally presiding over juvenile court, when a juvenile was adjudicated a delinquent for underwear theft, knowing that underwear thievery is a gateway crime to murder, I always prophylactically threw the book at them.

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    1. “Frosh in 1966”? Did you vote for me for USC Student Body President when we were both juniors in 1969?
      “As time passed”? Did I ever appear before you?
      #DidYouEverHaveToHoldMeInContempt? [One wonderful, beautiful young judge told me “I’d hold you in contempt…. if I knew how to hold the hearing”]…..

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      1. You ran for Student Body President?! What was your platform? If you ran on a ticket promoting girls and booze in the men’s dorms then you had my vote for sure. I don’t recall much about campus politics way back when other than David Harris being escorted off campus by a few anti-anti-war fellows one morning when he harangued students on their way to class in front of Doheny Library. Your court appearance reminds me of the day I reported for duty. My robe hadn’t arrived so a deputy clerk of courts rounded up one that had been left behind by a retired judge. She told me his name. The last time I’d seen that robe was when I appeared in juvenile court when I was a senior in high school.

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      2. Rushmore,
        The “girls in the men’s dorms” candidate was Eric Cohen, the very clever editor of the Daily Trojan and the Scott Wolf of his day [who I outpolled pretty easily].
        byw, The robe story is pretty touching, actually.
        #FullCircleStoriesAreTheBest

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    2. Given his checkered past, OJ is still treated like royalty here in Las Vegas, his current place of residence.

      According to a source, he has not stopped looking for Nicole’s killer.

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      3. Yeah…I guess he “finds” him several times every day….
        #IKnowThisSoundsNutsButIFeelBadForO.J…..
        #…EvenThoughIt’sUnfashionableInTheExtreme…
        #…ToHavePityOnAManWhoDestroyedLives[IncludingHisOwn]

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