With the defense imploding last night, I heard this argument from some fans and ESPN announcer Dave Pasch: USC is 8-1 and made a dramatic improvement from last year when it won only 4 games, so there is a lot to celebrate.
My reaction: What did you expect?
Let’s review a few things regarding USC.
- Last year’s team gave up while being coached by two people (Clay Helton, Donte Williams) who basically never had control over the team.
- It took 26 transfers, including who many consider the best QB in the nation (Caleb Williams).
- It hired one of the best coaches in the nation and paid him $10 million.
- USC has an easy schedule and has been favored in every game this season but one (Utah).
This doesn’t mean USC being 8-1 is not a successful season. It means don’t compare things to last year’s disaster when poor management by Mike Bohn allowed the program’s inadequacies to fester longer than necessary. When USC ended last season with a loss to Cal, I said it was the Trojans’ worst season since 1957 when they went 1-9.
But USC is still USC. You hire a good coach; bring in good players; play a favorable schedule and you will win a lot of games.
It’s a good accomplishment but not a miracle on Figueroa as Pasch made it sound last night. Especially when giving up 406 passing yards to Cal.
406. Ha!
Plummer looked like the king hippie out there.
I have to go back to selling armaments and ordnance.
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WHAT?…..The Gofundme account isn’t enough to keep you above water……pathetic!
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The Helton era Sunshine Pumpers were out in force on the other blog
8-1 blah blah blah this and 8-1 blah blah blah that, well they better enjoy the upcoming win over Colorado because its going to be the laat win of this season for ‘Ol Mule Shoe and Grinch’s Ladies of Troy
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What other blog….Trojan Daily?
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Slo cal told me the hippie is now a “ward of the state”….. I have asked his handlers to return him to his room when he starts to become belligerent
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Grinch, Nua and the other idiot Donte Williams are more comparable to the Three Stooges
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The only thing Cal hippie gas ever sold was his ass while wearing his Girl Friday outfit up in the Castro District
The clown is so broke he can’t make change of a nickel for his clients
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That would explain the zippers in the rear…..ouch!
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Travis Dye is not a happy camper. I can see why being in ‘Ol Mule Shoe’s pass happy offense
Dye should be getting a helluva lot more touches
Doesn’t matter that the Ladies of Troy have a shit offensive line, Dye always seems to make something positive out of nothing, just like Ronald Jones used to
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What is your point about what Pasch said? Why don’t you look at what you were speaking before the season started Mr. Wolf? The season is going as expected. The real tests for success will be how they play against UCLA and Notre Dame. Right now betraying the Bruins take precedence over defeating the Irish.
Winning both games would be wonderful.
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USC is one play away from 9-0. Nobody expected this. This year could have turned out to be like Miami with Cristobal or Oklahoma with Venables. Scottie, the times are changing, try a different schtick.
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Scott’s reply to This World:
“It would even be more wonderfuller if they lost both games…”
#OneThousandPostGameHitsOnInsideUSC
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If this team lost road games to the Beavers and the Utes, Wolf would suggest that Riley “failed” to deliver. If the pac 12 is so easy, why can’t teams go undefeated?
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Drop’d the mic.
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Can’t argue with any of Wolf’s points – a rational critique.What I’d like to know from the fellow bloggers is….Why was the player from Oklahoma State (I think it was ) was being called a genius for signaling for a fair catch on an anticipated onside kick and then for some reason, subsequent receiving teams aren’t doing it? Could we have tried this last night?
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Falling on the ball woulda been just as nice…
#Don’tTryToFieldIt,Son…
#…JustThrowYourBodyOverItLikeItWasAGrenade
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Ask slo cal…. he’s the new special team coach……
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I am starting to agree with Scott more and more, is that wrong?
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yes.
Life is great as a Trojan. The wind is always at our backs. People hate us cuz we’re smart, hard-working, and successful.
But hey. Self-loathing works for some.
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Except at least half on this blog couldn’t spell correctly or write a grammatically correct sentence let alone, God forbid, string two sentences together cohesively.
For years!!!
I guess there was no English Dept at SC.
And the drunks that inhabit this site, whew!
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Get a life you fucking troll……It’s truly pathetic how an old fucking relic feels the need to post on a rival blog calling out others over trivial grammar/spelling mistakes.
I spy an icicle on your chin or did the orange cheeto reach a happy ending?
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The question is will Riley be able to recruit defensive players so USC is not just a “fast break” offensive team incapable of beating the top teams. Riley, may get us to the college football playoffs just like he did at Oklahoma, but remember very few if any “fast break’ offensive teams have every won a national championship or even advanced far in the playoffs.
Will Riley win some games at SC- yes, but unless he changes with more emphysis on defense there will probably be no trophies other leading the nation in offensive stats.
Lincoln Riley is the modern era Bill Walsh.. Innovative, and creative yes on offense just like Bill.. A great football coach with lots of championships in college no. Like Mike Leach also no championships lot of offensives with great stats.
To me–we might beat ND, but not UCLA..
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Apparently you haven’t been keeping up on the Irish lately. Take a look at what they did to what was an 8-0 Clemson team last night.
The Ladies of Troy have one more win coming to them this season vs Colorado that’s it.
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If we are 100% healthy we might take UCLA —but we need at least one takeaway.
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Hey wolf, it’s truly comical how your agenda has failed to gain any traction. Here’s some needed advice, stick with the nostalgia stuff. It’s definitely more in your wheelhouse.
A source has revealed, your so-called PAC12 coach(actually the graveyard custodian) has yet to return your call since mid-summer…..
Comparisons are based on a product sample past or present. So how in the fuck can all of us supporters of Trojan football un-forget the dumpster fire known as Clay Helton……
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Gabvillageidiot
You degenerate drunk lowlife. You went to a university and think gambling and boozing is a profession? You are truly the village idiot. I ran into Doyle brunson. You are no Negeanru, bronson. Go back to the bicycle club and Indian casinos you lush.
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Calcastroidiot
You degenerate drunk lowlife. You went to a university and think peddling guns and ammo is a profession? You are truly the castro idiot. Go back to your room and continue to paint your trump poster white you lush
#triggered!
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Mr. Guarino, unfortunately you are correct. The cantankerous Jackie Cooper act is almost sad buffoonery. Pasch has a national perspective and he understands how hard it is to win games in today’s college football. USC can’t win on talent alone anymore. It’s more professional now than ever before. Everyone has to be on one accord or you end up losing close games. The altitude in Salt Lake City should not have mattered. The injuries on the road games should not be a factor. Referees always suck. You play too win the games and some guys don’t care about winning because they are losers or frauds at best. Too much money and talent is lost when you lose a game. Wolf forgets the pressure would break a lesser person or group. It broke Helton. Carroll ran away. These guys respond. It’s a crappy response but the win is what matters. We’ll ask for style points next season.
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I don’t know where your philosophy regarding big-boy football was derived from, but I respectfully disagree with most of it.
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Gabvillageidiot
You degenerate drunk lowlife. You went to a university and think gambling and boozing is a profession? You are truly the village idiot. I ran into Doyle brunson. You are no Negeanru, brunson. Go back to the bicycle club and Indian casinos you lush
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2022 USC Ladies of Troy football team…the worst 8-1 team in the history of football
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Worst, most embarrassing team with a winning record “in history” is an honor bestowed on the 1998 bruins. Favored to murderize Miami and head to National Championship the bruins gave up 49 points and became the laughing stock of college football….
#TheL.A.Times:”TheStageWasTooBigForTheseLosers”
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We all know t-bone suffers from selective memory.
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Selective mammaries?
#Won’tSecretForUSCMascotsNamedChester
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Another few more of these are coming the Ladies of Troy way when they play UCLA, ND and whoever they play in a bowl game
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Do you have anything that tops a NATTY?……I’m waiting
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Other than SC games that ’98 loss by the suclas is my favorite for depriving them of a probable national championship, and with Craig (is that the correct name?) running roughshod through the Westwooders I was screaming throughout the game.
Years later I got into a discussion with some neighbor who brought up that game and I told him how I loved seeing sucla lose, to which he said he was a sucla-lover and he never talked to me again.
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Scott Wolf didn’t mention the transfer portal which has been a godsend. Riley has used it masterfully, but without it USC would be in a 2-3 year rebuild. Dart would still be the QB (not bad but not CW) and USC could be 5-4 right now.
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EXACTLY!
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He did mention transfers, but 8-1 very good turnaround after 4-8.
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Beating either one of our 2 Big Rivals in November will clinch “Memorable Season” Award ….
#[I’dTakeUCLAMyself]
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T-bone….. Please jolt my memory….I seem to forget what team you pledge your allegiance to…..remind us…..thanks!
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…. does his Georgia Southern bumper sticker answer your question, Gabby?
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USC was 5-1 and a dropped pass from a perfect season and post season invite the last time we had a full time coach. And we all agreed that the games were too tight, the style of fb would never win an NC and that we had far, far, far too much talent to be playing shtty teams that close….
Budget and Facilities
Then we added the highest paid coach and staff (add the living allowances and homes, still the highest)… We gave a salary to the team, and a couple of other PAC best recruiters to strengthen us and weaken our competitors… And USC has put tens of millions into having some of the best facilities in the nation, even when we won NCs without that.
Experience
We brought the backbone of OU’s team and staff who had already been together to win now, and we chose coaches that had the same offense and defense to win now.
OL
We brought an All ACC OT to strengthen the O-line, along with the OL that graded out as top in the nation. (Keep in mind those grades are for linemen and how they hold their blocks and carry out assignments, so if the scheme or system causes them to do something like hold up for 4 seconds, or the RBs and TEs suck at blocking and the QB gets beat up, it’s not measuring that). https://twitter.com/pff_college/status/1473639461367922689?lang=en
QB
A Heisman candidate QB from Oklahoma and Riley’s system, plus his best OU receiver…
RBs
We brought in the best players from the P12 including the best and one of the most talented in Travis Dye and Austin Jones from Stanford… Raleek Brown a 5* and the top RB in the nation just came in (I actually question his size and blocking but that’s me). There is Darwin Barlow, part of the Texas recruiting of Harrell, but keep in mind, USC actually chased out the rest of the 4/5 star backs saying we wanted one back doing most carries, and one of those was our only big back, the type of 220lb guy that can one-cut bulldoze with size and speed, block and occasionally catch… Markese Stepp was that dude and only wanted to be a Trojan (I get that he was vocal about wanting Helton to stay but he’s a kid, he just needed to be brought on board- rather have someone loyal to a fault than disloyal).
WR
And those WRs include Mario Williams and the Biletnikoff winner!!! And that was adding to a receiving corp that was already the most talented in the nation with 5* and perhaps most talented WR in the nation in Kyle Ford and MJ3, Brenden Rice, and two more 4 stars and top talents in Terrell Bynum and CJ Williams. Both were also four-stars along with Tahj Washington and Gary Bryant Jr. and another top WR Kyron Ware-Hudson who I assume is gonna transfer bc there is NOWHERE with the talent and depth.
DL and LB
And on defense we pinched All American freshman Gentry the ASU star at LB… Also on defense we brought Romello Height at OLB a talented player Auburn, Earl Barquet DE a talented and productive player from TCU, Shane Lee who was once a top producer and starter at Bama who is now the team captain.
Secondary
And our secondary is one of the most talented in the nation. We brought in the best CBs from Oklahoma in Latrell McCutchin and the best CB from Colorado in Mekhi Blackmon even as we have the 5* all world Domani Jackson and a number of other top corners and safeties in the nation, definitely one of the best secondary groups by talent in the nation, with four stars Ceyair Wright, Max Williams, Jaylin Smith and Calen Bullock.
Defensive Depth
On the DL/LB corp there are a bunch of 3-4 stars, everyone offered by top 10 schools nationally and the top PAC schools, Stanley Ta’ufo’ou, Brandon Pili, Tyrone Taleni, De’jon Benton, Ralen Goforth …
And let’s break some of that down. Nick Figeroa was the #2 SDE in the nation coming out. Ralen Goforth the #22 OLB. Korey Foreman the #1 DL and #2 player overall at any position. Stanley Ta’ufo’ou #25 ILB, Brandon Pili #40… These weren’t garbage players.
Compare to Helton
With all those upgrades from a squad that was a pass drop from being undefeated in Helton’s last full year, this low expectation stuff is delusional and telling. Compare to the talent and time that any other P12 squad or opposing team has!
Compare to Competition
The comparative talent level, and coaching turnover in the P12 or for that matter ND makes USC the most experienced and stable team around, yet USC is squeaking by CAL?! And playing a better and improved and more disciplined game but still often the same 7 on 7 offense with high possessions and bouts of pass happiness that got Helton and Harrell run out of town… You can blame Grinch to an extent but he’s really the fall guy when a D is on the field, has quick change of possession, and there’s tons of possessions, same at OU as USC, and wait til we play big boy teams…. Surely the penalties have dropped (for all you bitching, USC never gets called for holds these days, and people have been called for Personal Fouls for breathing on Caleb because the PAC splits the money; Oregon has been getting the same treatment).
PS, this sht is from memory, so if I forget or confuse a name and you’re actually butthurt because you disagree pls STFU about it.
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I noticed a couple of errors …oh, wait…just read your last sentence. Sorry.
#[ActuallySomePrettyGreatStuff,Global]
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Lol Win or lose I can deal with that part. Seeing the kids playing and at least some of the faces in the crowd still makes me think of those days, I swear I see some of my old friends sometimes. I wish I went on more weekenders now. But I’ll put my money on the woke folks eventually going away, and SC back in some new PAC. And the SC-UGLY game this year promises to be one for the ages, as does the SC-Domer game. Oh, and I still have a funny feeling about UGLY remaining, which in the long shot it happens will put pressure on SC admins if not now, in the future. I also heard talk from someone that the new commish is trying to raid the B12 which would at least make all this comical and maybe hasten the end of the whole NCAA set up.
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USC is hot and cold, all over the place. It is fair to question whether there is a coaching issue here. Oregon is getting better, LSU is getting better each week. USC is not.
Well coached teams rise during the season.
There are other things about this program that are concerning.
– Why does Bohn-head want to destroy any NIL collective not under his control? This is an easy way to have deniability. Let the outside collectives do the dirty work of paying players.
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Glad to have you back.
Good points.
Enjoying this year and looking forward to 2023.
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PPS, the move to the Big 10 is the worst bs ever. SC stood in the way and blocked all expansion (I was surprised as anyone when the Commish leaked that bc I always thought it was the SC and the other Cal schools), and it was embarrassing but not surprising to find we were the most “woke” and anti Christian schools. For some reason that still stings… SC admins even stood in the way of B12 or ACC-PAC 12 arrangements. Even then, we still had our gravy train coming, every indicator showed (see the Athletic article) that we turn out that we are far beyond the Big 12 and in Big 10 territory in market and viewership, if only because we have much bigger markets. All the harm that Mr. Harvard did could have been wiped away, and his pipe dreams of streaming would have actually come to fruition now that it’s a thing even with the NFL, and the P12 network being able to produce content has finally found its payday, along with ESPN desperately needing the PAC 12 content since it lost out. Our new commish gets it, he gets neutral field and new bowls out West, the top 2 teams playing instead of divisions, etc. This would have been years of USC playing for championships… But now, to be third fiddle and games 2,000 to 3,000 miles away in the icy Rust Belt and cornfields. #IAdmitBillWaltonIsRight
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I remember all those ND games in late Nov and their predictable outcomes. I remember McKay changing it to Oct in south bend,In. I remember the wins after the change. SC being in SoCal is not a team that practices week after week in snow. There is no way for the team to prepare for that and the Big10 schools are the same in Nov.
I don’t see SC winning Big10 titles,just like SC usually won RoseBowls in the winter,but rarely at ND.
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Well…maybe only second fiddle.
#LincolnWillTakeCareOfHarbaugh
P.P.S
Thoughtful Stuff. Thanks.
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if an 8-1 start is not successful, what should one call it…and comparing it to last yr 4-8 total is a good comparison by any standard…what comparison standard should be used? teams that trashed SC last year did not this year…so far .
Sounds like a good year to me,and the schedule is a good as any one else in the conference,or out of conference. 4-5 Pac12 teams have been in top25 and 3-4 in top10…wolfie makes no sense on this one…
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Scott:
“Sense? I don’t need no stinking sense!”
#Scott:”CallingAllPosters!CallingAllPosters!
#…ReportToInsideUSCImmediately…
#..Repeat:ReportToInsideUSCImmediately….
#…I’mSayingStuffThatBegsForRebuttalAgain…”
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I still like what he is doing. He’s building this team slowly starting with the offense first and in that sense he’s on the right tract because the offense has shined. He needs to build up the defense and that will demand that he starts to bring in the right defensive players and he may have to replace some of the defensive coaches and that may mean Donte Williams and even Alex Grench.
How much money are those guys making to coach at SC? I would think that Donte is making about $800,000 a year and Grench is probably around $1.2 million. When you look at those numbers, I’d say they are not getting the results you would expect. The last 3 games they have given up an average of 39 points a game. That’s unexceptable. If we don’t see drammatic improvement this year and next, then LR will have to make a move.
But if LR can somehow win the next 3 games, then I would respectfully disagree with the Wolfman. To go from 4-8 to 11-1(and just one point away from 12-0) would be a significant improvement in just one year.
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11-1….
#FromYourLipsToGod’sEars…
#btw,10-2MightGetUsToPac12Championship…
#…AndAsFarAsThePostSeasonGoes……
#..WinningThePac12WillTakeUsFurtherThanBeatingNotreDame
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I can understand Scotts concerns. But I really think that 2022 will turn out to be a very successful first season. We will win 10 games. The only way that we could end up with only 9 wins is if we lose to both UCLA and ND(both basically at home) and then lose the bowl game thereby losing the last 3 games of the season. Baring some major injuries, I don’t think,that will happen.
And we could possibly win 12 games….even 13 games, although that is a long shot. What I want to see is what LR does after the season to correct the problems that we experienced this year on defense. With Caleb back next year, the offense will be great again but the defense must be corrected immediately after this season is over or earlier. We can’t just talk about corrections and then basically do nothing that actually corrects the problem as CH used to do.
The secondary problem must be corrected. SC is 10th in the Pac-12 in passing yards allowed. There is no reason for that because there is plenty of talent back there.
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Bourbon, I am having some double oak right now!
Logano just won his second championship!!
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BTW, sad day for Gibbs family. Joe lost his 49 year old son, Coy, yesterday.
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It’s a tragedy that Ty Gibbs lost his father at such a young age, 49!
RIP COY!……. Keep it together Joe
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Wow!!!…. you have been reduced to watching a bunch of rednecks drive in a circle…… while!!!!! I guess it’s less taxing on your brain than dissecting a football.
CONGRATS TO JOEY!
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Don’t worry little Gabriela. Whatever happens on Tuesday will never interfere with your ability to get an abortion in California.
Contrary to what the Dims are claiming, the GOP merely wants it left to the states, as it should have been all along.
#YourVagIsSafeInCA
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hey slo troll , it’s physically impossible for me to have an abortion…..did you get the memo….
I heard the shar pei was pissed off at you, She caught you using her KY jelly to lubricate the door hinges on the outhouse….. Tiny is too massive to go in dry, remember your experience…ouch!
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Same lame jokes about shar pei & outhouse.
And she had the nerve to claim yesterday that someone else had no wit. Hypocrite.
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Dude….but yet you respond to all my posts….. you are the true dipshit….. Be thankful someone actually talks to you….. like I said, over 5 days, not one person typed a response to your lame political BS.
You truly are Mr. Irrelevant!
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Dumbass is too stupid to realize they don’t want to deal with her childish replies, if they did respond to my posts affirmatively.
80% on this blog are smart enough to know that weakness & dementia were not the way to go. We’ll be very lucky if that horrible choice doesn’t lead to WWIII.
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Hey, penis breath, what the fuck does this even mean……you lost me at “Dumbass”….OK, relax and focus……please translate……” you can do it”
“Dumbass is too stupid to realize they don’t want to deal with her childish replies, if they did respond to my posts affirmatively.”
Why don’t you try to post-football related material, instead it’s BIDEN BIDEN BIDEN BIDEN BIDEN, 24/7…….WE ALL LAUGH AT YOUR ASS…..I can offer you a book called “Football for Dummies”
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SLO CAL : 80% on this blog are smart enough to know that weakness & dementia were not the way to go.”
Hey, dildo breath, and 80% are smart enough to know it doesn’t take a senile old relic like yourself posting the same lame talking point 24/7 365 to make your point…..Numerous people have told you to STFU….. Take their advice, perhaps it might earn you some respect
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Quit fucking running…… let’s do this the old fashion way….where two men meet up to settle their differences…..’o wait the shar pei took your balls….I see why you’re a keyboard warrior.
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When trump gets indicted can you get a refund on your orange cheeto donations?…..asking for slo cal……
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Gab village idiot
You degenerate drunk lowlife. You went to a university and think gambling and boozing is a profession? You are truly the village idiot. I ran into Doyle brunson. You are no Negeanru, brunson. Go back to the bicycle club and Indian casinos you lush
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Joey earned it (long season)–and so did you!
If USC produces a solid W versus CU Buffs, then I will also have a bit of Double Oak. Great finish–just a little heat. Great choice.
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I’m getting a little low. Not sure a victory over Colorado is worthy.
But I am going to be buying another bottle by week’s end for Nov 19 celebrating! And in case I polish off my current bottle celebrating on TUESDAY!!!! (A red tsunami is coming!)
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You senile troll stop the lying….you can’t use food stamps to buy alcohol…..And no matter the outcome on Tuesday……Biden is still running the show and Dems get the last laugh……tooooo funnnny!…..
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Gab village idiot
You degenerate drunk lowlife. You went to a university and think gambling and boozing is a profession? You are truly the village idiot. I ran into Doyle brunson. You are no Negeanru, brunson. Go back to the bicycle club and Indian casinos you lush
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Scott Wolf to consider this
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Not a problem…
#MuskFearsScott
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As a matter of fact Scott told friends, “Musk better not try any rough stuff. I ain’t no bandleader!”
#Scott:”Well,IThinkI’llTuckMyselfInNowInMyNiceSilkBlankets…”
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“Mrs Helton” your days are numbered.
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Don’t be sure. “Some” mentally challenged posters use the same old shit over & over again, even though it’s not funny. They have nothing else going on in their lives.
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“Some mentally challenged posters use the same old shit over & over again, even though it’s not funny. They have nothing else going on in their lives”
Like slo cal repeating his one and only talking point for the 2354 time-(in his Elmer Fudd voice)…..”well, you were stupid enough to vote for Dementia Joe”…….
The slo troll thinks it has a bigger impact the more often he says it. Rinse and repeat 24/7. It actually reinforces how senile he truly is……
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Wonder how a Laker or Ram blog would be these days. Both teams suck and will not make playoffs.
I am happy with SC being 8 and 1. Last year was awful.
This season is a success no matter how you slice it.
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Unless half the SC team comes down with the flu so bad they miss the Colorado game
the Trojans will confidently march into the Rose Bowl 9-1 to take on the once-every-decade pretty good suclas who look like slight favorites going in with solid runners and a speedy 5th year quarterback.
Senior Quarterbacks don’t usually lose to sophomore quarterbacks as good as Celeb is. Still, I would not bet against SC because I have witnessed through the decades how the Trojans can sometimes mysteriously win big games that they weren’t supposed to win
sucla or Neuter Dame, which game is the most important, well, this year both are equally important if SC is to advance to the Final-4 (oh yeah, and a victory over Oregon will also be required). But if the Trojans can pull off the Trifecta of sucla, ND and Oregon then they are in the Final-4 almost guaranteed.
To even be in the national championship hunt at this stage of the season after the
Ton-o-Hel 7 year scourge of the earth SC football chapter (sans Sam Darnold’s 2016 miracle season) is to me worthy of running the streets naked on Fraternity Row 28th Street because they usually don’t jail you for such activity on the Row
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Hmmm, the bottom of the page seems so far down today.
My suspicion is the important “injured” players were held out of the game last night. I also suspect they will see action next week. They may feign a little handicap for the audience, but I’d be surprised if the past few games were a bit of rope-a- dope by Riley.
Sitting in the stadium is a little tedious. I really cannot hear the ref when he’s announcing the latest screw job on the Trojans. The band is amplified and they have a DJ. blasting music for the younger fans (and annoying us oldsters)
Between the two there isn’t communication, so they overlap. When the officials are on the mike, the others should be muted. When the Rams left the Coliseum , they apparently left some toys. Flames shooting in the air upon entering and stadium lightning that can be controlled, are part of the experience. I remember when state of the art lights took 15 minutes to start again.
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My wife and I just cover our old ears when the DJ is blasting away…
(and yes, we still go to Tyler Childers, Stone Temple Pilots and Collective Soul concerts every Summer).
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Did you see that dork trying to catch a simulated kickoff during one of the TV timeouts?! 0 for 3!! LMAO
He wasn’t close on any of them and I don’t even think he was able to use alcohol as an excuse. The guy didn’t have one athletic bone in his body.
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Athletic?……. says the troll who played tuba for the marching band back in the 1950’s.
slo troll claims his still athletic because he can lift a 12oz can to his lips, then the shit runs down his chin all over the nice little t-shirt the shar pei dressed him in…..I call that “not good”
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Don’t be sad that you can’t afford to live in So Cal and have USC season tickets. You’ll make it to a game some day, Little Gabriela.
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Says the senile troll he lives at a trailer park in a single-wide with the one and only shitter out on the front porch. The worst part, the trailer park sits adjacent to a pig farm…..STINKY!!!!…..And why in the fuck do you buy season tickets…. a total fucking dipshit….when you can get tickets all day on the secondary market for a fiction of the price….
Plus, Las Vegas is one of the top destinations cities in the world. …. World-class dining, gaming, and entertainment. People can buy a nice brand new house without having to spend a million on a dump……And zero state income taxes.
People have been leaving CA. for LV for decades…….wonder why…..
Hey dipshit…..have you ever been to LV….I’d guess you’re too fucking cheap….
I have been to more USC games than I can recall….. I remember you were the troll in the wheelchair I pushed over because a dark chocolate-looking flow of liquid was running off the seat….Many claim it was diarrhea. I told you, only wear trump’s industrial strength Depends, 3x the holding power…..fucking knucklehead never listens
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Gabby, back in the 50s the “tuba” was most likely an all brass sousaphone. They are not lite. The fact is the band works as hard as many athletes. The tuba takes quite a bit of air, and if you’ve been at the game the Trojan Marching band is playing almost nonstop during the game. Band practice consists of playing and precision marching for hours in order to get an 8 minute program perfect. High school band kids have been known to drop dead from exhaustion and a fellow teacher had a student died of an aneurysm while performing.
The kid trying to catch the ball last night looked like a toddler learning to walk. He raised both arms and a leg in an attempt to catch the ball. I wondered if the lights bothered him or he couldn’t handle the crowd.
I wanna know what started the fist fight in the closed end of the coliseum? Possibly the two men were arguing over who is more odious you or Tebow?
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Wait, old man….. I was slapping you around like a pinata at the closed end …..wake up…… and fuck you and your fucking tuba.
Slo cal is my little bitch and gets treated accordingly…….Wipe the drool and your fucking dentures look older than shit….have a little self-respect for your appearance
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Trojans battling through midseason blues: Four takeaways from USC’s win against Cal
https://news.yahoo.com/trojans-battling-midseason-blues-four-154202486.html
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Elliott: Surging duos Michael Jackson III, Tahj Washington giving USC needed boost
https://news.yahoo.com/elliott-surging-duos-michael-jackson-160007888.html
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Guards Boogie Ellis and Drew Peterson will rev up USC in the absence of 7-footers
https://news.yahoo.com/guards-boogie-ellis-drew-peterson-120045383.html
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What’s next for USC? Friday night bout with Colorado
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/what-s-next-for-usc-friday-night-bout-with-colorado/ar-AA13NHvh
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No. 8 USC still looking for a killer instinct
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/no-8-usc-still-looking-for-a-killer-instinct/ar-AA13ONRF
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USC has to break some tendencies on defense. Physical play has to amp up as well. Screw the PI calls and get in people’s comfort zone.
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