The Friday USC Column Supplement

Dylan Williams, a linebacker from Long Beach Poly, committed to Oregon. He decommitted from USC last October.

  • The San Francisco Chronicle reported USC admitted four legacy students who did not meet the university’s minimum admission requirements.

“Two students admitted to USC in the 2021-2022 academic year did not meet the school’s minimum math requirement; the other two had not submitted proof they graduated from high school.”

Now I’m sure every school does this. But how did two students not even have proof they graduated from high school? And what happened to the safeguards implemented after the Varsity Blues scandal? Carol Folt, please.

The Chronicle story was written by Sara Libby, who is a USC graduate.

  • I found a wider angle of the photo I ran in today’s column from the 1967 Rose Bowl. This one features the scoreboard.
  • Former USC wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster is holding a free football camp at Long Beach Poly on July 14th at 5 p.m. This camp is for current 6th, 7th and 8th graders. Register here.

69 thoughts on “The Friday USC Column Supplement

    1. Wow. What are the odds we have 3 regular bloggers attend the 1968 Rose Bowl. I worked with a guy in 1982 who was a cornerback on the Indiana team. I asked him what was his impression of O.J. Simpson. He said “yeah, I meet him in the hole, helmet first, left my impression on him.”

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      1. LIKE YOU FUCKING REMEMBER WORD FOR WORD WHAT A GUY TOLD YOU 40 YEARS AGO…..YET YOU CONVENTILY FORGET YOUR DEBUNKED RANTS OR HOW YOU TALKED SHIT ABOUT ANYONE THAT PROVED YOU WRONG…BUT YOUR OLD LADY IS OFF LIMITS….I SEE WHY YOUR LAW CAREER ENDED EARLY

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      2. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Not everyone is a paranoid schizophrenic psycho liar who has taken so many meds he has no memory of what he ate yesterday like you are, Cowardly Gabby aka “steveg”.

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      3. FUCK YOU PUSSY BOY…..SOMEONE IS FUCKING WITH YOU AND YOU’RE SO FUCKED IN THE HEAD YOU THINK IT’S ME….WHOEVER DID PLAYED YOU AND SLO TROLL…..TOOOOO FUCKING FUNNNNNNY!….LITTLE BITCH GOT PLAYED LIKE A FIDDLE…..SORRY TO PISS IN YOUR CHERRIOS, IT ISN’T ME…YOU FUCKING SENILE DICKHEAD. HAHAHAHAHA! KEEP BLAMING ME, IT ONLY PROVES I LIVE IN YOUR HEAD 24/7 …..MORE MORE MORE STUPIDITY FROM YOU…IT’S PROVES HOW FUCKED YOU ARE BETWEEN THE EARS…….MORE MORE MORE….YOU’RE FUCKING OBSESSED…..TOOOOOOO FUCKING FUNNNNNY!….MUST SUCK THAT YOU CAN’T GET ME OUT OF YOUR HEAD….I KNOW YOU WAKE UP AT 5 IN THE MORNING READY TO SHOW YOUR DEEP ADMIRATION FOR ME…..YOU’RE A FUCKING FREAK…..TEBOW NAILED YOUR SAD ASS

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      4. You never had a work career. You’ve been on disability for a mental illness for decades. That is why you claim to be younger than the old guys on this blog but are available 12 hours per day to post comments. You don’t have a “yoga instructor” wife. You probably don’t have kids but if you ever did, they never lived with you for any appreciable amount of time. You can not live with people who suffer from extreme narcistic personality disorder and you have that condition. It is so obvious. Try to ignore this blog. You can’t do it steveg.

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      5. plow, make all the assumptions you want…I’ll let your imagination wonder …..

        it’s pathetic that Mr know it all has to exchange hours for dollars at a law firm you could never make partner at ….it’s also pathetic that you could never get your head around a net importer vs net exporter….the shit you were saying must have come straight from Newsmax……

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      6. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        It’s pathetic that you spent hours here impersonating another poster to try to resuscitate your dead reputation, Cowardly Gabby aka “steveg”. Your latest scheme has now been exposed and anyone with an ounce of self respect would apologize to the board for their deceit and leave forever. You are a malignancy like Hunter Biden, who showed up for a White House State dinner after his lawyer pleaded down felonies.

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      7. Try 4, but that game was important because it wrapped up a national championship
        although the game was pretty boring

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  1. I was at that game too…..so admired McKay for going for two and, as expected, he was mocked by the LAT for doing so. Also echo your sentiments to your parents. Visited mine at San Fernando Mission a week ago today then over to Saint Vitus in 4th for the 12 noon ‘Latin Mass’. Scurried back down the 405 by 2:30 pm to escape the traffic for the 4th of July long weekend.

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  2. Love the more or less new feature, “If It’s Still Friday Then It Must Be Supplement Time”…..
    #AndTodayThereIsTheAddedJoyOfBeingAbleToIdentifyOurselves..

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      1. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Cowardly Gabby impersonated steveg49 as “steveg “to try to get SoCal to forgive him for all his evil antics. Calseventyfive is a good guy and fell for it. But I knew something didn’t ring true with the anger seething in “steveg’s” posts and sure enough it was Cowardly Gabby hitting a new low in deviousness.

        Plow Horse
        JULY 8, 2023 AT 1:38 AM
        Nice pick-up Troy 22. This guy is a real psycho. Imagine spending the time and energy to make up a phony avatar and then fraudulently engaging with people all day in an attempt to restore his lost reputation. He is absolutely obsessed with this blog. Just ignore him. He clearly suffers from an extreme narcistic personality disorder among other mental illnesses.

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  3. HEY ….FUCK YOU PUSSY BOY…..SOMEONE IS FUCKING WITH YOU AND YOU’RE SO FUCKED IN THE HEAD YOU THINK IT’S ME….WHOEVER DID PLAYED YOU AND SLO TROLL…..TOOOOO FUCKING FUNNNNNNY!….LITTLE BITCH GOT PLAYED LIKE A FIDDLE…..SORRY TO PISS IN YOUR CHERRIOS, IT ISN’T ME…YOU FUCKING SENILE DICKHEAD. HAHAHAHAHA! KEEP BLAMING ME, IT ONLY PROVES I LIVE IN YOUR HEAD 24/7 …..MORE MORE MORE STUPIDITY FROM YOU…IT’S PROVES HOW FUCKED YOU ARE BETWEEN THE EARS…….MORE MORE MORE….YOU’RE FUCKING OBSESSED…..TOOOOOOO FUCKING FUNNNNNY!….MUST SUCK THAT YOU CAN’T GET ME OUT OF YOUR HEAD….I KNOW YOU WAKE UP AT 5 IN THE MORNING READY TO SHOW YOUR DEEP ADMIRATION FOR ME…..YOU’RE A FUCKING FREAK…..TEBOW NAILED YOUR SAD ASS.

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    1. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

      Cowardly Gabby aka”steveg”, it’s hilariously absurd for you to impersonate another poster to try to rehabilitate your awful image here and then deny it once caught, just as it’s hilariously absurd for the Biden Crime Family to deny that Hunter left the coke in the White House.

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      1. Keeps saying? Copy & paste where I stated that within the past 2-3 weeks?

        Just another lie from the bs artist. (One of the many nickname she’s been given by posters. LOL)

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      1. you fucking troll these are hard numbers not some opinion pulled out of the air…so fuck off…your whole narrative gets kicked to the curb…..

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      2. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Fake Gabby, you are a Groomer like the Lincoln Project and a liar like the Senile Joe Crime Family:

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  4. Trump was the only prez in history to leave office with fewer jobs than when he took office…HE LOST 11 MILLION AND ADDED 8 TRILLION TO THE NATIONAL DEBT….all records!…..And Biden is smashing employment records….

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      1. fuck you…..trump told the country that covid was just a mild flu bug and ignored all the experts….. IT HAPPENED ON HIS WATCH AND HE BEARS ALL RESPONSIBILITY…YOU FUCKING CAN’T PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT HE’S RESPONSIBLE FOR…YOU MENTAL MIDGET

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      2. SAYS THE GUY WHO TOLD THE BLOG HE’S LESS OF A MAN….YOU ADMIT TO BEING A BALL-LESS TROLL

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      3. SO NOW YOU CLAIM THE ECONOMY IS KICKING ASS, BUT BIDEN GETS ZERO CREDIT….CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG….How about all that inflation you bitched about 24/7….please update me on that

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      4. still not taking the advice cal75 gave you…what a fucking knucklehead…instead you prefer to live down to the “I am less of a man and can’t control my actions because Gabby will claim victory”

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      5. debate me you fucking troll….instead, you claim I am lying …..which is your go-to gimmick…..these are hard numbers…where is the lying…you can’t debate yourself out of a paper bag and the blog knows it so you deflect with childish rants to feel better about your limited intellect…you’re a fucking fraud…..

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      6. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        No one is taking advice given when they were being lied to by you, Cowardly Gabby aka “steveg”.

        You are as honest as the Senile Joe Crime Family.

        That’s funny, Cowardly Gabby aka “steveg”, you challenged several posters and two took you up on it and you chickened out!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        You are as truthful as the Senile Joe Crime Family.

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      7. I’ll heed what advice I choose.

        Hilarious how you ignore the fact that everyone pretty much said to ignore the Village Idiot. LMAO

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      8. then why in the fuck are you not ignoring me…..you look like a fucking idiot by continuing to take the bait…..knucklehead, just like your old man…Mr. Dumpster

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      9. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        We are accepting bets when you will suffer a stroke during one of your keyboard rants, Cowardly Gabby aka “steveg”.

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      10. FUCK YOU PUSSY BOY…..SOMEONE IS FUCKING WITH YOU AND YOU’RE SO FUCKED IN THE HEAD YOU THINK IT’S ME….WHOEVER DID PLAYED YOU AND SLO TROLL…..TOOOOO FUCKING FUNNNNNNY!….LITTLE BITCH GOT PLAYED LIKE A FIDDLE…..SORRY TO PISS IN YOUR CHERRIOS, IT ISN’T ME…YOU FUCKING SENILE DICKHEAD. HAHAHAHAHA! KEEP BLAMING ME, IT ONLY PROVES I LIVE IN YOUR HEAD 24/7 …..MORE MORE MORE STUPIDITY FROM YOU…IT’S PROVES HOW FUCKED YOU ARE BETWEEN THE EARS…….MORE MORE MORE….YOU’RE FUCKING OBSESSED…..TOOOOOOO FUCKING FUNNNNNY!….MUST SUCK THAT YOU CAN’T GET ME OUT OF YOUR HEAD….I KNOW YOU WAKE UP AT 5 IN THE MORNING READY TO SHOW YOUR DEEP ADMIRATION FOR ME…..YOU’RE A FUCKING FREAK…..TEBOW NAILED YOUR SAD ASS

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      11. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Another Cowardly Gabby aka “steveg” meltdown!

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      12. “We are accepting bets…”

        At least when fake Gabby says “we” it actually means several other posters, not the voices in her head. LOL

        Although she loves to point to posts that contain proven gibberish, as evidence she’s not alone. One of them even mocks how dumb she is. So dumb, that simple fact flies right over her head!

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      13. still not taking the advice cal75 gave you…what a fucking knucklehead…instead you prefer to live down to the “I am less of a man and can’t control my actions because Gabby will claim victory”

        #IamSorryYouFeelThatWay!

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    1. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

      Cowardly Gabby is the only poster here to chicken out when challenged to fight twice and was just caught impersonating another poster to try to rehabilitate her horrific reputation.

      Plow Horse
      JUNE 22, 2023 AT 9:57 PM
      Gabby:

      You have offended my wife, my mother and my father. All sexual inferences. I let the first two go because they are both deceased but not my wife. You are the one who offended my family, not visa versa. I have never brought your wife or parents into anything. It is therefore my call – boxing gym in Pasadena CA, Mr. tough guy. Give me a date and I will make the arrangements. Stop being a chickensh*t.

      And nobody believes you are friends with Dana White. If you ever read the news, he is a staunch conservative who left the country during Covid so that the Dems. couldn’t shut down UFC. He wouldn’t allow a pussy leftist like yourself anywhere near his octagon. Rummaging the dumpster outside of the premises for plastic bottles redeemable for 20 cents doesn’t mean you know Dana White you leftist, racist, pussy.

      Give me available dates.

      Plow Horse
      JULY 8, 2023 AT 1:38 AM
      Nice pick-up Troy 22. This guy is a real psycho. Imagine spending the time and energy to make up a phony avatar and then fraudulently engaging with people all day in an attempt to restore his lost reputation. He is absolutely obsessed with this blog. Just ignore him. He clearly suffers from an extreme narcistic personality disorder among other mental illnesses.

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      1. no one is going to fight someone over comments made in a blog…..plow is an old man just popping off…and you fucking know it…

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      2. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        That’s funny, Cowardly Gabby aka “steveg”, you challenged several posters and two took you up on it and you chickened out!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        You are as truthful as the Senile Joe Crime Family.

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  5. When a Narcist is exposed in a lie, he will almost always become extremely angry and defensive. Look at how our Gabby changed to all capital letters to demonstrate his anger followed by the profane rant. This is typically followed by deflection. And of course our Gabby does not disappoint. He brings up a whole new topic of Bidenomics when that has nothing to do with the column supplement. Gabby is selective about this topic because it contains factual misrepresentations that ought to be corrected and he is hoping that someone will do so in order to deflect from the fact that he has been caught in a massive and embarrassing lie-assuming a false identity and then arguing for his own character. All of this is so typical of someone who has extreme narcist personality disorder. If nobody responses to him, he will still post four or five times in a row. He can’t help it.

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  6. I can’t imagine waking up in God’s green earth and being obsessed with the messages left on an ephemeral blog by an indifferent ex-employee of the L A Daily News. I commend the tenacity of this battle.

    But USC being a joke when it comes to admissions is the story that keeps on giving more entertainment than this war of the posters. Carol Folt must be grateful for destroying the Daily Trojan and avoiding more retribution. You go girl! Straight to hell. . . .

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  7. Just thinking about this blog makes me wonder what is really going on. Why do Gabby and his many admirers even come here? Isn’t joebiden*com good enough? This political stuff is better suited for sites that are directed at political debate.
    Inside USC isn’t inside the White House or inside Maralago. Taking a fanatic belief in any political party here is a sincere waste of time. The polarization of America has gotten extreme, and many of us members come to sports blogs to escape the political debate. In the case of multi-gabby, it’s not a debate, it’s name calling. They cannot be a person with a USC level education, a person with that level of education has advanced beyond middle school squabbles.
    I will argue whether someone was inbounds when he caught the ball harder than whether Joe Biden did anything presidential yesterday.
    Please take your political stuff where it belongs

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    1. gotroy22….aka-Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young …feels this is the platform “it” needs to profess it’s love for Biden and all things related to Biden. It has also become infatuated with me and enjoys stalking me 24/7… The freak will make 25 plus posts a day call calling out her fondness for me.

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      1. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Cowardly Gabby impersonated steveg49 as “steveg “to try to get SoCal to forgive him for all his evil antics. Calseventyfive is a good guy and fell for it. But I knew something didn’t ring true with the anger seething in “steveg’s” posts and sure enough it was Cowardly Gabby hitting a new low in deviousness…

        Plow Horse
        JULY 8, 2023 AT 1:38 AM
        Nice pick-up Troy 22. This guy is a real psycho. Imagine spending the time and energy to make up a phony avatar and then fraudulently engaging with people all day in an attempt to restore his lost reputation. He is absolutely obsessed with this blog. Just ignore him. He clearly suffers from an extreme narcistic personality disorder among other mental illnesses.

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      2. POOR GOTROY WANTS TO BELIEVE I PUNKED HIM SO HE CAN CONVINCE HIMSELF THAT HE’S THE BLOG HERO WHO EXPOSED GABBY…WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT. THE FREAK GOT PLAYED AND IT CLAPS HIS ASS…..I love how impactful my presence is in his head

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      3. middle finger up….tell the old lady to hang in there, Mr. Lets Box…..what a fucking fool, some old keyboard warrior got his feelings hurt over a phantom black dildo…..”I am going to beat Gabby up”, as the drool ran off his chin….pathetic!

        Relax Grandpa, NO ONE IS GOING TO MEET UP BECAUSE YOU HAD ISSUES WITH A BLACK DILDO.

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      4. VICTIMHOOD?….. YOU’RE THE ONE WHINING AND CRYING OVER THE COLOR OF THE DILDO….BECAUSE I SAID IT WAS BLACK YOU GOT TRIGGERED….

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      5. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Cowardly Gabby fails once again. It’s so fun battering you like a pinata. You truly are as evil and dishonest when caught red handed as The Senile Joe Dictatorship.

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  8. Academic bozo qualifications, LOL!

    Fog a mirror, and you too, can play FB for bozos; especially, if you’re a WR.

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  9. Come on, we are talking football players here not future engineers, and footballers fall under a different type of “student” qualifications, and in fact they are more
    “employees” than students so maybe they should do away with the hypocritical
    “admissions” requirements altogether–
    sucla’s Joe Don Looney comes to mind

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      1. Correct little-sucla, I am a “dummy” when it comes to sucla football
        It is ignorance self-imposed

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      2. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        You were thinking of Bill Don Jackson.

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  10. Wolfe what are you some lame ass low rate sports columinist working for a trash paper . The way u allow fake Gabby original and all other posters to post nothing about what you are blogging. Everyone let’s just boycott this site n maybe Wolfe or blog attorney will censorship this bullshit. Your blogging rules need to be changed or you should have the right to remove all his post when they don’t have anything to do with the topic.

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    1. AMEN!…. I boycott is definitely needed to force change. gotroy22 and his imposters have turned this blog into a shit show. I am not innocent but I am far from the root cause.

      #BOYCOTT!

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    2. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

      Institutionalization is the only solution for you Cowardly Gabby aka “steveg” the Board Fraudster.

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      1. Nice try little man. We know you pulled the “steveg49” sock puppet out and laid out a trail of crumbs to make it look like I was impersonating steveg49. You let the charade build up then suddenly yelled out “Gabby is impersonating steve49”. Like the dipshit you are, you forgot to add “49”, while in character.

        It’s the typical idiot starting a fire, hiding around the corner, then reappearing with a fire extinguisher. Looking for admiration as the perceived “hero”

        You have some major mental issues, little man!

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      2. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Cowardly Gabby aka “steveg”, we know you are a pathetic psycho who needs to be admitted to Atascadero State Mental Hospital. You lie as much and are as big a pervert as your Dictator Senile Joe:

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      3. Nice try little man. We know you pulled the “steveg49” sock puppet out and laid out a trail of crumbs to make it look like I was impersonating steveg49. You let the charade build up then suddenly yelled out “Gabby is impersonating steve49”. Like the dipshit you are, you forgot to add “49”, while in character.

        It’s the typical idiot starting a fire, hiding around the corner, then reappearing with a fire extinguisher. Looking for admiration as the perceived “hero”

        You have some major mental issues, little man!

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      4. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        We know you are a demented pervert like Senile Joe!

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  11. Asian students on Affirmative Action: “You unqualified applicants took my spot fom me!”

    Also, Asian students on unqualified Legacy Admissions “[Crickets]”

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