Linebacker Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa of St. John Bosco committed to Notre Dame today.
USC and Ohio State were his other finalists. He is rated the No. 3 inside linebacker in the nation.
What it means is USC will probably go for another linebacker in the transfer portal next year.
Maybe the interesting thing is Mater Dei and St. John Bosco players are not flocking to USC. How much that matters depends on how much you use the portal and USC is, of course, aggressive with the portal.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
I give Riley an F for keeping local kids, a hard F
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YEAH
WE HAVE TO DO MUCH BETTER
DAMMIT ALL TO HELL
WE HAVE TO KEEP THESE KIDS AT HOME !!
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Well, George, would you get on a half-built arc such as SC football is,
all offense, no defense,
or a fully built arc such as ND and Ohio St. provide?
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LJ,
Did you watch USC football last year? We smashed ND with our “half built” arc.
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Another overrated pineapplehead who has bust written all over her
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Let all those local lazy fat always hurt pineappleheads go elsewhere, let other university’s waste scholarships and time on those girl’s
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Yeah, like Dylan Williams. How do you type with your knuckles?
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To Ms Ton-o-Hel– Have you seen the alltime record between
ND and SC lately?– Let’s see if our boys can bring home the bacon
after visiting ND in October.
P.S. The Trojans seldom win in South Bend
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ND is rebuilding so I like our chances.
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Shtoink! Mighty, mighty, elite SUCC FB gets another recruiting loser stick up their lardbucket kazoo.
#Clown U whiffs on
#LR say: “CW, ‘the destroyer,’ is the boss of me.”
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Speaking of whiffs……the mighty gutties weren’t even an afterthought.
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These kids from MD and Bosco have been treated like little gods and when someone tells them they need to establish themselves they get their attitudes up and talk to the guy with the biggest NIL to offer. Riley ain’t buying unproven college level talent.
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LIKED!…Riley ain’t buying unproven college level talent.
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Damn ’49, what a absolute load of 110% bozo BS.
The real reason for Clown U’s two-bit, 2024 recruiting failure/fiasco rests squarely on the bozo’s elite FB performance in Vegas and @ the Cotton Picker/Picking Bowl.
Cue: Cathy’s Green Wave Clowns
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You really think you go USC figured out. Thing is you are always negative. That’s not very much fun. We could all have fun if you just laughed sometimes. Never watched a Picking Bowl. Is that like the one ucla quit on the day before the game?
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LHF,
Our recruiting is so poor that it is number 7 in the country even with occasional misses. Truth is there is never any guttie re rioting news because it is a second rate program with zero history of success.
Cue: irrelevance
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The Helton hangover strikes again!
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As for top rated defensive recruits not going to USC, why would they want to subject themselves to a 3rd rate defensive coaching staff?
The Ladies of Troy defensive coordinator has a resume that’s shit, a defensive line coach that no one wanted and a recruiter pretending to be a defensive secondary coach.
The defense is an easy fix, fire Alex Grinch, stop fucking worrying about Oregon hiring that clown idiot Donte Williams and thinking it will hurt recruiting and hire a legit defensive coordinator and let him bring in his assistants. This shit about keeping 3rd rate coaches around hoping the offense can nullify a less than mediocre defense is bullshit.
Hire a goddamn proven defensive coach, fuck ‘Ol Mule Shoe’s ego!
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SC needs Williams if it is going to recruit locally. As it is, right now, Riley has as much recruiting social capital in Texas as he has in California. But you have to give Riley and Grinch credit: they won’t take 4 or even 5 *’s without seeing them workout in person. I like the players they have offered so far.
The more I go back and watch 2nd Utah and Tulane bowl game, they lost their horses on the O-line to injury and weren’t tackling at all. Riley and Grinch are looking for football players who can block and tackle. Riley has done better in the portal.
The game has morphed from a hometown college football venue to a semi-pro paid college team with a national audience.
Can Riley, an Mike Leach Air Raid protege, morph into a coach who can form a balanced attack team that wants to play football or even dominate on defense? As smart and personable as he is, he showed up at the PAC-12 kick off dressed like a precocious kid, if image has any bearing.
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You have a grasp for the obvious . Thank You
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Kyngstonn is a good linebacker and we can use him. Keep recruiting him. If Notre Dame stumbles, and it may, we will have a second shot at him.
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So P, Clown U FB adopts the old sloppy seconds recruiting approach.
Is it any wonder that the bozo Rah-Rah’s keep whining “why does mighty, mighty SUCC FB stink?”
Cue: “That Smell”
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Guess he didn’t want to compete?
I thought he was a tOSU lock.
Hopefully, he won’t pull a Monti Teo at South Bend during long cold winters.
Agree with previous posts that MD and Bosco kids may be a bit overrated lately.
Still you want to build a fence around SoCal talent.
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You’ll have a hard time landing high * defensive recruits ( LBs, DLs Edge ) with the deserving reputation of Alex Grinch looming. These kids have more information than we think, including the other competing recruiters pointing out Grinch’s history as a DC. Sure , we’ll land a player or two in the portal, perhaps a 3* from high school, but unless Riley can prove he’s a balanced HC, and his DC is at or close to the level of the top tier teams, it ain’t gonna happen on defense.
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Fight on everybody ✌️
David Bowie China Girl (not sure what some of this is supposed to mean but seems to be applicable to America now):
I’m feeling tragic like I’m Marlon Brando …
I stumble into town like some sacred cow, visions of swastikas … plans for everyone! …
You know, I’ll give you television
I’ll give you eyes of blue
I’ll give you a man who wants to rule the world”
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I don’t understand all the venom directed at Riley specific to this commit going to ‘the princess’….we’re not going to get them all – move on.
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I couldn’t care less about individual recruits including Tatum from Texas. As long as the recruiting class as a whole is generally considered Top 10.
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That’s my take too.
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It would be nice, but it’s not game changing anymore. It’s not December yet.
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Maybe the new guy at Mater Dei and the UCLA guy at SJB have hard-ons against Riley. Suppose he doesn’t give out the hugs like Helton did. Just hold me and blow smoke up my arse❤️
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Note to MD and SJB coaches, transfer portal working just fine for USC. Please no complaints when your guys slip on the ice in South Bend in January and break their sh*t.
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You heard SC is moving to the icy Big Ten next year? That recruiting ploy doesn’t work anymore.
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Crying over spilled milk won’t solve the problem so let it go.
1. Ponder these facts. St. John Bosco and Notre Dame are church schools, maybe mommy wants Jr. in a environment such as these.
2. Ucla wasn’t on his radar.
3. Many of the ones we lose, are never heard from agsin. A few are genuine thugs and some are washouts.
4. Does anyone remember Bru McCoy?
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What a load of bozo BS…as if what’s his face was on UCLA radar matters. F**king elite(LOL), SUCC FB rudely whiffs again.
WTF, I mean Korey Forman wasn’t on UCLA’s radar either. C. Kelly doesn’t pursue sway back mare recruits that eat more per day than their weight.
But LR does have 83 new WR’s for the 2023 FB season. Question is: who’s blocking and tackling?
Get a grip Rosie La Bore.
Mighty, mighty SUCC: 8- 4, if they’re lucky.
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WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO GET THE VERYBEST IN TRANFERS AND RECRUITS
ESPECIALLY LOCAL KIDS
WE ARE FAR BEHIND GEORGIA ALABAMA ANDOHIO ST AS OF RIGHTNOW
2023 RECRUITING WAS SOMEWHAT DISAPPOINTING FOR ME
WE HAVE THE RETURNING HEISMAN WINNER AND SO MUCH MORE TO OFFER
I WANT TO SEE A TOP THREE RECRUITING CLASS AT LEAST.
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Snore.
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Well I’m 0/3 no Tatum, Mathews, and Asa. Wow not good on predicting Crystal balls from analyst so called high school evaluations are very flawed. Please wake me up after falling for Rivals 24/7 n 24/7 Composite predictions about eat an edible. Hope we can flip a couple of hot DL LB, no pineapple heads. Excuse me Mike Sasa and Micheal Alo MG, you remember both of those players Carson,& Banning HS. My poly homies. Just owns u wouldn’t call them pineheads in person?
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FYI 7112, I have never expressed the term “Pineapple head” on this blog to distinguish Polynesian FB players. I hope you don’t mind.
#Speak for yourself AH.
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He has you confused with Charlie Bucket.
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My bad Scott keeps making me log in. I meant that for Tewbowobama. Sorry
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It’s definitely a loss. You win some. You lose some. They have missed out on some guys on offense too. I think that the difference is that they are missing out on offense because SC’s offense has so much talent at every position that many players think that they need to go somewhere else to get on the field this year. The old saying that “good things happen to those who wait” doesn’t compute with this younger generation. Their motto is “I want it all and I want it now”.
But I think that it is a different story on defense. Many of them are not coming because they are not convinced that USC has come back all the way on defense. SC needs a great season where they get to the final game. When that happens you’ll see more of these local kids stay home.
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You win some and you lose some. This is one that we lost. But things are already changing. If you’ll notice, a lot of these big time players that we are going after…..we end up in the final 2 or the final 3, even if we don’t get them. That’s a huge difference from the final days of Clay Helton where we weren’t even in the final 10 or, worse yet, we weren’t even going after them because we knew they weren’t interested.
So recruiting-wise, we’re much improved from 2 years ago. And we’ll continue to improve. A lot of fans wanted a NC in 2022. Not going to happen. The whole culture has to be changed and so far I like everything what LR has done, except for keeping Grinch. I think that he will have to get rid of him sooner or later. Her should have done it this year.
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Thinking about football this morning got me to thinking-
About the great SC defenses of the past like the “Wild Bunch”
Rooting for the ‘defense is fun too
I feel as if I am only getting half the enjoyment out of SC football
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Agree LJ:
I always liked watching defenses with a dominate edge rusher. Guys like Lawrence Taylor or Junior Seau who could change the entire momentum of a game with a big play.
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Yikes! IRS rules on NIL write-offs has dried up money for high school recruits. No wonder Riley upset with USC. Feels like people expect Riley to do more yet they want all the glory. NFL looking more tempting, especially if he wins a CFB chip.
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