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If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column

USC plays UCLA in the Pac-12 women’s basketball tournament tonight at 7:30 in Las Vegas. Good luck watching it as it will be on the Pac-12 Network.

  • Andy Enfield surpassed Bob Boyd on Thursday night for the No. 3 spot at USC in all-time victories. Enfield is 217-145. Boyd was 216-131.

Here’s my problem on that: Boyd didn’t flood his non-conference schedule with tomato cans like Enfield does most of the time. Pete Maravich has been in the news recently because he was the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer. USC faced him in 1970 and 1971.

You can randomly pick a USC schedule, like in 1969-70, and see how much better it was than anything Enfield has done. USC played LSU, Houston, Iowa State, Illinois, Temple, Florida State, Vanderbilt, Colorado and St. John’s.

In 1973-74 USC played non-conference games vs. Arizona, Utah, Illinois, Santa Clara, Ohio, Arizona State, Houston, Rutgers, Oral Roberts, Seton Hall and Fordham. Arizona, Utah, Rutgers and Arizona State all won 18-19 games that season. Oral Roberts went 23-6 and lost to Kansas, 93-90, in the Elite Eight.

Enfield would resign before playing that schedule on a regular basis.

  • And now for some history:

TROJAN WARRIORS

This section is going to spotlight some Trojan greats who deserve more praise because they were linemen, the most overlooked group of players.

Mike Taylor
  • A couple weeks ago, I wrote about offensive lineman Mike Taylor, who delivered a key block on O.J. Simpson’s famous 64-yard TD run against UCLA. Simpson and Taylor were roommates at City College of San Francisco. He was also on the USC rugby team.

Taylor was the 10th pick in the first round of the 1968 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers.

But if you lived up in El Dorado Hills, which is near Sacramento, you might know Taylor more for another reason. For more than 20 years, he owned a restaurant and a sports bar, both named Po-Boy’z.

  • Let’s appreciate Tony Terry, a defensive tackle/middle guard who was part of “The Wild Bunch” defensive line in 1969.

Terry was a three-year letterman (1967-69) and a member of USC’s 1967 national championship team. He  also started in three Rose Bowls.

Here’s a fact people overlook: Terry was credited with blocking a UCLA extra point in USC’s 21-20 victory over the No. 1-ranked Bruins in 1967.

Terry, defensive ends Jimmy Gunn and Charles Weaver, tackles Al Cowlings and Tody Smith and middle guard Willard “Bubba” Scott were nicknamed “The Wild Bunch,” based on the critically acclaimed Western movie. Above is a nice color photo of Terry from 1968 against Oregon State.

Rick Dimler (92) pursues Cal QB Rich Campbell
  • Nose tackle Rich Dimler might have one of the most sought-after compliments you could seek for a USC football player.

“He is the toughest player I’ve seen in 22 years of coaching,” Marv Goux said of Dimler.

Dimler was a Parade All-American at Bayonne High School in New Jersey. He chose USC over Pitt and Penn State.

“I decided to go for it all and come to ‘SC because of their winning tradition and the Rose Bowl. Some people back East had doubts of my potential; and I figured if I can come here and play I must be good enough to play anywhere in the country.”

Here’s what he said about getting recruited in New Jersey.

“I was promised things from all of them,” he said. “They used to bother my girlfriend, they used to come right into the bar where I used to hang out. They really hassled me.”

He used to hang out in a bar while he was in high school?

Who says USC students only cared about football. Look at them lined up on campus for tickets to the UCLA game in 1974. This was taken on Feb. 26 and the game was on March 9, so students clearly cared. The game was a sellout at the Sports Arena.
  • We always talk about former USC basketball star John Rudometkin’s college career. But here he is with the New York Knicks in 1962-63.

He is pictured next to former UCLA star Willie Naulls. Other notables in the picture are Johnny Green, Gene Shue and Richie Guerin, who averaged 21.5 points per game that season.

  • With the Academy Awards this weekend, I need to repeat that one of the greatest filmmakers was a Trojan. Leo McCarey is a graduate of the USC Law School.

McCarey was responsible for the teaming of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and guided the development of their characters.

But that barely scratches the surface of McCarey’s career: He directed “The Awful Truth,” (1937) considered by some to be the greatest screwball comedy ever made (McCarey won the first of his three Oscars with this film).

He also directed “Duck Soup,” (1933) considered the Marx Bros. best film.

If that doesn’t ring a bell, maybe you remember “Going My Way” (1944) or “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945) or “Love Affair” (1939) or “An Affair to Remember.” (1957).

He is one of only of eight directors who have won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Orig/Adapted) Oscars.

French director Jean Renoir said “Leo McCarey understood people better than any other Hollywood director.”

  • What were you doing on May 22, 1974 at noon if you were a USC student?

Student No. 1: “I’m going to the Rita Coolidge concert at the Student Activities Center patio.”

Student No. 2: “I’m going to hear Seals and Croft at the Student Activities Center.”

Rita Coolidge
  • And on Nov. 26, 1976, the Shrine Auditorium hosted Jackson Browne and Orleans in concert.

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

  • How great was it that when David Letterman had Johnny Carson on his show, he had an El Monte sign in the background. Letterman was doing his show from Burbank that week.
  • Boris Karloff and Nancy Hsueh in the 1968 film “Targets,” which was the directorial debut of Peter Bogdanovich and has some great shots of Van Nuys, Reseda and Los Angeles.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

It’s Linda Ronstadt singing “Long, Long Time” in 1970.

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  3. Didn’t have to be told Rich Dimler was one tough footballer, that picture of him above says it all. And what is this nonsense about star players being coaxed with “goodies” even back in the 1960s?

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  5. USC WOMEN HAVE 2 CHANCES vs ucla tonight, Slim and None. They have trouble playing every other day let alone back-to-back. No bench and Gottlieb can’t coach unless Watkins scores 30+ pts. Up 13 to 0 vs Arizona and blows it all to get behind. This is no top ten team in the nation. ________________________________

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  6. Mostly lovely column —the Ronstadt clip would be lovely too if we didn’t know Linda was singing to Jerry Brown……

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      1. No one know gay for that you, Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the Bruin Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young:

        Gabby (original)
        JUNE 23, 2023 AT 3:23 AM
        horse plow said he can use his wife’s black dildo for the peenus sword fight

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      1. You senile half-wit…. Someone is trolling the blog using gotroy22 as a sock puppet and you took the fucking bait…. What a fucking idiot… The joke is on you, fool.

        Laughing my ass off

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      2. grabbbyyGabby
        2h ago
        We remember when you used steveg’s name as a sock puppet to mislead a cancer patient, Cal 75. Shame on you, you ghoul.

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        GabbyGabbygrabbbyy
        1h ago

        USC Morning Buzz: Riley Needs To Answer This
        USC will release its spring roster in the next few weeks. So is Lincoln Riley going to provide an update on corn…

        I sure did….loved every minute of it….CAL75 is another limp-dick troll

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    2. You love being despised, Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the Bruin Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young

      grabbbyy
      FEBRUARY 21, 2024 AT 8:54 PM
      You are despised by the blog. You live in a world of illusion in your dumpster on 6th and Grand Avenue.

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      Gabby
      FEBRUARY 21, 2024 AT 8:57 PM
      Despised is worn as a badge of honor…….go take your meds…..freak……..next up is some horse shit….you have been warned

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      grabbbyy
      FEBRUARY 21, 2024 AT 9:04 PM
      That’s the first honest post you have ever made her . Congratulations! You really want us to despise you.

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  9. Nice of President DIPSHIT to mention that Lincoln Riley was murdered by an illegal ( Pelosi said Sleepy Joe should have called him ” undocumented ” )

    Her fucktard, her name was Laken Riley, you senile asshole, and she died because of you and your parties open border.

    Go to youtube to see President Cocksucker fuck up, AGAIN, this blog won’t allow me to post a link to it

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      1. He spent more time attacking people who don’t agree with him than he did on his administration’s accomplishments. Gee, I wonder why!

        So much for being a President for both Democrats and Republicans, the way he said he would.

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      2. I took great pleasure in how he was “attacking” you MAGATs…. Thanks for reminding us…. Now go fuck yourself with Timy

        Trump for prison 2024

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    2. Is that an icicle on your chin or did trump pull out too quick.

      Let’s meet up… I have something special planned for you.

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      5. slo Cal: but what am I?

        You’re a limp dick troll…. Who we all laugh at…the trailer park would appreciate it if you serviced your outhouse

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      6. But you said:

        You admitted you lied!

        Here’s your coward admitting all:

        Gabby (original)
        JULY 8, 2023 AT 3:06 AM
        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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      4. Speaking of brain dead… You are still not right between the ears since that coconut knocked your ass out

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      7. The Leader of the Free World will “get into trouble”!! And idiots make fun of Trump for saying Obama is in charge. It’s as good a guess as any because Joe is admitting HE’S not in charges.

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  10. Wolf goes to the trouble of putting together a nice ‘Friday edition’ and the blog turns into a “My politician is better than your politician, or as Lord Trent once said, “The acid test of any political questions is, what is the alternative?”

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    4. You refuse to condemn you fellow Libtard, Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the Bruin Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young.

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  12. Trump lost any chance at the election last night in the face of a feisty and polished Biden. It is shameful how political hatred has cast such a nasty pall over the office of presidency, what ever happened to being a “good loser”

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    2. You must have watched a different SOTU. Yes, it is shameful that rather than trying to unite us, our President attacked anyone & everyone on the other side. He also lied quite blatantly about who caused the border situation. When he took office, he lied and said he would take responsibility for his actions. He has not.

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      3. If people are dumb enough to vote for 4 more years of this, I will laugh my butt off!! But I won’t be shocked. They are among us.

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      4. This morning, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” anchors recited the “he’s just like your wise grandfather” talking points they were given by their corporate overlords….and, I have to admit, the whole ‘grandfather’ thing is a clever approach to joe’s dementia. The problem with the propaganda is joe’s performance last night: one batshit crazy facial expression after another, one half-mad [as in ‘insane’] sentence after another, one outburst after another, one blank stare after another.

        #NextDemBumperStickerYou’llSee:”VoteForYourEvilGrandfather!”

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    1. He has a speech impediment which endears him to his followers, and why not try to argue without the ad hominems?

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      2. stop the fucking lying……he knew exactly who that girl was……you’re a fucking freak……..let’s rumble in Barstow……bring plow ….aka the 80-year-old hunchback

        wipe the drool and get a fresh diaper…your hygiene is disgusting

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      3. You already admitted you do nothing buy lie here, Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the Bruin Fan The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young:

        abbygrabbbyy
        8h ago
        you’re the only limp-dick who gives a shit what I said 8 months back … ….. I FUCKING LIED…..I FUCKING LIED…….AND NO ONE GIVES A FUCK BUT A FREAK LIKE YOU…..

        GO FUCK YOURSELF WHILE A DECIDE WHAT HORS

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      4. How dare you, Grabbbyy! It’s just a speech impediment!! ROTFLMAO!!

        That’s a good one they tell to convince themselves it’s not the dementia the rest of us see.

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      5. Did you notice that in offering sympathy to “Lincoln Riley’s family, Joe said he had also lost children?! I wasn’t aware of any other than Beau.

        He can’t keep track of how many grandkids he has and now he can’t keep track of how many kids he’s had! But oh no, there’s no dementia there. LOL

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      6. That damn speech impediment has joe sending billions of un-monitored dollars to Ukraine, collecting 10% of Hunter’s well earned consulting fees and opening up the southern border to unvetted millions. 

        #WeGottaGetThatSpeechProblemFixedBeforeItKillsUs

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      8. It is sad the way they lie to themselves, in an effort to deny all the blood that is on their hands. I hope I never become that heartless.

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      9. WHAT BLOOD…..YOU KEEP SAYING THE SAME FUCKING THING YET PRODUCE ZERO FACTS TO SUPPORT YOUR ALLEGATIONS

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      11. ALTERNATIVE FACTS ARE NOT PROOF…YOU SENILE SACK OF SHIT…GO FUCK YOURSELF. IT’S COMICAL HOW YOU CONTINUE TO SPIN YOUR WHEELS WHILE I SLAP YOU AROUND LIKE A PINATA…..I LOVE HOW YOU TAKE THE BAIT….CHEAP ENTERTAINMENT

        I love watching you try to put a square peg in a round hole….keep it you

        When are we meeting in barstow….bring the hunchback

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      12. You already told us you are a craven coward who wouldn’t hurt a fly, Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the Bruin Fan The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young:
        Gabby (original)
        JULY 8, 2023 AT 3:06 AM
        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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      13. I don’t think it’s heartlessness, So Cal —I really think it’s intense hatred for Trump —it’s blinding half the country to how truly awful Joe is….

        #[AndJoeIsSOFuckingAwfulIt’sAlmostUnbelievable]

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      14. When you lie about the 1M+ of Americans and hundreds of thousands who have died from the various conflicts that have erupted on his watch, due to dementia, incompetence & weakness, it IS heartlessness. They hate Trump more than they love the country and more than they love humanity.

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      15. you are truly fuck’ed up between the ears. Biden gave you two middle fingers as he laughs his ass off over your stupidity.

        You can’t hate your country when you don’t win an election

        let’s meet up…you’re long overdue for an ass whipping

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      17. I can’t disagree with that, So Cal. My in-laws make up the most absurd arguments in favor of joe leaving 50 billion dollars of military equipment in Afghanistan, using the CIA and the FBI against political opponents and encouraging [and probably assisting] local prosecutors to drain Trump’s resources defending frivolous cases. As long as it hurts Trump they don’t care if it damages [and/or tears apart] the country. 

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      18. Anyone but trump….thanks for reminding us……slow down on the kool-aid, you’re starting to sound demented. I see why Sola’s family hides from you…..you’re a freak that has Joe living between your ears…..

        TRUMP FOR PRISON 2024…..(Joe is laughing his ass off)

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