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USC Morning Buzz: Will The Experience Gap Matter?

The other day I made fun of how when I hear new Michigan defensive coordinator Wink Martindale’s name, I think of the game-show host.

But let’s compare and contrast for a minute: Martindale has been a defensive coordinator for three NFL teams (Giants, Ravens, Broncos) and three colleges (Defiance, Western Illinois, Western Kentucky) prior to coming to Michigan.

New USC defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn has been a defensive coordinator for one season at UCLA.

Experience does not guarantee success. But it is quite a contrast.

  • This is pretty weird. Arizona State guard Jose Perez quit the team after the Sun Devils played USC on Thursday at the Galen Center and then played a pro basketball game in the Dominican Republic on Sunday.

Perez didn’t care ASU played UCLA on Saturday or plays in the Pac-12 Tournament against Utah on Wednesday. He couldn’t wait a week before turning pro?

  • Leonard Williams is getting a three-year deal from the Seahawks worth $21.5 million per season. Sam Darnold is expected to sign a one-year deal with the Vikings worth $10 million. The NFL is nice work if you can get it.
  • Later today, I’ll have an outrage regarding the USC women’s basketball team (which no one else will say).

VIDEOS OF THE DAY

It was a sad day for music Monday.

  • Karl Wallinger, the frontman of World Party, died at the age of 66. Below is one of his biggest hits, “Put the Message in the Box.”
  • Eric Carmen, frontman of the Raspberries and a successful solo artist, died at the age of 74. He had some huge hits (“All By Myself” and “Hungry Eyes”) and below is an appearance on The Midnight Special.

92 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Will The Experience Gap Matter?”

  1. If any athletes deserve millions it would be the rough-and-tumble NFLers although I would prefer to be a kicker– “I’m holding out for $50-mil to see what they’ll say”

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      2. I liked 3rd base where you can get hit in the face with line drives all day….

        #”Oh,IShouldGetMyGloveup?Thanks,Coach!”

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  2. Now Wolfie is throwing out “teasers” as in wait later in the day for his commentary and outrage re the SC womens’ basketball team. Please stay tuned

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    1. It’s what Hitchcock used to do before he released a new thriller….

      #”Dial ‘M’ For Murder” –AWholeNewWrinkleInMurderMysteries!”

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      1. …And [sorry] there’s making deals with America’s geopolitical adversaries through your son’s business and business partners…

        #TheStutterIsAFalseIssue,John…

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    2. No shock he didn’t know the year. For years he didn’t know in what country Beau died!! That was well before the 2020 election, so this is not a recent development. I laugh at idiots who say he is too old for a “second term”. As if he was ever fit for his first!

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      1. Biden: ”That’s absurd, So Cal. Beau died in the United -States- of-I-Think-I-Can-Manipulate-This-Tragedy-To-My-Benefit” ….

        #YouDon’tBringUpYourSon’sNameToGetOffTheHotSeat..

        #..WhatAnAsshole

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      3. slo cal: . I laugh at idiots who say he is too old for a “second term”. 

        So that means you’re laughing at yourself….aka an “Idiot”……

        wipe the drool and get a fresh diaper….you reek!

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    1. I feel the same way about the leaders of Canada, Italy, Germany, France and England….

      #MaybeTheyCanGetOffTheirHighHorsesAndFixTheirCountries…

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      1. Michael, the problems in every country are too insurmountable to “fix,” improvement is the best we can hope for and even that ‘low bar’ is seldom achieved

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  6. You wade into politics at your personal peril. The fact is that it is distasteful that opposition ads ridicule Bitin for a stutter. What has that to do with his memory lapses or policies?

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    1. But likening Trump to Hitler is perfectly fine. LOL!

      Even suggesting the vote has anything to do with democracy, after our current President has done far more to be considered a dictator is also fair game.

      It’s hilarious how the Left claims the rules should be this way for them, but THAT way for their opponents.

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      2. I’m inclined to agree with what Buddha wrote below. I really don’t recall this supposed stuttering problem when Biden was popping off on the Senate floor about sending his kids to racial jungles (integrated schools). It appears to be related to his deteriorating brain.

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    2. He’s never had a speech impediment until his brain ceased to fire on all cylinders, he ” stutters ” because he can’t remember things.

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      1. You got it, albeit by accident– when a stutterer is under pressure, and politicians are always under pressure, the stress brings on the stuttering

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      2. He’s NEVER stuttered before, NEVER, stop making excuses for this guy. The person that should feel immense shame, and doesn’t, is his wife. What wife would allow her husband to be seen like this ? And she’s fine with him running again !

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      3. Jill: ”George is not braindead…

        #…HeJustActsLikeIt…

        #…LotsOfCountriesHaveLeadersWhoWalk&TalkLikeJoe…

        #[JustDon’tAskMeToNameOne]….”

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      4. I’ve said it before…Jill cared more about being First Lady than she cares about Joe. No wife who cared about her husband would have put him out there for public humiliation. It’s not just the U.S., it’s the entire world that is laughing at his dementia. I’m sure Italy and India are not the only countries who have had SNL type of comedic sketches making fun of it.

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      2. I hope we’re looking at the guy who becomes Attorney General on January 20th, 2025….

        #”Garland,BeSureYou’reTheFuckOuttaYourOfficeByNoon”

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      4. John — I love your philosophy of kindness and brotherhood…but…. Biden is a bad guy….undeserving of your support. He cancelled his own inauguration and put 20,000 troops around the capital cuz he knows what the American people REALLY think of him —that’s why he’s said things like “These folks who support the 2nd amendment! Hand guns can’t fight F-16’s and tanks.” 

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  8. BIDEN STUTTERED IN HIGH SCHOOL JUST LIKE ME. JOE FUCKS UP SOMETIMES BUT TRUMPS IMITATION OF BIDEN STUTTERING WHERE HE MOCKED BIDEN AND MADE FUN OF HIM WAS JUST PLAIN SICK MICHAEL TOLD ME HE FULLY AGREES THAT WAS DISGUSTING BY DONALD THO HE STILL SUPPORTS HIM OVER JOE. FAIR ENOUGH  NEVER ARGUE RELIGION OR POLITICS. LOL 😂

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    2. GEORGE,

      LIKE I SAID TO MY COUSIN —“I’LL LOVE YOU NO MATTER WHO’s PRESIDENT”

      #THAT’S THE TRUTH…

      #[HOPE YOU FOUND YOUR STASH, GEORGE —THC FOREVER]..

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    3. HE HAD A STUTTER IN HIGH SCHOOL? HOW WOULD YOU KNOW? DID YOU GROW UP WITH HIM? ARE YOU HIS RELATIVE? OR DID THE NY SLIMES TELL YOU THAT TALL TALE/ HE NEVER STUTTERED WHEN HE TRIED TO LYNCH CLARENCE THOMAS OR RAILROAD ROBERT BORK , PLAGIARIZED NEIL KINNOCK’S SPEECH OR ACCUSED 74 MILLION AMERICANS OF BEING ENEMIES OF HIS REGIME.

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  9. Who is supporting Bitin except for admonishing those who are making fun of his speech impediment. Bitin’ or Stump, to me it is foolish to be an adamant supporter of either

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    1. Maybe…in the abstract. But Trump is the only guy who can get Biden outta D. C. [nobody else could stand up to what the DNC has planed for the time between the Republican Convention and the election].

      #TrumpIsANecessaryEvil….

      #….WhoWillBeConstrainedByCongress&TheSupremeCourt…

      #…[AndHe’llDealWithTheSecurityCrisisBidenIsCreating]

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      4. The Bush family has been hard core globalists since the grandfather Herbert Bush and even earlier. George W. Bush did everything he could to turn america, mexico and canada into one country.

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  10. man you and so cal and grabby need a time out go to your rooms and jack off to your Trump posters on the wall and take a nap GEEEZZZUS

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      3. Don’t tell my bud T Bruins that, So Cal…. I’m trying to hide behind you guys….

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      1. The rest of the world has to be laughing at the once great america. We teach our kids that a man can have a baby and that there are not 2 genders but 50-100 and you can be a boy today and a girl tommorow and parents have no rights with their children and we can’t even elect a president who doesn’t have to be led around by his wife or he will get lost in the White House. They must be rolling on the floor laughing.

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    1. Lowenstein: “Some people think’s it’s uplifting to ask people for money to fund political campaigns…”

      #EvenBidenChokedOnThatOne

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  13. Politics is not for the thin-skinned or those lacking a sense of humor, or as statesman Henry Kissinger once remarked, “There cannot be a crisis next week My schedule is already full”

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      1. Enough of this “My politican is better than your guy” nonsense, Jill St. John and Jane- now you’re talkin’ my language

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      2. James Bond to Tiffany Case ( JSJ )

        James Bond : Weren’t you a blonde when I came in?

        Tiffany Case : Could be.

        James Bond : I tend to notice little things like that – whether a girl is a blonde or a brunette.

        Tiffany Case : Which do you prefer?

        James Bond : Well, as long as the collar and cuffs match.

        Tiffany Case : We’ll talk about that later.

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      4. Unfortunately, Sean was pretty bored [and out of shape] by the time he “joined forces” with Jill —-

        Remember Fleming’s novel “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”? Contessa Di Vicenzo To Bond: “Oh, that was heaven!”

        #…[IfIHadAPennyForEveryTimeCarolHasSaidThatToMe]…

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  14. Time for a break back to sports– Wolf comes up with the most brutal football pictures like the one above with SC’s bullrushers trying to crush some skinny quarterback

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  15. Meanwhile, I’m having a hard time working because I can’t wait to read Wolf’s latest negative comments, this time about the SC women’s championship basketball team. What can Wolf come up with?

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      2. Not to resort to some juvenile male metric or anything….but….a real 10!

        #Kind,Smart,Beautiful…Unattainable

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    1. I was lucky enough to be studying at UCLA Law School one Saturday or Sunday and there was a concert going on at the quad — she said “why don’t we go listen to the music for a while?” so we took a break from Intergovernmental Tax Immunities and went over —I’ll always remember her showing me a little pocket watch her mother gave her…there was something so sweet about it….

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      1. One night recently I lay awake thinking back on girls I dated and how I neglected the relationship until it fizzled out

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      2. Contact them & say Hello!

        #…EverybodyWantsToGoBackInTime…

        #….ToSayThanksForTheMemories…

        #…ButTooFewDoIt…

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    1. He reminds me of a festering maggot filled wound you can smell from 3 blocks away as it oozes a liquid concocted by green demons in the bowels of hell…. sorry, that sentence kinda got away from me…

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