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The USC Friday Column Supplement

Eric Musselman is being introduced to the media today.

So I found a picture of when Bob Boyd was introduced to the media by athletic director Jess Hill on March 22, 1966.

  • Bill Sharman was mentioned as a candidate for the job. Later in the day after Boyd was offered the job, Sharman was named coach of the San Francisco Warriors.

Sharman took the Warriors to the NBA Finals his first season, where they lost to the Philadelphia 76ers, who had one of the greatest teams in NBA history. Their coach was a former USC basketball player: Alex Hannum.

  • Former USC basketball player Tex Winter, then the coach at Kansas State, was another candidate. Sharman, Hannum and Winter were teammates at USC.
  • Another candidate, then-USC assistant coach Bill Mulligan, became the coach at Riverside City College after not getting hired by Hill. He replaced Jerry Tarkanian at Riverside and eventually became the coach at UC Irvine.
  • Boyd was 6-foot-7. By comparison, Eric Musselman is 5-7. He might be the shortest basketball coach in USC history.

Maybe Musselman and Mick Cronin, who is also 5-7, can have a jump ball before the USC-UCLA games to see who starts with possession.

  • Tom Selleck was a USC campus rep for United Airlines in 1966. That’s better than hawking reverse mortgages.

35 thoughts on “The USC Friday Column Supplement”

  3. I’ve been running business errands today so I haven’t had time to add my two cents until now….but I’ve seen a few Lawyer John posts wherein he tries to lower the temperature on this blog. I hope everyone is as appalled by this appeal to reason as I am…

    #ReasonWillNotSaveUs…..

    #…..”NowIsTheTimeForATrulyMeaninglessAct”

       —Bluto in Animal House

    #[..”AndWe’reJustTheGuysToDoIt”]…..

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      1. It would be nice if they went to that much trouble, So Cal….. but they allow him to walk into walls and talk to marble columns ….and let the mainstream press serve as greenscreen…

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      2. That’s pretty funny. See, you can make ‘political points’ more through humor than with “in your face” diatribe

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      3. Should that be my new blog name, So Cal?

        #MisterSunshine?

        #[It’s better than the one Gabby gave me…

        #….”Guarino, the Lying Fascist Philanderer”]

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      1. Wait until Musselman goes into Wisconsin or Iowa or Purdue, gets prison raped, the students taunt him to 40 minutes, we’ll see how the pom pom waving works. My guess, he comes close to getting arrested.

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      3. “I’m looking forward to those sub zero games”…

        —Bluto [Animal House, again] 

        #MaybeBlutoDidn’tActuallySayThat…ButHeCouldHave…..

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  5. That Charles is always coming through, this time with an article that gives us more insight into Muzzleman, which by the way the silly-name probably does not describe the gent since he is an extrovert, “not shy” as they say, which is another way of saying he is brazen But I like him already– the guy has known success and he just might bring some of that magic to SC’s ugly step-sister, the men’s basketball team

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      2. haha

        THAT OLD DOG STILL LIVES ON IN OUR MEMORIES JOHN EVEN AFTER ALL THESE YEARS !!

        WHAT A GREAT LITTLE DOG HE WAS !!!

        NOW IN TROJAN DOGGIE HEAVEN !!!!!!!!!

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      3. HI GEORGE!

        IF THE NAVY ANIMAL HANDLER & THE TROJAN HANDLER BOTH LET GO OF THEIR LEASHES, TIREBITER TAKES OUT THE GOAT IN LESS THAN 20 SECONDS….

        #…CUZ THAT’S THE WAY GEORGE ROLLS….

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  6. Most Trojans could not tell you much about the SC football team in the 1950s (probably just as well, not a great decade) but Tirebiter they never forget

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