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Isaiah Raikes Enters Transfer Portal

Defensive lineman Isaiah Raikes, a transfer from Texas A&M, has entered the transfer portal.

Raikes is another player who has been at USC for three months. His name has been removed from the roster so I guess Coach Henny couldn’t save this one.

The 320-pound Raikes was supposed to play a role in making the defensive line bigger.

USC will definitely be looking for another defensive tackle in the transfer portal.

  • Cornerback Tre’Quan Fegans has also entered the portal. This would have been signficant if his brother, four-star safety Anquon Fegans, was still committed to USC but that ship sailed a long time ago.

51 thoughts on “Isaiah Raikes Enters Transfer Portal”

  1. There is a different take on these guys who are leaving after 3 months at USC: they are simply not competitive. They are leaving because they will be sitting on the bench. They look to enroll at a school where they will be more competitive. 

    Apparently, the highly ranked frosh o-lineman who announced yesterday he was entering the portal was getting pushed around so much in practice that they kept moving him around to see if he could find a position who would be suited for. Better for him to leave now, given he is not as good as everyone expected him to be.

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      1. Actually, Wiley has a stronger hold on football practice secrecy than the Manhattan Project which was rampant with rumors

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    1. Some blog dude was asking what I think about the NIL situation, and I’ll answer it this way- When Drysdale and Koufax jointly held out for the princely sum (at that time) of $100,000 I was floored that they didn’t play the game for the fun of it (I was a young naive kid)

      However, the NIL is here to stay so SC may as well jump into the muddy fray and get its hands dirtied up

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  5. ‘Raikes,’ “We never knew you”- Actually, this is the first I heard of him

    Oh, oh Ohtani is innocent, I finally have a hero I can root for. As a little boy I would check out the morning paper to see how my 2 heroes did, Stan the Man Musial and Ted the Splinter Williams, and now as I close out my life I find each day I am checking out how ‘O’ did the day before 

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      1. I’ve been waiting 40 years for the public to catch on to this scam. When I ran for office in L. A. I tried to point out developers were getting city and county money to assist the homeless….but the money was actually going toward high rise office space. Since 1966 [the beginning of the Urban Redevelopment scam] —- several trillion dollars have been stolen by developers [and their accountants] in dem run cities.

        Why should dem developers get bank loans when they can get free taxpayer money just by saying “it’s going towards low income housing and homeless shelters”?

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  7. You know how addicted gamblers talk big when they win and are silent when they lose?– ‘O’s interpreter won something like $140-million over the course of many years, but lost about $180-mil as he was making 20 or 30 bets a DAY

    I wondered how ‘O’ could be oblivious to what was happening with his account ($16-mil stolen) but his interpreter was a smart thief as he closed out all of O’s handlers from any knowledge of what he was doing with the account, and ‘O doesn’t care much about money

    Maybe time for ‘O’ to find some new business advisers

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  8. Did you hear the latest ‘Bitin-Stump mock debate’-

    Stump: ”This Putin guy, he’s something else the way he gets elected for life by eliminating the enemy, crafty devil, and can make war on anybody he wants to, that’s my kind of guy that Putin is

    ‘Bitin: ”Whose Putin?”

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      1. Liberals always think that liberalism is the answer. When they end up destroying their own city with their incredibly stupid ideas and they have to move, they just say “I guess we might have to tweak our liberalism a wee bit but when we do we will create paradise”. They never actually come to the conclusion that this system is bankrupt. It doesn’t work.

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      2. Actually, liberals KNOW their deal isn’t working. And they KNOW the American people KNOW……

        #HenceLawfare…..

        ….[btw, Trump is in trouble because his lawyers are so fucking dumb. This trial on Monday is a great example. His lawyers keep crying “New York is so, so, so unfair” instead of seeking a federal writ of prohibition to stop the New York judge from going forward]…….

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  9. Every day is a holiday somewhere on this planet so it is always time for celebration and to work on getting a better relationship with their God

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      1. “Self immolation is a reasonable way of expressing your political viewpoint”……more craziness from the “it’s all good” crowd…..

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      3. There is no more organization in america that is more responsible for the destruction of america than the public schools….and they did it and are doing it deliberately. They have always felt that america is corrupt. Their goal was always to tear it down and rebuild it their way. The problem is that these people are really good at tearing down and terrible at rebuilding.

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      4. …that’s why they’re teaching in public schools —- where there is no longer any metric for judging their work ….or the work of their students…
        #It’sAllGood

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      2. Ha! Now you’re just being perverse for the fun of it.

        George Washington felt differently, btw. 

        #SoDidAbeLincoln

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  11. g-man did say one-thing worthy of comment re his ‘lost’ heroes of Pat Haden and OJ Simpson- but why not maintain them as heroes recalling their SC football days (because that is why they are “heroes” )

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    1. It’s a complicated issue —O. J. was clearly a hugely talented running back —-maybe the best….. but it won’t do to say his “hero” image hasn’t been tainted by his wife’s murder……

      #OnTheOtherHand,PatDidn’tKillAnybody

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      1. Pat Haden certainly is a sad Trojan story- one of my fondest memories was Haden passing to Diggs for a 2-pointer to win the 1974 National Championship 18-17. He was an all-around good guy, smart too. It seems his legacy was more tarnished by the charity scandal than hiring the likes of Cutty-Sark

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      2. He was moe than just a USC star . He was a Rhodes Scholar, LA Rams QB, attorney, Good Citizen and one of the most visible and likelable personalities embracing Mom, Apple Pie and the American Way.

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      3. Agreed.

        I was surprised someone as smart and decent as Pat would put family on a charity board and authorize large salaries….

        #WhatHappenedToPat?

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      5. — But the mind can “compartmentalize,” and draw up only the football memories that drove us crazy– when watching OJ’s 64-yarder we aren’t thinking ‘he killed his wife’ but rather “Kill Yucla”

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      7. I hear what you’re saying, John —- but [and I know you’re aware of this] Greek tragedy is built on the notion of the tragic flaw — the vulnerability that brings the greatest heroes down.

        The notion of the tragic flaw is engrained in literature for a reason — it’s actually a metaphysical paradigm, not just a literary one.

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      8. OJ was abusing his wife as a lifestyle for over a decade, regardless of whether you belueve he murdered her or not. And now we learn he pressured his kids to sign NDAs while he was dying. Those are not the actions of a hero…Meanwhile Pat Haden uttered the famous line “I want USC to win the right way” as he let the NCAA nuke the program, hired a known drunk, ignored his antics until he was forced to fire him, then hired Hugs over Ed Oregeron and ran his charity scam can never be forgotten either.

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  13. “Car-54 and Pat Haden, where are you”– I tried to find some current news recently but they still run “news” about him from 5-years ago. He never was in great health and this negative SC stress might do him in

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    1. He could always go on television and say “I’m sorry” [btw, he could afford to since the statutes of limitations have run on anything he may have done wrong] ….. thereby lifting any residual guilt from his shoulders and living stress free?

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      2. I think O. J. thought a lot more about what he did wrong than Pat [& for good reason —-Pat’s sins are absolutely trivial compared to O. J.’s]…..

        ….i.e., Pat won’t need last minute non disclosure agreements….

        [Gee, I wonder what O. J. needed those for]?

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      1. Grabby,

        I was thinking the same thing. [He have to call it a ‘gift’ of $250,000]…….

        #”ForOldTime’sSake”

          —-The Godfather

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    2. It didn’t go into Pat’s pocket ….just family members’ pockets…. it would still be a nice gesture….

      #But….

      #…PatProbablyFeelsThisWayAboutUSC:IDon’tOweYou,YouOweMe…

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