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USC Notes: Time To Get Bus Rolling

When does the Muss Bus get started? USC’s got three players on the roster and two commitments since Eric Musselman was hired.

There are a lot offers to transfers so we’ll see when they start committing.

  • There hasn’t been much talk about USC redshirt freshman defensive end Sam Greene, who a year ago stood out in the spring scrimmage. Also: What happens after spring? Does linebacker Raesjon Davis return? Presumably, he will get his degree next month, which would be a great reason to look at other schools for his senior season.
  • TCU defensive end Damonic Williams is in the transfer portal. He was all-Big 12 last season and graduated from Alemany High School in Mission Hills. What will USC’s NIL offer be?
  • If you are going to the spring scrimmage, parking at the Coliseum will cost $25 now but rise to $35 on game day. If you normally park on campus, good luck with the Festival of Books this weekend.
  • The NCAA Council is recommending unlimited number of transfers for players (which are already allowed from a court injunction) and would about to be officially allowed in the rules once formally approved. The transfer portal windows still exist.
  • This used to be a sign in the old City Room at the Daily Trojan during the end of the Nikias Era. Might be time to bring it back.
  • This is Baylor University’s version of the McKay booth.
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19 thoughts on “USC Notes: Time To Get Bus Rolling”

  1. Hi Michael  Many years ago when the movie first came out you took me to see JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG and then you told me all about your uncle. I would like to see you again. So are you married now or what ?

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    1. JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG, sounds like a great first date. Really puts her in the mood, particularly the scene with Julie Garland. Right up there with Seinfeld making out during Schlinder’s List. 

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      2. Yes High Hopes and movies about demonic possession and/or the Holocaust aren’t the best date bait. Some beautiful music at The Hollywood Bowl was always a good date.

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    1. It’s red neck ebonics. Heard you’re the expert….perhaps why you responded…thanks for clarification.

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  3. Damonic Williams looks like a good prospect. Really need someone to help Bear Alexander clog up the middle. If we get a solid run stopper in the middle, we have a chance to be a good defense. 

    Why are “unlimited transfers” a good idea? What is wrong with one transfer without sitting out a year. You could have a second window once a student graduates. Program stability is a good thing and this strikes a balance between the players right to make a change and the school’s desire for stability. Appears that the NCAA is set on free agency which will eventually kill college football and basketball.

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  4. These players need to sign contracts. If schools/donors are going to commit so much money to them, they need to commit their time to that school.

    NCAA with this recommendation simply showing that it knows it has been fully neutered.

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  5. “Festival of Books, huh, I never see anybody with a book in hand, instead reading off their cell-phones.  Now if they were selling Smart-Phones with the “books” encased inside then we might have a customer or two

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  8. I see ‘Stump’ dared go up to the New York 130s to mix with the working class-folk as a Middle Eastern father checked him out sternly while his young son smiled. 

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  9. Speaking of which, the debate goes on–

    Stump: My Christians, the church-attending ones, believe a baby becomes a baby at conception, and we are going to protect that baby

    Bitin: Admittedly the entire idea of abortion is abominable– the killing of a forming human being, but the pregnant have a vote and their baby doesn’t

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  10. You gotta try this– Stay away from negative-leaning people, it is a “12-Step” Program and I took the first Step yesterday. Only read Wolf’s stuff and ignored all the rest. It is just you Wolf and me from this point on (of course that is the way it has always been anyway)

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  12. If you are planning on attending ‘the Festival of Books’ and not taking the Expo Line – get there no later than 10:00 am and park ‘west’ of Vermont on 37th Place or 36th Street – just keep looking ‘west’ to Catalina or Budlong.

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