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USC Saturday Buzz: Predictable Response In Recruiting

Lincoln Riley been’s crowing the past couple months about USC’s notable increase in NIL money, cheered on by the eager-beaver media.

But when Michigan State defensive lineman Derrick Harmon and Mater Dei linebacker Nasir Wyatt committed to Oregon on Friday, the response was predictable.

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  • USC campus security and the LAPD are gathering near Alumni Park this morning, which means there could be an attempt to clear protestors today.

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  3. -So now we have the high school football entrepreneurs who are savvy enough to sell their ‘bods’ to the highest bidder. Are we now down to-

    “Hey SC, Oregon just offered me a half-mil, can you do a -mil?

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  4. One of the most violent leaders of the Columbia University riots is allegedly a professional agitator and limousine liberal — the scion of millionaire ad execs who owns in a $3.4 million Brooklyn brownstone, has a model babymama and a stepmom dating John Cougar Mellencamp.

    James Carlson, aka Cody Carlson, aka Cody Tarlow, is “a longtime anarchist,” a high-ranking police source said.

    He bought his 2,893-square-foot, three-story brownstone with four wood-burning fireplaces and a carriage house in Park Slope in 2019 for $2.3 million.

    The provocateur, who has arrests dating back to 2005, is one of three children of prominent advertising execs Richard “Dick” Tarlow and his wife, Sandy Carlson Tarlow.

    Dick Tarlow, died in 2022 at age 81 with an estate worth at least $20 million, court papers show.

    The Shelter Island resident was known for his work with Revlon, Ralph Lauren, Cuisinart and Pottery Barn.

    He was a loyal supporter of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

    Sandy Carlson Tarlow, who died in 2003 at age 59, was known for defining the “public face of Ralph Lauren. “

    By the time she and her husband sold her namesake firm, Carlson & Partners, to DDB in 2001 for an undisclosed amount, the company had more than 100 employees and was doing $165 million in business.

    Dick Tarlow and his second wife – Carlson’s stepmom, Kristin Kehrberg — lived together in a $15 million Fifth Avenue mansion.

    The widow is now dating John Cougar Mellencamp, Page Six reported last summer.

    Carlson, 40, appears to have two children, including one with a model, blonde bombshell Kim Heyrman.

    The four-bedroom, four-bath townhouse Carlson owns is currently being renovated, workers told The Post Friday. The property boasts a large garden with a deck and skylights.

    Estranged relatives of Carlson refused to discuss him.

    “We don’t talk to him. Leave us alone. He is out of our lives for so many years,” a woman who answered the phone at his sister’s home said Friday.

    Carlson is a rabble rouser and an attorney by trade, according to sources.

    He is being looked at as a “possible leader” of the anti-Israel protesters who broke into Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall Tuesday night and barricaded themselves inside, a City Hall source said.

    Emergency Services Unit cops used a military-style truck to get inside and arrest the rioters, including Carlson, early Wednesday morning. 

    He was charged with burglary, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, conspiracy and criminal trespassing.

    “I observed the defendant inside the location with several other individuals,” a police officer wrote in the arrest report. “I did observe doors with shattered windows, doors off hinges, broken desks and exits blockaded by piled-up chairs.”

    Carlson destroyed a camera inside a holding cell at One Police Plaza while he was in custody around 1 a.m., police sources said.

    He was charged with criminal mischief for that incident.

    After his Wednesday arrest at Columbia, cops additionally charged Carlson with a hate crime, assault and petit larceny for allegedly lighting an Israel supporter’s flag aflame and hitting the 22-year-old in the face with a rock during an April protest, cops said.

    Carlson was among the anti-Israel protesters in January who wreaked havoc on the city by blocking traffic at the Holland Tunnel as well as the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges, a source said.

    His rap sheet dates back to at least 2005, when he was charged in San Francisco for participating in the violent “West Coast Anti-Capitalist Mobilization and March Against the G8,” where protesters cracked a police officer’s skull, nearly killing him, and attempted to set a police cruiser ablaze, according to a City Hall source and  news reports.

    Carlson was charged at the time with suspicion of attempted lynching, malicious mischief, battery to a police officer, aggravated assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon and willful resistance to a police officer that results in serious bodily injury, according to the source.

    The charges were dropped in 2007.

    Carlson has no known links to Columbia University. About 30% of those busted in the Hamilton Hall takeover were outside agitators, according to Columbia and Mayor Adams.

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    1. If this Cody Carlson guy has assets, and if appears that he does, the schools and others should be pursuing him in civil court for the various damages he help inflict. Amazing that this guy walks free while a 70 year old grandma who did nothing more than take photos inside the Capitol on 1/6/20 needs to do 3 months in jail and if she doesn’t plea to the offense, she will do 10 years. 

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      1. It’s not amazing at all, Plow Horse. The Justice Department …and the district attorney offices in every major city….. work for ‘the other side’ now. Watching the Trump farce —- replete with introduction of privileged communications and testimonial evidence as to past, uncharged conduct, presided over by a judge who refuses to recognize state recusal laws, financed by a corrupt republican house —-is proof positive our country is on the ropes.

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      2. You fake conservatives are killing me. She was peacefully taking pictures inside the Capitol? But your forgetting the illegal entry and participation in the disruption of a federal operation part! If somebody comes to this country illegally then they should deal with the consequences of that action. Breaking the law is breaking the law, otherwise you would face the same justice as that 70 year old grandma.

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  5. In the early 70’s, Oakland A’s owner Carlie Finley said that every MLB player should become a free agent after the season every year, he was laughed at.

    Fast forward to 2024 and college sports is exactly what Finley wanted.

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    1. Pretty much what I replied to John when he tried to claim million dollar contracts haven’t ruined NFL, so why are people claiming they’ve ruined college football: “Apples & oranges. Make all NFL contracts a one year deal and then you will have a fair comparison.”

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    1. 25-50 million should get a team into the playoffs. 

      #100MillionShouldGuaranteeNationalChampionship

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    2. How so? I’ve heard HOV came up short on promises and that’s why Height left. HOV is run by a nerd with a degree who initially tried to take half of every dollar donated. Only after some backlash did he relent, but boosters have been side-eyeing him ever since.

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  10. One of Stump’s ex-assistants did him a favor yesterday when testifying that at least one of the “hush money” payout recipients was for the purpose of salvaging his marriage. 

    Undoubtedly that was one of Stump’s hopes although probably miner compared to saving his candidacy. Still, if there is any doubt about his motives you must acquit

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    1. I laughed my ass off when I heard he’s been farting up a storm in the courtroom! He’s probably downing a can of Bushes baked beans every morning and doing it intentionally.

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  11. By the way, Nasir Wyatt is 205 lbs. Unless he get 50 lbs. then he will not play outside linebacker at the Div. 1 level. Just too small. You don’t see players like that on anyone’s roster.

    To read his comments on who the coaches are comparing him to is outrageous. Wyatt is delusional if he thinks he doesn’t need to bulk up. Oregon coaches are the biggest liars in football and they will tell recruits any lie that’s needed to stack talent and keep others from competing against them. Kalen DeBoer exposed them last year TWICE!! He also exposed Lincoln Riley as well.

    Another long year. . . .

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    1. Oregon doesn’t need to lie. All they need to do is come up with a bag right when a kid is about to commit to USC. They’ve been stealing our kids for years.

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