USC Morning Buzz: These Numbers Are No Game

Everyone likes to focus on the fact that for years USC has not have a linebacker worthy of wearing No. 55.

But what about the fact no one inside the program even cares about the other number traditions. No one wears No. 42, which was Ronnie Lott’s number or No. 43 (Troy Polamalu). There isn’t anyone to even remind anyone of their significance.

Those numbers tend to go to walk-ons or punters now, with coaches oblivious to the tradition.

And No. 35, which used to have a fine tradition with inside linebackers (Riki Gray, Scott Ross) is currently worn by Braylan Shelby, who is a defensive end. If you asked Lincoln Riley about these numbers and their legacies, you would get a blank expression.

  • Boise State has named redshirt sophomore quarterback Maddux Madsen as the starting quarterback for the opener at Georgia Southern. That means former USC QB Malachi Nelson will be the back up.

I always say when a quarterback finds a new school, that rule No. 1 is to find a school that guarantees you will start.

  • USC cross country/distances coach Jebreh Harris has resigned to take a similar position at Azusa Pacific. If you leave USC for Azusa Pacific, that immediately suggests there was a conflict and/or he was told to find another job.

It’s not easy being a distance coach at USC, which focuses on the sprints.

35 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: These Numbers Are No Game

      1. Everything about the Kamunism campaign is fake. Prior to Willie Brown’s Bimbo’s stop at Primanti’s (the PA sandwich chain), every single customer was kicked out and replaced with actors.

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  1. High school football players were forced to listen to a “motivational speech” from Kamala Harris: “You will be undefeated even if you don’t win every game!”

    Sounds like a Lincoln Riley motivational speech before the Notre Dame game last year.

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  2. Everything about the Kamunism campaign is fake. Prior to Willie Brown’s Bimbo’s stop at Primanti’s (the PA sandwich chain), every single customer was kicked out and replaced with actors.

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  3. I cannot imagine what Wiley says to his team before a big game to motivate them. He knows he’s not a firey type of guy so he probably treats it more like a business meeting

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  4.  Kamunism did an interview in Iowa and was asked about climate change. 

    She explained how because of climate change, farmers and other professions were going to have to transition to new careers. 

    Think about how radical she has to be to say in Iowa that farmers will have to start new careers. 

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  5. How about the SC footballers who have been with the program for 2-3 years, so they have seen mere average years except 2022 and may be thinking, “Yeah these kids are full of excitement but the team is too inexperienced”

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  6. Charming: -Looks like we have ourselves a horse race here

    Prince: I’ll give you that but this ol’ horse ain’t dead yet

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  7. Kamunism clearly has an alcoholism problem. Or some sort of drug problem. She’s been slurring her words and unable to string together a coherent sentence for the past few weeks.

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  8. The official DNC platform has been released and it makes at least five mentions of “Biden’s second term.” Well, the Democrat voters did vote for Senile Joe in the primaries. No one was allowed to vote for Kamunism, they just removed Senile Joe and installed Kamunism so it doesn’t matter who the figurehead puppet is for the Regime. They write their platform with the same level of competence and attention to detail that Senile Joe did in running the government.

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  9. Unless they’re going to retire them, which they’re not, I’m so over this. How the heck do you know how good a player is going to be as a recruit, and by the time they prove it that player is most likely locked into their own number and legacy. We already have too many O & D players sharing the same number, so the team can’t afford to have these numbers sitting fallow, hoping someday to get a player Wolfie with approve.

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  10. Surprise ! Senile Joe and Kamunism knowingly lied to us for a year about Bidenomics.

    On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will downward revise jobs for the April 2023-March 2024 period by up to 1 million. This means that all “beats” recorded in the past year will have been misses and the US job market is in far worse shape than the admin would admit.

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