Sometimes, I even surprise myself at how well I can figure these guys out.
Yesterday, in the USC-Maryland report card, I wrote “USC keeps playing one half of football and every week the response is “stay the course.”
So about 10 hours later, what does USC defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn say?
:After our recent losses, we put our heads right back down and then we try to stay the course.”
The difference is I don’t think “stay the course” is a good thing while Lynn obviously does.
- There has never been anything in my lifetime in Los Angeles like Fernandomania, where a sports figure became so instantly beloved and captured the attention of so many — including those who weren’t diehard Dodger fans. It felt like everything else stopped when Fernando Valenzuela pitched.
The Dodgers scored only six runs in four his first eight starts and he still won because he had five shutouts in that span.
If you were alive, you won’t forget the joy and enthusiasm that existed in those first magical eight starts.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
By the coach saying “staying the course” he might have meant the preparation work that goes into every week readying for a game
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Fernando-mania was once every 4-days when he pitched but Ohtani’s has been everyday, although when Fernando pitched it felt like a party
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As bad as Trojan fans feel the players and coaches feel worse, much worse. Football is overly ragged and rugged for even the winners let alone the losing team
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There was all that positive SC football hype and feelings months before the season began and now after less than 2-months Trojans are in a negative funk
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I think USC ought to make some changes. Let Maiava start the second half. And the coaches marveled about how well the two freshman cornerbacks played in the fall – Williams and Conley. Let them play. And let the two big freshman defensive lineman play. How about the freshman linebackers too. And why not start Tobias Raymond at right tackle instead of Murphy. Henson praised him in the Spring and Murphy and Paige have struggled. Shake things up.
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Long live “El Toro”
You will always be remembered
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Alabama fans are not happy and its coach ‘DeBeer or something’ said protectively of his players, “Don’t lose belief in these guys because there’s a lot of guys making some big sacrifices in ways that you’ll never know…”
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DeBoer blew it leaving Washington. He could have stayed there forever with their grateful fans. Reminds me of another coach…
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STFU!…….. FREAK!
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Cowardly Gabby is incapable of discussing football or politics. She loves the invasion of America under Border Czar Kamala.
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What’s with this Paul ‘Finebomb’ popping off about the intricacies of college football when he looks as if the closest he ever got to a football field was in the bleachers
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Finebaum got as close to a football field as Kamala got to a McDonalds.
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Ohio St’s coach recounting the 1-point loss to the Webfoots said that the Buckeyes should have put that game away earlier and that it should not have come down to the very end where a play or a call can derail you. Are you listening Coach Wiley?
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The ” censor ” has made it impossible to post, not worth the trouble
DEUCES !
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Someone on the USC staff needs to take CLR down to the film room and watch the final drive of the 1980 Rose Bowl between USC and Ohio State. As I recall, USC had the ball with a little under three minutes remaining, down by six, 87 yards away from a TD, and they RAN the ball with Charles White. First play. I-Right 22 Blast. Second play. I-Left H-Motion 26 Power. Next play. I-Right 25 Power (Michael Harper carrying). Next play. Double Tight- I-Right- 32 Dive (Marcus Allen carrying.) Next play. Double Tight-I-Right 21-Blast (Charles White carrying). Next play. Double Tight-I-Right 22 Blast (Charles White carrying.) Next play. Double Tight-I-Right 28 Toss (Charles White carrying.) Next play. Double Tight-I-Right 21 Blast (Charles White carrying. TD.) National Championship won. Charles White finished with 39 carries and 247 yards. THAT IS USC FOOTBALL!
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That 1979 team unfortunately did not win the national title over Alabama with the Trojans’ 1980 Rose Bowl victory but that did not take away the excitement of watching that captivating sequence of runs by White; the feeling in the SC crowd was that White was going to win that game in the end while simultaneously the Buckeyes’ coach Woody Hayes was going nuts trying to find a tackle who could stop White
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The 1979 USC Team was unbeaten and had one tie against Stanford when Genius John Robinson decided to sit on the ball the entire 2nd half after being up 21-0. They also kicked the crap out of Bama in Birmingham 24-14. As far as I’m concerned, and many others, USC were the National Champs. One more thing, Woody Hayes was nowhere to be found. This was Earle Bruce’s first year.
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We are both mixing up 1978 when SC beat Alabaa 24-14 and shared the national championship with them and 1979 when SC was shut out of at least part of a title due to the Stanford tie.
So it wasn’t Woody Hayes going nuts, he was already retired, but some Ohio St coaches were going nuts trying to stop White
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