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USC Morning Buzz: Does Play Reflect Practice?

Last week I mentioned a Big Ten coach questioned whether Lincoln Riley runs the ball enough.

Here’s some observations from the same coach:

“The way they look when they play, they don’t look tough. I equate them to a boxer who did minimal sparring before a fight.

“They don’t look like they are physical. I would ask how hard do they practice? It doesn’t look like a team that practices hard.”

  • Wide receiver Sam Phillips from Tennessee-Chatanooga will visit USC on Jan. 3 per 247. He caught 49 passes for 803 yards and four touchdowns this season.
  • The USC-Michigan women’s basketball game at the Galen Center on Sunday night drew more than 8,000 fans. Last year’s team received rings for winning the Pac-12 basketball tournament. Rings.

E-mail of the day

“I’m amazed at how much some of the sycophants are lauding LR for a “comeback win” with such a depleted roster … Wouldn’t folks realize that the roster depletion is largely due to LR and lack of leadership?”

54 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Does Play Reflect Practice?”

  1. it’s the weather. Practicing football in the Midwest cold toughens those kids up while our guys are at the ‘beach’

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  2. KAM: They say that ‘just by being a woman hurt me with a lot of the men. Don’t we realize there is more difference within the sexes than beween them?

    DON: I suppose- but the subject of ‘women’ conjures up that funny Mae West line– “When women go wrong, men go right after them”

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    2. “. . . just by being a woman hurt me with a lot of the men.”

      Not really. But advocating for defunding the police, abolishing ICE, an open border, full health care benefits and EBT cards to illegals, no cash bail, abolishing fracking and fossil fuel extraction, and doing a horrific job as VP may have hurt her chances with a lot of men.

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  5. Georgia-Notre Dame– This is not the Georgia team of old but they are comparable to Notre Dame. Settled by turnover margin

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    1. Georgia lost their QB-Gunner Stockton, who took over for Beck in the second half against Texas, will make his first start for Georgia on Wednesday in the Sugar Bowl against Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals.

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  6. Oregon-Ohio St for the de facto National Championship as these 2 are the best teams notwithstanding the Michigan game, although Texas-Georgia-Notre Dame might have a say in the matter

    It is hard to pick between a ‘Webfoot’ and a buckeye

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  7. There has been some interest in how Wolf’s blog is 8-hours ahead of Pacific time. It is surmised that he works off of his boat somewhere in the British Isles

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      1. ONE EVER RESPONDS TO YOUR COMMENTS…..JUST ANOTHER ONE OF SCOTT’S LAME SOCK*PUPPETS

        HAHAHA!…….

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      3. LMAO! I knew that was going to be her reply!

        Talk about BOTH taking the bait and saying the same shxt over & over again

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  10. Nobody really knows how hard USC practices because Riley closes his practices to the public. However, the defense played much more physical this year than under Helton and Grinch. Kamari Ramsey, Jalen Smith, Easton Mascarenas Arnold, and Akili Arnold are all physical players.

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      1. Speaking of dominance, do you gents recall the 2005 70-17 game vs ARK? The ARK fullback said “USC made us feel like little kids out there.” ARK had Darren McFadden, who was considered as quick as Reggie, and Felix Jones, who averaged 7 yards per carry in his career. Total yardage was something like 800 versus 325.

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      2. Before the game, Arkansas players were saying this is just another SEC-like opponent. I have a hunch that the chants of SEC! SEC! as the Arkansas players were leaving the field didn’t help USC’s cause in the NCAA Mafia witch hunt that I am still convinced Mike Slive had a hand in.

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      3. 67: I remember watching the Arkansas game. Leinart threw a fly pattern to Bush with a one foot window and nailed it. An incredible offensive show.

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      6. Cowardly Gabby is such a low IQ Football poster she thinks Curtis Conway never ever returned a kickoff for USC in his illustrious three year career.

        Gabby

        AUGUST 30, 2023 AT 3:07 AM
        Fake gabby: USC Fan would know that teams intentionally kicked away from Trojan star kick returner and WR Curtis Conway.

        you stupid senile troll…..a kick returner returns kickoffs, and a punt returner returns punts…..Conway never returned a kickoff in his entire USC career.

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  11. Regarding the Tennessee-Chatanaooga portal WR visiting USC:

    the good news is that he runs a 4.42 40. The not-so-good news is that he is 5’8″…

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      1. How to manage Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the Bruin Fan The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young’s trolling of the blog….

        Although research in this area is still in its infancy, a few psychological studies have attempted to answer these questions. There are three important lessons learned.

        First, trolls are more likely to display noxious personality characteristics, that is, traits that impair one’s ability to build relations and function in a civilized or pro-social way. In a comprehensive examination of their psychological profile, trolls were found to be more Machiavellian (impulsive and charming manipulators), psychopathic (cold, fearless and antisocial), and especially sadist than the overall population. Trolls enjoy harming and intimidating others, so much so that the authors of this study concluded that trolls are “prototypical everyday sadists”, and that trolling should be regarded as online sadism. This is in line with the view of trolling as a form of cyberbullying.

        Second, trolling – like other forms of computer-mediated communication – unleashes people’s impulses by providing anonymity and temporary identity loss. This phenomenon, called deindividuation, is well known to psychologists and has been found to emerge in several areas of interpersonal relations, such as gaming, role-playing and crowd behaviors, particularly hooliganism. Thus, even when we are not naturally sadistic, trolling may bring out the worst side in us, by lifting the moral constrains and social etiquette that regulates our behavior in normal situations, and by fueling dissent and triggering abrasive reactions.

        Third, trolling is a status-enhancing activity: by attracting readers’ attention, upsetting people, sparking heated debates, and even gaining approval from others, trolls can feel important, perhaps much more than they are in their real lives. Thus, trolling is yet another internet activity that promotes narcissistic motives, since trolls may be expected to be far less successful in attracting people’s attention in the physical world. The only effective antidote to their tactics is to ignore them, but even then, trolls won’t suffer a public humiliation because nobody knows who they are. This is what makes trolling so ubiquitous – it requires no skills other than the ability to be obnoxious

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    1. Jimmy Carter Was a Terrible President — and an Even Worse Former President. “Carter’s true legacy is one of economic misery at home and embarrassment on the world stage. He left the country in its weakest position of the post–World War II era. After being booted out of office in landslide fashion, the self-described ‘citizen of the world’ spent the rest of his life meddling in U.S. foreign policy and working against the United States and its allies in a manner that could fairly be described as treasonous. His obsessive hatred of Israel, and pompous belief that only he could forge Middle East peace, led him to befriend terrorists and lash out at American Jews who criticized him.”

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      2. On a happier note, Carter didn’t take in excess of 20 million from foreign governments in exchange for political favors, set up 17 phony shell corporations to launder the money, fail to pay tax on it, and then pardon his son of all criminal responsibility for the scam. Only Biden did that. Of course the insider trading of the Pelosi and her husband make the 20 million look like a pittance.

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      4. you trumpers are sick do you think your orange god would put a hard hat and build houses for poor people?? So much hate in you seek help for it

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      1. Here’s the problem:Cowardly Gabby needs treatment for her paranoid schizophrenia condition. It is a fairly common (and can be severe) mental illness: about 0.32% of the population suffers from it. [Let’s see. There were 331 million Americans in the 2020 Census. I don’t believe they diagnose it (for sure) until one’s late teenage years, so let’s apply it to those Americans and Traitors like Cowardly Gabby 18 and over. Google says that 258 million Americans are 18 years old & older: 258 million x 0.0032 = 825,600 people adults who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, just like Cowardly Gabby.

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      2. She’ll never get help for it because she can’t admit it and no one in her life cares enough to call for a 5150.

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