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USC Morning Buzz: Here Are Some Impact Transfers

If you think back to 2022, Lincoln Riley added Caleb Williams, Jordan Addison and Travis Dye in the transfer portal (among others).

Those were three marquee, bona-fide high impact players. Kind of a stark contrast to the portal additions currently taking place for USC.

People have short memories. Those three transfers were pretty much guaranteed to produce. Now, you have players who “may” make an impact.

USC added 700 pounds on the defensive line (that will be the new figure to compare to last year’s team adding 1,400 pounds of muscle).

Kentucky defensive end Keeshawn Silver is highly regarded. Does it matter that he had only one sack and one QB hurry in 12 games last season? Or wasn’t one of 15 defensive linemen named to the All-SEC team?

Georgia defensive tackle Jamaal Jarrett comes with high expectations. Does it matter he had three tackles in 11 games?

I like that Purdue right guard DJ Wingfield, who committed Sunday, started every game for the Boilermakers. But did USC even want him before Emmanuel Pregnon entered the portal? And just as important, did Wingfield want to come to USC before it lost Pregnon? No way. He wasn’t going to start.

I like what I’ve seen of tailback Eli Sanders, a tailback transfer from New Mexico. But will he start? Will he make a guaranteed impact? We all kind of knew Dye, MarShawn Lloyd and Woody Marks would start when they transferred.

So I just named five transfers from before this season: Caleb Williams, Jordan Addison, Travis Dye, MarShawn Lloyd and Woody Marks.

Who compares to any of them? Do you think the program is so healthy it doesn’t need bona-fide, high-impact transfers?

Lincoln? Lincoln?

7 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Here Are Some Impact Transfers”

    1. And Senile Joe does not have enough brain cells, he awarded Bill Nye the ‘Science Guy’ Mechanical Engineer the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Nye’s idea of freedom is locking up anyone who disagrees about global warming. “That there is a chilling effect on scientists who are in extreme doubt about climate change, I think that is good.”

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  2. leave it to the Wolfman to declare Sir Riley has no clothes! Despite his Saban-money, Riley’s stock is falling like a giraffe turd.

    the one thing you dummies at Southern Cal have is the smartest best writer in the business, but alas and alack, no one listens to him. It’s like having Warren Buffet on staff at a Wall Street firm, but keeping him in the Mail Room licking stamps!

    #UntappedResource

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    1. BREAKING NEWS: Loser of the year Kamala Harris just certified her own election loss. The look on Mike Johnson‘s face right now is all of us! 😂👏 Is she going to go straight to the bar now and start drinking?

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      1. completely non sequitur to the conversation. Do you go on political blogs and start ranting about Southern California foosball? I fear the dumbbells have shamed all the smart people off this blog. Too bad.

        #TwoInchesToTheRight

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