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If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column

Pete Carroll made it to class Thursday afternoon and then went to the women’s basketball game, where he got an enthusiastic response from the fans at the Galen Center.

What response would Lincoln Riley get in a similar situation?

Of course, who was at the game with Carroll? The omnipresent USC professor David Belasco, who also accompanied him to Las Vegas for his Raiders press conference and currently seems attached to his hip.

  • Do football coaches do anything these days? I’m tired of reading that every school is hiring staff members who are crucial to every bit of success they have had at their schools.

Do these staff members overrule the coach on who to recruit or sign? Is the coach helpless to evaluate talent without other staff members telling him who is good?

  • And now for some history:
  • This is the kind of story I like to learn about out of the blue. Tom Nickoloff led USC in receiving in 1952 and 1953 and was a captain on the 1953 team.

His father, Jim, owned and operated the Original Barbecue restaurant at 801 S. Vermont Ave. in the Wilshire District. The restaurant claimed to serve 8,000 chickens a month and had “one-minute takeout service.”

“Tom always managed to work his way through the entire menu,” Jim Nickoloff said in 1953.

Tom Nickoloff attended Los Angeles High School, which was only 2.7 miles from the Original Barbecue. Imagine that. A player going to his local neighborhood school instead of some football factory. It really was a different world.

Nickoloff graduated from Los Angeles High a few years before actor Dustin Hoffman, who was Class of 1955.

Here’s a rendering of the restaurant in 1959 when it underwent a $150,000 renovation.

The Original Barbecue opened 1936 and closed in 1984. The site now has a florist, bakery and nail salon.

Tom Nickoloff catches a pass against UCLA in 1952
  • Here’s another photo of Gus Williams in 1973. USC forward Clint Chapman is in the foreground.

  • USC used to be more public in its searches for a new president. In 1979, the finalists to succeed John Hubbard were Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield Co.; David Gardner, president of the University of Utah and Richard Atkinson, director of the National Science Foundation.

Bradshaw and Gardner withdrew and USC eventually hired James Zumberge, who was president at SMU and had been Chancellor at the University of Nebraska.

Tommy Trojan traded his trademark sword for a slide rule during Engineer’s Week in 1973.

  • Actor-producer John Houseman visited USC in 1979 to promote his book. This was six years after he won an Academy Award for his role in The Paper Chase.
  • This is the USC crew team holding its workout at Echo Park Lake in 1949. This is actually a training barge nicknamed “Gus” that was used before moving to the shells used in races. Did they race the Swan Boats at Echo Park Lake?

VIDED OF THE DAY

It’s Rick Moranis as Merv Griffin in another SCTV clip.

82 thoughts on “If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column”

    1. When Cowardly Gabby  aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf & Kathy & Foreskin Thoughts & Frank Young shows up to spam this blog all the other posters respond with the third finger in…..
      HAHA!

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      2. Cowardly Gabby aka aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf & Kathy & Foreskin Thoughts & Frank Young has spammed this site with the same idiotic rants for over 20 years.

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  2. Trump has blood on his hands as the war in Ukraine continues. With people dying everyday.

    Why are eggs sooooo expensive. Trump continues avoid talking about inflation while his supporters struggle to make ends meet

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    1. Cowardly Gabby aka aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf & Kathy & Foreskin Thoughts & Frank Young wants to blame Trump for the foreign policy bungling of Senile Joe and Kamala that gave us the Ukraine War and for Senile Joe and Kamala’s failed Bidenomics that resulted in a 30% rise in the cost of groceries in 4 years.

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      1. he’s the prez……this is all on his plate….were you blaming trump when he left Biden with the worst economy.in the history of this country

        quit moving the goalpost, it makes you look like a f—-ing idiot

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      2. He’s been the pres for 10 days you dolt. You are the same idiots who claimed Trump inherited a booming economy. Your pretzel logic is pathetic! Luckily Trump will be dismantling all the stupid programs your Dictator Senile Joe inflicted on America. Not that you traitors won’t resist it: The Senile Joe appointed director of employee and labor relations at the US Agency for International Development has been placed on administrative leave after a stunning refusal to follow directions given by President Trump’s transition team.

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      3. Dementia Joe: “We’ll have to discuss how to respond if it’s anything other than a minor invasion.”

        Zelensky: “WTF?! Thanks for inviting them to invade, Joe. I mean, as long as they don’t use nukes it’s fine, according to you!”

        Yet for 3 years the Village Idiot & others claimed Joe’s weakness had nothing to do with it. HE INVITED PUTIN TO DO IT! (What he did after the fact, to enrich his defense contractor buddies AND the Biden Crime Family’s fund has nothing to do with it.)

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  3. says the feeeeeaaaak who.posts 50 political rants a day….. and claims it isn’t spamming….. tooooo funnnnnnu

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    1. Says Cowardly Gabby aka aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf & Kathy & Foreskin Thoughts & Frank Young who posts animal d e f e c a t i o n videos and rants like this:

      Gabby

      8 hours ago

      you’re the only limp-d*&k who gives a s$%t what I said 8 months back … ….. I F@#$ING LIED…..I FU@#NG LIED…….AND NO ONE GIVES A F^%$ BUT A FREAK LIKE YOU…..

      GO F@#$ YOURSELF WHILE A DECIDE WHAT HORSE S&^% VIDEO TO POST

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      1. once again, you got your c r o t c h caved in and your response is always the same stale reposts from years ago.

        Major major insecurity issues…..seek help….FAST

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    2. Plow Horse
      JULY 8, 2023 AT 11:35 PM
      Yesterday Gabby admitted that he had no intention of appearing for a boxing match. “Nobody fights over what is said on a blog.” He was incredulous that anyone should ask for an apology. (Posting fraudulently as steveg) In Gabby’s world, men are not the protectors and providers for their families. You can insult their wives, daughters, and mothers with impunity. He has has no code of honor and therefore believes that nobody else should live by one. Although he admits that he will not back up his words with a boxing match, he has now dishonesty posted at least 10 times the exact same response about how he showed up at the gym in Miami. Is this suppose to be amusing? Please stop ruining our blog with repetitive copy and paste posts.

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      1. the limp—-d I c k who showed up in Miami fit the descriptions of Scott Wolf.

        nice try!

        why so insecure?

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      2. Fake Gabby: “Please stop ruining our blog with repetitive copy and paste posts.”

        Says the freeeeeaaaakkk who reposts over and over and over and over the same lame comments from years ago. But wants to call someone out for the same thing he’s guilty of…

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      3. You chickened out in Miami… remember, Cowardly Gabby?

        Chickens%$t Gabby is a Bu$#hurt Narcissist
        JULY 4, 2023 AT 10:07 PM
        Meet me in Miami at 4pm ET tomorrow, Chickens#$t Gabby! If you aren’t there, you are only proving your name. I don’t want to hear any excuses! None! No fu#@ing excuses! Tomorrow at 4pm ET! Be there or everyone will know for a fact that you are a true chicken

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      4. Fake Gabby: “Please stop ruining our blog with repetitive copy and paste posts.”

        Says the freeeeeaaaakkk who reposts over and over and over and over the same lame comments from years ago. But wants to call someone out for the same thing he’s guilty of…

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  5. John Houseman’s portrayal of a stern law school taskmaster got it right

    And no, Scott, I was at Echo Park last week and saw no ‘Swan Boats’ racing

    In the Washington crash they found the plane’s 2 ‘black boxes’ intact. A comic once asked, “If the black boxes are so invincible in crashes, why not make the entire plane out of the material

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    1. I enjoyed Houseman’s portrayal as well. But law school is a joke. You don’t learn the law until you actually practice it. Was never required to prepare a contract in my contracts class. Never even saw one. When I asked my professor why we didn’t prepare actual contracts, he said “we aren’t a trade school for future lawyers.” You should be.

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    2. Your probably right Buddha but a Bass type hire will devastate the university. The big donors such as Caruso need to be proactive with the next hire. Eliminate DEI, it is illegal but still practiced at USC. Fire all the DEI administrators and get ride of the ridiculous majors such as Women Studies, Black Studies, Chicano Studies, Political Science, ect. This will save tens of millions each year. And give a priority in graduate admissions to Americans. No more “global” university BS with the admission of 5,000 students from Asia.

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      3. You are a total racist, Cowardly Gabby aka aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf & Kathy & Foreskin Thoughts & Frank Young. Remember this racist gem of yours?

        Gabby (original)
        JUNE 22, 2023 AT 9:22 PM
        horse plow wants to use his wife’s black d i l d o to enter the peenus sword fight tourney. The guy is hung like a pimple… I promised we wouldn’t laugh

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      4. since when is the color of plows wife’s d ildo racist….. you sound like a total dumb—–a s s

        more insecurity issues…..seek help

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      7. 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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      8. glad you explained your personal issues…….”we” (someone got triggered)are all laughing at you

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      11. why are you constantly obsessing over real Gabby

        Major insecurity issues….must s u c k to be you

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      12. 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, why have you wasted 2 decades of your life here spamming this site and doxxing and threatening posters?

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      1. world leaders continue to laugh trumps incompetence. The nation is embarrassed of this fraud. One campaign lie after another

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      2. Jefferies should apologize for telling people that “we need to take our fight to the streets.” Trump faced an impeachment and multiple lawsuits for making similar statements. And it is not accurate to say that Black people are opposed to the Trump agenda. A poll showed that 69% of Black voters thought he did a good job in his first week. How can anyone be opposed to deporting violent illegal aliens.

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      5. “World leaders laughing. The nation embarrassed!”

        Yeah, that’s why Nov 5 happened. She’s one lie after another. Not only stupid enough to think she speaks for others on this board, but the entire world! LMAO!

        She really should get that help she so desperately needs.

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    1. if it isn’t the freeeeaaak with insecurity issues….. who reposts comments from years ago over and over and over then calls someone out for doing the same

      freeeeeaaak is senile…..for sure

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    2. Says the copy & paste queen! Too funny!!

      It’s no wonder her real life is so miserable she needs to come here an cry the way she does. Then lie about that! LMAO

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      1. Copy and paste????? Wrong person……you senile freeeaaaakk…that’s your other sock—–puppet fake gabby…….dumb-a s s

        you told the blog over 25k times that Biden has blood on his hands….mental issues for sure

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      2. you have been here everyday since 2020 whining and crying about Biden…..or did you forget…..senile t r o l l

        guilty of the same thing you blame others of…..get some new material….you look really lame

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      3. 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 hasa been obsessed with this site since his Bruins had Bob Toledo as their head coach!

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    3. 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 loves UCLA as this post proved:

      Gabby

      MARCH 14, 2024 AT 8:01 PM

      16 points….PATHETIC!!!!! Your basketball team f$%#ing sucks… USC was getting slapped around like a pinata…. Same way I slap your a#@ around….

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      1. Why are you soooooo obsessed with real Gabby….. beyond creepy

        Seek help for your insecurity issues

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      2. 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 needs to be institutionalized at Atascadero State Mental Hospital.

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      1. Hilarious that after 4 years of dementia, anyone would be stupid enough to claim the world is now laughing at us. But she hasn’t earned all the nicknames she has for nothing. LOL

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      2. dumb—–a s s takes the bait AGAIN.

        trump has blood on his hands, but sloooo cal wants to talk about a private citizen

        Why does trump continue to avoid addressing inflation….the guy is a fraud and millions regret voting for him

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      4. you.took the bait again…… dumb—‘a s s keeps touching the hot stove and enjoys it

        the p e d o will not admit trump has blood on his hands…..and Joe is laughing his a s s off

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      6. as usual….he takes the bait again and cries when he gets slapped around like a p i n a t a

        the freeeaaak has the football IQ of a slug

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      7. 2 decades of 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 insanity here. She has no life.

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  10. Not much going on in sports unless you want to ‘beat into the ground’ that KC-Philly thing

    But in other news, Pacific Palisades is now open to the public and a 10-mile stretch of PCH opens Sunday morning at 8. Great news for the ‘Palisaders’ who now get to put up with all the looky-lookers’.

    And some folks always complained how the houses on the Malibu beaches blocked the ocean views

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  11. Recall when January 1 of each year ended football season. Now they’re playing to Valentine’s Day for crying out loud. Is it really necessary to have a 2-week gap to the ‘Stupor Bowl (which it usually is)

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  13. KAM: Got any insights into SC’s football future

    DON: -Looks like they want to get back their winning ways, they’re making strides, but it’s going to be a 2-year process

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  14. KAM: -And I know you have at least a nodding interest in the Super Bowl

    DON: I’m not a betting man, as you know, but betting against Mahomes is a sucker’s bet

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  15. DON: Even the refs love Mahomes, or did you hear in last year’s Super Bowl the miked refs talking at the end, “They still got to deal with Mahomes”

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  16. KAM: That Mahomes and KC ‘favoritism might account for KC being accused of getting most of the questionable calls

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  17. Got to like the guy. Buffalo fans cruelly placed Mahome’s jersey number on a frog muppet doll that he unfortunately resembles. His wife went ballistic but he laughed at the bad-taste joke

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  18. Reviewing the video of questionable football plays eliminated some of the flagrantly wrong calls, but there is no review of “Holding” calls, the biggest killer of drives. And yet it seems like there is holding to some degree on every play somewhere on the opposing lines

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  19. And so the ‘winners’ are KC and Philly; they get 2 extra weeks of football practice while everybody else is ‘beaching’

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