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

Eric Musselman said after USC upset Michigan State last week that he and his staff try to eat lunch on campus every day to connect with students.

I ran a picture of Musselman and his staff having lunch at Il Giordano at the USC Village with Tounde Yessoufou, the No. 16-ranked player in the nation (he committed to Baylor).

Can anyone imagine our boy, Sir Lincoln of Riley, having lunch on campus or meeting students? He is not interested. He made it clear to USC’s administration when he got hired that he does not want to interact with students, boosters, alumni or the general public.

Obviously, Musselman has a different situation, coaching basketball at a football school. But I tend to think if Musselman were the football coach, he would still be trying to meet people. Pete Carroll certainly did.

I ran into a USC employee last week who works in the physical plant dept. You know what he brought up? That Pete Carroll used to talk to him whenever they saw each other. No one tells stories like that about Riley.

  • There have recently been coyote sightings on the USC campus according to the Daily Trojan.

“They’re all around, just north of USC, just south of USC, around the edge of USC, so it’s inevitable for them to eventually make it in there and take up space for a little bit,” said Miguel Ordeñana, an environmental educator and wildlife biologist at the Natural History Museum of L.A. County.

They are probably less hostile than George Tirebiter, who would walk into classes and take a snap at students without hesitation.

  • And now for some history:
  • In the good old days, newspapers used to run the lineups for football games like USC-Minnesota in 1953. This is just a random game I picked out and look at some of these great stories:
  • USC receiver Ron Miller went on a blind date with fellow USC student Diane Disney and they married in 1954. She was the daughter of Walt Disney and Miller became president and CEO of the Walt Disney Company from 1980-84. Miller and Disney were married for 59 years until her death in 2013.

He played with the Los Angeles Rams in 1956.

“My father-in-law saw me play in two football games when I was with the Los Angeles Rams. In one of them, I caught a pass and Dick ‘Night Train’ Lane let me have it from the rear. His forearm came across my nose and knocked me unconscious. I woke up in about the third quarter. At the end of the season, Walt came up to me and said, ‘You know, I don’t want to be the father to your children. You’re going to die out there. How about coming to work with me?’ I did and it was a wise decision on my part.”

  • USC left tackle Mario Da Re was the brother of actor Aldo Rae, who was a star in the 1950’s and used to come watch his brother at USC practices with no fanfare.
  • USC left guard Ed Pucci became a bodyguard for Frank Sinatra.
  • USC fullback Harold Han was one of three Hawaiians on the team in the early 1950’s with All-Coast lineman/future Detroit Lions star Charlie Ane and Sol Naumu. Han and Frank Gifford helped USC defeat Army, 28-6, at Yankee Stadium in 1951.
Harold Han, Charlie Ane and Sol Naumu at USC in 1951.
  • USC halfback Bob Buckley attended Lafayette High School in Brooklyn with Sandy Koufax.
  • USC right guard George Timberlake was an All-American at USC and Long Beach City College.
  • Minnesota halfback Paul Giel was an All-American in football and baseball and Heisman Trophy runner-up in 1953. He was UPI’s college player of the year 1953 and a two-time football All-American. He was Minnesota athletic director from 1971-89.
  • Quarterback Gino Cappelletti played wide receiver for the Boston Patriots for 11 seasons and was named AFL MVP in 1964. He led the league in scoring five times.

Cappelletti is the only player in professional football history to run for a two-point conversion, throw for a two-point conversion, catch a pass, intercept a pass, return a punt and return a kickoff in the same season,

He then became the Patriots radio analyst for 28 seasons. He was not related to John Cappeletti.

I didn’t anticipate all this would come from a random football game lineup.

Ron Miller catches a pass for USC against Minnesota in 1953. USC defeated the Golden Gophers, 17-7.
  • Look at this: Fine music and dancing just 1.8 miles from USC in 1949!
  • You probably passed by this building when walking around Exposition Park on your way to the Coliseum for a football game. The Los Angeles Exposition Park Armory as it was formerly known hosted fencing for the 1932 Olympics, was turned into a bowling alley and then became the home of roller derby in the 1950’s.

It’s currently part of the California Science Center and known as the Wallis Annenberg Building.

  • Paul Newman took out this ad in 1963 when he found out the 1954 movie, “The Silver Chalice” was appearing every night on Channel 9.

Was he apologizing for the movie?

“No,” Newman said. “Just for myself. I don’t think it’s my best work.”

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Actress Margaret Nolan appeared in Goldfinger and A Hard Day’s Night.

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

  2. When Wiley was hired by SC “he made it clear” that he did not want to interact with the public or anybody. If Wiles indeed had that attitude he undoubtedly would have kept it to himself

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      2. stock markets are dropping like an anchor. Trump is on his way to starting WW3.

        millions regret voting for this incompetent sack of dung.

        wait for 3…2…1….fake Gabby will reply with more random BS. A sign of major insecurity issues……such a sad little sock—–puppet

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      3. Cowardly Gabby is enraged as 3 weeks of DOGE gutting everything has conclusively demonstrated that there is no organic left. There is no lefty grass roots. It’s all been one giant, organized, top down scam, where we’ve been footing the bill for our own destruction.

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    1. DON: Egypt says it will work with partners to reconstruct Gaza without Palestinians leaving the strip.

      KAM: So you got the Middle Eastern countries to step up?

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    1. I don’t think so. And most woman would not be nearly as provocative as Margaret Nolan. I assume she is the lady in Goldfinger that was painted gold, a real beauty.

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    1. Guess we know who’ll be picking our fruits and veggies.

      The new USAID website: “Everyone is fired.” 10,000 people losing their jobs overnight.

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      1. Very happy that Trump is taking a hatchet to the deep state. But this will likely be challenged in Court. Federal employees are not “at will.” You can’t just fire them.

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      2. You can ” reassign ” them, which is the same as fired. Bottom line, this POS agency created by Kennedy to do good turned into a woke slush fund for their insane ideas. Musk is just getting started, when he’s done there won’t be many federal employees left and the government will probably run a lot better, Northern Virginia home prices might tank though.

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    1. DON: Let me see if I got this right: USAID gave money to Black Lives Matter. BLM rioters burned down the cities. The riots were covered by journalists, also funded by USAID, who said burning down the cities was “mostly peaceful.”

      KAM: If it wasn’t for those meddling DOGE kids we would have gotten away with it!

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    1. UCLA med students alarmingly sub-standard, as school ‘cuts corners’, admits applicants based on race. Over 50% of UCLA med students failed standardized tests on family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and pediatrics. A professor described one operating room incident, during which a student could not identify a major artery when asked.https://www.campusreform.org/article/ucla-med-students-alarmingly-sub-standard-school-cuts-corners-admits-applicants-based-race/25529

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      1. Gee, you mean if you admit students based on skin color, not merit, it will effect the overall quality of the graduating class and their ability to professionally perform. Who knew?

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      2. Doctors these days are nothing more than glorified drug pushers, most of them are PA’s who don’t know shat and good luck even seeing a doctor to begin with.

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      1. It’s not just CBS. We had millions & millions of people clueless enough to be surprised the night of June 27. We had all known since 2019/20 that Joe was already suffering from dementia. But the morons who only watch MSM thought he was fine.

        They would hear KJP talk about having trouble keeping up with him. She would claim videos that showed how feeble he was were deep fakes and the same fool who fell for MSM’s Big Lie about his dementia fell for her lies, too.

        They aren’t the brightest folks around.

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    2. Sparrow ” I’m a fraudulent dumbass “

      Yoda ” “Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.”

      Lawyer John ” I’m an attorney and my wife’s a psychologist ! , I think ! Well, this week maybe we are. “

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  9. DON: -You know I cannot be open about top-secret stuff I do

    KAM: Well, politics aside, it looks like you are having a lot of fun

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    1. DON: I just signed an executive order requiring an audit of EVERY NGO which relies on federal funding.

      KAM: We gave BILLIONS to these NGOs to facilitate an invasion of our country.

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  10. KAM: But politics not aside, looks like you’re singing “A tariff here, a tariff there”

    DON: Yeah, I’m the Tariff Sheriff

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    1. DON: Remember 4 days ago the the Fake News and Democrats were hysterically screeching that Canada and Mexico would never surrender to me?

      KAM: Yes those would good times….

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  11. The guy goes on a blind date, meets the Disney heir, marries her and 25 years later is the CEO of Disney. My dates generally had less money than I did. But I did go out with General Patton’s granddaughter.

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  12. One of my doctors also is a part-time teacher at ucla, and he says most of the students are not that motivated. Maybe it’s hard to get motivated when as a young person working hard, you’ll probably still never afford a suitable L.A. home

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    1. The young doctor will first need to pay off $250,000 in student loans or more before he can put a down payment on a house and service a mortgage. Crazy.

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    1. From people who claimed they cared about the Constitution! HILARIOUS!!

      No, state law cannot supersede federal law because of the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution. This means that federal law takes precedence over state law when the two conflict. The Supremacy Clause is found in Article VI, Clause 2 of the Constitution. 

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      1. I don’t know, Plow Horse. Do you think Trump will have the balls to do it?!

        Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! J/K. We all know he does. Unlike the eunuch who last occupied the White House!

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  15. Don: USAID funded Hamas terror tunnels?

    Kam: Yes, USAID gifted $310 million of taxpayer money to start a Palestinian cement factory project.

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