Despite how Lincoln Riley portrayed things last week, people inside the athletic dept. are less convinced that he likes his new arrangement at USC.
Athletic director Jen Cohen, who is unconvinced with Riley, now has football czar Chad Bowden running important parts of the program.
What happens if Bowden likes a player from California and Riley likes a player from Georgia? Who wins?
What happens if Bowden doesn’t want to pay a player what Riley wants?
The most interesting thing is that Bowden’s staff is going to handle scouting too. What does Riley do for his $10 million?
More importantly, at what point does Riley tire of the arrangement where parts of his power have been removed? Tell me a coach who would put up with it? Would Dan Lanning? Would Ryan Day? Would Marcus Freeman? Would Kirby Smart? Would Kenny Dillingham?
No way. I won’t even mention Nick Saban. But I just did.
Of course, my hope is Riley dislikes it so much he decides to look elsewhere for a job. But in the meantime, will this be a successful marriage? We don’t really have another example of a program run like this do we?
Freeman brought Bowden with him to Notre Dame from Cincinnati. There was no question who was the boss in South Bend. I’m not so sure who is the boss in Los Angeles.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
- Here is Gus Williams in the 1979 NBA Finals, when he averaged 28.6 points per game.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
What a Stupor Bowl that was. Kansas City went from laughing at theLeague to being the laughing stock of the League. It took 2-weeks to prepare for this? If I were a sponsor delegated to the 2nd half of that game, I’d ask for my money back
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Super Bore ’25.
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Cohen is doing exactly what she has to do to get Riley out of USC. He won’t like the current arrangement and he’ll go for a buyout that is less than his total contract.
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With the game over at halftime, there were some stand-out commercials in the first-half–
Best was Tom Brady and a black athlete angrily facing each other off and yelling, “I don’t like you…..well, I don’t like you either. I don’t like you cause you’re different….-And I don’t like you cause you’re different
The caption read something like ‘Isn’t it a shame we have to run announcements like this as a reminder
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That was Snoop Dog…LOL
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“We have to?!” No one held a gun to their head and forced them to.
Pretty stupid comment/caption.
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Trump said the day he took office the price of gas would drop substantially….instead it has gone up
Another campaign promise lie.
Millions regret voting for him…his approval rating has dropped like an anchor
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Trump hasn’t been president a month, Cowardly Gabby the stupid lying preachy libtard liar. You loved 4 years of $5 gas in Alta Kalifornia since Barack Hussein Obama told us years ago it should be higher.
CNBC’s John Harwood: So could the (high) oil prices help us?
Barack Obama: I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that this is such a shock to American pocketbooks is not a good thing. But if we take some steps right now to help people make the adjustment, first of all by putting more money in their pockets, but also by encouraging the market to adapt to these new circumstances more rapidly, particularly U.S. automakers…
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As we all know, if she posts it, you can bet it’s BS. “Approval rating dropping? Millions regret voting for him?” They don’t come any stupider!!
Trump gets high approval ratings for his first weeks, new CBS poll finds
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Another ‘announcement’ was the 8-year old cancer survivor magically parading his way as a champion boxer through an adoring crowd
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That was one GREAT!!
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That one was GREAT! LOL
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–And the ‘Harry met Sally’ remake with Meg Ryan eating some tasty food and acting like she is having a sexual orgasm, and with the waiter asking a nearby girl what she wants to eat, exclaims “I’ll have whatever she’s having”
— A worn-out line, but what was funny was when Meg goes into her little routine, Billy Crystal deadpans “Here we go again”
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“Nearby girl” was Sydney Sweeney! Very popular right now, primarily because of her rack.
Commercial was really lame. In the movie, the old lady who made the comment yearned for her younger days. Probably hadn’t had an o in decades.
Sweeney probably got some that morning.
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Apparently the NFL tv guys want to get their $30-million out of Tom Brady as they paraded him out as a dummy in a dumb battery ad
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And the predominant Philadelphia Eagles’ fans were in their best form as they gave Grammy deficient Taylor Swift the Raspberries instead
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The Wiley bashing is remindful of the good old times with ‘Ton-o-Hel’ when it took 7 years to finally ‘tar-and-feather him out of SC
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KAM: I heard you got applause at the Super Bowl
DON: At $2000 and up for a seat only the rich were allowed in, my kind of people
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DON: Weird that Hunter Biden and “Dr’ Jill were honored at the Eagle’s owners private box.
KAM: We rich people Democrats love the Biden Crime Family.
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KAM: Right, the rich, the people who vote their pocket book
DON: Is there any other way?
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DON:The Pandora’s box that is USAID, which, now that it’s opened, keeps belching out more evidence of the malevolent, unrestricted inner workings of a rotten, subversive bureaucracy,
KAM: It had to have someone in charge of it for these past few years of particularly egregious anti-American spending. It was Susan Rice, the Obama Puppet. So you see this was Obama’s 3rd term that just ended. All the millions of rich people who engorged themselves are now screaming bloody murder to stop the auditing.
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USC is paying Bowden 1 million. He will make decisions on who get offered a scholarship and the amount of NIL. Riley may not like it but that is what a GM does. I also get the impression that Cohen has told Bowden/Riley that the majority of recruits need to come from California. Last year less than 20% came from California. At this time, 5 of our 8 verbal commits are from Southern California.
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