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Sunday Buzz: Eric Musselman Rips USC Fans

USC laid an egg (again) against UCLA on Saturday night and Eric Musselman didn’t hold back after the game.

First, he had a go at the players.

“I felt like the rivalry, (our players) didn’t understand even in Game 1, and they certainly didn’t understand today what it means to the student body at USC, the boosters and the alumni,” he said. “We played like it was a normal game.”

Frankly, that’s Musselman’s job to explain the meaning of the rivalry, especially with a team almost solely comprised of first-year players who have no clue and could care less in this age of transfers/NIL/mercenaries.

Lincoln Riley doesn’t like the Crosstown Rivalry but Musselman is smarter and should realize his team needs a history lesson.

But this wasn’t best part. Check out what he said before leaving Pauley Pavilion.

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  • I thought L.A. was the place to be? Musselman’s made some references during the season to the atmosphere (or lack of) at the Galen Center. He has worked hard to connect with the students.

But attendance has a problem at USC home basketball games for 100 years. He knows this is a football school. If you want fans at the Galen Center, you need to win. A lot. This is not Nevada. It is not Arkansas.

I like that Musselman speaks his mind. I bet Jen Cohen doesn’t. He should say something if the small crowds at the Galen Center bother him. Someone needs to shake things up. It’s better than Andy Enfield putting everyone to sleep.

But Musselman can’t have USC players trudging through both UCLA games. I was appalled when I attended the USC-UCLA game at the Galen Center. And last night was worse.

Alijah Arenas will help next season. But the one-and-done guys provide only temporary relief with the attendance.

It’s going to take multiple seasons of deep NCAA Tournament runs for USC to create the type of homecourt advantage Musselman wants.

47 thoughts on “Sunday Buzz: Eric Musselman Rips USC Fans”

  1. We may have lost to UCLA again, but at least we have some great news- Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts has been excised! She is curled up in the fetal position in her dumpster on 6th and Grand Avenue. Now MG can come back!

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    1. I love Scott and all the rest of you guys….. but… Kathy is too lame to deal with every day……

      If only she’d been squatting in Gene Hackman’s extra bedroom last month….. ah!

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      1. Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts thinks doxxing posters is fun.

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      4. Maui brother, it is GREAT to have you back! I hope Lahaina is recovering. We suffered our own f-jam in the Palisades and Altadena. Hope you and yours are well! You are just in time for spring practice!

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      5. Nice to be back, dear friend.

        [Watching Kathy repeat “TRIGGERED!” day after day reminds me of the end of The Navigator —where Howard Hughes keeps repeating “Wave of the future! Wave of the future!”]…..

        #ItWasScorsese’sWayOfSaying”He’sCrazy”

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      9. HUNCHBACK PLOW THINKS MANURE IS WORTH IT’S WEIGHT IN GOLD

        HE STILL WILL NOT TALK ABOUT THE 1962 FOOTBALL….. YET HE CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN PRESENT……JUST ANOTHER ONE OF HIS LIES

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      11. Doing good, old bud. Yesterday was my bruin brother-in-law’s birthday ….I told him I emailed each and every member of the Trojan Men’s basketball team to honor him by “playing dead” in the rivalry game.

        I didn’t hear back from anybody….but it looks like they got the message.

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      12. you still have yet to explain how you were able to post on this blog the morning after the maui fire, when it was reported that all internet and phone service was down on the island

        tell us another lie……you’re good at it

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      13. Yes, but it’s a shame Scott can’t comprehend that the correct phrase is “could NOT care less”.

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      14. Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts is a proud liar:

        Gabby

        7hrs

        I DON’T GIVE A F&^%…..THIS BLOG IS A S*&^ SHOW……WAKE UP.

        I F&^%ING LIED….SO WHAT……WERE YOUR FEELINGS HURT

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  2. Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts has devoted her life to doxxing posters, spewing her obscene rants and posting animal d e f e c a t i o n videos. She is a pathetic loser .

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    1. The USC Provost says that free speech on campus is a struggle. How do you balance hate speech which is constitutional with hate crime which is not? He adds that whenever someone uses speech which is bias or discriminatory the campus will combat them with the “values of diversity, equity, and inclusion that make us a global Trojan Family.” What a crock. USC is still actively engaging in reverse discrimination in admissions policies which is illegal. I hope this clown administration gets hit by a huge judgment and Trump cuts off Federal Funding.

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  4. KAM: On Saturday, Mainstream Moderate Democrat UCLA Criminal Law Professor Peter Arenella posted a tweet saying that the U.S. Military must launch an insurrection against democratically elected President Trump.

    DON: This UCLA law professor is a perfect example of the radical left’s disdain for democracy and free speech. They can’t accept that Trump won the election, so they resort to calling for a military coup. This kind of rhetoric is dangerous and un-American, it’s time to stand up against these authoritarian tendencies and defend our constitutional rights.

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  5. Muscleman has an inner fire to win and win big, so SC basketball has a chance to build a foundation of good yearly-rotating players, which might bring out the 10,000 Galen crowds– Right before the March 2020 Pandemic hit L.A there was one last sporting event with SC-ucla where the Trojans pulled it out in the last second. A full house of Trojans made it a night not to forget

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    1. KAM: Earthquake !

      DON: Despite rumors it was caused by Cowardly Gabby falling out of her dumpster bed, it actually was a 4.4 earthquake centered in Westlake Village .

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  6. KAM: In real life I could never have a warm conversation with you

    DON: That’s why they call it ‘Imaginary. And speaking of which, is it imaginary to think that SC might one day be consistently good?

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    1. KAM: In real life a I am an Affirmative Action creation whose only real skills were enjoyed by sleazy politician Willie Brown .

      DON: Yes it’s really an insult to qualified women that you were a working girl who got ahead and almost became president.

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  7. DON: If the money everywhere is about the same, why shouldn’t southern California kids want to stay home with friends and play for the Trojans?

    KAM: I’m saving most of my worries for the football team

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    1. DON: Red States that have lower or no state income tax will be a factor in Southern Cal kids loving out of state for big bucks.

      KAM: So That’s why Tiger lives in Florida.

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  8. It sounded as if the final few words from Muscleman were about “home advantage,” which with SC basketball is close to ‘none’ unless it is an SC-ucla game

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    1. KAM: How soon until crowds at games are a thing of the past and games are streamed to pay per view audiences?

      DON: Sooner than you think- the movie theatres are about to go extinct. Watching things collectively seems quaint now,

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  9. Muscleman took the job at SC knowing he had one player left on the team, and yet at the last monent he was able to coax enough average-to-good players to win nearly half his games.

    And now he has a year to ‘work the system’ in alluring more local players to his ‘Mecca’

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    1. DON; Every year in men’s hoops the coach gets a new team.

      KAM: Yes it isn’t 1971 when Bob Boyd built a team that went 24-2. Players go one and done to the NBA or leave for more cash at another school.

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    2. Spring practice was supposed to start on March 22. But Abby Normal crawled out of her dumpster yesterday and saw her shadow. So it’ll start six weeks later.

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  11. KAM: Long ago, the Democrat Party had a choice:

    Cleanse themselves of their Barack Obama infection, cleanse themselves of Obama’s racist and radical addiction to racial preferences that we now know as DEI, amputate any limbs that had become sodden with jacobin  gangrene and become what they had been: a patriotic American party of the American working class.

    Or, they could continue following the discredited Clintons and Obamas down the sewer.

    DON: The Democrats choose the sewer.

    They didn’t do a damn thing except scream. And their childish foot stomping was on display for all the world to see last week at my Congressional address.

    They wore costumes. They waved their little bingo signs. They took a stand against women, by refusing to support a ban against men in women’s sports. Yet they wore feminist pink to gaslight their voters.

    They showed themselves to be what we knew about them:

    That they are not serious. They’re only about performance.  They are the leftist clerisy living on money taken from Americans. And they’re quite dangerous.

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    1. Maybe Kathy will lead them out of that sewer…..

      #NowThatIThinkAboutIt…

      #…ThatWouldn’tExactlyBeKathy’sSpecialty…

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    2. “. . . amputate any limbs that had become sodden with jacobin  gangrene and become what they had been: a patriotic American party of the American working class.“

      Normal Gabby: Who is the author? Sounds like Victor Davis Hansen.

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    3. The little signs at Trump’s address were bad enough. Didn’t think they couldn’t get any stupider.

      But then, just like our favorite poster, they outdid themselves in stupidity with that “Choose your fighter” video!

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  12. KAM:TODAY Democrat Boston Governor Maura Healey says they have an energy crisis because it’s impossible to get natural gas.

    DON: But in 2022 Gov Healey brags about BLOCKING natural gas pipelines that would’ve solved their crisis. You can’t make this up!

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  13. Musselman and Riley need to pull a Lou Holtz and administer a test on rivalry games. Get a passing score or you don’t suit up.

    #HoltzLifetimeVs.USC-9-1-1

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