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USC Morning Buzz: Familiar Words For Offensive Line

So we’re back to Lincoln Riley talking up offensive tackle Tobias Raymond again for next season.

Before last season, Riley praised Raymond but he didn’t start at right tackle until the Las Vegas Bowl. He is the favorite to start in 2025.

Here’s the thing about the offensive line. The two best linemen last season, Jonah Monheim and Emmanuel Pregnon, are gone. They are being replaced by transfers who were solid but not fantastic last season.

Whatever hype you read this spring, it is extremely risky/premature to say those replacements (Jonre Reed, DJ Wingfield) will be better than Monheim/Pregnon.

Now throw in Raymond at right tackle and you have another player who may or may not be an impact player on the line.

And this assumes the two best returning prospects on the line — left tackle Elijah Paige and offensive guard Alani Noa — will be better.

As usual, the offensive line remains a question mark. I mentioned last week that a coach said the line had been up-and-down during the first six practices. No surprise there.

  • Arianna Huffington will be USC’s baccalaureate speaker next month, addressing 18,000 graduates.

38 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Familiar Words For Offensive Line”

  1. Arianna Huffington, Jane Fonda, who’s next? AOC, Jasmine Crochet, IIhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, or Rashida Talib. What are the qualifications of a keynote speaker at USC? You’re a phony? You hate your country? You hate capitalism while accepting the fruits of the capitalistic system? You hate white people and particularly Jews?

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    2. Plow,

      Criteria to speak at SC for the commencement is to be a commie lib now adays. these question is this, who is the commie rat bastard at SC that are hiring thes no good pieces of whale sh#t to speak?

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      1. April 2, 2025, will likely go down in history books as a major turning point in international trade. Under the leadership of President Donald Trump, the U.S. has imposed substantial tariffs on imports from many of its top trading partners, including East Asian nations like Taiwan and South Korea, which play an essential role in global technology supply chains.

        For Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), the good news is that semiconductor chips are exempt from the new levies. But that doesn’t mean the chipmaker will escape totally unscathed. Let’s explore what the next three years could have in store as Nvidia navigates these unprecedented challenges.

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      2. “KAM: China retaliated today by reducing the number of American films that can be shown there. What’s your reaction to them now targeting cultural exports?

        DON: I’ve heard of worse things.

        🤣

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  3. USC is breaking in a new OL coach this year which will factor in to the unit’s success, or not.

    Josh Henson was last years’s OL coach and left to become OC at Purdue. Zach Hanson is the OL coach now.

    #CoachesMatter

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    1. Euro zone economic growth could fall much more from the impact of U.S. trade tariffs than initially estimated by the European Central Bank and the turmoil could also drag inflation down in the near term, four sources told Reuters.

      That might leave the bloc’s economy stagnating and dash hopes for a recovery that had been growing until recently on the back of large-scale public investment plans.

      The ECB last month predicted that a trade war would take 0.5 percentage points off the euro zone’s economic growth in the first year and would briefly send prices up by a similar magnitude if the European Union retaliated.

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      1. KAM: Pernicious economic policies and practices of our trading partners undermine our ability to produce essential goods for the public and the military, threatening national security.

        U.S. companies, according to internal estimates, pay over $200 billion per year in value-added taxes (VAT) to foreign governments—a “double-whammy” on U.S. companies who pay the tax at the European border, while European companies don’t pay tax to the United States on the income from their exports to the U.S.

        The annual cost to the U.S. economy of counterfeit goods, pirated software, and theft of trade secrets is between $225 billion and $600 billion. Counterfeit products not only pose a significant risk to U.S. competitiveness, but also threaten the security, health, and safety of Americans, with the global trade in counterfeit pharmaceuticals estimated at $4.4 billion and linked to the distribution of deadly fentanyl-laced drugs.

        This imbalance has fueled a large and persistent trade deficit in both industrial and agricultural goods, led to offshoring of our manufacturing base, empowered non-market economies like China, and hurt America’s middle class and small towns. 

        President Biden squandered the agricultural trade surplus inherited from President Trump’s first term, turning it into a projected all-time high deficit of $49 billion.

        DON: The current global trading order allows those using unfair trade practices to get ahead, while those playing by the rules get left behind.

        In 2024, our trade deficit in goods exceeded $1.2 trillion—an unsustainable crisis ignored by prior leadership.

        “Made in America” is not just a tagline—it’s an economic and national security priority of this Administration. The President’s reciprocal trade agenda means better-paying American jobs making beautiful American-made cars, appliances, and other goods.

        These tariffs seek to address the injustices of global trade, re-shore manufacturing, and drive economic growth for the American people.

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  4. KAM: NBC Dinosaur legacy media has-been Chuck “Toady” Todd finally admitted that he helped hide Senile Joe Biden’s decline because he didn’t want to help Donald Trump.

    DON:  But there’s one little problem with Todd’s confession: He doesn’t understand that he’s guilty of anything. The point is that the entire mainstream media including Toady knew that Biden wasn’t just unfit to run for reelection but that he was already so deep into senility that he was effectively a figurehead, a puppet of unknown figures. The electorate had the right to know all this, and Chuck Todd had the duty to report it. 

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    1. Election interference/fraud got a senile, feeble old man “elected”. They were able to fool the dumbest among us into voting for a candidate who didn’t exist. Joe was not the man they said he was.

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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 Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and aka the Queen of P e r v e r t s is the dumbest among us.

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    2. TC Energy Corp. Chief Executive Francois Poirier ruled out selling the Canadian Mainline natural gas pipeline — which stretches across most of the country — as the trade war with the US pushes energy security up Canadian politicians’ priority list.

      President Donald Trump’s tariffs and repeated taunts about annexing Canada have highlighted the country’s vulnerability in relying on a crude pipeline that crosses through the US to supply oil for the eastern provinces’ refineries. Both of the main political parties seeking power in this month’s election have discussed the need to reduce reliance on the pipeline that goes through the Midwest.

      The Mainline stretches more than 14,000 kilometers (8,700 miles) from energy-producing Alberta to major population centers in Ontario and Quebec while remaining entirely within Canada’s borders. TC Energy had once proposed converting the line from natural gas to oil before the project, known as Energy East, was abandoned amid opposition, primarily in Quebec.

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      1. KAM: Trump administration cuts “environmental justice” programs at EPA, DOJ -EPA places 168 “environmental justice” staff on leave, DOJ cuts similar programs – DOJ rescinds Biden-era Global Warmist Cult boondoggle directives, suspends “environmental” litigation.

        DON: Learn to code!

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    1. All who criticized immediately found themselves in the cornfield……

      #”It’sGoodYouDoneThat,Scott…..RealGood…”

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      1. Real SC Fans aren’t happy with a overpaid head coach who delivered a 7-6 season and a loss to our intersectional rival Notre Dame.

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    1. GEORGE IS BACK!

      GEORGE: I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU IN SPITE OF YOUR POLITICS!

      [I CAN’T SAY THE SAME FOR GEORGE CLOONEY AND JULIA ROBERTS]…

      #AndICouldNeverStandCarolFolt

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    2. Racist Democrats: “Requiring voter IDs is racist. It prevents black people from voting.”

      African countries that require voter ID:

      Benin

      Botswana

      Burkina Faso

      Chad

      Côte d’Ivoire

      Eritrea

      Ethiopia

      Gabon

      Gambia

      Guinea

      Lesotho

      Madagascar

      Mali

      Mauritania

      Mozambique

      Namibia

      Niger

      Nigeria

      Rwanada

      Senegal

      Sierra Leone

      South Africa

      Sudan

      Tanzania

      Zanzibar

      Zambia

      Zimbabwe

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      1. DNC’s New Argument: “It harms the environment.”

        …And if that doesn’t work….

        Plan “C”: “It offends the Almighty.”

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  7. The ONLY thing that will get us off politics is Troy going undefeated in football…. it’s in Riley’s hands….

    #…..GodSaveUs

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    2. KAM: Democrat Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer throws her support behind President Trump’s tariffs: “I understand the motivation behind the tariffs…We do need to make more stuff in America…We do need fair trade!”

      DON: WINNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! George and Cowardly Gabby hardest hit!

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      1. Oh ha ha … I was just censored for using Gretchen, Donald and kissing in the same sentence….

        #IThinkItWasThe”Kissing”ThatDidIt…..

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  10. Monheim played well at guard and tackle. Was not as good at center. Reed may be an upgrade. Reports state that he is getting the best of Jah Garrett. Riley says that Noa was the best lineman at the end of last year and that Raymond is playing the best this spring and that Tauanuu is among the five best lineman. If this is true, we might have a decent line. Wingman is not a lock to start. And Zach Hansen may be a good offensive line coach. He coached that position at Tulsa and put at least one kid in the NFL.

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