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Saturday Buzz: Another Example Of Who Runs USC Football

Indiana strength coach Derek Owings received a new three-year contract after being offered the same job by USC.

So who would have thought Owings was a good choice at USC? The new general manager who has been at Notre Dame, which is 200 miles from Indiana? Or Lincoln Riley, who doesn’t know anyone?

Who would fire the previous strength coach? Lincoln Riley, who worked with him at Texas Tech and Oklahoma and brought him to USC? Or the new general manager, who reports to the athletic director?

And yet, some people will still believe Riley is making these decisions.

  • Luc Weaver, a three-star wide receiver from Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, has committed to USC. He picked USC over Washington, Minnesota and UCLA.
  • As Carol Folt gets ready to depart, the athletic dept. made sure to honor her.
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54 thoughts on “Saturday Buzz: Another Example Of Who Runs USC Football”

    1. Well, if we’re going to leave true legends, such as OJ off the list, then nobodies such as Carol may as well be ON the list.

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      2. I didn’t realize they won Heismans and had a retired jersey displayed at the Coliseum.

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      4. But if the Menendez Brothers were really good football players we should honor them with the Legend of Troy award. Don’t allow something like the murder of a wife or mother get in the way.

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      6. IF he did it, he’s answering for it now. But here? Let he who isn’t without sin cast the first stone.

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      7. Yet another 12 people who mattered said he did in the civil trial . And then to make sure we would have no doubt he was an unrepentant criminal, he committed more crimes in Las Vegas and was convicted of 12 charges including robbery and kidnapping and spent 9 years in prison in Nevada.

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      8. LOL! As if the civil trial meant diddly squat. An end-around double jeopardy. And ask Fred how much of that money he’s received. Ad for Las Vegas, yeah, that was really stupid of him. But funny how the guy who actually had the gun did less time than OJ did. Either way, neither of them is MURDER.

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      9. At the end of the day, any list of Trojan “legends” isn’t complete without OJ. It’s just a popularity contest without him. Anyone arguing otherwise is just upset that a black man may have killed a white woman.

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      10. USC is bigger than OJ. We don’t need to honor a robber and kidnapper. We have plenty of other stars who behaved themselves on and off the field.

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      11. At the end of the day OJ brought disgrace on the good name of USC and we should honor those who knew how to behave on and off the field.

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      12. Robbers & kidnappers! LOL!! OK, if you’re going to put 100% stock into what courts say, don’t be a hypocrite and try to deny we have a “convicted felon” in the White House. Those charges couldn’t have been politically motivated. Love when people try to have it both ways.

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      13. Sorry but unlike Trump, OJ was not politically charged for his crimes. He went to prison the old fashioned way- he earned it.

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      14. LOL! Yeah, right. We see people walk all the time for things just as bad. You’re high on drugs if you’re going to claim (the way Judge Jackie Glass did) that it wasn’t some sort of payback for what the system thought he got away with. The fact the person who had the gun did less time than OJ did should be proof enough of that! I’m not saying he’s not an idiot. He should have known not to get caught jaywalking.

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      15. OJ was a rich privileged Riviera Country Club celebrity who everyone loved. He was so beloved he did Hertz commercials with American icon Arnold Palmer. I remember seeing this big adoring crowd around one man at the 1975 UCLA-USC track Meet and it was OJ. He could have run for Governor back then and would have won in a landslide. Everyone black and white and Asian and Hispanic loved him. Yet he pretended to be an oppressed Rodney King black to get a black jury to ignore the overwhelming evidence of guilt to commit jury nullification and make a political statement that no matter what America does to atone for slavery and Jim Crow laws, it will never ever be enough..

        OJ was the least likely black martyr- had earlier distanced himself from activism by fellow black athletes, particularly in 1967 when Muhammad Ali refused the draft and in 1968 when Tommie Smith and John Carlos made the Black Power gesture at the victory stands at the Olympic Games in Mexico City. 

        Yet when it came time for him to save his life he gleefully drove a wedge between Americans that remains to this day and exploded once again in the 2020 George Floyd riots .

        Because of OJ’s bad example , wealthy privileged celebrity black role models like Moochelle Obama and Johnny Legend publicly whine to this very day about how much they suffer in this evil illegitimate country that was founded on slavery in 1619.

        OJ had the opportunity to bring us together and make America a better place, but instead all the racial healing from 1954-1994 was destroyed by one cowardly, selfish, rich man. All remembrance of that creep should be removed from USC forever and his name should only be invoked in scorn.

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      17. Are you denying The Trial of the Century didn’t exacerbate racial hostilities in America? OJ used every race baiting trick in the book to save himself. He was responsible for that whether you think he was guilty or innocent.

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      18. Also…USC being a religious based school (when founded), they still know it’s not their place to judge. The only 12 people who mattered said NG. Anyone claiming to be Christian knows this.

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      20. It is their place to judge an unrepentant kidnapper and robber. Anyone who is a real Christian knows that the authorities that exist have been established by God.  St. Paul’s  words seem clear—Christians must obey the laws of the land… kidnapping and robbery are sins that must be punished by the authorities and that sins by individual members in a church aren’t ignored but are confronted. Even a secular organization should be able to judge the obvious crimes of OJ and find him unacceptable for honor, just as secular UCLA has the common sense not to honor football star turned cocaine dealer and attempted murderer Daryl Henley or illiterate murderer Billy Don Jackson.

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      21. As I said before, no problem. Just don’t be a hypocrite and scoff at Trump’s convictions. Make whatever excuses you want to deny it, but that’s what you’re doing. Just as you do with your religion, you pick & choose when you want to agree with the courts.

        Most people in OJ’s Las Vegas thing (where he wasn’t even the one with the gun) would have walked. But they were out to get him for what they thought he got away with. But hold those convictions close to your heart, if it makes you feel good. Fortunately USC knows it’s not their place.

        The only One worthy of judging is meting out whatever punishment He sees fit.

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      22. OJ played the race card because it was a factor. Only a fool would deny this. All you have to do is look at Robert Wagner, Phil Spector and Robert Blake. They don’t elicit the type of raging hate that OJ does, even though even knows they were responsible for the deaths of their women.

        But people will make excuses about that, too, before they’ll admit that race is a factor in their eyes.

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      24. Only a hypocrite would scoff at OJ’s civil conviction of wrongful murder and his criminal convictions for robbery and kidnapping. You are to be unable to make the distinction between a politically motivated persecution of the Deep State’s enemy and OJ the non-political common criminal, who had the world on a string and blew it.

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      25. The point was that EXTERNAL FACTORS played a part in each case. Sorry that flew over your head. 🙂

        People with any sense knew Jackie Glass was full of it when she claimed otherwise, in OJ’s sentencing. We chat about it all the time on this board, the VIOLENT crimes that are committed with no charges ever being filed. LV was payback.

        As I said, he was an idiot not to expect it. Should have known not to use an aerosol can in a manner other than intended!

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      27. I just wish people would be consistent. Either you accept the results of the criminal justice system or you don’t. Don’t be a hypocrite.

        I also try to remember that only One is worthy of judging, when things don’t go the way I think they should have here on earth. I fail almost daily, but try to walk the walk. Because I fail in one instance, I don’t give up and try to get back on the path.

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      28. Not to sure what point you are trying to make, wall-of-sound record producer Phil Spector was hardly as beloved or consequential as OJ and he was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009 for the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in 2003. He was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison and like OJ maintained his innocence until his death in 2021. No miscarriage of justice or jury nullification by a white jury there and no riots over his conviction.

        Has-been actor Robert Blake was acquitted of murder in criminal court in 2005, but like OJ he was found liable for his wife’s wrongful death in a civil court. Do you consider that inconsequential too?

        And you are imagining Robert Wagner was tried for murder? That will be news to Robert Wagner.

        You must be like my pal who had his bar/tv room decorated as a shrine to OJ with memorabilia including a #32 lamp shade.

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      29. I do like that we can disagree without calling each other all kinds of vile names. Have a great rest of the day!!

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      31. No OJ shrine here. But I view him the same way I view Trump. Might not care him as a person, but…

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      32. How can you equate the two? While both had fortune and fame, Trump risked it all including his life and survived 2 assassination attempts in his quest to make America great again, while all OJ ever did was think of himself and take and take and evade consequences of his bad behavior. OJ made America worse.

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      34. You’re proving that ol’ line about “a Bruin for 4 years, a Trojan for life” and USC being a “family” is just a bunch of bull to some. Family loves the sinner, but hates the sin. I’m glad that USC, the institution, actually believes in it.

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      37. USC is so poorly run now they honor a man who is suing them and who destroyed the football program for 15 years due to his greed, Reggie Bush. No wonder they also honor the robber and kidnapper OJ.

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    2. Sounds like they had Owings committed but then Indiana increased their offer and he backed out. Really bad timing by Bowden and Cohen. You need a strength coach in the off season to keep the players engaged and moving forward.

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    1. The next two should be interesting. Can’t take away too much from this, with it having been so muddy.

      If the next two are ideal conditions, results could be completely different. We’ll be tuned in no matter what.

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  6. KAM: Trump administration revokes visas from 37 Johns Hopkins students for pro-Hamas activism.

    37 international students who attend Johns Hopkins University have had their visas revoked amid the Trump administration’s removal of all pro-Hamas terrorism student foreigner protesters who persecute American Jewish students.

    The university confirmed the revocations in a statement to CBS News.

    DON: Bye bye!

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  7. KAM: Highway 1 in Big Sur has been closed for 838 days. In that time Red China has built 3500 miles of high speed rail, and California hasn’t been able to fix a quarter mile of highway.

    DON: The state’s transportation agency, Caltrans, estimated that the road, technically State Route 1 and often signed as the Cabrillo Highway, would fully reopen in late spring or early summer 2024, at the cost of nearly $100 million…. Now it’s 2025!

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  8. KAM:T he Fake News New York Times refused to mention anywhere in its 400-word story on the monstrous r%$e of a corpse on the NYC subway that the depraved perpetrator is an Senile Joe Dreamer ILLEGAL alien.

    DON: Why not report the facts, New York Times?

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  9. KAM: The CEO of CA High-Speed Rail has announced the “exciting” goal of finishing a line from Palmdale to Gilroy by 2045!!!!!

    Riders would have to drive for hours on both ends of the trip to go from LA to SF.

    DON: The entire LA to SF line was supposed to be in service by 2020.

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