Notes: USC Presidents Retire But They Don’t Actually Depart

Before she departed yesterday, Carol Folt sent out a farewell statement.

I won’t bore you with the details but Folt said she would transition to being a faculty member and that people might see her “in one of my classes.”

Now it’s kind of a tradition for former USC presidents to teach after they retire but let’s see how this really works out. Is she going to actually teach multiple classes? Will she be accessible to the community or will she teach out of one of the new buildings at USC that require special procedures just to access the building? I’m betting on the latter.

  • Meanwhile, her interim successor, Beong-Soo Kim, already distinguished himself today by sending out two different statements: one to faculty and staff and one to alumni and parents. Folt never did that.

And his messages seemed like he might have actually written them. Unlike previous presidents.

  • USC women’s basketball has hired Selena Castillo of Duke as its new general manager.

USC made a big deal out of hiring her predecessor, Amy Broadhead, in a “groundbreaking” role as the first-ever general manager of the women’s basketball program last September. She lasted less than nine months before taking a job in the entertainment industry.

But she provided this unforgettable quote before she departed.

“If I’m being honest, it’s the women’s version of the Yankees,” Broadhead told the Orange County Register in a positive story shortly after being hired.

34 thoughts on “Notes: USC Presidents Retire But They Don’t Actually Depart

    1. [Not widely known …but…Folt has taken out several home loans —and has not been paying them off — the home is now underwater —USC owes over 380 million to various banks and mortgage companies]…..

      #LATimesHasBeenCoveringScandalUp…

      #ReporterWhoTriedToBreakStoryWasFoundInPoolOfBloodToday

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  1. Why would ‘Without-a-Folt’ want to go anywhere? I presume she took a big step down from her multi-million president’s salary, but she still might be doing a million per with a Santa Monica house thrown in

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  2. Scooter,

    so answer me this, if Bonehead calls the women’s basketball team, the Yankees of girls basketball, then why is it that the freshman left and went to Connitecut and she called Connitectut more intense? Which is it?

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      1. Sparrow,

        I hate the dodgers. Besides SC is far superior to them. I like how SC is compared to the Yankees. Besides, you gotta go with the Yankees. They filmed, “Pride of the Yankee’s”, at Bovard field iwth Gary Cooper, when he was playing for Columbia

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  3. –Another eccentric Gabby imitation– I bet someday all my Wolf antagonists will go far, and I hope they stay there

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    1. I like, respect and enjoy watching Ohtani as a player. he is one of my favorites because he respects the game, the opposing players, and the umpires. He is a a gentleman and a scholar. I do like Vin Scully. I can’t stand that loud mouth ballon Lasorda. he is phonier than a $3 dollar bill or Camel Harris.

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  4. MG says USC has 380 million in outstanding loans and mortgages to employees of USC including Folt. The loans are not being paid. That is quite a scandal. Where is the coveted Board of Trustees. We have had way too many scandals – billion dollar lawsuits, ect.

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    1. This just in! The dollar amount is closer to 4 billion! Folt is looking at at life in prison…..

      #SomeCommentatorsSayThisMayProveMoreEmbarrassing…

      #..ThanDeanOfMedicalSchoolAlmostKillingCoedAtPasadenaMotel

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  5. Michael,

    This is for you from Pride of the Yankees when he is at his retirement, “I-I-I am-am-am the-the-the-the luckest-luckiest-luckiest- man-man-man on-on-on-the-the-the face-face-face-of-of-of-the-the-the-earth-earth-earth.”. It has the speakers repeating what he said. I always like that part.

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    1. Yep!! Me too! [btw, I love to give that speech —as insincerely as humanly possible — when my in-laws sit down around the table for Thanksgiving Dinner]…..

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  6. KAM: University of Pennsylvania to APOLOGIZE for allowing male swimmer Lia Thomas to invade the women’s team. The University will also be adopting definitions for male and female consistent with biological sex, strip all records/titles from Thomas and return them to female swimmers, and issue personal apologies to all female swimmers who were affected.

    DON: GENDER IDEOLOGY IS ALL COMING CRUMBLING DOWN- COWARDLY GABBY HARDEST HIT!

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  7. KAM: Don’t Look So Surprised, LA. Trump TOLD YOU He’d Sue You for Illegal Alien Sanctuary Policies

    DON: Senile Joe Biden’s dereliction of duty will be remembered for what it is: the most contemptuous, grotesque, and dangerous attack on the American citizenry by an American president.

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  8. KAM:CNN’s Harry Enten: GOP Voters’ Love for President Trump is ‘Record Breaking’- ‘More Beloved’ Than Any Other GOP President

    DON: Cowardly Gabby is inconsolable!

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  9. KAM: 🚨 LMAO! President Trump just bashed THREE of his predecessors in rapid succession DON: Obama was a terrible president.

    Biden was the worst president in the history of our country.

    Bush should not have gone into the Middle East and blown the place up, so I don’t give him high marks either. 🤣🔥

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    1. Poor Vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso 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 eric  and Smacky is getting tired…

      DON: Of all this winning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    1. KAM: BREAKING: CBS/Paramount Forced to Pay Trump Massive 8-Figure Settlement for Deceptively Editing ’60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris Interview!!!!In October President Trump sued CBS News for $10 billion (now increased to $20 billion) for deceptively editing its ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris.

      “President Trump brings this action to redress the immense harm caused to him, to his campaign, and to tens of millions of citizens in Texas and across America by CBS’s deceptive broadcasting conduct,” the lawsuit stated, according to Fox News.

      DON: Fake News 60 Minutes of Lib Propaganda was caught editing Kamala’s answers to make her sound coherent and normal.

      In fact it was so bad that ’60 Minutes’ spliced her nonsensical answer and replaced it with a completely separate sentence she said earlier in the interview.

      Mixing and matching questions and answers. This isn’t journalism. It’s fraud!

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      1. It was fraud in 2020, as well, and THAT is where the election was truly stolen. They conned the most gullible people into voting for a candidate who didn’t truly exist.

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  10. KAM: New York City Driving School Fast-Tracked Licenses for Illegal Immigrants – Even if They Clearly Couldn’t Drive…

    A driving school in New York City is accused of rushing to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, even if it was obvious that they had no idea how to drive a car.

    Why do you suppose they would do this? What possible thing can illegals do with a license that they can’t do without one, besides driving?

    DON: Do you suppose this had anything to do with voting Democrat?

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  11. KAM: Guess why Cowardly Gabby was AWOL from the blog yesterday? Hundreds of anti-ICE rioters shut down a bridge in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday.

    Far-left protestors holding signs that read ‘Eviction Moratorium Now!’ and “ICE out of LA!” blocked both lanes on the Sixth Street bridge. https://x.com/ABC7/status/1940161722322505755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1940161722322505755%7Ctwgr%5Ee99697bb375a73edd27c163e9b51256344962015%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F07%2Fanti-ice-rioters-shut-down-bridge-downtown-los%2FTuesday’s bridge closure comes after anti-ICE rioters took over downtown Los Angeles, burned cars, assaulted federal agents and destroyed property.

    DON: Rather than removing Cowardly Gabby and her other Democrat protestors from the bridge and making arrests, the  pro Democrat public employee union  LAPD told the public which direction the protestors were marching in an X post. Some Insurrection is Good… when it is done by Democrats and Undocumented Democrats!

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  12. KAM: The Democrat run Waffle House announced it has dropped the 50 cent per egg surcharge the restaurant chain added in February as egg prices soared after mismanagement of the avian flu by the outgoing Biden administration in 2024 led to a shortage of eggs.

    DON: The Fake News Media and Cowardly Gabby, which downplayed sky high inflation under the Senile Joe Biden administration, suddenly couldn’t stop talking about the price of eggs as soon as President Donald Trump was sworn into office on January 20. It took just a few months for Trump to fix  the incompetent bumbler Biden’s blunder.

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