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Morning Buzz: USC Brain Trust Getting Pushed Into Corner

We are getting closer and closer to the USC brain trust being forced to make a decision on the Notre Dame rivalry, which is a scary thought.

USC has been waiting because it wants the College Football Playoff to expand to 16 teams with four automatic qualifiers for the Big Ten, which in the brain trust’s view makes a loss to Notre Dame less significant.

But Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti said Tuesday he is OK with the College Football Playoff remaining at 12 teams.

“Earlier on, we felt expansion would be a good thing, but we’re not going to expand unless we really feel like the format and access makes sense,” Petitti told Yahoo. “It has to make the regular season better. If it doesn’t do that, why are we doing it?”

This puts USC in a tough spot. The USC-Notre Dame series currently expires in 2025 and Lincoln Riley doesn’t want to play the game under the current CFP conditions.

So what does the brain trust (Riley, Jen Cohen) do for 2026? Does Cohen let Riley run roughshod over her and cancel the series, which would destroy her legacy at USC? Does Riley, who insulates himself from any contact with the fans/boosters/alumni, suddenly become less stubborn and give in to the fan base?

One thing is certain: USC is cast as the villain no matter what excuses Riley/Cohen make such as blaming travel or playing in October, etc., for ending the rivalry.

At the end of the day, Cohen will need to decide if she is a strong enough leader to overrule a coach she saw fit to put a general manager in control over.

It’s all a bit depressing to think these people, who have little feel for the rivalry, will decide something this important.

60 thoughts on “Morning Buzz: USC Brain Trust Getting Pushed Into Corner”

  1. Money talks. If Riley drops the ND game he is going to hear it and feel it from the donors. It would be the stupidest decision that he ever made.

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      1. KAM: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby, When You’re Plotting to Overthrow the Government, Don’t Put It in an Email. Whenever you need to discuss something important that could be misconstrued by people out to get you, always do it over the phone. Never put it in an email or a text message. They warned me never to put anything sensitive in writing — no emails, no texts. Paper trails get people burned. And if what you’re discussing wouldn’t need to be twisted to land you in hot water? All the more reason to keep it off the record.

        Heh. 

        Going a bit further, anybody who’s ever watched a mobster movie knows that even over the phone, it’s best to speak in code.

        So what to make of high-ranking Democrats emailing one another about Hillary’s daily regimen of “heavy tranquilizers,” former Obama intel chiefs discussing how to bolster the Biden campaign, or Obama Himself ordering the intel community to alter its Russiagate findings to hamstring and overthrow the incoming Trump administration?

        I’m not 100% certain what to make of it, but Gabbard releasing the paper trail for all to see is just as revealing about Dumbocrat Deep State hubris as it is about their schemes and methods.

        The conclusion I’m forced to draw is this:

        The Swamp failed to keep Trump from winning the White House in 2016. They redoubled their efforts to tilt the playing field in 2020 and 2024 — and never expected, due to Trump’s first-term failure to drain the Swamp, that they’d get caught. And they expected Trump to be in prison or dead from an assassin before 2025.

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    2. The above video shows how Cowardly Gabby spends his days. Yesterday someone mention that Wooden was an advocate of discipline and lifelong learning. That was never Cowardly Gabby’s forte.

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      1. Her childish videos show how retarded she is. No adult would be so easily amused. It’s sad and she’s too stupid to realize it.

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      2. you’re the dumb/ass who keeps taking the bait and commenting about the videos.

        What a f u c k-ing idiot….. proves once again how limited he is between the ears

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  2. Breaking News!!

    USC ND to sign 2 year extension.

    Game to be played in Las Vegas in 2026 and Dallas in 2027.

    Negotiations continue to “possibly” extend beyond 2027.

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    1. Only 2 years?

      That’s about as weak as being a keyboard warrior and claiming you’ll back it up, IF THE OTHER PERSON DRIVES OVER 100 MILES! LMAO

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      1. KAM: And the tradition of playing home and home is no more. No more Michigan Avenue, Friday Pep rally, Deep Dish Pizza and Rush Street. Nothing more fun than SC fans travelling to and staying in Chicago for the ND game.

        DON: Whose brilliant idea was it to play in Dallas????? This must be a ploy to treat it like we were playing LSU or any other disposable rival that can be dropped.

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  4. Does the $1.4-Billion price tag for SC include Wiley? ucla didn’t make the list, so they can be bought for less than a half-billion

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    1. KAM: Actually if you read the article you would know UCLA made the list, at #43.

      DON: A paltry $340 million, $1 billion less than USC.

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      2. KAM: Trump has ‘outsmarted all of us’ admits backpedaling economist who bashed President’s bold plan. A world-renowned economist has changed his tune on President Donald Trump’s tariffs. 

        Torsten Sløk, a chief economist at Apollo Global Management, posted a new note admitting that his initial reaction to the policy may have been wrong. 

        ‘Maybe the administration has outsmarted all of us,’ he wrote. ‘This would seem like a victory for the world and yet would produce $400 billion of annual revenue for US taxpayers.’

        The admission comes just months after Sløk warned the tariffs would be ‘painful’ and economically destabilizing. 

        DON: Dimwits Cowardly Sparrow Gabby, Tranny Bruin and trojsteve hardest hit!

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      4. KAM: You want congratulations for your 20+ years of trying to destroy the blog you disgusting weirdo?

        DON: Yes she does!

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  5. KAM: Let’s take a time-out from life and regurgitate some of the best oldtime comedians’ jokes, like Joan Rivers when she commented about old age and said, “Fashion magazines tell women to wear clothes that are ‘age appropriate’. For me that would be a shroud”

    DON: Or her one about, “Looking 50 is great– if you’re 60”

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  6. KAM: Ronnie Reagan was not considered a comedian but he could drop in a quip or two: “I don’t want to stop working because then Saturday would never be the same. But hard work, that’s another story. You know how they say that hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance”

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    1. KAM: Ronald Reagan was featured in several comedies, including Brother Rat, The Voice of the Turtle, Bedtime For Bonzo, Bonzo Goes To College, The Girl From Jones Beach and The Hasty Heart.

      DON: These films showcase Reagan’s versatility as an actor, blending comedy with other genres.

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  7. –Didn’t see any news about SC-Notre Dame inking a contract extension, and what would be the point of extending it if the teams don’t play on their home fields?

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  8. KAM: Obama and his toadies goal was to usurp President Trump and subvert the will of the American people. No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The integrity of our democratic republic depends on it.

    DON: A seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government and democracy of the United States. There is almost nothing the Deep State will not do perpetuate its power over the people.

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  9. –So the college playoffs are to remain at 12-teams, which means the ‘Big-10’ will get in the 2 teams who play for the conference championship, and maybe one other conference team.

    Just getting in to the Tournament is a tall task, so SC fans better grow accustomed to many non-Playoff years

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    1. That is correct…. but, apparently, that didn’t matter to Carol as she worked behind the scenes [with other woke idiot university presidents] to bring the Pac 12 down…

      #…Ironically,TheOnlyThingSheEverSucceededAt

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      1. That idiot Pac 12 commissioner deserves a lot of credit too – “all revenue regardless of which school generates it, is to be shared equally among the 12 schools.”

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      2. I hear ya….. but it would have been smarter to pressure an amendment to that distribution formula by initiating […but postponing] a departure from the Pac than entering the Big Ten…

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      4. …and …our players suffer traveling further to away games than any other member of the Big Ten….

        #Solution:TheseGamesMUSTBeMovedToBarstow

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      6. KAM: I heard Cowardly Gabby had a CT scan of her brain done at County-USC ..

        DON: And it was a ghost town.

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  11. –And the traditional Rose Bowl game and possible championships is no more where SC had a home field advantage for all those years

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      2. KAM: Sad, your wasting 2 decades of your life obsessing about a USC blog.

        DON: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby needs psychiatric help.

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      4. Sybil: I say these words out of love—-time to head to Barstow —not for a fist fight, my darling —but to see a very fine transgender psychiatrist….

        #FeelFreeTakeYourBlow-UpDoll&MoonPalsOnTheBusW/You

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      6. KAM: Poor Cowardly Gabby has the blues over the news that the Russians actually wanted Hitlery to win because they could blackmail her!

        DON: So fun watching Cowardly Gabby implode!

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  12. Scooter,

    How was Jen Taco Lita Cohen even thought of to interview let alone be the AD director at SC? What an abomination and presence of Politcal Crapness and Wokeness at its finest. A total incompetent boob. I do not know who the bigger moron is, Cohen or fake gabbbby. You can smell the taco grease off of her fingers five miles away.

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    1. She was a product of DEI. Jen was an intern at Texas Tech but worked her way up the Woke ladder at UW to become AD. Now she’s way over her head at USC.

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      2. KAM: So the tariffs worked.

        And the border is closed.

        Egg prices are down.

        Gas is less expensive.

        nflation is under control.

        Stock market is soaring.

        DJT did it all in 6 months.

        DON: The US media and Cowardly Gabby s u c k s.

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      3. PT and Normal Gabby: Don’t understand why you are so down on our girl Jen. She did a great job at Washington with Petersen. She didn’t hire Riley and didn’t give him the big contract. She allowed Riley to replace/hire the defensive staff and funded it. That was a good call. I also like the GM Bowden hire, the emphasis on California recruiting and the competitive NIL. The only problem I have is with the 200 million football facility and the displacement of the baseball team but I bet Riley was promised that by Bohn when he signed. She hasn’t cancelled ND yet. If she does that, then phuck her.

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      4. KAM: Some of us don’t have a decade for Sir Lincoln of Riley to figure out how to coach on our dime.

        DON: Under Jen the football team hasn’t improved in 2 years and she hired some midget clown to be our men’s basketball coach..

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      1. KAM: ABSOLUTELY INSANE!

        The Biden Admin setup a hotline so that 300,000 unaccompanied illegal alien minors could call if they had trouble with the strangers they were being placed with….

        65,000 calls to this hotline WENT UNANSWERED!

        “So you’re telling this committee that the Biden administration, while they were letting all of these unaccompanied minors into the country—and as we’ve talked about today, they weren’t keeping track of them—they issued these kids a hotline that they could call if they had trouble with the sponsor family they were placed with, and you’re saying that 65,000 calls to this hotline, designated to protect these kids, went unanswered. Is that what you’re telling this committee?” Her response: “Yes, sir.”

        DON: Democrats are literally evil. How could they possibly win another election EVER again??

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      5. KAM: According to the newly declassified documents, Russian Intelligence obtained DNC communications revealing Hillary Clinton’s state of health to be “extraordinarily alarming.”

        “As of September 2016, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) had Democratic National Committee (DNC) information that President Obama and party leaders found the state of Secretary Clinton’s health to be “extraordinarily alarming” and felt it could have “serious negative impact” on her election prospects. Her health information was being kept in “strictest secrecy” and even close advisors were not being fully informed,” the report said.

        “The SVR possessed DNC communications that Clinton was suffering from “intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression and cheerfulness.” Clinton was placed on a daily regimen of “heavy tranquilizers” and while afraid of losing, she remained “obsessed with a thirst for power.”

        “The SVR also had information that Clinton suffered from “Type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease, deep vein thrombosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,” the report read.

        DON: Cowardy Sparrow Gabby hardest hit!

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      8. She tried so pathetically to claim they hadn’t tried to cheat, “cuz the courts said so”! Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

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      9. more reading comprehension issues….must suck to be an 80 year old hunch back with no coin and drinks the trump kool-aid 24/7

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