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USC Morning Buzz: A Number To Never Forget

USC strength coach Trumain Carroll said Tuesday the Trojans have gained 800 pounds of muscle since he arrived from Kansas State.

That means in the past two seasons USC reportedly added 2,200 pounds of muscle.

Does Carroll know last year USC claimed it added 1,400 pounds? I wonder what he would think of that figure? Did it look like it during games?

Maybe it will be different this year. But I always like to see it on display in a game against a real opponent (not Missouri State) instead of hearing about it.

More importantly, given current events, USC should be able to play Notre Dame every year with 2,200 more pounds of muscle. Lincoln? Lincoln?

  • USC has decided to push back its layoffs until mid-August, according to sources.

Earlier this month, USC said it wanted to announce the layoffs to ease the stress for employees. Apparently, it doesn’t mind stressing people out a couple more weeks.

61 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: A Number To Never Forget”

  1. –And another thing. How does Wiley come off saying that Eric Gentry was a “standout” when the team is not even in pads yet?

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    2. KAM: I know! I know! He stood out because he’s 6’6″.

      DON; You hate to see our defense depending on a player who suffers from multiple concussions. Concussions in football can lead to serious long-term health issues, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The cumulative effects of head injuries are a growing concern in the sport. He’s one more hit to the head from suffering permanent brain damage and being out of football.

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      1. KAM: He once was sanctioned by the NCAA for 2 years.

        DON: What disgrace that Riley Coyote has no shame and hired this Bruin while others at USC are getting the ax.

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      2. I’m very okay with this guy resuming his recruiting violations….

        #…AsLongAsHeDoesn’tGetCaughtThisTime…..

        #[CouldBeJustTheGuyWeNeed]

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      5. He has a solid football resume. UCLA and Oregon had solid offensive lines when he coached them. Wonder if Zach Hanson is feeling any heat from this hire. Adrian Klemm has more experience than Hanson.

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      6. Plow—

        Reading between the lines: He’s gonna be helping with the O-line, regardless of the title we gave him….

        #SoundsGoodToMe –WeNeedAMeanerO-Line

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    1. KAM: Barack Obama personally ordered the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment to rely on the notorious, unverified Steele Dossier, an opposition research hit job that even career analysts derided for its lack of credibility. The dossier’s only real value was its utility: fueling Democratic cries of collusion and giving the legacy media a weapon to batter the new administration. Inside the agencies, voices of dissent were crushed. Analysts warned the dossier was junk, but their objections were overruled. The process became not about facts but about constructing a narrative at any cost.

      Amid this corruption, a senior analyst tried to do the right thing. He witnessed former CIA Director John Brennan warping intelligence and sought to raise the alarm. 

      But speaking the truth in a rigged game is a recipe for punishment. When the analyst tried to report his concerns, he was promptly silenced by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), then the Democratic chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose interest in oversight seemed to depend on political expedience. Then, intimidation from the very top set in. According to notes obtained by The Federalist, then-DNI James Clapper’s right-hand man threatened the analyst’s career, making it clear that professional advancement hinged on parroting the party line. 

      DON: Sen. Warner’s involvement marks a turning point. This scandal no longer stops with the intelligence agencies; it now reaches deep into Congress. Lawmakers weren’t merely complicit; they played an active role in a coordinated plot to mislead the American people and undermine a duly elected president.

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  5. Scooter,

    Is there a report from Riley, “The Sunshine Pumper”, on how great the team has improved since Day 1? You won’t see the results until they play Purdue on how the team has improved or it’s extra weight.

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    1. KAM: Purdon’t is the worst team in the Big Ten.

      DON: We won’t know how much the team has improved until we face the Gauntlet: at Illinois, at home vs MICH and at ND.

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      1. As Bohn would say, “Is that some great scheduling or what?!”

        We do get a bye in there somewhere….but facing those 3 teams in a row is ‘make it or break it time’ for Lincoln Riley’s USC career….

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  6. I NEVER TASTED A HAMBURGER IN MY LIFE. I HATE GROUND MEAT AND DONT EVER GET ME STARTED TALKING ABOUT BUNS. HAHAHAHA PUN INTENDED

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  7. I JUST CONTACTED EPSTEINS ESTATE AND THEY FAXED ME THE CLIENT LIST. WOW. AAUUUGH. IM BEING STRANGELD. TURN THOSE CAMERAS BACK ON DAMMIT.

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    1. KAM:

      🚨

      BREAKING: Trump’s administration has declassified the Durham Annex, discovered in burn bags inside a “secret room,” confirming that Hillary Clinton conspired with Obama’s FBI to fabricate the Russia Collusion Hoax – The Steele dossier was pushed despite clear flaws. – FBI leaders ignored intelligence that discredited the Russia collusion claim. – Under Comey, the FBI dismissed evidence the Clinton campaign created the hoax but used the dossier to secure illegal FISA warrants on Carter Page.

      DON: Treason.

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      2. KAM: Newly-declassified so-called Clinton Plan intelligence included intercepted communications from a George Soros ally which suggested that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign against Donald Trump was plotting a “long-term affair to demonize” Trump by linking him to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and that the Clinton campaign expected that “the FBI will put more oil into the fire.”

        The revelations, including intercepted purported communications from Leonard Benardo, a top official at George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, and communications by Clinton foreign policy adviser Julianne Smith, provide new insight into information that the U.S. intelligence community received in July 2016 – just before the FBI launched its politicized Crossfire Hurricane investigation. 

        The bombshell allegations about a plot to falsely link Trump to Putin in an effort to distract from Clinton’s classified emails scandal are found within a formerly classified but now largely-unredacted appendix from special counsel John Durham’s 2023 report on the origins and conduct of the Russiagate investigation.

        DON: The Soros Foundation wasn’t just tangentially involved in this political hit job; it was knee-deep in it. We’re talking elbows-in, fingerprints-all-over level involvement in what now looks like one of the most brazen abuses of power in modern political history. And the Fake News aided and abetted it.

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      3. Soros is a dedicated to the overthrow of the United States government and the installation of one world government. So is any politician who supported open borders which is most of the democratic party. Soros has spent billions in pursuit of that goal. And yet Biden awarded him with the medal of freedom. It is deeply troubling that Soros/Clinton knew that the intelligence agencies would “throw oil on the fire” and strategically leak sections of the phony dossier to the press thereby crippling the incoming Trump administration. There was no consideration of the FBI discrediting the dossier and publicly stating that it was a political stunt initiated by Hillary Clinton to take heat off of her e-mail scandal. This type of brazen conduct does not occur unless Soros/Clinton and the globalist know that they own the deep state including the intelligence agencies.

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    1. KAM: I am looking to cash in on my disastrous presidential run last year.

      On Thursday, I announced a brand-new memoir called “107 Days,” which promises to give readers a behind-the-scenes look at the shortest presidential campaign in modern history. The book will be released on September 23.

      I explained I wrote the book because I feel there is “value” in sharing everything I supposedly learned from the experience and what I saw…

      DON: …including Senile Joe!

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  9. Video on first day of camp including those who are limited. Bad news is that Jakobi Lane is limited, but good news is that it is not expected to be a long term issue. Injury updates are at the start of the video

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    1. Good post, thanks ’67!

      [These two guys are fine, btw…but they sure have to engage in a crapload of interpretation & interpolation due to their extremely limited access once practices get real] ……

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      1. Yes indeed, they figure out a way to fill up nearly a half hour of air time…

        BTW Michael, how is the Lahaina reconstruction coming along?

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      2. Thanks for asking, ’67. Nothing is being done to help the businesses return to Front Street —-and… all the folks I know who had homes or kids in school in that area have moved to Washington, Oregon or California.

        All in all, it’s pretty much what you’d expect, I’m very sad to say.

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      4. Mostly. I can’t handle going back — even though my favorite Maui Church is still standing.

        Quite a state government we have here. They sure did have the sirens going off every half hour to save us from the 6 inch tsunami waves —fire prevention efforts: not so much.

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      5. KAM: Sounds exactly like what Governor Mimbo and Mayor Bass are doing with Pacific Palisades.

        DON: As of now, only 200 requests to start rebuilding homes in the Pacific Palisades have been approved by the Democrat Regime.

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  11. KAM: Not only did the Obama regime and Hillary make up the Russia hoax, but they tried to jail people and ruin their lives like General Flynn and Roger Stone over their made-up lie. These are evil treasonous traitors who belong in prison.

    DON: ARREST THEM ALL !!!

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    1. THEY are the ones who are a threat to democracy. Hilarious how many idiots believed Joe & Kamala when they tried to claim it was the other side.

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      1. Why, may I ask, is Sybil not responding to all this red meat?

        #HasSybilPerhapsGoneToHis/HerReward?

        #[DidWeDoItToHer]?

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      1. KAM: Your friend, our enemy.

        DON; We haven’t had any gems like this all week:

        Gabby

        June 27, 2025 at 3:58 pm

        what the f u c k did I post above….. no one wants to be a condom.

        got to go, the short bus is arriving any minute…..

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    1. GEORGE —- THOSE “FLOWERS” ARE MOSTLY IN OUR INDIVIDUAL HEARTS…….

      #I DON”T SEE MANY BEING PLANTED OR CARED FOR BY GOVT.

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  14. Remarking to MG’s characterization of the Maui fire-disaster with “What’s God gotta do?”– It seems we were given free will, and also ‘free will’ for the ‘land’

    KAM: I’d like to comment on that– the Los Angeles fire at Eaton was preventable, with one guestimate stating it was started by abandoned electrical tower lines that were never torn down, and somehow were activated

    DON: But Edison’s main mouthpiece had an explanation– The law states that we must tear it down if it is “permanently abandoned. That there was a reasonable chance the tower would be used in the future”

    One problem: the Tower had not been used in over half a century

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    1. John — After the fire I called the Maui Mayor’s office to tell them that the Kihei Magnet School was surrounded by [very] dry grass and rotting telephone poles —-they gave me “other numbers to call.” I called those numbers and mostly got recording machines….the one Actual Person I talked to said “we can’t do anything —it’s privately owned land.”

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  15. KAM: We’ve commented on love, how about love-and-marriage?

    DON: I don’t know, love seems to be a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures

    KAM: I recall some Hollywood actress commenting about all of her husbands: “There is so little difference between husbands, you might as well keep the first”

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  16. DON: I got a kick out of watching 2 SC football commentators trying to fill up 20-minutes with updated Trojan football news, despite the fact Coach Wiley has it locked up tighter than Fort Knox

    KAM: If we were in court the objection to any football news would be greeted by a “Calls for speculation”

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  17. DON: I knew that SC’s 6-foot-6 Eric Gentry reminded me of a long ago player, 6’7″ Ted Hendricks, a Trojan from 1965 to 1968, and nicknamed the “Mad Stork” for his long built

    KAM: –Not to be mean but he is injury-prone, and so SC is in day-3 of practice, and no Gentry injury report

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