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If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column

USC has announced it will hold its first “Trojan Huddle” of the season for the Notre Dame game on Oct. 18.

That is awfully late in the season for the first Huddle, which is a pre-game party that usually features food, drinks and music.

It doesn’t speak well of the USC Alumni Assn. or USC’s image as a football school. And isn’t it interesting that the road game it wants to kick off the Huddle is Notre Dame, the game Lincoln Riley wants to get rid of.

I guess that is a tacit admission the game has some value.

  • Speaking of Notre Dame, the Irish will wear all-kelly green uniforms against Boise State on Oct. 4. At least this means no green jerseys vs. USC.
  • USC defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn will be juggling some big egos on his staff this season with Rob Ryan, Adrian Klemm and Eric Henderson.
  • And now for some history:
  • You’ve heard about the USC defensive line being called the Wild Bunch in 1969 but in 1965 Marv Goux nicknamed his line “the piranhas” because they would “eat up anything that comes their way.”

They held Wisconsin to 11 yards rushing and one first down rushing in the second game of the season.

Jeff Smith

Among the piranhas were defensive ends Jim Walker and Tim Rossovich along with defensive tackles Jeff Smith and Ron Yary.

Yary, who was All-Pacific Coast first team, got moved to offensive tackle the following season.

  • Harvey Dillon was one of the very small number of African-American players who played at USC under long-time coach Forrest Twogood. Dillon averaged 12.2 points and 2.7 rebounds in 1965-66, which was Twogood’s final season.

He helped lead Compton High School to a CIF title in 1963 and was an All-CIF pick in 1964. Dillon was also an All-Coast League first-team football selection as a cornerback in 1964.

USC-NOTRE DAME PICTURES OF THE WEEK

Frank Gifford gains a first down against Notre Dame in 1951.

Junior Seau rushes Tony Rice in the 1989 USC-Notre Dame game.

A DIFFERENT WORLD

  • When USC tailback Mike Garrett won the Heisman Trophy in 1965, he received a phone call on a Tuesday morning from the Downtown Athletic Club. The season wasn’t even over as USC still had a game that Saturday against Wyoming.

After the Wyoming game, Garrett flew to New York and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday night. He then flew back to Los Angeles on Monday and three days later returned to New York to officially accept the Heisman. Things moved a little slower in those days.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

  • Here’s a signature moment from the excellent World War II film, “A Bridge Too Far” as actor Edward Fox (portraying Lt. General Brian Horrocks) memorably delivers the invasion plans.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

Vikki Dougan

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    4. KAM: Mainstream Moderate Democrats are suddenly triggered by attractive white women in provocative poses: JD Vance Urges Democrats Angry Over Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ads to Keep It Up: ‘Continue to Tell Everybody’ Who Thinks She Is Attractive That They’re ‘a Nazi’

      DON: Truly bizarre.

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      1. When are the leftists going to learn that you cannot continually gaslight the public. Mulvaney/Bud Light stock crashed when they tried to pass her off as a women. Sweeney/American Eagle saw their stock soar when they showed us a real women.

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      3. Well…all I can tell you is I’m never gonna fall for some dame just cuz she has blond hair, blue eyes, big tits and long legs….

        #I’mNoNazi

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  2. “Murderers’ Row’ is the start of the season for SC as they play Missouri St, Georgia Southern, Purdue and Michigan St. Wiles had better beat ‘Ton-o-Hel’

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    1. Definitely “uhsentrick,” Ed. G, and at times an extremist.

      “peepull maid phun,” and he struck back, creating this symbiotic dissimilar relationship that was no good for anybody

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      1. Ironic that the person with the style Sybil should have emulated comes to his [partial] defense……

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      2. …next question: are we gonna sorta miss Sybil’s views on life, football and politics?

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      4. ….the guy did his research….

        #ThoseVideosDidn’tSelectThemselves….

        #ItTookTime&Effort

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      5. KAM: The resident bleeding heart lib says Cowardly Gabby was a victim who was smelling a daisy when these meany Trojans came by and mugged her.

        DON: Some ” eccentric” victim:

        Gabby

        June 23, 2023

        horse plow said he can use his wife’s black dildo for the peenus sword fight

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    1. For any physics guys/gals out there, what is the difference between being hit by a 190 pound defensive end in Gifford’s day, versus a 270 defensive end today who might be 50 percent faster than the 1950s lightweight defender.

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      3. Not sure but don’t care to find out 67. True story – I once had to defend against a Complaint filed by a 20 year old women who was a passenger on a Metro bus that was hit by a Toyota Corolla. The bus probably weighed is excess of 60,000 pounds and the car was under 3,000. It was about a 10 mph collision and the driver of the car was not injured. I retained a physics professor as an expert and he concluded that the car could not have caused the passenger in the bus to move based on the difference in the weight of the two vehicles and the relatively low speed of the car at impact. I refused to make a settlement offer and the case was eventually dismissed by the 20 year old.

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      4. I [my car actually] was tapped by a Metro Bus on one of the offramps downtown….. I parked by slightly dented Toyota in the City Hall East Parking Lot, proceeded to floor 9 of the Criminal Courts Building and gave my closing argument …I’m glad you refused settlement, Plow….

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      7. Well, sports fans, I plugged the numbers into ChatGPT, which tells me that the 270 pound defender who is 50 percent faster than the 190 pound defender that Frank Gifford faced back in the 1950s, would deliver a blow about 3 times as hard. No wonder running backs on average last about 3 seasons in the NFL.

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  5. I’m not sure but —based on prior censorship —I don’t think Scott wants any criticism of what that speech in “A Bridge Too Far” led to….

    #MassiveLosses

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    2. hey mg glad your slowly turning away from the political BS and starting to talk some football with the season almost here maybe you can talk those other guys on here to cool it for awhile?

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      1. KAM: Tranny Bruin has the blues because Trump is Winning, her Bruin football team with the DEI head coach stinks and her pal Cowardly Gabby has disappeared.

        DON: Why doesn’t Tranny Bruin go the Cowardly Gabby route if she doesn’t like it here?

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      3. Michael and T Bruins, the outcome won’t be quite as bad for the gutties as when UCLA played Lincoln Riley’s OU team in 2019 ,34-0 at the half, 48-14 final score. I’m thinking 38-20, assuming Maiava throws no picks.

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      4. IF Nico is still healthy at that late stage of the season it could be closer…but they’ll still lose [assuming WE’RE healthy at the skill positions ourselves] …

        #IfNicoIsOut….USCInABlowout…

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  6. Had some talent on that 1965 line with Yary and Rossovich. A few first round picks. We need to get back to that tradition of dominating the line of scrimmage.

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  7. KAM: “Dr” Jill let him out again, and Senile Joe Biden — randomly shouting — claims President Trump is working to “erase” everything his administration did.

    DON: Correct.

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      2. Leave the talented Justice Jackson alone! She’s the first Justice in the long history of the court to complain that the majority was “speaking in legalese.”

        #…AndEinsteinSpokeInMath-ese

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    1. What we’re seeing is more consistent with over indulgence in Bourbon….as the Babylon Bee puts it, “a hate crime in liquid form, aged to offend”

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  9. hey Gabby is that all you got is tranny bruin UH OUCH why don’t you grow up man mg is my pal anyone who let’s me off the hook trying to swim to Maui to pay off $100 bet gets a pass i think he is just a staunch republican and hasn’t fallen down the drank the orange Kool aid Trump cult worship rabbit hole like you and so cal guy have

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    1. I would never make T Bruin pay up…. but I’d like it if we could all have a drink [or two] at Monkey Pod before we get really old….

      #We’reJustPlainOld”Old”Now….

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      1. hey mg the game is at coliseum this season which sounds good ucla has scored 100 points the last 2 times there ucla season all depends if those O line transfers pan out that’s been the big killer for them the last 2 seasons

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      8. I’ll be there waiting…. and a waitress named Kristin will be close by….

        #ReadyToGetUsACoupleOf”BikiniBlonds”

        #…[..NameOfTheDrink,NotTheGirls]….

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    2. KAM: No way you passed Dumb Dumb English aka Subject A with that stream of unconsciousness “prose”.

      DON: Yes Tranny Bruin may root for UCLA but she never went to school there. She is a Subway Alumnae.

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      2. And btw, it is just our favorite poster hiding again. No one else would be stupid enough to claim someone who wanted Nikki Haley had “fallen down the drank the orange Kool aid Trump cult worship rabbit hole”.

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  10. KAM: CNN’s Harry Enten: Democrat Brand is “In the Basement” “Total and Complete Garbage” in the Mind of the American Public! “The Democratic Party’s net favorable rating, record lows in all three. Wall Street Journal, 30 points underwater. CNN, 26 points underwater. Gallup, 26 points underwater. And that is being driven in large part by discontent within the Democratic base.”

    “The Democratic base wants something different, we’ll ultimately end up seeing who they choose.”

    DON: Tranny Bruin hardest hit!

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  11. hey mg I think they made a big mistake with that nico thing that Aguilar kid from app st was firing bullets all over Spaulding field in the spring

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    1. KAM: A Reminder That We Dodged a Bullet

      Last night Joe Biden spoke before an event sponsored by a black lawyers’ association in Chicago. You can see him in the cliphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM0pLWbXrekIn terms of content, it was typical Biden: hateful and fact-free. Just one anti-Trump smear after another, “without evidence” as the papers like to say.

      But content aside, he was hardly able to read the teleprompter. He is feeble and barely functional. If he had been re-elected in 2024, he would now be just six months into a four-year term that he couldn’t possibly complete. He is patently incompetent to perform the duties of any real job, let alone being president.

      DON: And yet, knowing this, the Democrats like Tranny Bruin were perfectly happy to inflict him (or his aides and his autopen) on the rest of us.

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  14. KAM: No Wonder They All Covered up Biden’s Health – One Aide Was Reportedly Set to Get $4 Million Bonus if Biden Was Re-Elected! In closed-door testimony Thursday, the former president’s top political aide Mike Donilon told the House Oversight Committee he made a jaw-dropping $4 million working for Biden in 2024, according to a report by Axios.

    DON: And he was due to pull down another $4 million if Democrats could somehow carry the cadaver of Biden’s campaign to victory in the November election.

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  15. DON: I saw the U.S. employment figures yesterday and figured the Labor commissioner had been manipulating the unemployment records. And so fired her on the spot

    KAM: You are a modern day version of ‘Give ‘Em Hell Harry’

    DON: Truman, huh?– The only man who decided to drop an Atomic-Bomb on another country, twice. I don’t plan on being the second man. There are limits, even in war

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  16. You can have SC’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ moniker, I’ll take Trojan Marv Goux’s title for his defense as ‘The Piranhas.’– ‘Eating them’ is beyond ‘wild’

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  17. DON: Maybe you don’t need to know this, but in major league baseball the Top teams currently are winning in this mathematical ratio: 5.8 wins and 4.2 losses. A very thin margin for error

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  18. KAM: The public conscious, if you will, moves fom one perceived crisis to the next. First, they called you the ‘Tariff Sheriff’ for your world tax raises, then they cried over how you didn’t do enough damage to the Iranian ‘mines,’ and now the public is affixed on what did you do with Epstein?

    DON: It’s all good. I’m like that song, “A rubber ball” who just goes bouncing along from one trouble-spot to another

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  19. KAM: It is fascinating how so polarized the country is, separated by certain ideas and beliefs. It seems that a belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

    And for many, it’s not whether you are really right or not that matters; it’s the belief that counts

    DON The great American writer Bertrand Russell wasn’t too keen on rigid intolerant beliefs: “Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day”

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      1. I watched Bertrand get his snobby you-know-what kicked in a debate with an English theologian, titled “On the subject of the Infinite”…. the debate focused on the possibility [or impossibility] of a contingent being [man] being the product of an infinite number of contingencies rather than the product of a non-contingent being [an entity a lot of folks refer to as “God”]……

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  20. –By the way, ’67,’ the players today are not 50% faster than yesterday’s players, maybe a second or so faster in a 100-yard dash

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      1. I’ve seen a lot of touchdowns scored…. or stopped ….by an extra second of speed…

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