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USC Morning Buzz: Does This Year Matter?

When some USC fans focus so much on the top-ranked recruiting class, it allows them to deflect from this year’s team.

These are the types I like to joke would rather win a recruiting national title than an actual national title.

Here is what football reporter Andy Staples got on this during the Dan Patrick Show yesterday.

“When you hear Lincoln Riley talk it sounds like he’s pointing towards 2026. They have this massive recruiting class coming in, in 2026. I think if you ask USC fans when Lincoln Riley got hired, if in Year 4 they’d be pointing toward the following year, it’s not what they wanted.

“They don’t seem particularly excited about their chances in the Big Ten this year.”

That’s why the one USC fan said last week to forget the previous two seasons and pretend this is actually Year 2 for Riley.

Here is the rub. Will USC produce this year? That is what matters. I’d even add that the big recruiting class probably won’t be able to make an immediate impact at some of the line positions next season, which means we are talking about 2027.

Oh, and bad news for Riley, USC should play Ohio State in 2026.

  • It looks like San Jose State transfer DJ Harvey could play cornerback and nickel back this season because he is doing both in training camp.

This is ironic because I know at least one school was interested in Harvey as a nickel back before he transferred to USC.

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      2. “I’m being serious” Department: Lincoln reminds me of Martin Scorsese in the following sense —you listen to him speak and you have to admit he sounds smart & talented —-but you see his product and you’re forced to conclude “this guy has some personal problems”….

        #ThereIsNoOtherExplanationFor….

        #….TheFinalMinutes….

        #…OfTulane,MarylandOrMinnesota

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  2. DON: Unfortunately, Wolf could be right. For SC it might realistically be ‘Wait Until 2027’

    KAM: No way, Wolfie, I’m going with 2025 as the year. We might be outmanned in many games, but our boys are imbued with that Trojan football heritage

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      4. KAM: Some of us are impatient because we may not be here by the time Riley Coyote finally gets the program turned around.

        DON: McKay era alums are in their 70s and 80s now.

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  3. DON: The first game I’m worried about for Wiley is the one with ‘Ton-0-Hel’. What if SC were to lose that game?

    KAM: Wiley would have more snipers after him than you do

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      1. Losing to Missouri Sate would give Lincoln the worst case of pneumonia ever…. he might not bounce back this time….

        #But….Don’tWorry….ItWon’tHappen

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      2. “Missouri State” ….

        #SinceMissouri”Sate”Doesn’tExist…LosingToThemWouldBeWorse

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  5. Nothing unusual about DJ Harvey practicing at both cornerback and nickel. There are 4 or 5 defensive backs that can play multiple positions. It gives the defense more flexibility and opens up blitz packages. Kamari Ramsey can play safety, nickel, and cornerback.

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      3. KAM: 4 losses in league play means 7th place again

        DON: Recruits will abandon a sinking program that beats up on cupcakes but finishes badly.

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      6. Probably…but Northwestern will be coming off a bye…and we’ll be coming back from Lincoln, Nebraska….

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      8. We don’t have to wait, T. I can tell you right now: we’ll win our first game and you’ll lose yours…
        #ItDoesn’tMakeMeHappyToSayThat

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  7. KAM: Didn’t they used to be called simply defensive backs? Now you have cornerbacks, safey, and nickel

    DON: Being able to ‘cut on a dime’ once was all you had to do to make the field

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      2. Mike Battle– Now there is a true Trojan for you. Slight of built but armed with a daredevil attitude. Dead at 78 only this last March, and still holds punt and kickoff records at SC

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  8. DON: By the way, Mike Battle was not only prolific on the football field, but pretty good in the bedroom too, as his 7 children will attest

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  9. DON: The public will probably make a big deal about my forgetting that there were some government officials right behind me while I was wondering where they were

    KAM: Yeah, but you handled it well with “Oh, there you are, hello fellas, I missed you”

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    1. KAM: By “the public” you mean the Fake News media you lying weasel libtard.

      DON: Funny how the same hypocritical lying libs like you who ignored Senile Joe’s obvious infirmity for the last 5 years think they’ve got me now.

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  10. KAM: BLOODBATH: FBI Fires Former Acting Director Brian Driscoll, Corrupt Senior Officials Involved in Jan 6 Cases, Trump Witch Trials.CNN reported on Thursday that former Acting Director Brian Driscoll, Acting Director in charge of the Washington Field Office Steve Jensen, and special agent Walter Giardina have all been fired.

    Walter Giardia hunted down Trump Advisor Peter Navarro.

    DON: More Quisling Democrat FBI firings to come

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  11. Scott doesn’t want to acknowledge that the program is headed in the right direction. The 2025 defensive line class is excellent with  Jahkeem Stewart, Floyd Bouchard, Cash Jacobson and Gus Cordova. I think two or three of these guys will be high draft picks. And the offensive line class with Alex Payne, Aaron Dunn, Elijah Vaikona, and Willi Wascher is solid too. These players along with the 2026 class will be the foundation for a great team. The glass in more than halfway filled Scott.

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      2. …especially a game like the 1974 game ….where Notre Dame goes up by 4 scores…… and then gets the crap pounded outta them…..

        #55UnansweredUSCPoints…

        #….NotreDameCoach&AssistantsScreamingAtEachOther

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      4. “Tomorrow, tomorrow…I love you tomorrow…. you’re only a day awaaaay!”

        —The One, the Only, Immortal Little Orphan Annie

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  12. KAM: Democrats like Cowardly Sparrow Gabby Flip Out as President Trump Orders New Census That Would Exclude Illegals – Up To 30 Democrat House Seats Could Evaporate.Trump announced that he had ordered the Department of Commerce to “immediately” start working on a new census that would exclude illegal aliens from being counted. One legal residents would be included.

    DON: I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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    1. Schumer: “Okay! You asked for it! Now, we’re gonna add every citizen presently living in Communist China to the U. S. voter rolls….

      #…WeCallIt”FightingFireWithFire”…..

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  13. KAM: Aides Unleash on Racist Democrat Leader Jasmine Crockett: A Boss From Hell Who Terrorizes Staffers, Lays Around at Her Apartment – “Never at the Office”! Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett is a boss from hell who screams at her staffers and lays around her apartment according to aides who have worked for the Texas lawmaker.

    Crockett, who is known for her foul mouth, is reportedly rude to her staffers and refuses to come to the office.

    This should surprise absolutely no one… except gullible Democrats like Cowardly Sparrow Gabby and Tranny Bruin.

    DON: The aides told The New York Post that Crockett is more interested in being an ‘influencer’ who posts viral clips to social media than actually representing the people of her district: “She is never in the office and is very disengaged. She does her bulls— that goes viral, and then freaks out over the most random things.”

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  14. KAM: President Trump has officially weighed in on his former friendtuned woke sell out Howard Stern reportedly losing his radio show earlier this week.

    Stern’s SiriusXM radio show is set to be axed later this year after SiriusXM decided not to renew his $100 million contract.

    Having built his reputation as a provocative shock jock who once eschewed political correctness, Stern took a hard left in the last decade embracing celebrities and woke politicians he once rightfully scorned while railing against President Trump and those who support him.

    Last year, Stern admitted that he hates whose who voted for Trump and even demanded that they refrain from listening to his show.

    “I don’t hate Trump,” Stern said at the time. “I hate the people who vote for him. I think they are stupid. I do. I have no respect for them.”

    During a press conference on Wednesday where Trump announced a major investment from Apple, the president was asked by a reporter to give his take on the cancellation. Trump, of course, did not disappoint.

    “Howard Stern is a name I haven’t heard (in a long time),” Trump replied. “I used to do his show. But I haven’t heard that name in a long time.”

    “What happened? He got terminated?”

    After the reporter affirmed this was so, Trump stuck in a dig on Stern, proclaiming it was all down hill for him after he endorsed Crooked Hillary Clinton.

    “You know when he went down?” Trump asked the reporter. “When he endorsed Hillary Clinton. He lost his audience

    DON: People said ‘give me a break’!

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    1. Stern in televised interview with Kamala [sporting that black, black hair that makes him look soo, sooo young]: Are you you okay? I worry about you! The attacks are so unfair!’……..

      #”CanIBeYourHouseboy&WashYourFeet?”

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      1. The idea that Stern would actually worry about people that he interviewed may be the biggest hypocrisy ever. The guy interviewed Dana Plato of Different Strokes and teased her about her drug addiction, prostitution, and criminal arrests. She committed suicide the next day. He then mocked the claim that he was in anyway responsible for her death. Similarly, he invited the ex-wife of a rival DJ in Philadelphia on the air to talk about her divorce and the shortcomings of her former husband. She committed suicide a few weeks later. The guy is a horrible person. Actually made fun of the victims on the Columbine massacre. Said that some of the girls who were gunned down were hot and wondered why the shooters didn’t rape them first before shooting them.

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      3. “Said that some of the girls who were gunned down were hot and wondered why the shooters didn’t rape them first before shooting them.”

        Wow! Never heard that. Guess that shows how low his ratings were. If anyone had been listening, it would have been all over the news.

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  15. KAM: Airhead Preachy Black Lib CBS Mornings Host Worries About America ‘Colonizing’ the Moon, is Reminded There’s No Indigenous Population There.

    During a conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson, CBS Mornings host Vladimir Duthiers expressed worry about America ‘colonizing’ the moon and had to be reminded that there is no indigenous population there.https://x.com/NicoleMSilverio/status/1953464112618275174It’s just the latest reminder of how insane our media has become.

    DON: Duthiers is basically parroting the type of language you hear on USC’s campus about colonization. It’s one of the many ways the left uses language and ideas to bash our country and its history.

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  17. Stern said  “I hate the people who vote for him. I think they are stupid. I do. I have no respect for them.”

    So were the people who voted for Biden and Harris over Trump well informed and intelligent? Do you respect them for casting that vote? Why Howard. Explain to us why the Biden/Harris policies on the border, Afghanistan withdrawal, Iran’s nuclear development, energy, trade, taxes, the military, vaccine mandates, social distancing, masking, prolonged school and business shutdowns and Federal spending are superior to those of Trump.

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    1. I’m not sure Howard’s gonna have time for a lotta apologies before he’s yanked….

      #HisTime’sAlmostUp

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  18. KAM: Democrat Mouthpiece NBC News Has Discovered the Latest Hate Crime – Now There Is an Intolerant Slur…for Robots.

    With the growing specter of artificial intelligence looming larger by the day into the lives of skin-bag carbon-based, soul-privileged humans, we are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the concept of sharing our existence with automatons. And in response to this incursion, intolerance is rearing up, and more examples of exclusionary activity are being seen as an undercurrent of segregation is welling.

    One indication of this respiratory supremacy is found in the language. I am here to warn you that you should never use the term “Clankers” towards any automated entity.

    This is according to Fake NBC News, reporting that growing resentment towards AI, robotic phone operators, delivery drones, self-driving vehicles, and other members of the protected automaton class has led to the rise of this epithet. What the site deems to be “a slur for robots and AI” originated in the “Star Wars” property, and it has crossed over to real life, with the hateful term used in a derogatory fashion towards the Skynet migration into our lives.

    The anti-machine backlash has long been simmering but is now seemingly breaking to the surface. People are becoming more worried about AI taking their jobs, even though evidence of actual AI-related job losses is relatively scant. This is the impetus for robotic discrimination.

    Call it “Bigot Tech.”

    DON: And just when you are about to dismiss this as an unserious development, NBC News, of course, found an “expert” who goes along with this automated activism. Adam Aleksic, a linguist who is also a content creator focused on how the internet is shaping language, said he first noticed the emergence of “clanker” a couple of weeks ago. Its use mirrored classic slurs related to racial tropes and appeared to emerge out of a growing “cultural need” related to growing unease with where advanced technology is heading. “What we’re doing is we’re anthropomorphizing and personifying and simplifying the concept of an AI, reducing it into an analogy of a human and kind of playing into the same tropes,” Aleksic said.

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  19. KAM: A day after it was announced that US President Donald J. Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are going to meet in the next few days, and that this meeting is a real opportunity to end the war in Ukraine, we learn of another hopeful development.

    Reports state that Trump plans to announce tomorrow (8) at the White House ‘a pact for peace’ between warring neighbors Azerbaijan and Armenia.

     

    DON: Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, and Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, will attend the events in the Oval Office and State Dining Room, the sources said. The agreement, the first ever inked between the two heads of state, comes as U.S. officials seek to deepen ties with the two countries, with energy production and transit as key attractions.

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    1. More success bringing warring parties together! Only mafia bosses do crap like that! Hope this kills Trump’s chances for the Nobel Peace Prize for good!!.

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  20. KAM: If you want to know why South Park never took swings at Senile Joe and Hunter and “Dr” Jill Biden the same way they’ve been doing to President Trump, the show’s lawyer also just so happens to be the Sugar Daddy Democrat who funded Hunter Biden’s legal defenses.

    DON: What a coincidence:

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  21. KAM:

    🚨

    President Trump has just signed an executive order to prohibit Democrat run financial institutions from debanking their conservative political enemies!

    DON: WINNING!

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