The media is hyping the USC defensive line, which is not surprising. The line has been pretty unmemorable in recent seasons and USC seems to have depth this season.
Here’s one possible depth chart:
DE/Anthony Lucas/Sr./Braylan Shelby, Jr.
DT/Keyshawn Silver/Sr./Kobe Pepe, Sr./Floyd Boucard/Fr.
DT/Devan Thompkins/Jr./Jamaal Jarrett, Jr.
DE/Kameryn Fountain/So./Jahkeem Stewart, Fr.
- All of these guys should play so where they rank is not vital. But what is important is that they perform.
It’s not enough to show up looking big in your uniform during training camp when you walk from the McKay Center to Howard Jones Field. Or dominating a drill in training camp vs. the bang average offensive line.
It matters when you play Michigan. Or Illinois. Or Oregon.
- USC’s odds for going undefeated during the regular season are 25/1 according to BetOnline. Who would take that?
- USC’s women’s soccer stadium will officially open this week. Funny how they can finish that but not the baseball stadium by next season.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
Scooter,
If SC had a competent head coach who would want to play ND and Ol Miss, then I would bet. However, when you got Muleshoes (Thank you budda) who is hesitant to even play Missouri St., then no, I will not bet.
As far as the stadium is concerned, Folt the Dolt wanted the DEI to kick in real well so she got that done first. If she had followed SC history, the baseball stadium should have been done first.
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The foundation of a great defense is the interior defensive line. Keyshawn Silver will immediately make us better. The coaches and players are raving about the growth of Devan Thompkins. And Riley has hinted that Bouchard is ready to contribute as a Freshman. Coach Henderson says the guy has great feet and will play in the NFL. If the early reports are true, we should have a very good defense. Kameron Fountain, Braylon Shelby and Anthony Lucas are also solid players on the edge with the potential to be great. But we don’t really know because practices are closed.
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Don: “Looking big in your uniform” is something that exists with linemen in all of the important football schools. It’s hard to intimidate football players
KAM: Just seeing their size is enough intimidation for me
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I think what you are saying is that size matters.
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KAM: Speed and skill matters on defense.
DON: In pass happy college football pressuring the QB is key.
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DON: ucla briefly opened up its practice to the media, but one scribe said that the time available to the onlookers “Was shorter than the lifespan of a soap bubble”
KAM: In other words, not much better than Wiley’s approach
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KAM: A wise man once said, ” Don’t be like Westwood High.”
DON: We should be like Oregon. The Oregon football team holds open practices, allowing fans to attend and watch the team prepare.
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DON: You see where ‘Vegas is offering a ‘huge’ payoff of $25 for every $1 bet if SC were to run the table and win all 12 regular season games?
KAM: If every game is close to a 1 chance in 2 of winning, then over the course of 12 games that is 4000-1 against it happening. 4000-to-1 and all Vegas is willing to pay is 25-to-1!
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KAM: Delia Ramirez, a sitting Congresswoman from Illinois, calls our brave federal law enforcement a “terrorist organization.” As they enforce the law that Congress made, the men and women of ICE face a 1000% increase in assaults against them.
DON: DISGUSTING. If there was any doubt that the Congresswoman from Illinois is fighting for illegal aliens over her ACTUAL constituents, and she is proudly claiming that her family is “undocumented.”https://x.com/Indian_Bronson/status/1952503084132778201Sanctuary politicians should be thanking law enforcement for removing criminal illegal aliens from their communities.
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DON: Meanwhile, ucla’s new quarterback, Rico Nico, is “living up to expectations,” with teammates claiming “He is a really good leader”
KAM: I still like our brainy Maiava who says stuff like, “Football is a game with a lot of possibiliies. Anything can happen within a play”
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John, as you say, it is so similar to a chess match.
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KAM: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Admits Dems ‘Secretly Support’ President Trump’s Federal Police Takeover in DC!
On Tuesday’s episode of “Morning Joe,” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough admitted that ‘so many’ Democrats secretly support President Donald Trump’s federal police takeover in the nation’s capital.
While Democrats are publicly decrying Trump’s move, according to Scarborough, they are expressing very different beliefs in private.
Scarborough said, “This is a fascinating story because so many people have been calling me over the past couple of days, going, ‘you know, like Washington, should have gotten involved years ago. This place is dangerous, it’s a mess, it’s a wreck’ and whatever.”
“And then they’ll go on Twitter and go ‘his is the worst outrage of all time.’”
He continued, “We saw what happened back in 2020 with the National Guard, certainly can’t have any repeat of that. I don’t want the federalization of the entire city, but man, I don’t care what the crime statistics say, crime has been a problem in this city for the 32 years, I’ve been living inside and outside of the city.”
“It’s just, even now, we, Mika and I, we’re talking to somebody who lives in the city, these are all Democrats who said, you know, our friends won’t walk more than three blocks in DC at night without feeling the complete opposite of New York City, Where I’ll walk 40 or 50 blocks at night and not think twice about it. In New York City, in midtown downtown. I mean, New York is a safe, safe place. Washington D.C., man, it’s door to door.”
DON: The Democrats would rather get mugged than admit I am right.
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KAM: Washington D.C. has more crime committed by the documented than by the undocumented
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Yeah, the dark ones who act like chimps and apes
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KAM: What Cowardly Sparrow Gabby fails to realize is every crime committed by an illegal alien shouldn’t be happening here. They should be in their own country terrorizing their own citizens instead of ours
DON: We have enough criminals without taking in the worst from other countries like Venezuela.
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Central and South America dumped out their scum on us during the Biden administration the same way Castro dumped on us during the Mariel boatlift. Biden-Harris voters asked for a 4 year invasion and are now crying about the foreseeable response to that invasion.
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KAM: Blacks make up 43% of D.C.’s population, whites 39%, and 18% other races. The crime is spread out among all the races
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KAM: Why do you lie when the statistics are there for anyone to see? Black people commit more crimes relative to those of other races: In 2019, Black people made up 12.2% of the U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey). Blacks, however, represent 26.6% of total arrests, including 51.2% of murder arrests, 52.7% of robbery arrests, 28.8% of burglary arrests, 28.6% of motor vehicle theft arrests, 42.2% of prostitution arrests, and 26.1% of drug arrests (FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, Table 43).
Black residents also have the highest level of incarceration rates of any racial group. As of 2019, Blacks were incarcerated in local jails at a rate of 600 per 100,000 U.S. residents, which is more than three times the rate for Whites (184 per 100,000 U.S. residents) (Zeng and Minton 2021). The combined state and federal imprisonment rate for Black sentenced prisoners in 2019 was 1,096 per 100,000 U.S. residents compared to 214 per 100,000 U.S. residents for Whites (Carson 2020).
In Washington, D.C., Black individuals accounted for nearly all (97%) of gun homicides in 2023, despite making up 43% of the district’s population. The firearm homicide rate among Black people increased by 81% from 2019 to 2023, highlighting significant racial disparities in gun violence. The crime “isn’t spread out”.
DON: But libs will claim this is proof of systemic racism!
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I lived in Washington D.C. for three years. The numbers referenced by Gabby are consistent with my experience. I remember the first time I parked on the street in the Adams Morgan area a Black teenager told me that for $10 he would watch my car so that nothing would happen to it.
The LA County numbers are similar to D.C. Black males are less than 4% of the population but they commit the majority of the shootings. Most of the shootings are Black on Black. Virtually none is White on Black. When there is an interracial shooting, the Black guy pulls the trigger on the White guy 90% of the time. Wouldn’t know that from watching the news because they are vested in portraying Black people as innocent victims.
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KAM: Thanks for proving that D.C. crime “is spread out among all the races”
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KAM: You need an intervention, Cowardly Sparrow Gabby.
DON: It depends on what Cowardly Sparrow Gabby thinks the meaning of “spread out” is.
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So is a historically Black college that is 90% Black and 5% White and 5% other “spread out among the races.”
The King of the false equivalency argument strikes again.
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KAM: A study of 1452 undergrads at Northwestern and Michigan between 2023 and 2025 found that 88% pretended to hold more left wing views than they actually had in order to succeed socially or academically.https://x.com/wesyang/status/1955337451989504302lol
DON: On college campuses, preachy Democrat Party wokeness is very unpopular. Most students resent it. A college administration that eliminates woke policies will please the vast majority—though the unhappy preachy Democrat minority will make a lot of noise. Democrat administrators and professors love to impose their failed liberal beliefs on the poor students.
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KAM: You ever get tired of boring MAGAs always telling you how great they are?
DON: No
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KAM: I get tired of preachy libs imposing their perverted views on us.
DON: They don’t like it when their hegemony is challenged.
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KAM: I will tell you that with all this MAGA pontificaing, it’s enough to chase one to the other side
DON: To each his own
KAM: I have observed both sides are guilty of ‘despite being presented with sound arguments in support of their particular point-of-view, the opposing side becomes even more entrenched in their beliefs
DON: Everyone has on ‘blinders’ these days
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It’s not becoming to talk about “blinders” after 4 years of “Joe is sharper than ever!”…
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Sparrow says that “. . . the MAGA pontificating is enough to chase one to the other side” and that “. . . both sides are guilty of ‘despite being presented with sound arguments in support of their particular point-of-view. . . “
More false equivalency arguments. When has Sparrow or any other Leftist made a sound argument in favor of the Soros/Biden agenda on border policy, no cash bail, the economy, defund the police, drag queens in the military, the Iran nuclear deal, energy policy, men in women sports or anything else. And MAGAs are not leaving the party but Independents and traditional Democrats have gone to Trump. Democrats now have a 34% approval rate, a historic low.
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KAM: Never.
DON: Libs always think they are Centrists but it is an illusion revealed in videos like this:https://x.com/catturd2/status/1955687990875062730lol
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Ed. G believes in ‘pontificaing,’ whereas everybody else believes in pontificating
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I guess I have to go with Ed on this one…
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I just got censored for saying we won’t know much about our offense until the Illinois game …and we won’t know much about our defense until the Michigan game….
#wtf?!
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Apparently sometimes the Wolf Censor is in a bad mood and nothing will get past him, MG
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As Bill [Gary Merrill] sez in the next to last scene of All About Eve, “Why take it out on us?!”
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KAM: One of the Top Ten movies of all time!
DON: Yes they don’t make them like that any more.
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KAM: Since here we are imaginary characters, it is fun to take pot shots at all ideas, whether Conservative or Liberal
DON: You call it “fun” when you rile up people?
KAM: Not all the time, but sometimes
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Cervantes and Oscar Wilde did all their “riling” as “un-imaginary characters”….and got tossed in dungeons…..
#IGuess”Imaginary”IsTheWayToGo
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Wilde for the inexcusable ‘crime’ of homosexuality
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He got the labor camp —but he deserved death!
—Barry Goldwater
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KAM: Now the LGBTQ impose their values on us.
DON: And they run the Democrat Party.
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KAM: The Woke NFL’s First Tranny Cheerleader!https://x.com/catturd2/status/1955780187142152521lol
DON: Oscar Wilde smiles
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I’m fine with that. It really does take a lot of guts to do that, knowing how much grief he’ll get. (Yes, HE!)
But forcing that stuff into schools or them competing with women?! Heck no!!
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KAM: Insurrection! Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a recent interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that her city has a “rapid response network” to respond to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests in the area.
“When they were doing the random snatching or kidnappings of people off of our streets, when people gathered, they backed away on many occasions,” Bass said. “And so in Los Angeles, we have a rapid response network where everybody is alerted. If you see masked men getting out of unmarked cars, let everybody in the area know.”
Los Angeles was the center of riots against immigration enforcement earlier in the summer, with thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines deployed to the area to quell violence. Rioters were seen setting fire to autonomous taxi cars, looting, and attacking law enforcement.
DON: Bass is a Cuban Communist Mainstream Moderate Democrat.
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Gabby —The voters of Los Angeles knew exactly —and I mean exactly —-what they were getting…
#SoDidTheVotersOfChicago…
#…AndSoWillTheVotersOfNewYork
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Were the voters U.S. citizens who registered to vote and voted one time within the jurisdiction of Los Angeles? I doubt it. Once the Dems authorized voter harvesting and mail in ballots with no signature verification and criminalized even asking for a voter I.D, and said that you have 7 days after election day to get in your ballot all hope for a real election was lost. But Gavin Newsom is shock about attempts to gerrymander in Texas. “It violates our fundamental principles of having fair elections.”
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KAM: The ‘Exaggerator’ brings disgrace to all MAGAs.
DON: What are you saying, that L.A. didn’t need the help from my National Guard?
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KAM: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby brings disgrace to all Mainstream Moderate Democrats.
DON: She hated getting shamed about her claim that crimes are committed by all races equally.
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KAM: The Exaggerator is on the prowl again, placing words in my mouth I didn’t say
DON: What can you do? In politics there will always be nut jobs
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KAM: How Clintonesque of Cowardly Sparrow Gabby- she didn’t say ” The crime is spread out among all the races” , she typed them.
DON: What a weasel!https://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/chicken.wavlol
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Good article about the potential for a breakout season for Anthony Lucas:
https://www.si.com/college/usc/football/usc-trojans-football-anthony-lucas-2026-nfl-draft-first-round-projection-lincoln-riley-texas-am-aggies-transfer-2025-season
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What is wrong with you ’67, trying to ram down our throat some football news when you realize that this blog belongs to the MAGAs
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Instead of reading about what the prospects and pontential are for footballers, I would prefer to read what they accomplished after the season
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Hopefully he will be a high round draft pick, with many sacks, pressures, and create havoc in the backfield of the opposing offense. He is a big DE, he was missed at the end of the season.
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KAM: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby loves pontificating on politics and religion …
DON: But like all preachy libs, hates a taste of her own medicine.
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KAM: Newly declassified emails from December 22, 2016 show Obama Democrat former DNI James Clapper pushed to “compromise” normal procedures to rush the 2017 ICA report on the Russian Collusion hoax.
It was recently reported that former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper worked together to purposely corrupt the Trump-Russia investigation in 2016 before Trump entered office.
The newly declassified emails revealed Clapper directed officials to compromise normal procedures despite pushback from then-NSA Director Mike Rogers.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified the emails and made them public on Wednesday.
DON: He needs to be tried for sedition.
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KAM: Does this duck after stop his political quaking?
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KAM: You love your own political quacking, Duck Face:
Sparrow Calypso
August 13, 2025 at 6:02PM
KAM: Washington D.C. has more crime committed by the documented than by the undocumented.
DON: Such a hypocrite!
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KAM:
BREAKING: Tom Homan just announced that DC’s illegal alien Sanctuary City status has been REVOKED under President Trump’s federalization. Oh, they are going to lose it over this. “D.C. under federal control is not going to be a ‘sanctuary’ city. We’re working with the police hand-in-hand — and when we encounter a criminal illegal alien, they’ll be turned over to ICE.”
DON: GREAT NEWS. Restore the capital.
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KAM: “Quack quack” the Duck continues on his merry way with his otherwise thoughtful observations, but seen through an Extreme MAGA lens, he is Wolf’s very own ‘The Exaggerator
DON: –And the guy puts words in your mouth. But what did I tell you about nut jobs
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KAM: Mr. Quackers Cowardly Sparrow Gabby refuses to apologize to the board when caught blatantly lying.
DON: No surprise. She has been spewing her DNC Talking Points and her bizarre religious views here for years.
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DON: Pretty snappy repartee you got there, mister
KAM: Regarding the quality of his come-backs writer Mark Twain remarked: “It is of back-country rural Mississippi grade
DON: Best to move on and have no further dealings with the poor fellow
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KAM: Wiley yesterday said about his offensive line that he is feeling “much better” than what he saw in the spring
DON: But he still didn’t exude confidence– “Some of that young talent is coming along, we needed that to happen.” Sounds like the Line hasn’t yet arrived, and is too dependent on immature starters
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DON: Wiley of course is fighting for his SC legacy as a coach, but win or lose he’ll still pull down $10-mil or so this year
KAM: True, Wiles has enough money for several lifetimes, but that’s chump money compared to you, you’ve got enough for 100-lifetimes
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