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

Nebraska is going to wear all-black uniforms against USC on Nov. 1. The Cornhuskers are 0-5-1 against the Trojans.

  • USC will host Washington State in men’s basketball on Dec. 14th at the Galen Center.
  • USC is holding a scrimmage this morning at the Coliseum.
  • Former USC president Carol Folt has moved into a $2.7 million condominium in Santa Monica, according to sources.
  • And now for some history:
  • This is the Southern Cal hat that has recently been brought back for $75. John Robinson wore it, including at this game vs. Oregon State in 1981. On the left is Oregon State coach Joe Avezzano.
  • USC Linebackers Bill Stokes (31) and Marcus Cotton (58) pressure Arizona State QB Jeff Van Raaphorst in 1986 at the Coliseum.
  • Here is long-time USC broadcaster Tom Kelly with John McKay.
  • The fact more than a dozen employees of the university communications dept. were laid off this week reminds me that William Peter Blatty worked for the USC News Service in 1958.

He is best known as the author of “The Exorcist” and also wrote the screenplay for the film version of his book and won an Oscar.

  • USC QB Mike Rae (6) leads the Trojans against Stanford in 1972. USC won, 30-21, before 84,000 at Stanford Stadium.

38 thoughts on “If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column”

    1. KAM: Mike Walden broadcast USC football and basketball games from 1966 to 1972. During this time, he called games for the Trojans, including five Rose Bowl appearances and two national championships.

      DON: The Golden Age of USC football and basketball !

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    1. Check out Jane Birkin in Daddy Nostalgia [with Dirk Bogart] —- very fine piece of acting….in fact there probably isn’t one American actress today who could duplicate Jane’s take on the ‘unappreciated, loving daughter.’

      btw, Jane was right up your political alley — always on the side of the underdog …whether they deserved it or not [but that’s both of your charm].

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  4. For some ‘downsizing’ involves moving from a million dollar home to a half million condo. But for ‘Without-a-Folt’ it meant going from a 4+ million dollar home down to a 2.7 million condo

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  6. KAM: I guess ‘SC football’ still carries some weight around the country with Nebraska pulling out their rarely worn black uniforms for the upcoming Trojan game

    DON: SC started its way back when it realized the name ‘SC’ did not recruit itself anymore, and that it better bring out its checkbook

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  7. DON: Come to think of it, Wiley did ok the last part of the season with a come from behind win at ucla and a really come from behind win with Texas A&M. The ND loss was not on Wiles

    KAM: So what you are saying is with Wiley, there is hope

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    2. KAM: The ND loss wasn’t on Wiley Coyote? Who dialed up that stupid lame duck pass that was intercepted instead of running the ball down their throats to tie up the game and go to OT? The Trojans were down 7 points and had 4 minutes left and the ball 1st and ten on the Irish 20 yard line and Trojan RB Quinten Joyner had just run for 25 years the previous play. Yet instead of pounding the ball on the gassed Irish defense, Wiley Coyote called for a pass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAKYP9gHJtYlol

      DON: For some unknown reason the Sunshine Pumpers always blame the students instead of the hired help.

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    1. Ed., the intense complexity of multiple Ed. G comments in a single “possed” might be so much that it could blow up the moderator. Let’s give the “one possed” try a shot.

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      1. Not true, John — it takes lots of brain power to defend the indefensible as well as you do.

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      2. KAM: Imagine defending this: Preachy Racist Black Democrat New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted on federal charges on Friday.

        A federal grand jury indicted Cantrell and former New Orleans Police officer Jeffrey Vappie after an investigation by the FBI.

        “Cantrell is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to obstruct justice, making false statements and false declaration before a grand jury, according to a federal indictment filed Friday in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana,” NBC News reported.

        For years, New Orleans residents watched their city crumble under LaToya Cantrell’s ‘leadership.’ Crime up, streets a mess, city coffers drained. Now the FBI says she was cashing in behind the scenes, too. This isn’t a shock — it’s confirmation. The only surprise is it took this long.https://x.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1568973049453752320lol

        DON: One Party Democrat New Orleans strikes again.

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  9. KAM: USC raised undergraduate tuition by $3,356, maintaining the rate of its dizzying recent price hikes.

    This year’s $73,260 annual tuition will likely mean USC remains the most expensive college in the nation. The total estimated cost of attendance including housing, meals, and books now sits at $99,139.

    DON: Remember then the students protested when USC’s tuition went up to $2000 a year?

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    2. I remember when people used to try to justify the economic value of a college education. They pointed out that the guy who worked as a skilled laborer would earn four years of pay while the college student did not work and took on debt but ten years after graduation the increased salary/income of the college graduate would dwarf that of the skilled laborer. They even calculated a break even point of 10 years or so. This clearly is no longer true. The skilled laborer is going to make $300,000 or so in past earnings while the graduate will be $400,000 in debt with no guarantee of a high paying job. (Some USC graduates are driving Ubers) Very few graduates will be able to make up that $700,000 difference in their lifetime. Certainly ethnic and women study majors will not.

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  10. Prediction Time: If we’re still healthy by October 11th we’ll beat Michigan [we come into that home game after a bye, they play Wisconsin].

    #WishWeDidn’tHaveTheWorstLinebackersInTheBig10

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  11. –It costs nearly $400,000 for a 4-year SC ride, when that money could be used as a down payment for a second-rate L.A. home

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    1. Listened to a talk the other day about marriage and the affordability of housing. In the fifties, about 50% of young people in their thirties were married and living in their own home. By the eighties that dropped to about 40%. It was at 27% during the Obama administration. It is now 8%. What a chilling statistic. These are nationwide statistics, not just California. Enough to cause young people to give up on the dream.

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  13. KAM: English was once a highly popular major, because it taught people to think, to weigh alternative interpretations, and to write. Captured by far-left Democrat Party activists, its intellectual value to students has plummeted. It won’t be long before universities start closing their English departments.

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    DON: One thing that genuinely surprised me many years ago when I became acquainted with US academia was that on more than one campus the really nihilistic department, the one truly bent on destroying its own discipline, was the English department. They loathe Dead White Poets now.

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      1. Well, since you just mentioned most of the greatest civilizations in world history —I am inclined to agree with you. Seneca, Plato, Lucretius, Montaigne, Novalis, King David, Sir Thomas Malory, etc.

        —- impossible to understand the texture of the thing we call “The West” “without reading their works…..

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    2. “Students removed a Shakespeare portrait from the English department at the University of Pennsylvania. The removal occurred in 2016 and was initiated by students who wanted to promote a more inclusive representation of writers within the department, as stated by the department chair in an email. They replaced the portrait with one of Black feminist poet and activist Audre Lorde. “

      Because Shakespeare is a white male and therefor not worthy of study.

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      1. Message to University of Pennsylvania students:

        “There are more things on heaven and earth than are dreamt of by Audre Lorde, Horatio” …..

        —-Amended “Hamlet”

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      2. The idea that students will no longer study the classics because they were written by white male Jews, Greeks, Christians, Englishmen, Frenchmen, and Germans truly saddens me MG. And it should outrage parents and donors who vote with their pocketbook.

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