Lincoln Riley said today former walk-on Killian O’Connor will start at center.
That’s a bit of an indictment of J’Onre Reed, who started the past 2 seasons at Syracuse.
So USC took two offensive line transfers: One is ineligible (DJ Wingfield) and one is not starting.
Riley said freshman defensive end Jahkeem Stewart is “50-50” to play Saturday. He is still wearing a walking boot.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
Riley = 💩🤡
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KAM: You get blamed even if you are neutral about an issue, like for example, ‘I don’t care about the mating habits of ants
DON: We’re going to have some people wanting to throw dirt on us and will ‘twist-and-turn’ the actual facts
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KAM: A great Democrat named Harry Truman had a response to weaselly wimps like you.
DON” If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.”
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KAM: But what do you always say, “It’s a free country
DON: Criticism of me has the same effect as 2 flies on a rhino’s back
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KAM: This summer’s feel-good movie turns out to be an August sleeper hit that virtually nobody saw coming.
It’s the story of a failed presidential candidate who raised record sums, left record debt, lost anyway, and gave her party the finger when it needed her most..”
The premise of “Kamala’s Revenge” is even wilder than Chauncey Gardiner in “Being There” from 1979. If you need a refresher, Peter Sellers played a simpleton named Chance who was raised in total isolation by a wealthy man in D.C. When the old man dies and Chance is forced out on the street — wearing the old man’s very nice suit — “Chance the gardener” is mistaken for “Chauncey Gardiner,” and he is soon dispensing advice to Washington’s rich and powerful.
The premise of “Kamala’s Revenge” is that the vice president is a totally inept (not to mention comically inapt) DEI hire who, when the senescent president is forced out of his reelection campaign by his own party’s elders, finds herself with just 107 days to scrape together a presidential campaign.
Despite running the shortest presidential campaign in history, Kamala (with a big assist from the media and various celebrities) raises a record $1.5 billion but blows through it all and then some. She goes down in major defeat, but according to this political news site in the movie— months later, her party had to pony up “more than $15 million toward paying off [her] campaign expenses.”
Thanks to Kamala’s debts and some massive fundraising by the other side, Axios says that her party doesn’t even have $20 million in the bank, but the other party — headed up by the bad guy she lost to — is sitting on a massive $80 million war chest.
So the bad guys run attack ads, boost their social media presence — all the smart political stuff Kamala’s party used to dominate. Instead, they’re just flailing around, talking about stolen lands, letting illegal immigrant wife-beaters out of jail, sticking male sex offenders in girls’ bathrooms, and all this other crazy stuff you’d never believe.
“Some donors,” Axios says, “have grown reluctant” to give Kamala’s party more money even as they try to “pivot to the 2026 midterms.”
The party is searching under the sofa cushions for cash at this point. They’re so desperate that their elders go back to Kamala for help. She agrees to let the party use “her email list to help raise money and has held a few small fundraising events. But the total money raised from the events has been disappointing.”
The kicker, though, is in one of the final scenes. When the email list fails to accomplish much, party organizers go to Kamala and beg her to personally host the kind of big fundraisers she pulled off during her campaign — but she tells them no!
DON: Kamala’s team “believes she’s done her part” by blowing $1.5 billion on a losing presidential race and leaving her party millions in debt.
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KAM: Anyway…You always got a good line for the day-
DON: “There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by”
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KAM: Dem Strategist Dan Turrentine Has Had It With His Party After Day One Of Summer Meeting: ‘Definition Of Insanity’
“As a Democrat, it’s maddening that we’re still not serious.”
“We haven’t lost 4.5M voters — nor is our brand at a historic low — because we don’t fight hard enough. It’s because we remain completely culturally disconnected and we have absolutely no agenda!”
“We’re not in good shape!”
DON: Tranny Bruin hardest hit!
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KAM: That’s pretty heady stuff there
DON: Come on, at my age you start thinking about some scary Afterlife
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KAM: Funny story from Mark Mitchell at Rasmussen Reports: “
Ever click the button to cancel your order in Walmart, but it didn’t work and you got the item anyway?
Well one Indian engineering team programmed that button, and another Indian engineering team forgot link APIs to make that button work for third party orders. So every time that button got clicked, for every marketplace order, the seller was never informed the customer didn’t want the item anymore.
Hundreds of thousands of people, for years, clicked that button thinking their order would get cancelled, but then they got the order anyway.
And had to bring it to UPS. I was the first to discover this, among many other things, And both engineering teams didn’t want to fix it because their bosses didn’t want marketplace revenue to seem lower, even though most of these items would be returns.
I just had my team run a query and cancel these orders everyday to fix the issue within days. I could never get anyone to sign off on it, so I just did it.
I assume that the long-term fix has been sitting on some Indian engineering team’s road map for years at this point. We uncovered dozens of major issues like this that Indian engineering teams were sweeping under the rug.
DON: We were told 30 years ago Indians were smarter and more hard working than Americans so we needed to bring them here to run our digital economy.
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DON: This just in. The Oklahoma coach said Wiley left him a disaster
KAM: Riley had great quarterbacks who carried his teams, and hid the defensive deficiencies. Habits which he brought with him to USC. He was simply in the right place at the right time when he wiled his way to a $110-million SC contract
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KAM: Remember the musical and movie “The Music Man” when a huckster cons a trusting Midwest town?
DON: They need to update it for 2025 audiences and Wiley Coyote plays “Professor” Harold Hill and Carol Folt plays the Shirley Jones role Marian “Madam Librarian” Paroo.
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DON: I bet Wiley wishes this was 2026 when the 5s and 4s cavalry arrives.
KAM: His offenses excelled when manned by a great quarterback, but he didn’t do so well with an average Moss or Maiava
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KAM: How many of the cavalry will turn and run if the season implodes?
DON: How airtight are these contracts with the players? Any opt out clauses?
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DON: A lot of pressure on the guy. 2025 is his 4th year, all the recruits are his pickings
KAM: But in Wiles’ defense SC was very late to the NIL ‘party’
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KAM: How is incompetence a defense?
DON: USC should have been leading the way to the NIL Party.
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Scooter,
Who had a worse sh!t show, Helton or Riley? For the first two years Riley did not believe in recruiting and you see the problems. Helton was just incompetent. Maybe this question should be held for next week.
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DON: Great! We have a walk-on at center
KAM: That should really bolster the line play
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KAM: The L.A. Times beat writer has SC at anywhere from 10-2 to as low as 6-6
DON: After the Trojans’ expected 4-0 start they have an 8-game stretch where every game is a dogfight. This could be another brutal season
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KAM: Injuries will be the key.
DON: Yes we are as paper thin as the old Washington State teams that were so tough the first two games and so easy to steamroll in November.
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