USC Notes: Take Coach Comments With Grain Of Salt

Linebackers coach Rob Ryan told ESPN that USC will be his final coaching job.

“This is it for us,” Ryan said, referring to himself and his wife. “This is our last move until we walk off in the sunset.” 

As a perennial skeptic of what coaches say about themselves, a couple points. Ryan hasn’t been an NFL defensive coordinator for 10 years so coming to USC wasn’t a step down. His previous job was “senior defensive assistant” with the Raiders and he didn’t seem to have a lot of prospects.

Now let’s say USC defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn gets an NFL job as a defensive coordinator and offers Ryan a job? Do you really think Ryan would turn that down and stay at USC to work with a coordinator he might not even know? No way.

You have to take coaches’ comments with a grain of salt. A lot of fans never thought Pete Carroll would leave USC and go back to the NFL.

  • The family of former USC coach George Raveling have decided to have a small private family gathering to remember him.

They invite those interested to contribute to the George Raveling Endowed Scholarship Fund http://villanova.edu/GeorgeRaveling

19 thoughts on “USC Notes: Take Coach Comments With Grain Of Salt

  1. SC hopes Rob Ryan and his linebackers work out. And at 62 and with plenty of money, SC could very well be Ryan’s last hurrah

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  2. Gentry so far has been outstanding, and the true frosh, Tagoa’i has played well. The secondary is what I really worry about…

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  3. KAM: MSM and Mainstream Moderate Democrat Reactions to Charlie Kirk S h o o t i n g Are as Sick as You’d Expect. Over at CNN, Kristen Holmes dubbed Kirk “a controversial figure at times,” adding: “He goes into these various college campuses, uh, pushes conservative issues, gets into back and f—heated back and forth often with these students on these college campuses. But of course, uh, none of that is violent.”

    MSNBC’s Kathy Turd, the KO Kid’s former bimbo, reporting on the s h o o t i n g, called Kirk a divisive figure, um, polarizing, lightning rod, whatever term you wanna use.”She also accused the Trump administration of intending on “using this as a justification for something.”

    One guest on MSNBC even bizarrely claimed that Kirk was s h o t by a supporter accidentally. We don’t know any of the … full details of this yet. We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their g u n off in celebration or…. So we have no idea about it.”

    And, of course, here’s MSNBC blaming Charlie Kirk for getting shot.

    “You can’t stop with these awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place,” said Matthew Dowd, who was involved in an affair with Maria Shriver, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife, while Dowd was working as his good friend Schwarzenegger’s campaign strategist.

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      1. KAM: A s s a s s i n a t i o n culture is spreading among Democrats. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to m u r d e r Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump. In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione. The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response. This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end.

        DON: The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the Democrat Party into a ticking time bomb.

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      2. KAM: An unbelievable moment on the House floor. Rep. Lauren Boebert requests a moment of prayer for Charlie Kirk. Democrats can be heard shouting “no!”

        DON: Then, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna shouts back “y’all caused this!”

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  4. KAM: DC Comics newest author of Red Hood and Mainstream Moderate Antisemite Democrat Tranny Gretchen Felker-Martin mocks the s h o o t i n g and death of Charlie Kirk.https://x.com/thecbrzero/status/1965894598540366008She also:

    – Defended Hamas on Oct 7 – Praised Bin Laden’s 9/11 attack – Called for Israel’s destruction – Issued violent threats against Jewish journalists & public figures.

    DON: Good News! DC Comics Cancels Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Red Hood After One Issue Following Charlie Kirk Comments!

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  5. Do you every say anything worthwhile? I know you look for a negative angle in everything you say but try to actually add value to the conversation about USC football. I know, I’m just a “fan boy” and so you can disregard what I say.

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  6. DON: Pretty horrible all these assasinations of American politicians

    KAM: And equally divided between Extreme Libs-or-Repubs, both are culpable. The vicious rhetoric brings out the killing-hate in about 1 in 500,000 American men

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  7. KAM: Anyway, I don’t see ‘miles of difference’ between the top-5 college football teams

    DON: It’s early. And slaying ‘cream-puffs is just mere puffery

    KAM: I study the sports fans. Their interest seems to have risen in recent years. So I guess it doesn’t matter if we make millionaires out of the school’s football-students

    DON: That ‘pay-for-play’ model never hurt the NFL none-

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  8. KAM: -And think of all the Trojan footballers who are still alive, how they never received any payments at all from SC

    DON: To paraphrase an old song: “Why was I Born– too Soon”

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  9. “And equally divided between Extreme Libs-or-Repubs, both are culpable.”

    Another lie. Whenever a conservative attempts to speak on a college campus there is an attempt by the Marxists to prevent him from doing so. Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter, Candace Owens, ect. This doesn’t happen to Marxists such as AOC or Bernie Sanders. They are embraced by the leftist school administrators. Now they have assassinated Charlie Kirk who was extremely successful in changing the hearts and minds of young people. His organization, Turning Point, registered hundreds of thousands of Republican voters in the battleground states and helped Trump win the election. That is why he was targeted. What Republican has assassinated an influential Democratic Marxist. None, no equivalency. We had two attempts on Trump’s life and a Marxist gunman opened up on the Republican softball team a few years back severely wounding Steve Scalise. Does this happen to a Democratic Marxist? Nobody shoots at Biden, Clinton, or Obama but Ford, Reagan and Trump were targeted.

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    1. KAM: Exaggeration in argument is never helpful. But isn’t it possible that some assassins don’t kill because of a certain political viewpoint?

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    2. There are a lot of sickos trying to excuse what happened yesterday. The post to which you replied is just one of them. The far Left is, by far, the biggest threat to our great nation.

      I hope you all have your flags out for Patriot Day!

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  10. KAM: Two dates we always remember– 9-11 and December 7

    DON: It’s a dangerous world. We have to be aware of any contingencies

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  11. KAM: By the way, the word “equally” does not necessarily mean 50-50; it can mean both sides share some blame

    DON: My people will believe what they want, no matter what you say

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