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A USC Tradition Continues (Unfortunately)

One thing that irritates me every year is the way some media hype up players in training camp and create the impression that the player will be vital to the team’s success.

To be clear, I’m not criticizing the players. It’s not them. They want to contribute. It’s the overeager media, often with the encouragement of coaches or others inside the program, who go overboard.

For example, offensive guard Micah Banuelos and safety Kennedy Urlacher didn’t even play against Purdue. Neither did center J’Onre Reed, the transfer from Syracuse. Defensive tackle Jamaal Jarrett, who had the pick six, was on the field for four plays.

Maybe they will play more this week but a lot was said and written in the summer and no one will go back and remember what they said/wrote.

23 thoughts on “A USC Tradition Continues (Unfortunately)”

  1. Beautiful portal work Riley. A center who doesn’t play, a OL that had no more eligibility, Jarrett plays THREE plays

    You can’t make this sheet up

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  3. KAM: Another thing that irritates me every year is the way some media hype up players in training camp and create the impression that the strength and conditioning coach has made the team stronger than it has ever been before.

    DON: Yes, every year we hear that nonsense.

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  4. Which would you rather have – overeager reporters hyping players from the portal?

    Or a reporter like Wolf who likes to post “I told you so” or “I knew it all along” articles because he always knew the problem before a coach recognizes it?

    #WhatRecordWouldWolfHaveIfHeCoachedA12GameSeason?

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    2. Does Scott ever say anything positive about USC football?

      He seems to be a self a appointed critic of the team and fan boys whoever they are. FIGHT ON TROJANS

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      1. KAM: Cowardly Gabby aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf & Kathy & Foreskin Thoughts & Frank Young aka Douglas TenBrook admitted she hates USC yet she has devoted 25 years of her life to spamming this site with her obscene rants and animal d e f e c a t i o n videos and pretends over and over to be a Trojan Fan except for slip ups like this:

        Gabby

        July 21, 2025 at 3:30PM

        USC PICKED 9TH……LAUGHING /MY/ A S S /OFF

        MG hardest hit…..OUCH

        DON: Why don’t you devote yourself to your dying UCLA football program and leave us alone you disgusting Bruin weirdo?

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  5. Building up football prospects before the season begins is the same thing as building up a team’s possibilities before the first kickoff

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    1. KAM: Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. -Fyodor Dostoevsky

      DON: That’s why the sunshine pumpers do it.

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  6. Besides, there are not always night-and-day differences between teammates, look at how Ohio St’s second-stringers last year are now first-stringers.

    ALSO, some players look good in practice but not so much in games

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    1. KAM: All Democrats had to do was to be fully against m u r d e r i n g someone for their political opinions. That was the moral test. Shocking how many seem to have failed it.

      DON: 58 Democrats voted NO on condemning Charlie Kirk’s a s s a s s i n a t i o n.

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  8. I don’t recall the press or coaches building up Banuelos, Urlacher, Jarrett or Reed. The only one projected to start was Reed. The others were expected to be contributors and they are contributors. Banuelos played well in his one start. The problem is that USC closes its practices and everyone is tight lipped about the program so reporters and others speculate.

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  9. DON: Did you see where this sports commentator, his name is ‘Frankenstein or something, anyway he’s quoted as saying “SC is humming”

    KAM: I know the guy, he says things that are debatable like for example he once said “When the Pac-12 came to the Big-10, there was this sense, “Oh, those West Coast schools. It’s big-boy football”

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    1. KAM: Did you see in my new Substack where I called for v i o l e n c e by Democrats:

      “We must take to the streets and put forth a vision for the future worth fighting for. The answers will not come out of Washington, DC. They will come from We, the People.”

      DON: Democrats only know violence when they don’t get their way, like a squalling 2 year old. There is no reasoning with them.

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  10. DON: And Alabama’s Saban saying about the college transfer Portal that some restrictions should be applied to the players’ freedom to move all about at will

    KAM: I saw that, where he’s quoted regarding the Portal: “It’s not great for you trying to manage a roster. And it’s probably not great for the players in terms of the next place they go”

    DON: Right. Leaving a college for another is a lot of stress just packing up and moving on, and effectively starting over with a new team

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    1. KAM: “Former First Lady Jill Biden pulled Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff aside in what has been described as a “tense” exchange, demanding to know if the couple were loyal to them just weeks before Senile Joe Biden dropped out of the election. The exchange was so fraught with tension that Emhoff left with a “grim” expression on his face.’

      DON: Poor Dougie the Baby Sitter Slayer got a visit from “Dr” Jill.

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  11. KAM: Hey, that’s enough football talk, but recall how the other day the subject of ‘intellect’ came up and so I looked for a few cute quotes about the mind, like “Think sideways!”

    DON: I’ve always liked “My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mnd has not wandered enough”

    KAM: But we have to be careful how we word our thoughts as this poem suggests– “Here’s a good rule of thumb. Too clever is dumb”

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    1. KAM: My Attack on Trump Adminstration’s Response to Jimmy Kimmel Blows Up in My Face When X Users Discover a Tyrannical Old Post of Mine:

      This aged like milk…

      Kamala Harris: Sep 30, 2019 at 8:24 AM

      Look let’s be honest, Donald Trump’s Twitter account should be suspended.

      Kamala Harris

      September 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM

      What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

      DON: Oopsie. Blame it on the Chardonnay!

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  12. Inflation is now at a 3 year high. Thank you Donald.

    A major recession is on the way. Joe is laughing his a.s.s off

    Millions regret voting for this 34x convicted fraud.

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