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USC Notes: Here’s One Way To Help The Leaky Run Defense

Ed Orgeron says in the interview below that he is willing to be a defensive line coach as he seeks a return to coaching.

USC’s run defense could definitely use him.

Now let me say this because I am not naive. Lincoln Riley and Ed Orgeron are like oil and water. Riley wouldn’t hire him and I’m not sure Orgeron would work for him.

But I know the defensive line would better if Orgeron were coaching them.

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  • USC received a commitment from 7-foot twins Adonis and Darius Ratliff, who are top 100 players in the 2026 class. They are the sons of former NBA player Theo Ratliff.

Now look at the Eric Musselman reaction video. I don’t want to say it’s staged but three guys are watching Musselman instead of the announcement.

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  3. How can the D line not line up properly. 3 guys to the left of center and only one to the right. Many players have been playing football since they were five years old. Its not difficult. “Gee, do you think maybe we need to put another guy over there. ” Same crap that happened in the Tulane game.

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    1. What do you think is SO wrong with our lines that Riley can say “we played physically …but we just didn’t line up properly on either side of the ball”??

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      1. BS. Games are won in the trenches. I never thought we were going to win even though we were leading in the third quarter. The announcers were focusing on ND’s left guard. He was opening up huge holes. How often is the disparity in line play so obvious that the announcers highlight it.

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  4. Scooter,

    I would love to have Oregeron back but at what capacity? If Oregeron would come back as a head coach, you get rid of Riley. With Riley’s buy out, it is around $60 million. You pay Riley an anunnity of $3 million per year for 20 years. You pay Oregeron $5 mil per year. SC is saving $2 mil per year. That $2 mil goes towards assistants.

    Get this to Jen Taco Lita Cohen so she can get Oregeron. Let’s go.

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      1. Tell me again how great Larry Smith was, the guy whose winning percentage is above Tollner, Hackett and pretty much no one else.

        And why you keep bringing up the moon landing, which did happen, is for only you to know

        BTW, your Oakland home didn’t burn down

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      2. KAM: Larry was beloved at the University of Arizona but he thought so highly of himself he left the friendly confines and LA proved too much for the man.

        DON: With Rodney Peete at QB, Larry Smith came so close to a NC in 1988 but his #1 Trojans lost in the Coliseum to #2 ND 27-10 . Then his blue chip recruit Todd Marinovich proved to be his undoing.

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      3. Larry was a taskmaster —he practiced the team so hard guys passed out. It goes without saying that’s not exactly consistent w/California culture. Kids got sick of both Larry and his wife after the first 2 years— they were old fashioned and outta step…..but Larry knew more about winning football games than Tollner or Hackett would ever know…..and proved it at struggling programs like Missouri….

        …But, at USC, Marinovich turned into Larry’s own personal Josh Rosen…

        As for the moon landing, we both know where you [mindlessly] used to stand on that. Glad you decided to cease embarrassing yourself. All those out of context astronaut quotes were getting hard to take….

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      4. The fact that you think I’m fake Gabby is hilarious.

        Smith took Tollner’s recruits and had two good seasons, he choked away his best season against ND and Michigan. He was brought to USC by Mike McGee to ” improve the academics of the football team ” so 90% of them Majored in communications. After a couple of years his recruiting was so bad he was fighting Fresno St and San Diego State for players and the top local recruits were getting poached by everyone else.

        Smith stunk at Tulane, he was average at Arizona and he blew at Missouri, unless you consider 33-46-1 wonderful, which you apparently do. Smith finished his career winning 53% of his games, you can’t get more average than that.

        BTW, your office wasn’t next to Marcia Clark during the OJ trial, you resigned in 1993 after you lost to Hahn, you then went up north and taught, and your Oakland house never burned down, more to come to prove that you’re an imposter.

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      5. I have caught that fraud in numerous lies regarding his past. You’re right about the campaign ass^^^whipping he took and moving to Oakland.

        He still can’t explain how he was posting on this blog the day Maui caught on fire, when it was reported that the internet and phone service were down in that area.

        He said he was married….. public records show he’s not

        keep nailing him…….I love it

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      7. wrong person you senile sack of s h i t

        go f u c k yourself…….. limp——-dic imposter

        You need a good——-ass——-whipping……coconut head

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      9. KAM: Cowardly Gabby aka aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Buddhakarma &LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf & Kathy & Foreskin Thoughts & Frank YoungΒ  loves to dox posters and lie while she was exposed as a fraud who doesn’t live in Las Vegas but is in fact a street walker who lives in a dumpster on 6th and Grand Avenue.

        DON: Remember all the times she chickened out of her fights and then no showed when Scott Wolf came to Las Vegas? What a fraud she is!

        Plow Horse

        AUGUST 31, 2024 at 9:42 PM

        I thought Gabby said a few days back that he was going to the USC marching band pep rally today at the Palms at 2:00 and wanted to β€œmeet up” with Scott. Instead, he spent the day trolling the blog. Once again a threat followed by a no show. That’s our Cowardly Gabby. All talk, no walk.

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    1. It may be a defensive line job with someone that I believe *can win a championship.* Excludes the Fighting Lincolns.
    2. I thought Ed O was persona non grata after giving Kif a black eye.

    If Ed O can come back just to punch Riley, then I’m for it.

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      2. KAM: Kennedy Polamalu is an American Samoan professional football coach who punched Lame Kiffin before the December 2012 Sun Bowl game and is currently the running backs coach for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League.Β 

        DON: Formerly, he served as the running backs coach for the Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings, and Las Vegas Raiders.Β He was the offensive coordinator for the UCLA Bruins.Β Prior to that he was the offensive coordinator for the USC Trojans. Interestingly, he was born the day President Kennedy was a s s a s s i n a t e d so his mother named him in honor of the slain president.

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  7. KAM: The Pride of USC, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, has once again turned the truth on its head. In a stunning move, she’s calling for an investigation into ICE agents. She is accusing them of “detaining American citizens”.

    DON: But here’s the reality, Bass refuses to admit these so-called β€œcitizens” were obstructing lawful ICE operations and breaking federal law. Instead of standing with law enforcement, Bass is siding with the very people undermining our immigration system! Her role model Fidel would be proud.

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    1. Karen Bass is a Marxist moron [she’s proved it time and time again — but my favorite sustained proof was the day she returned from the Ivory Coast or wherever the phuck she was hiding out during the Palisades fires….and stood close-mouthed and blurry-eyed while reporters asked her what in the hell she was doing to save a city she didn’t want to save]…..

      #”ThePointOfTheRevolutionIsTheRevolution”

      —-Marx didn’t have a 2nd Act

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  9. GENE TIERNEY DESCRIBED HER MENTAL PROBLEMS IN HER BOOK. SHE UNDERWENT SHOCK TREATMENTS AND HAD A REALLY DIFFICULT ROAD. AND SUCH A VERY PRETTY GIRL ASJOHN AND MICHAEL AND SO CAL AND PLOW HORSE AND 67 AND GABBY WILL ATTEST TO.

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  10. APPARENTLY GARBO SWUNG BOTH WAYS IF YOU CATCH MY DRIFT BUT WOLF HAS THAT GREAT PIX OF HER AND SO I WOULD HAVE KISSED HER ANYWAY AND HELD MY TONGUE !!!!!!!

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    1. GEORGE —- TIERNEY WAS EXTRAORDINARY IN LAURA….BROOKS WAS SUBLIME IN PANDORA….AND GARBO NEVER LOOKED BETTER THAN IN SCOTT’S PHOTO OF HER IN THE USC T-SHIRT…..

      #IT’S A TIE!

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  12. DON: That ‘George guy is on fire, wondering over NIL payouts and mental health leading to ‘shock treatments’

    KAM: The NIL payouts are I presume in the $10-million to $35-million range

    DON: Plus, the football players get most of the $20-million ‘stipend’

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    1. KAM: Β FBI Raids NBA Gambling Ring Tied to Italian Mafia – More Than 30 People Arrested, Including Trail Blazers Coach Chauncey Billups and Heat’s Terry Rozier!

      DON: Will it extend to College Football Gambling?

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  13. KAM: I just came up with a preposterous thought– ‘Fire Wiley now and hire ‘Orgy’. It would probably save the season

    DON: Imagine the Immediate change in “culture” in the locker room– Business-like Wiles or Raucous Orgy?

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    1. KAM: Cowardly Gabby’s fellow Mainstream Moderate Democrat hater of free speech, 27-year-old graduate student Derek Lopez, identified as a teaching assistant(TA) at Illinois State University, was arrested on charges of Disorderly Conduct and Criminal Damage to Property.

      β€œOver the last week Lopez is alleged to have disrupted two informational tabling events being hosted by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, a registered student organization. ISUPD was contacted by the registered student organization following the escalation leading to an investigation, identification, and arrest. This case is pending and may be grounds for additional charges and University disciplinary action.”

      DON: According toΒ the student newspaper for ISU, Lopez has now been β€œrelieved of his position.”

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  14. KAM: We had digressed when discussing Art and the Artist. What experience do you have?

    DON: Look, I have seen enough paintings in my life to know the real stuff. Color me skeptical but I think of most painters as ‘a guy who is able to paint because his wife works

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  15. KAM: Orgeron could have been the SC coach but for Pat Haden not believing he was ‘country club material’

    DON: Well Orgy did speak roughly with a deep Southern accent, but he knew football and he’d have players run through walls for him

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  16. KAM: Back to Artists and Painters, I got one for you– “The scholar seeks, the artist finds”

    DON: As ilustrated by an ancient Chinese saying: “The song of the brush”

    KAM: -Or Vincent van Gogh exclaiming, “There is music inside me”

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  17. KAM: I would guess that every college football player makes some amount of money, if not through the NIL then at least a small piece of the $20-mil each year

    DON: I wonder if there isn’t some jealousy in the locker room, like in “I hear Joe over there is pulling down $125,000, and here we’re busting our behinds for chump change

    KAM: Not to be silly, but if SC were putting out ads would they say, ‘Football players wanted. Starting Salary is $100,000 and Up’

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