Has any expert mentioned D’Anton Lynn for the UCLA job this week?
Anyone? Anyone?
- There are a couple issues right now that the athletic dept. needs to resolve for USC fans but don’t hold your breath. They will tell you when they are good and ready if USC will be able to play at the Coliseum in 2028 following the Olympics.
And they need to let everyone know when they will reach an agreement with Notre Dame for 2026 and beyond.
- And now for some history:
It might seem hard to believe but USC used to be able to dominate Notre Dame in South Bend.
On Oct. 20, 1979, Charles White rushed for 261 yards and four TDs while Paul McDonald passed for 311 yards in a 42-23 rout of the Irish. USC amassed 591 yards in total offense.
Even though 65 points were scored, the first TD did not come until the second quarter on a 12-yard pass from McDonald to wide receiver Dan Garcia. McDonald and Garcia also connected on 26-yard pass down to the Notre Dame 3-yard line.
The duo also connected on a 32-yard pass.
White carried 44 times and the performance was considered the finest of his career to that point.
Dennis Smith and Jeff Fisher had interceptions while Ty Sperling recovered a fumble. Notre Dame tailback Vagas Ferguson had 187 yards rushing.
A PICTURE TO REMEMBER
- Look at this picture from the 1979 game. You’ve got USC defensive tackle Byron Darby (94), nose guard Ty Sperling (63) along with defensive back Herb Ward (23). I think that is star linebacker Chip Banks tackling Notre Dame tailback Vagas Ferguson.
I’d like to know what any of these guys think about USC allowing Notre Dame to rush for 306 yards last weekend.
- As long as we are talking defense, here is USC nose guard Rick Dimler pursuing Cal QB Rich Campbell in 1978.
Marv Goux called Dimler “the toughest player I’ve seen in 22 years of coaching.”
“I don’t know that there is a better nose guard in the country than Dimler,” Notre Dame coach Dan Devine said.
THE BIG 10 SCHEDULE IS JUST TOO TOUGH!
- A lot of fans are just beside themselves over that rough, tough Big 10 schedule, which simply cannot allow USC to also play Notre Dame.
Let’s again point out how difficult USC football schedules were in the past: In 1964, the Trojans played Oklahoma, Michigan State, Texas A&M and Ohio State.
Oklahoma and Ohio State were each ranked No. 2 in the nation when they played USC that season. And those were road games! Oh, and USC finished the season by defeating No. 1-ranked Notre Dame, 20-17.
Plus, in those days, you couldn’t lose three games and still try to back into a College Football Playoff like Sir Lincoln of Riley fantasizes about all the time.
I spoke to former USC assistant coach Dave Levy (who knew more than any of these fans) and former players from that team about the 1964 schedule and none of them ever whined about the schedule being too hard. Or the travel.
- Bonnie Rockne, the wife of Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne, poses in Hollywood with the famed Four Horsemen (Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden) after they arrived to make the motion picture, “The Spirit of Notre Dame” in 1931.
The idea for the story was conceived by Knute Rockne, who was en route to Los Angeles to work on the film, when his plane crashed in Kansas.
PICTURE OF THE WEEK
Claudia Cardinale
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
It’s the 1979 USC-Notre Dame game, which I wrote about above.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
Well, that 1979 SC team that went to Notre Dame and demolished them, was one of the greatest teams in Trojan history with Charlie White and All-American quarterback Paul McDonald
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KAM: Little did we know it, but at the same time 19 USC football players were enrolled in Speech Communication 380 but weren’t attending classes. On December 4, 1979, the instructor resigned and the athletic department’s academic coordinator was suspended, but USC officials said that eligibility for the Rose Bowl, in which the Trojans beat Ohio State 17-16, was unaffected because the athletes had been given a five-day “crash course.” After the NCAA came to investigate USC track star Billy Mullins, who claimed he had taken 4 different classes at 4 different JCs at the same time, the NCAA bloodhounds quickly picked up the scent on the McKay-Robinson USC football program and destroyed it with a 3 year NCAA probation .
DON: That ended the 2 decade long McKay-Robinson Dynasty and it took 2 decades to recover.
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And that picture of the 1978 National Champion Trojans shows how big some of their defensive linemen were
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KAM: USC was 3 deep at each position with NFL potential players back then.
DON: The NCAA put an end to that.
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It was pointed out how hard the 1964 SC schedule was playing 4 tough schools. It should also be pointed out that as a result, SC had a mediocre record that year
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KAM: No more mediocre than this year with callow Riley Coyote ducking the competition.
DON: And the word was out, USC feared no program and star recruits flocked to play under John McKay.
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The 4 Horsemen and the ‘Wild Bunch are remembered because of their ‘nicknames
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Pictures of pretty girls such as Claudia Cardinale should come with their telephone number
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She died last month.
You could stick a phone line in her grave and see if that old Twilight Zone episode happens.
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…well…that’s a little bit of a buzz kill, So Cal….
#”Hi,It’sGranny…CanITalkToBilly?”
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USC could really use a Chip Banks today, other than Gentry, the LB corps needs to improve.
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Rob Ryan raved about his linebackers before the season. Said Stephens was fantastic and would play on Sundays and that Walker was his best at shedding blocks and making tackles. Haven’t heard anything from Rob since the season began.
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Rob Ryan is to USC what Bundini Brown was to Muhamad Ali —a colorful accessory.
[In my opinion if Lincoln was looking for an answer to the lack of discipline within the linebacking corps he couldn’t have done worse]…
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Knute Rockne was a tough-looking old goat, he looked like a football coach. And dead in a plane crash at 43 years old while in the pinnacle of his football career
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Would have loved to see Sam in the silver & black. But things seem to be going well for him in Seattle, so I’m glad Tom Brady is an idiot.
Tom Brady was dead wrong about Geno Smith and it looks even worse now
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In the plane crash that killed Rockne, there might have been a chance of survival as the distressed plane was flying over Kansas open fields. But they had wooden planes back then and one of the wings actually fell off because the glue holding it together was weakened. They found the wing a half mile from the wreckage. Hence, the pilot and Rockne had no chance. However, they called it a “swift” death
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Glue holding a plane together…we have seen such remarkable advances in technology over time, and sadly, young people today get upset over which way the wind blows, they have no idea what life was like not all that long ago.
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And ’67, can you imagine 100 years from now people sitting around and talking: “I cannot believe how there was a time when people actually died from cancer and heart disease. How barbaric!
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That’s right, John…Pfizer will have it all under control by that time….everything will just be so perfect….
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Or, at one time it was actually legal to intentionally kill a baby living inside its mother’s womb. The U.S. killed over 50 million of them. Talk about barbaric.
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Hate to say it, but I think those two maladies will be with us even 100 years from now. Why, you ask? Take the Cancer Society or Heart Association. Every noble cause becomes a business, and then becomes a racket. Once you have a “non-profit” up and going, it provides jobs and cash flow and no one wants to see that go away. If said non-profit becomes large enough they give money to politicians who in turn shower grant money on the organization, and so it becomes a self reinforcing feedback loop. Just like if Wile E. Coyote ever caught the Road Runner, end of program.
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100%! I’m sure everyone by now as heard that New York doctor’s interview on MSNBC— the one in which he said words to the following effect —-you get research grants for one reason & one reason only: to glorify some new wonder drug or medical procedure….. & if you’re not obtaining the results the drug companies want published you’re supposed to end the study, not report it. If you DO report the “wrong” results, however, you’ll find your research money dries up real fast on all fronts…and you’ll lose your chair at the university.
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UCLA will likely extend a short term contract to Skipper. He is doing well and they can get him on the cheap.
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..of course, all that changes if Indiana, Nebraska, Ohio State, Washington and USC beat them….
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They still hire him and just pay a lot less…
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Ha! [As Jason Schwartzman said to Natalie Portman when she told him “I’ll hate myself in the morning if I sleep with you tonight”…. “that’s okay with me”]…….
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Don’t know if it was true but I heard Bonnie Rockne was instrumental in starting the ND rivalry. It was cold in Indiana in late November. She wanted to get some sunshine and visit Hollywood.
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Well, it was nice while it lasted…. looks like her granddaughter can forget about seeing Hollywood every other year….
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P. S.
It should be noted there are worse things than not being able to see Hollywood…..
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Yes MG but we are talking about Hollywood in the late twenties and early thirties. Very different back then. Not a lot of homelessness, crime, or needle exchanges.
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Some things can’t be unseen…like the fentanyl user shooting up and keeling over on Hollywood Blvd.
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True Story, ’67: There was a Professor at USC whose name rhymed with ‘fairy’ who my wife and I ran into on Hollywood Boulevard with 2 other men — ahead of their time, dressed as women. Later that semester a substitute teacher completed his class for him, telling us “Professor [rhymes with fairy]….. won’t be here anymore…. he’s suffered a complete moral breakdown.”
#IAbsolutelyLovedThePhrase”MoralBreakdown”
#NoOneWouldDareUseItToday
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no one has an eye for foreign beauties like the wolfman, a man of culture and refinement…a man of mystery. how it must have labored him to suffer the gaggles of unruly Pac 12 schoolgirls who mobbed him with their cheap polyester cheerleading garb, their sticky fingers and gum snapping maws. him all the while dreaming of Greta Garbo and Claudia Cardinale. A Knight born in the era of FacePage and George Santos.
#CouldWolfmanReallyBeATimeTraveler?
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The Wolfman spits on the imaginary limitations of time & space…. he’s too fine for such things…
#PersonallyIThinkHeSpendsFallInVenusbergWithTannhauser
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KAM: Former NBA star Kevin Garnett was among the former athletes who took part in a 2019 private poker game tied to individuals indicted in the DOJ’s “Operation Royal Flush.”
DON: Celtic Fans stunned!
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Such accolades for Wolfie. I will say on his behalf that he is the master of starting up SC conversations
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John— I just got censored for the funniest reason ever [which I won’t mention for fear of it happening once more]
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Shaq had this to say about the NBA betting scandal– The FBI does not usually go after you unless they think they have something. And there’s a saying in the hood, “Not all money is clean”
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CLAWED. EEEEE. YAH. !!!!!!!!!!!!
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JUST IMAGINE IF YOU HAD A SEX SLAVE LIKE CLAUDIA. HOW WOULD YOU EVER FIND TIME TO DO ANYTHING ELSE ?????
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I THINK THAT PIX OF HER WAS TAKEN WHEN SHE FIRST SAW ME WALKING OVER TO HER.
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ABSO-PHUCKING-LUTELY, GEORGE! AND WHY NOT? SHE KNEW YOU WERE GONNA MAKE HER THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD!
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Kash Patel needs a good ass====whipping….
I hope Smith gives it to him.
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Agree completely.
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Cowardly Gabby the preachy Mainstream Moderate Democrat talks violence but she chickened out the time she actually could confront Scott Wolf:
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 “meet 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.
DON: She is The Coward of the County:
Everyone considered him the coward of the county
He’d never stood one single time to prove the county wrong
His mama named him Tommy, but folks just called him Yellow
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What’s sadder is posting agreement with her own posts.
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Sad…and a bit ‘mad’…..
#”IDon’tWantToGoAmongMadPeople”
—Alice In Wonderland
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KAM: ‘David beat up Goliath’ last night 11-4, and it would have been worse but for for a 2-run homer by the Dodgers’ version of King Kong, Ohtani
DON: The Toronto betters must be saying to themselves, “Gee I’m smart”
KAM: Neat strategy– Get the Dodgers starter out of there, and then the fun begins
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KAM: It’s honestly too funny watching the people who called everything Nazism for years see a guy with a giant deaths head Nazi skull tattoo over his heart go “You know weirdly enough this is okay”
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How many people get tattoos that they thought looked cool, but didn’t understand the meaning of? How many vets took mercenary work for a period because the US doesn’t support them? How many young men have sh__posted online? Do we want an authentic working-class party or not?”
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Graham Platner’s Nazi “Totenkopf” tattoo—aka the “Death’s Head” symbol—was used by the Nazi SS division responsible for running concentration camps during The Holocaust. Today, neo-Nazis use the symbol to glorify that genocide. He reportedly bragged about the tattoo.
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DON: I’m so old I can remember Democrat apologists for this real Mainstream Moderate Democrat Nazi accusing me and Elon of being Nazis.
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KAM: We were discussing painters in the Arts the other day, you have any final thoughts on the matter?
DON: Only that ‘I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead
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KAM: Pomona College in Claremont, California has vowed to discipline Mainstream Moderate Democrats who disrupted a campus memorial for victims of the Murderous Muslim t e r r o r i s t group H a m a s ’s Oct. 7, 2023 m a s s a c r e of 1200 mostly innocent college age kids at the rock concert in Israel.
DON: Video shows masked demonstrators trying to storm the event while shouting anti- J e w i s h slurs and slogans, before being blocked by J e w i s h student attendees as Pomona College campus security refused to intervene. Weird how the campus police were told by Democrat educrats to let the M u r d e r o u s M u s l i m loving Democrats r i o t. Governor Mimbo and USC alum Mayor Karen Bass have not condemned the a n t i s e m i t i c Democrat v i o l e n c e.
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KAM: Can you believe that ‘ucla football’ became a story?
DON: Talk about David and Goliath, but 3 1/2 touchdowns seems like a lot of points for Indiana to win by. ucla won’t win, but they want to save face
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KAM: It’s weird that Cowardly Sparrow Gabby takes delight in the Dodgers losing when they are defending champs and have won two World Series in the last 5 years.
DON: Funny how she says we expect too much and is constantly making excuses for USC’s hired help who haven’t won a national championship in football in the last 2 decades.
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THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT JUST ISSUED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR TRUMP. WHAT TOOK SO LONG ?
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KAM: PAUL KRUGMAN AND COWARDLY GABBY HARDEST HIT: Dow rallies 400 points for first close above 47,000 ever following mild inflation report.
DON:
Evergreen:
Krugman On Election Night 2016: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”
And Cowardly Gabby predicted doom!
BWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
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DON: Looks like Mississippi’s Coach Lane Kiffen is about to lose another one, this time to Oklahoma.
KAM: He was being cagey about the Florida Gators opening, but if he wants a real chance at a National Championship he’ll become a ‘gator
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KAM: Northwestern University provost Kathleen Hagerty, who suggested she would be willing to boycott Israeli products to make a “deal” with student encampment organizers, will leave her post by the end of the academic year, Northwestern announced.
The announcement comes in the wake of another top Northwestern leader’s departure: Michael Schill, who last spring became the first university president to strike a deal with antisemite encampment organizers. He would be perfect for Mainstream Moderate Democrat USC!
DON: Mainstream Moderate Democrat antisemite protests have continued at Northwestern this year. Democrats vandalized the building that houses the school’s Holocaust center as Jewish students observed Passover in April, writing messages like “D e a t h to Israel” and “Intifada Now!” in red spray paint. Around the same time, the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter held an anarchist training session in which members studied propaganda from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group, urging them to “build an Intifada” and “destroy amerika.”
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KAM: I just heard that there were reporters at ucla’s practices this week studying quarterback Nico’s reaction to last week’s injury, and he seems ready to go
DON: Are you listening Wiley, they’re having open practices over at ucla
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KAM: It is just minutes away from kickoff in that ucla-Indiana game. I have always wondered what it feels like for the players right before the game begins.
DON: I never played at that level, but even a flag-football game can involve some serious blocking. So you have to prepare yourself for some physical roughplay
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