There was some misinformation yesterday about whether the fake punt with Sam Huard was legal and the Big Ten released an official statement today that explained a penalty should have been called . . . but not on the play involving Huard.
According to the Big Ten’s memo, USC should have been penalized with punter Sam Johnson entered the game on the following drive.
USC violated Playing Rule 9, Section 2, Article 2, the rule against “unfair tactics,” which prohibits two players who play the same position for wearing the same number.
USC should have been assessed a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Johnson’s punt, which occurred at its own 44-yard line.
Yesterday, there were erroneous reports USC should have been penalized on Huard’s punt.
- The Big Ten might hold a vote in two weeks to potentially adopt a 20-year, $2.4 billion deal with a California pension fund and extend the conference grant of rights an additional 10 years in what would be an unprecedented decision from a major conference — without participation from USC and Michigan, according to Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports.
“In messages sent to Michigan and USC, the Big Ten has signaled that it is moving forward with the deal, even delivering to each program a proposed deadline for their decision. If they don’t agree to the deal, the schools may lose the additional capital as part of the landmark proposal and risk their future within the conference beyond 2036, the current end of the existing grant-of-rights agreement. League officials are socializing a specific date — Nov. 21 — for a vote on the capital investment proposal.”
Full article here.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
I don’t get it. Huard was listed as 80 on game day roster. Was his position listed as punter. Certainly players can play more than one position. There weren’t two players with the same number on the field Travis Hunter went both ways. OL and DL have been featured as RBs on the goal line. When normal punters pass on trick plays, does that make them QB’s. If a punter had the same number as a back up QB and made a pass, does that make him a QB? I believe Cody Kessler punted a few times. Did that make him a punter?
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I understand the reason behind the rule. Say your team had a really exceptional wide receiver, #7. The defense would always double team #7. Then you have #7 switch jerseys with a lesser player who has a similar frame as #7 and that player lines up at the same position and the opposing team continues to double team him. I think that would fall under unfair tactics.
Clearly, if NW knew that the backup quarterback was lined up as the punter they would have positioned their defense differently in order to stop the pass.
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How can someone listed as QB on the game day roster, who throws a pass and never punts, be considered a punter?
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Last night, SNL slapped trump around like a pinta, caved in his crotch and went back to slapping him around……EPIC!
I am still laughing my ass^^^^off
historians rank trump as the worst prez EVER….. I agree 1000%
phuck trump!
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Closed the border as promised, grocery prices down, gas prices down, mortgage rates falling, stock market up, kicked the perverts out of the military, bombed Iran’s nuclear facility, helped resolve 8 military conflicts, bombed 17 boats carrying Fentanyl into the country and successfully negotiated 18 trillion dollars of new foreign investment into U.S. manufacturing which will provide high paying jobs to millions of Americans while ensuring our security by weakening our reliance on China. And SNL was mocking his job performance? Do they miss brain dead China Joe Biden.
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Important for all Americans to harbor the following sentiments:
(1) Phuck SNL [How dumb would you have to be to watch it]?
(2) Phuck the Big Ten [How dumb would you have to be to join it]?
#WinBigTen…StickTrophyUpCarol’sButt&LightCherryBomb
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MORE LIES….WHEN DOES IT END WITH YOU?
is that an icicIe on your chin, or did trump pull out too quick?
…..The day Biden left office I paid $3.09 a gallon, yesterday at the same station, it at was $3.49…. over 1.2 million jobs have been lost since he took office and millions regret voting for him.
He has done nothing to address kitchen table issues……wake up fool!
BARST0W?
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KAM: Schumer Melts Down on Senate Floor as Democrat Senators Cave and Join Republicans to Reopen Government!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Schmucky Schumer lost the battle on Sunday evening, and he didn’t take it well.
“I must vote no!” Schumer shouted as he droned on and on about Trump’s ballroom and the healthcare crisis that has worsened because of Obamacare.https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1987706381718413482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1987706381718413482%7Ctwgr%5Eaa35848c65732c83656edb36efbdb9686b33240e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F11%2Fschumer-melts-down-senate-floor-as-democrat-senators%2Flol
“We will not give up this fight!” Schumer shouted as he yielded the floor.
DON: BWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Virtually every statement Schumer made in the speech was a lie. He accuses Trump of holding the American people hostage by cutting off food to hungry children and other welfare programs and unilaterally cancelling airline flights. He doesn’t acknowledge that he chose not to vote for the clean CR thereby shutting down the government. He then blames Trump for the outrageous cost of health insurance, “retirees are paying $25,000 a year in premiums”, with no mention that it was his party who forced Obamacare on the American public. The level of blatant dishonesty in this guy is unmatched with the possible exception of Cowardly Gabby.
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ND subbed Buchner in last year’s game with USC, who caught the Trojans off guard and completed a 4th and long pass for a key first down. I don’t know about the number being changed.
But at some level, if you have a QB line up in punt formation, they are still a QB. Why does a traditional punt formation make the guy receiving the snap a punter if he is a QB?
Ed. G will need to sort this out.
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When he had worn a different number for all games prior to this one, it’s a punk move. Changing numbers is clearly an attempt to deceive. They don’t allow WRs to remain out of the huddle, stand a foot away from the sideline and catch a quick pass out to them once the ball is snapped for the same reason.
There’s sportsmanlike deception (a fake handoff) and then there’s THIS.
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I don’t know about that…
Unsportsmanlike is what Charley Weiss did when the Trojans played in South Bend and he had the landscapers let the grass grow to be 3 inches high because USC was a much faster team. And one of our RBs who was returning a kickoff tore his ACL because his cleats got stuck…
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He also had worn number 80 for the previous 3 weeks, I believe.
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Yes, you’re correct. Did this a few weeks ago, to get ready for it.
Riley said USC had the play ready for the past several weeks, changing Huard’s number in accordance with the rules, but no one noticed it on the game-day flip card that includes team rosters and depth charts.
“You guys got to pay attention,” Riley said. “Seriously, it’s been on there for three weeks. I’m glad none of y’all put it on Twitter.”
Still seems like a punk move. And yes, the long grass at ND is also. A shame a “Catholic” school resorted to it.
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It was a sucker-punch fake punt play that was pulled off. Question would be if the play would still be under review by the B1G if it had failed? Captain Obvious answer is “no.” But the utility of this same play would be lost either way in any upcoming contest. Bottom-line: now LR needs to come up with another fake punt play, in case it is really needed against Iowa, Oregon, or ucla. Bravo LR.
Better answer is to get the O-line on the same page when running the ball. USC is nigh-unstoppable when the O-line blocks down well, but they simply do not do it with the desired consistency. We would never have been in that 4th down position had we run the ball effectively. Well that, and LR always wants to pass more than he wants to run, which remains yet another exploitable weakness our future opponents are no doubt aware of.
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With the way UCLA cried about our drum major stabbing the field before the show, I’d be OK pulling something such as this. They’re punks and deserve to be punked right back. 🙂
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speaking of punks…..gabby said you’re loooooong overdue for a good ass>>>>whipping……why do you avoid a meet up?
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KAM: BREAKING
Senator Bernie Sanders just posted this video to his 11.8 million followers very panicked “Tonight was a very bad night” …https://x.com/MAGAVoice/status/1987763496629739536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1987763496629739536%7Ctwgr%5E7f143faa8952f2d8cdb67f21b10724a0a8a8c067%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdisqus.com%2Fembed%2Fcomments%2F%3Fbase%3Ddefaultf%3Dpj-instapunditt_i%3D1-755617t_u%3Dhttps3A2F2Finstapundit.com2F7556172Ft_e%3DKRUISER27S20MORNING20BRIEFING3A20Schumer27s20Shutdown20Did20Not20Go20Well20for20Him.2026quot3BThe20Chuckster20doesn27t20playt_d%3DInstapundit20C2BB20Blog20Archive20C2BB20KRUISERE28099S20MORNING20BRIEFING3A20SchumerE28099s20Shutdown20Did20Not20Go20Well20for20Him.20E2809CThe20Chuckster20doesnE28099t20playt_t%3DKRUISER27S20MORNING20BRIEFING3A20Schumer27s20Shutdown20Did20Not20Go20Well20for20Him.2026quot3BThe20Chuckster20doesn27t20playt_cs_o%3Ddescversion%3D5ca5d7a782afa9acd2aad064527bbb4blol
DON: LMAO I LOVE THIS
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Extremely interesting interview with Urban Meyer about Lincoln Riley after the USC-Nebraska game:
“I told Lincoln once, you know, you aren’t an Air Raid guy, you are a spread guy.”
I’m assuming no pun intended…
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As the L. A. cops yell during drug busts, “Spread ’em …you’ve been there before.”
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they do not play the same position…right?
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Exactly. It seems to me that the rule has circular logic.
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Solution — Big Ten needs to just say it out loud: “We fear USC.”
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Or you could go back to the old days where each player had a unique number.
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PHUCK TRUMP AND STICK AN APPLE IN HIS MOUTH.
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KAM: Poor Brain dead vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric and Smacky has another Lost Weekend!!!!!!!!!!
DON: Her beloved Bruins lose to crummy NEB at home AND her beloved Democrats surrender to Trump!
Hee Hee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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TRUMP THINKS LIKE ME.
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KAM Cowardly Gabby is melting down ! Chuck Schumer handed his head on a plate to President Trump last night as he surrendered on shutting down the government. After 40 days of slithering to the microphone each day with a new rant to an increasingly bored media about our favorite president, Chuck realized the futility of shutting down the government because all he did was anger the Democrat Party’s key constituent—welfare recipients—and leave helpless airline passengers stranded in city after city.
Trump meanwhile went about his life as usual, savoring every minute of his final presidency. He went to Asia and signed historic peace and trade agreements. He declared Columbus Day to be Columbus Day. He brought Big Pharma officials in to announce they are cutting prices. He golfed. He threw a big dinner at Mar-a-Lago. He paid the troops despite the shutdown.
Oh, and he kept putting sombreros on the head of Hakeem Jeffries in pictures and videos. Hakeem denounced the videos as racist and the media went out of its way to condemn it as deepfake.
DON: Everyone else laughed and had a good time at the expense of the Dollar Store Obama. . . , and Brain dead vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric and Smacky !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Riley gets his wet dream?
Michigan and USC Just Got News of Possible Big Ten Expulsion Threat!
https://www dot youtube dot com/watch?v=N5APcfDKf-8
Riley can then put Prairie View and Azusa Pacific on the schedule
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KAM: And best of all, UCLA was too stupid to join USC and use this as their exit route so they won’t be trapped in the cellar of Big Ten football for the next 100 years!
DON: Cowardly Gabby the Bruin and Tranny Bruin hardest hit!
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Getting bounced out of the Big Ten is the best thing that could happen —not because we want an easier schedule but because we deserve better officiating than we’ve been getting…
…the last year of Pac 12 officiating sucked cuz we had already announced we wanted out of the Pac 12 [thereby destroying the conference] ….
…and the Big Ten treats us like the unwanted stepchild we are….
…This is Folt’s mess [with all the difficulties that attend playing in so many time zones & travelling so many thousands of miles] — we now have a chance to leave it behind and schedule the majority of our games with great teams in our own time zone [the way we used to do]…
…Let’s take it….
[…But watch out for the officiating in the Iowa game —it’s gonna be punitive in the extreme]….
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KAM: Schumer’s Shutdown Did Not Go Well for Him…After weeks of posturing, sound bites, and hashtags, Senate Democrats folded like a cheap lawn chair. The government will reopen after a handful of Democrats finally agreed to vote with Republicans to end the shutdown—without giving Chuck Schumer and his caucus anything close to a win.
This is what capitulation looks like, and the left knows it.
The deal is simple. Schumer’s caucus agreed to advance a package of spending bills that will reopen the government and extend funding through January.
That’s it.
This went on for far too long because Chuck Schumer thought that he could use his flying monkeys in the mainstream media to spin it as the Republicans’ fault. Dems were hoping that the Republicans would do what the old GOP would and blink, allowing them to keep spending money on Obamacare subsidies.
His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama is still finding ways to muck up the works all these years later.
It didn’t work out that way, of course. The Chuckster doesn’t play hardball as well as some of his predecessors in Senate leadership. Over on the House side of things, Hakeem Jefferies isn’t any sharper. The Democrats rushed into this shutdown, driving a clown car with no brakes. Or, as Matt wrote, the Democrats “…lit the fire, watched it burn, and then walked out pretending it was all part of the plan.”
The Dem senators who voted with the Republicans knew that this wasn’t going to end well for them. One of them was Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, who’s been fed up with the shutdown for well over a week now.
One big reason that this hasn’t gone according to Schumer’s plans is that the Dems don’t have the power to craft false narratives that they used to. Their propaganda partners in the MSM have lost a lot of juice in the last nine years. Not only has President Trump been kneecapping them this whole time, he’s also given the rest of the Republican Party some spine.
DON: Cowardly Gabby, Tranny Bruin, trojsteve9 and Owns hardest hit!
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I resent this post, Gabby. We have to respect the feelings of many [well some, well one] of our posters who feels certain that Joe didn’t allow a spy balloon to traverse our country, didn’t help his son profiteer off of Burisma’s corrupt practices, didn’t allow millions of illegals into the country just to dilute the voting rights of taxpaying citizens…. and Schumer and Jeffries aren’t Big Losers who just nailed the dem party’s coffin shut…..
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KAM: Now baseball.
DON: Two Cleveland Guardians pitchers, Luis Ortiz and Emmanuel Clase, were indicted for allegedly conspiring with bettors to rig MLB games.
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DON: The ‘Big-10 has a rule that a team shall not resort to “Unfair Tactics”. It is debatable what constitutes ‘unfair,’ but Wiley’s trickery would be called bush
KAM: Being lawyerlike, Wiles had to have been planning for some time to place the punter’s number on his quarterback’s jersey. He figured if the opposition didn’t discover it, he has a chance at a Great play
KAM:: But enough of that, you see where women’s volleyball is on a roll? Women have athletic ability, and volleyball is where they can show it off
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The Big Ten doesn’t like “unfair tactics.” It just hates them. So, so much.
#That’sFunny….
#EvenChickenCrapNBCAnnouncersMarvelOverBiasedBigTenOffiating…
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KAM: MASSIVE Leftist Meltdowns Ensue as Eight Senate Democrats Cave and Vote to End Government Shutdown – the Senate broke the Chuck Schumer-led filibuster last night after eight Senate Democrats caved and joined Republicans in their bid to pass a revamped plan to end the shutdown.
The Motion to Invoke Cloture on the House-passed continuing resolution was passed on the 15th attempt by a vote of 60-40. Republicans plan to amend the bill and attach three full-year-long appropriations bills.
Seven Democrats and one Independent (Angus King) who caucuses with the party joined Republicans and passed the resolution. Rand Paul was the lone ‘Republican’ to vote no.https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1987883717956657570…
Here were the Dem Caucus members who caved:
Angus King of Maine
John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
Jacky Rosen of Nevada
Tim Kaine of Virginia
Dick Durbin of Illinois
The House will return to session on Wednesday to vote on the Senate-passed funding package.
DON: The childish elitists on Blue Sky SCREAMED betrayal and threw massive tantrums following the vote, using some of the most colorful terms imaginable.
Many also demanded Schumer’s resignation, even though he did not vote for the ‘compromise.’
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DON: So ucla wants to go to SoFi because it has greener pastures made of money. Can’t you just see the ucla brain trust working the numbers, so it’s a no-brainer.
KAM: The kicker is the Rose Bowl is suing ucla, and money would be awarded to Pasadena out of ucla’s pocket. They put $1/3 billion in stadium renovations, so if they were awarded $1-billion, where does ucla come up with that kind of money?
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KAM: Shutdown Fallout Throws Democrats Into Chaos! Schumer is learning the hard way that theatrics and blame-shifting only work when your caucus is united. Right now, they’re anything but. And now, he is facing a rebellion. His own party is questioning whether he has what it takes to lead them through the current political landscape.
DON: Whether or not he survives this latest crisis remains to be seen, but we can see one thing: The knives are out, Chuck Schumer is the target, and the entire party is now in chaos. Cowardly Gabby and Tranny Bruin are in shock!
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Its a UC. I assume they can collect on a judgment from the state.
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DON: ucla would get a nearly $200-million payout when the Big-10’s deal comes through to sell 10% of the ‘conference’ to some investment fund re pension system, whatever that is
KAM: Changing the subject, an SC writer said of Wiley that although he is “intermittently brilliant, he is consistently brash and definitely not here to make friends.”
DON: He comes off that way because he does not like the limelight or being interviewed. He would rather be alone. He’s not like me, I don’t like being alone
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KAM: I heard about a couple of baseball players rigging some games. Without knowing any of the details of the charges, I would think whatever influence a cheater could have on a baseball game is trivial
DON: Football referees have more influence on a game than the baseball guys. How many drives have been driven into the ground with groundless holding and pass interference calls?
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KAM: Off subject, but some of your policies are being hammered by a large portion of the population.
DON: As I often say, ‘Nobody likes change.’ I’m running the government like a business, and all busness proceeds on beliefs, on judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties
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