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USC Notes: The Anti-Riley

Tell me anything Kirby Smart says in the following quote sounds like something Lincoln Riley would say:

“Everybody’s announcing what they’re doing. I’m announcing that I’m going in the portal. I’m announcing that I’m re-signing. How about you announce that you’re getting better and you’re going to practice?”

Smart sounds like the anti-Riley to me especially as USC announces every player who re-signs.

  • USC defensive end Anthony Lucas has accepted an invitation to play in the East-West Shrine Bowl.
  • Here is what Petros Papadakis said about USC ending the series with Notre Dame.

30 thoughts on “USC Notes: The Anti-Riley”

  1. what does Petros know about championship type football at USC. He would have never been recruited in the McCay era, or the Carroll era. Wasn’t the Hackett era one that USC fans don’t like to talk about.

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  2. what does Petros know about championship type football at USC. He would have never been recruited in the McCay era, or the Carroll era. Wasn’t the Hackett era one that USC fans don’t like to talk about.

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  3. For me this is the final straw as a USC football supporter. In our proud football history there has never been a coach or athletic director that even mentioned cancelling the Notre Dame series. Keyshawn Johnson hit the nail on the head yesterday when he stated that the people running the athletic department/football program are not real Trojans and they probably won’t even be here by the time that 2030 rolls around. The only way things are going to change is that the big name donors get together and tell the administration how things are going to be or no more money. USC is paying Riley over $10 million per year to not win 10 games, not to make the make the CFP, and go to a half-ass bowl game. This is beyond ridiculous.

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    1. KAM: USC used to win Pac 8 and Pac12 league titles, national titles AND throttle the Irish. We feared no one.

      DON: Under Riley Coyote USC has shriveled up and become just another college football program like Rutgers or San Diego State with no tradition and no championships. We fear other teams now….

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  4. Those same booters who sold out to Cohen and Riley also gets paid more if USC makes to College playoffs. Lets not kid ourselves on what’s driving these decisions, a win over Notre Dame is worth maybe $20 million at best while a win in the College Playoffs is worth $85 million in revenue, sales and investment opportunity. With USC looking to make even more money while at SoFi Stadium, money is driving every decision at USC football.

    Even the buyout amount for Riley in case Nick Saban changes his mind and decides to get back into coaching.

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    1. KAM: According to Bill Plaschke, UCLA should stop playing SC every year then.  SC loses to ND at the same rate (51–37–5 )  that UCLA loses to SC (51-34-7). UCLA increases their odds of making the playoffs if they dothisn’t play SC every year.

      DON: I know what Padres manager Dick Williams would think about ducking hard opponentshttps://webmail.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/chicken.wavlol…

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  5. Scooter,

    This is what I wrote to the General manager, the AD, and to riley:

    I have been a fan for sixty (60) years for SC football and sports.  I know of players that have have bled, have been injured, and were victorious while playing for USC.  I thought I would never see the day that SC would not play ND.

    None of you deserve to be the General Manager, head of the Athletic Department, or head coach of one of the greatest institutions of college football.  None of you have the capacity to even understand what it means to be a Trojan for SC or know the history or respect for this riverly.  You coward to losing.  You coward to not playing a tough schedule, you coward to the motto, “Anyone, anytime, and anywhere”.  You do not deserve to be working there.  You need to resign, all of you. 

    You have no clue what this game means to people or the nation.

    This is a God’s honest story, a Japanese student was going to SC and he went to see the 1940 SC vs nd game at the Colisuem.  He goes back to Japan to visit his family.  The war starts up and he wants to come back to the US but he is drafted by the Japanese army.  A couple years later he is a captain in the Japanese army and he is on the Battan death march. He is observing US military soldiers marching and he see’s a Japanese solider beating and using his rifle butt on a US soldier.  The Japanese captain goes up to the both of them and he tells the Japanese soldier to leave.  Then in English he asks the US soldier why he was being beaten.  The US soldier said because of this and he showed him his Notre Dame ring.  The captain recognized what it was and what it meant.  The captain told the US soldier that he attended USC and that he had been to see nd play against SC at the Coluseim.  The captain told him that he had much respect for nd because of the game and to hide the ring.

    Southern California, alumni, fans, and eve people that hate USC are not happy with what you have decided.  This school is way too big for your thoughts and with that, RESIGN today.

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  6. This idea that USC is supposed to do everything they can to win a national championship in spite of honor’s sake is laughable in today’s society. They made a choice. A bad choice but nevertheless, a choice. If they win a national championship then this devil’s pact is cussable and successful. I hated Georgia Frontiere for taking the Rams to St. Louis but it led to a Super Bowl win. The rest became history.

    The short term gain may be needed but the damage long term is on both schools and on all the decision makers who have sold themselves to the ESPN and FOX of the world. Let them eat cake, indeed.

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      3. Lord, Michael, that fraud Folt can’t even drown a watercress sandwich properly into her latte. She did drown many a male identity when she prostituted her male employees. That’s why Riley is acting like a female dog.

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