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USC Notes: Full Roster For Spring Practice

USC has 46 true freshmen and redshirt freshmen available for spring practice.

That’s quite a number and one would think you could have some excellent, physical practices. And, of course, a scrimmage.

Lincoln Riley has not divulge the actual practice plan for the spring but I guarantee he is going to have scrimmages/scrimmaging. He just won’t let the public or media see it.

  • Gilbert Arenas has deleted the controversial tweet where he questioned the dismissal of Chad Baker-Mazara.
  • USC is ranked No. 22 in the Baseball America Top 25 poll.
  • No one expected USC to upset UCLA in women’s basketball yesterday but there was a ridiculous stat from the game: The Trojans got outrebounded, 47-22. The Bruins had as many offensive rebounds as USC had total rebounds.

63 thoughts on “USC Notes: Full Roster For Spring Practice”

  1. KAM: Soon Riley Coyote will demand that the non-league games be played in empty stadiums with no cameras allowed so Ohio State and Indiana won’t be able to scout the Trojans and evaluate the talent.

    DON: Paranoia strikes deep, into Riley Coyote’s heart it will creep.

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    1. Coach Riley really doesn’t need to DEMAND that the coliseum be empty for the San Jose State game….

      #FileThatOneUnder”It’llTakeCareOfItself”Department

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    1. Ha![

      [InsideUSC really should think about reserving the Empathy Suite in Vegas for Ed…and the Missus…. for a week’s stay]…..

      #It’llOnlyComeToAround$100,000…..

      #[PutItOnCarol’sTab]

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    1. KAM: 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 and The Moderator and ambitious26ec8fb1b4 has so much to teach us.

      DON: She is an expert on the history of Mexico.

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    1. KAM: Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      DON: 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 and The Moderator and ambitious26ec8fb1b4 has spammed this site for 26 years. What a psycho.

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  5. full roster, millions spent in NIL and coaches salaries, heavy demand and media interest….but no spring game. it breaks my heart the way you Dummies are getting treated by Lil” Lord Riley!! it’s starting to sound like a Rod Serling script, all we hear is “it’s Good that you did that, Lincoln, REAL GOOD!!”

    Watch out, wolfman, you keep on embarrassing him in the press, Lil’ Lord Riley will wish you into the Cornfield!!!

    #WolfIsABadBadMan

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    1. I love you, Chucky …but….All I’ve ever heard at this site is: “It sucks that you did that, Lincoln…. it sucks real bad.”

      #WEPutLincolnInTheCornfieldDuringHisSecondSeason…

      #AndHe’sBeenThereEverSince…..

      [btw, Chucky is scarier than any old Twilight Zone kid could ever be]….

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  6. KAM: Indianapolis was supposed to be trojan star Makai Lemon’s chance to solidify his status as a top receiver in the 2026 NFL Draft. The Biletnikoff Award winner had already proven everything on the field during his final season at USC. He hauled in 79 catches for more than 1,100 yards and found the end zone 11 times. His production ranks him alongside Ohio State’s Carnell Tate in the race to be the first wideout selected. Then he sat down for media interviews at the Combine and became the story nobody expected.

    DON:  The evaluation was brutal. A scout questioned Lemon’s approach to the interview process and suggested whoever prepped him for those moments should lose their job. The exact phrase used was that Lemon completely failed the media portion. NFL analyst Dov Kleiman also noted that Lemon’s behavior during interviews left viewers confused about what they were watching.

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    1. I’ve watched Lemon in interviews for 2 years. Although he plays without fear [which is ALL that matters], he freezes in interviews. I wish someone had given him some advice about how to deal with his terror at speaking in public —all you need to do is take the pressure off by saying to yourself “I don’t want to be perfect —I just want to be pretty good.”

      #Smile,Relax —

      #AlwaysRemember:WordsDon’tMatter…

      #ActionDoes

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      1. Hope the the kid overcomes his stage fright. this reminds me of Bill Walton who had a terrible stutter, but got the help to overcome it to become a flamboyant color man. Wooden admired his overcoming the problem but sometimes wished he could now learn how to stop talking.

        #Mid-WestWit

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      2. Hope the the kid overcomes his stage fright. this reminds me of Bill Walton who had a terrible stutter, but got the help to overcome it to become a flamboyant color man. Wooden admired his overcoming the problem but sometimes wished he could now learn how to stop talking.

        #Mid-WestWit

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    2. I heard Lemon’s draft stock declined because of the interviews. Really? How does public speaking influence a receivers ability to separate and catch a pass. I think the real issue is that some people concluded that Lemon lacked basic intelligence which could legitimately affect his draft stock but if you watch his film he plays smart. Always where he needs to be.

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      1. Everybody knows that Lemon hates interviews. USC shoulda helped him with this –it’s a very ‘overcomable’ problem.

        But…Big Picture… Lemon is the best receiver on the block. Any NFL team that can’t see that doesn’t deserve him,

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    1. Hannah Arendt wrote “The Greeks felt that, by saying brave words at the moment of his death, a hero died at the ‘highest arc’ of his story”

      #GuessSheKindaCombinedTheTwo

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      1. KAM: In 1933, Arendt was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo for performing illegal research into antisemitism. On release, she fled Germany, settling in Paris. There she worked for Youth Aliyah, assisting young Jews to emigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine. When Germany invaded France she was detained as an alien by the French government. She escaped and made her way to the United States in 1941.

        DON: Imagine what it was like for her when the Nazi marched into Paris in 1940?

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      3. Tried to respond to you Gabby —but Scott is taking down any of my posts with the word “the” in it today…..

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      4. Great scene…even though things don’t look so great for Bogie’s love life at this point in the movie…

        #NoWorries…HeNailsHer10MinutesLater

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  8. KAM: Since we ae quoting writer Arendt she said that autocracy was a government in which nonconformity speech was considered as opposition to the government

    DON: She got that right

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    1. KAM: Who can forget your role model Senile Joe persecuting his political enemies, making up fake crimes and sending the FBI to go through Melania’s lingere drawer?

      DON: Sanctimonious hypocrite Cowardly Sparrow Gabby loved it.

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  9. With the Baker man having been baked away, perhaps this subtraction will result in addition for the SC basketball team

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    1. KAM: More bad news for Cowardly Sparrow Gabby: Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a stark warning Monday that the United States is about to dramatically escalate its military campaign against Iran, declaring that the next phase of strikes will bring a massive surge in power and intensity as the West moves to dismantle the Iranian regime’s military capabilities.

      DON: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby didn’t make a peep while the A y a t o l l a h m u r d e r e d 20,000 young dissidents in the last month. But now she is worried about every life.

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      1. 90% of Republicans support this War, while 90% of Democrats oppose it. The U.S. is creating another million “I would A-bomb America if I had the capability”

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      2. We’re not “creating” them –they’re out there whether we bomb or not, whether we give aid or not, whether we demonstrate in the streets or not…..

        #DamnedIfWeDo,DamnedIfWeDon’t

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      3. KAM: So funny that the A y a t o l l a h destroyed Cowardly Sparrow Gabby’s favorite President Jimmah Carter’s presidency when they took 52 Americans h o s t a ge and yet you are defending Iran all these 46 years later.

        DON: We need to show the repeats of the 444 episodes of “America Held Hostage”.

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      4. There are over a billion Muslims. The Quran teaches Muslims to destroy the infidels. We are the infidels. People who believe that Muslims will eventually assimilate into our culture and become our brothers and sisters are deluding themselves. Orthodox Muslims hate western cultural. They will never assimilate. Europe is now recognizing this fact. A few years back there was a gathering of about 30,000 in Dearborn, MIchigan, now largely Muslim, and a chant rang out “death to America.” We have a problem and had better wake up to it.

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  10. Nice to know that everyone is playing nice today and respecting each other. I didn’t realize that the NFL combine was an oratorical contest. Lemon was a great team player who didn’t have to show off after making a good play. He handed the ball to the ref and went about his business. Please explain to me why practices need to be open to the public. We can see if practices were good or bad by watching the team play in real games. Do we need physical practices, yes. Do we need disciplined play, yes. Do we need surprises in the play calling, yes. How does Scott watching a practice help the team? Let LR coach however he wants and judge him by what we see in real games. With 46 young players, the coaches will have their hands full developing them. I hope that they don’t spend any time on oratory. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962.

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    1. This will probably get censored too …but… I think Lincoln should spend WAY more time with booster groups and open all his practices to Big Ten scouts…. if he loses games because he’s not spending time wisely, I’m sure all the reporters & fans will understand and let him off the hook cuz he was so “open” and “transparent”…..

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    2. Why open practices? Because football is ultimately about entertainment. It is for the fan base not the coaches. I am interested in how these new recruits are doing. Did Wafle line up against Pepe and who won that match-up? How does Bowman look? Who are the standouts? Any guys that look like All Americans? I recall about 12 years ago SC landed 5 star Max Browne but everyone was raving about the kid on the scout team, Sam Darnold. I miss that in these dog days of college football.

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      1. KAM: Why have special team colors and fight songs and Alma Maters? Why have student tickets? Why have Homecoming games?

        DON: Riley Coyote is a mercenary and has done more damage to USC than any Bruin ever dreamt of doing to USC.

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  11. Bring up politics and Gabby 2 starts putting words into the mouths he deems as opposition. But ambitious has a point– SC has struggled in recent years, so why give opponents any fodder to hurt the team

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    1. Sane Gabby is trying his best to imitate Insane Gabby, who makes up sh*t about what people post all the time. (She has cut back on that recently; I must give her credit for that.)

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      2. It’ll never happen. She has consistently shown the ability to maintain sanity for only short periods, always reverting to who she really is.

        Posting lunacy is like a drug to her. She’ll eventually go into withdrawals, if she doesn’t get her fix.

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    2. KAM: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby tried to demonize posters here and it went over like a lead balloon.

      DON: Now she cowers and plays the victim card.

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      1. Man! Sybil calls us stupid racists and tells us he wants to kick our skulls in a few hundred times and you guys act like you’ll never forgive him…..

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    1. I would do anything [almost] to see our two men’s basketball coaches [in sexy short skirts] let loose with the cheerleaders on court at halftime….

      #TummyAcheComingOn

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      1. KAM: USC must one-up the Bruins by having Carol Folt and Bohn Head return to dance a routine with the USC Song Girls for the last men’s basketball game this season March 7th.

        DON: It will be a night to remember!

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    2. Chuckster,

      I read what you had written about Walton. What you wrote is true. However, he was no dummy, after going to the ucla JC route, he went to Stanford Law school.

      I met Walton a few times and he is one of the nicest guys ever. I miss him on the Pac 12, ESPN, and Fox TV. May he be in heaven looking down upon us.

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      1. Bill Walton was the greatest college player of all time. And the best player in the NBA in the seventies when he was healthy, from 1975 to 1977. But I couldn’t stand him as an announcer. Had a speech impediment, talked too much, hyper-critical and his opinions often made no sense. I would turn the sound off when he announced the games.

        I am also not overly impressed with the fact that he attended Stanford Law school. He never graduated or practiced law and I suspect that he was admitted based on his basketball achievements as opposed to grades and LSAT scores.

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    3. Chuckster,

      I was at the ugly vs SC women’s game on Sunday. Just like those cheerleaders for ugly, there sure wer a lot of dykes and lesbos at the game. I saw Ann Myer walk by and I still don’t understand how she is not the president of the dyke club.

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      2. I met Ann Meyer. She was with her husband Don Drysdale at a restaurant in Pasadena. Nice smile. A delightful women. Tomboy not a dyke.

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      3. My wife and I were at a Japanese restaurant in the Palm Springs area shortly after the tragic death of Don Drysdale. Ann Meyers Drysdale was hosting a birthday dinner party for her son at the same chef station and she was very gracious. She also attended El Dorado HS in Placentia with her brother Dave when my two oldest children were in a gymnastics program that used the high school gym. She was an outstanding athlete and super nice person. Please don’t speak negatively about people who you don’t know regardless of lifestyle. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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      4. i’ve never heard anyone say a disrespectful thing about TwinD’s widow. partly from fear his ghost would knock them on their ass. she is up there with Walton and Wooden on the pantheon of UCLA greats and that’s some Pantheon.

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    1. PasadenaTrojan, thanks for the clarification. My youngest daughter graduated from UCLA so I respect the educational institution; however, when it comes to sports, she supports our Trojans when they play the Bruins in any sport or she may have problems with our will. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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