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USC Notes: Makai Lemon Update

Makai Lemon ran the 40-yard dash between 4.48-4.53 seconds today at USC’s Pro Day according to Dane Brugler.

The discrepancy is normal because NFL scouts always hand-time the 40 and then they will get together and choose a time in that range that is the most popular.

The time is considered solid and doesn’t hurt Lemon because he is not known as a speed guy.

  • Here’s a curious thing about Eric Musselman. He played Jerry Easter 26minutes against Nebraska, 20 minutes against Washington and 13 minutes against UCLA. Then he played Easter zero minutes vs. Washington yesterday. Why? Who knows?

21 thoughts on “USC Notes: Makai Lemon Update”

  1. In film clips being released by USC, Lincoln has 2 quarterbacks on the field for numerous plays. Handoffs between QB’s, QB releasing short pass to other QB. We might being doing some VERY different things in 2026…unfortunately “different” usually mean “slow developing” …which usually means “trouble.”

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    1. I saw the same film MG. I thought the QBs were just practicing the RPO. Riley was playing defensive edge and the quarterback needed to make a decision to handoff, run, or pass based on the edge rusher’s movement. Maiava did not executed this well last year. He often handed it off when the edge rusher had committed to stopping the running back. He needs to fake and run more often.

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  5. As I stated after the last game this week why didn’t he play Jerry Easter at all, and then benched Arenas towards the end of the game.

    Is Musselman really this stupid??? When a coach does this to a freshman it gives him no hope for next season because of a lack of confidence in his game., and as a result most of the time he transfers out to another school.

    Easter and Arenas are freshmen. They both should have started the last meaningless game instead of our graduating D-League transfers. Now that Musselman screwed up again I have serious doubt whether any elgible returning member of the team will actually return for next season which means another entirely new roster.

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  6. KAM: USC is the epitome of how quickly the college basketball landscape can change in just a matter of weeks. The Trojans were a bubble team as recently as a few games ago, but are now left off NCAA Tournament projections as their entire program appears to be in shambles.

    DON: With the Pac-12 reforming in the summer, USC might be best suited to try and fight its way back into its old conference to have its best chance of returning to the March Madness scene. The Trojans are just 35-32 in two years in the Big Ten, both under Musselman.

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    1. Extraordinarily disappointment of a season. Yes, injuries to Rice and Arenas were huge, but the end-of-season collapse is epic, and not epic in a good way.

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  9. you KNOW i love you like a blood brother wolfman, and i would never say “i told you so”…BUT think of it wolfman, you could be writing about Bruins scintillating win over Rutgers and how Scrappy Mick Cronin outcoached his opposing coacher once again, and how Donovan Dent got the first Triple Double in the history of the hallowed Big 10 Tournament!! beat writers DREAM of these storylines, wolfman!!! instead, you get stuck covering Lemon’s not particularly fast 40 times.

    It’s not too late wolfman!! Bruin men just getting warmed up, the #1 gals starting their run, baseball team is #1 and the softball team is smashing homers at a record pace!!

    #I’llLeaveTheLightOnForYou

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