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USC Morning Buzz: Some Pushback To A Ludicrous Line

Ir was good to see some push back to Lincoln Riley’s comment that he had to “fight like hell” to open USC’s championship window.

He made a similar comment after USC lost in the Alamo Bowl but it was overshadowed by the game. Since no one at USC questions him, he tried to line again in the offseason.

If you read anyone on social media or the fanboy media defending that comment, they are delusional. Curt Cignetti didn’t need five years to open Indiana’s window.

  • USC wide receiver Makai Lemon was asked this morning in Pittsburgh what he learned about his controversial NFL Combine press conference.

“Just how to carry myself more professionally,” Lemon said. “I definitely didn’t expect to look like that. I learned from it definitely and will be better moving forward.”

  • USC baseball defeated Cal State Fullerton, 9-2, last night following its disastrous trip to Nebraska.

33 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Some Pushback To A Ludicrous Line”

  1. Good on for Makai. IMO he will become a star in the NFL. Though it is interesting that USC athletics didn’t do more to prep him for interviews.

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    1. KAM: Did the leftist SPLC actually fund the freaking Charlottesville march???

      DON: Yes. Funded, planned, coordinated and executed. Cowardly Gabby is proud to fund the KKK.

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    2. Not nearly as much as we all laugh at you.

      But keep crying. It’s great!

      And go ahead lie about that being exactly what you’re doing, the way you always do.

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      2. SUBJECTIVE OPINIONS ARE NOT LIES. HOW COULD A KNOW-IT-ALL LIKE YOU NOT COMPREHEND THAT …….YOU’RE SUCH A DUMB—-AZZZ

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      3. Know it all? Or dumb asz?

        #PickOne

        [Better yet –redefine “know it all” to mean someone who doesn’t know it all–it’s called a ‘stipulated definition’]….

        #That’sTheSemanticTrackI’dTakeIfIWereYou

        #”AndIThankMyPersonalGod,I’mNot” [“name the movie” quiz]

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    3. KAM: The HORRORS that I L L E G A L A L I E N i m m i g r a n t children endured during Senile J o e B i d e n ’ s years as president. They can NEVER be forgiven, nor forgotten. During B i d e n ’ s four blundering years, 448,000 unaccompanied i l l e g al a l i e n children (UACs) entered America. Most traveled through Mexico and crossed the southern border, sent by their parents, ALONE, to be shepherded by drug cartel-affiliated coyotes.

      DON: Under the T r u m p administration, everything has changed, not only because the federal government closed our borders, but because sponsors who wish to pick up UACs now have to have various forms of identification and cannot have verifiable criminal records or deportation orders. In other words, until the T r u m p administration came into office, the federal and state governments, along with numerous supposedly charitable and religious groups, were orchestrating mass child trafficking.

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      1. The Left doesn’t care about children.

        But they sure pretend to, following a school shooting, cuz it helps in their efforts to take our guns. All fascist regimes take guns away from their citizens.

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  3. Scott, we can all agree that LR is not on the same coaching level as Cignetti, but what coach is. Cignetti is a once in a generation coach like a Nick Saban. And, yes, I would back up the Brink’s truck to get Cignetti to USC. But, let’s face reality, and like MG always says, let LR provie his words on the playing field against his top comeetition this year. And, thanks for noting the win by baseball over Cal State Fullerton. A sweep of Purdue would help this weekend. But, this team is doing far better than anyone expected because of the coaching. Glad to see that they gave multiple pitchers experience against CSF because our weakness is pitching depth especially relievers. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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    1. ambitious,

      How many more years will Riley get if he continues at a 7-5 or 8-4 season? he has had 4 years already. The only thing that saved Mckay was winning the national championship. They were gonna fire him in the next season or two with his record.

      If you don’t mind, can you share your thoughts on Mckay? Thank you.

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      1. Pasadena, I would think that the coming year would be a make or break year. We have to be optimistic for this year mainly because we finally have a creditable DC and potential head coach on the staff. When McKay took over in 1960, I was not optimistic at all….the UCLA win saved him because there was no long term buyout saving him like there is with LR. The LR contract is on Bohn and not Cohen. Except for Musselman instead of a coach like Bennett, her hires have been pretty good. Got to give LR credit for having an agent who was smarter than Bohn. I mentioned on this site before that I was on an accreditation visiting team with the head coach of St. Bonaventure HS in 2001, Uncle Pete’s first year that wasn’t going well. I asked him what he thought of Uncle Pete, and he said that he would be great for USC if they give him another year and the rest is history. JR lost his first game to Missouri in 1976. I was at that night game which was depressing, and I went home thinking that we got a lousy coach, but he proved me wrong when he went undefeated the rest of the year. If he would have won that game, JR would have had a national championship; he won one in 1978 and should have won in 1979 if the offense didn’t go to sleep in the second half against Stanford and wind up with a tie. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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  4. Yes, ambitious. To paraphrase Tolkien, “The doubters will be silenced, the broken sword will be remade.”

    #AllWeGottaDoIsBeatOregon….AndIt’sOn…

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      1. I’ll be [ultra] happy if we win our home games [Oregon, Washington and Ohio State]……and…. humiliate UCLA in the Rose Bowl….

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  5. DONNY’S TARIFFS ARE NOW THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY

    MILLIONS OF MAGATS REGRET VOTING FOR HIM…..OUCH!

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      2. The address you give out [lifted from the California bar site] says otherwise….

        #…LifeInNorthKoreaMustBeABi*ch

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      3. KAM: Weird how creepy stalker Cowardly Gabby doxxed MG’s address in Maui and yet now says MG doesn’t live there?

        Gabby

        November 14, 2025 at 8:47 pm

        Hokulani Golf Villas Community

        (I got my eyes on you)

        DON: She is a Democrat full mooner loon.

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      2. KAM: Sure you do,

        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: Why didn’t you show up when USC and Scott were in Las Vegas you lying fraud? BWWWWWWWWWWWWAAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  7. Ostroushko is playing the part of victim. He & his family are thinking about leaving the country. He’s shocked that they are getting the backlash they are, after he and his daughter were the aggressors!

    It really is hilarious, the alternate reality in which the Left resides. Even though we see our buddy display it every day on this board, it’s still hilarious when we see other whackjobs from her side do the same.

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