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USC Saturday Buzz: An Inspiring Moment

Pete Carroll spoke at the USC Business School graduation ceremony Friday at the Coliseum.

He said “always compete” multiple times during the speech.

  • More inspring, is this below. I can still remember the first time I heard the USC alma mater with a vocalist at a Homecoming game. It was magical.

And this version is just as memorable from Thursday’s graduation with USC president Beong-Soo Kim on cello and Gustavo Dudamel of the L.A. Philharmonic conducting.

42 thoughts on “USC Saturday Buzz: An Inspiring Moment”

  1. wolfman, i know you, like Bucket, come from a hard-scrabble upbringing not the fanciful world of the Silver Spooner cotilion graduates that populate your blog, but still i found the ceremony, oh, whats the phrase i’m looking for???

    #SissyBabies

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  2. Criticize away, but the phrase “Where Western sky meets Western Sea, Our colllege stands in majesty” is not merely sentimental words

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    1. KAM: The virus is *non-falsifiable*. If you defend a norm, it’s because you’re the oppressor. If you deny being an oppressor, that’s proof of your unconscious privilege. If you cite facts, your facts are contaminated by the power that produced them. If you cite reason, reason itself is white, male, Western. There is no possible exit. The system is designed to make any objection inadmissible by definition. That’s exactly the structure of a cult.

      DON: And that’s exactly what has taken hold in universities like USC under Carol Folt, HR departments, media, administrations, and corporate boards for the past twenty years.

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  3. –And Carrot’s constant saying of “Always compete” is good for athletes to follow, I suppose, but some folks are tired of competing

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  4. KAM: Hard to believe it was 25 years ago that Pete Carroll came out of obscurity and transformed the sleeping giant of USC football into a program that dominated college football for almost a decade.

    DON: Riley Coyote pales in comparison.

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  5. Gabs, trust me, this is the year…..again noting the huge error in bringing Grinch west as well as initial years ‘nesting’ – this is the year. Some have USC at 10 wins, Others at 8.5 etc..

    There is an explosion about to erupt which won’t be acknowledged until 26th Sept. (OR). That will be the ignition point as the preceding 4 games are gimmes. But the best thing about the game 19th Sept…..even accounting for its’ location some near 25 miles west as well as Green Bay @NYJ on Sunday 20th Sept. it’s still Metro New York and the results will be splashed all over the sports pages on Sunday morning.

    I like the impending meld of pieces about to erupt – fight on!

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  7. KAM: I only watched the SC-Oregon game where the Trojans trailed the Ducks 4-0 in the 6th inning but 2 SC homers got them even 5-5. I turned the channel after the 9th inning

    DON: I couldn’t bear to watch the Oregon ending either

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    1. KAM: At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, the Undocumented Trojan Success Assembly (UTSA) is organizing an “Undocu+ Grad Celebration” this spring for illegal alien students who have been admitted to USC over qualified American kids..

      DON: A social media post invites students to register, though additional details, including the event’s time and location, have not been publicly released. They don’t want ICE to show up and deport them.

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      1. USC is advertising it as “Super Duper Secret Admission of Illegals Scandal — Surpassing Super Duper Walk On Admission Scandal!”

        #ComeForTheCriminalConduct,StayForTheCookies&Coffee

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  8. KAM: -Have to admit that the last sung words at SC’s Commencement celebration of “Sing our love to Alma Mater, Hail, all hail to thee!” got to me

    DON: Loving your college is ‘spiritual. Except when the football team loses

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    1. KAM: But that harkens back to the good old days when USC was all about tradition.

      DON: Now we are told by Riley Coyote that this is a Brave New World of USC sports. We are told to get over all that emotional blather, that 100 year old rivalries and geographical leagues are meaningless and our players are roving mercenaries instead of student athletes. All that matters now is TV revenue. How many on our football and basketball team hang around long enough to learn the alma mater?

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      1. Answer: Oh, they all know the words —but sometimes they sing them at Oregon or Georgia after leaving us…

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      2. All of college football has been diametrically upended due to severe conference re-alignment.

        then there’s ‘the princess’ this past Wednesday morning on KLAC 570 am…according to Petros Papadakis the sudden interest by both parties to renegotiate the game btwn. USC and ‘the princess’ shows the power and the unique control they having their own televised network and being the last ‘independent (save CT).

        it is amazing the logic of this clown…he won’t admit no one wants to play ‘the princess’ esp late in the year that means they have to reshuffle the 5 pre-selected patsies from the ACC to draw eyes to their antique road show garage sale as November comes to a close.

        Someone ought to ask Brady Quinn or co-host Levar Arrington why they don’t mock and disparage their alma mater (the princess and PA St.) the way Papadakis does continuously or better yet what their own alumni would think of either of them if they did.

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      3. I ordinarily love Petros [and everything untoward he stands for] but I gotta agree with you 100% on this one, Alv!

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  9. KAM: -Glad you are safe from your China trip. Apparently you were quite the hit over there, they even played “YMCA” for you. And the Chinese were impressed by how you individually introduced everyone who accompanied you

    DON: -Just being ‘inclusive,’ if you know what I mean

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    1. The “China Trip” was an empty show. And that reciprocal meeting in September? It’ll never happen.

      #”IThinkWe’reDoneHere”

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  10. KAM: -So how do we describe the typical 2026 college football player?

    DON: – “How much you willing to pay me?”

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    2. John –Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the nationwide answer to that question became “It depends on how you play for us in your first year…. year two can be as big or small as you make it.”

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  11. KAM: It’s Sunday, time for some silly ‘love talk. I got a favorite quote about love– “Many a man merely in love with a woman’s body makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl”

    DON: I like this one: “Love is a spendthrift, leaves its arithmetic at home, is always ‘in the red’ “

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  13. Really enjoyed the video clip. Beong Soo Kim playing the cello was a treat. He looks so young for a university President. He is actually 53 years old. I had to look it up. Could pass for someone in his late thirties. He also has a really impressive resume. Law degree with honors from Harvard, masters from the London school of economics, clerk to a Federal appellate court judge, chief prosecutor of the fraud unit in the U.S. attorney’s office and vice president of Kaiser Permanente before coming to USC as general counsel.

    He has to be better than Folt who never left the comfy confines of the university and depended on DEI policies to be hired as President.

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    2. The fact she moved her ‘residence’ from the Seeley Mudd Estate in San Marino to (get this) according to KTLA 5 “….she chose to live in a modern, eco‑friendly home in Santa Monica…” was the first depth charge that she was a typical libtard and the rest of her reign confirmed it.

      I hope Beong Soo Kim is seriously considered as well as is seriously vetted – he’d be a move back to Dr. Sample who individually elevated USC nationally/internationally. BTW not all female hires are bad (Plow I’m not saying you inferred such) I sense Jen Cohen is a real ‘find’ and seeing Petie ‘the green elf’ Bevacqua, back discussing playing USC confirms such.

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  14. Can you imagine going to a Rousey fight last night, and the whole thing is over after 17-seconds?– “I want my money back!”

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    1. Her opponent was obviously told “you’ll lose but we’ll let you land a few left hands before its over” cuz, afterwards, she said “I wish I was given a chance to fight a little bit”….

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    2. The general rule is that retired fighters should stay retired. I believe that someone said Gina hadn’t fought an MMA bout in 17 years. If that is true, the fight should never had been sanctioned.

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      1. It was sanctioned to give Rousey another round of tv appearances, a couple of new endorsement contracts …and the deserved opportunity to go out a “winner.” Gina was under the misapprehension she wouldn’t get choked out until she landed a few inconsequential punches.

        Anybody who paid money to see this deserved what they got, Plow….

        #…WhichWas:Nothing

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