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USC Morning Buzz: Footbsll Makes Hire; A National Honor For Baseball

USC generated a lot of publicity Wednesday for hiring a Director of AI.

I’m just not sure why. The “first-of-its-kind position” in the sport will build AI models to identify competitive advantages in everything from game planning to scouting.

There are other programs doing this too but they just don’t call the person doing it “Director of AI.”

As someone told me yesterday, “if it’s such an important position, why did they hire from within? Why didn’t they go outside and hire someone?”

Naturally, Chad “Charmin” Bowden made the hire, not Lincoln Riley.

  • USC pitcher Mason Edwards was named college baseball Pitcher of the Year by Baseball America. Edwards led the country with 169 strikeouts in 95.2 innings.
  • Game 3 between USC and North Carolina on Sunday was the most watched Super Regional game on record, according to numbers released by ESPN. Approximately 1.3 million viewers tuned in to the contest and the game peaked at 1.7 million viewers.

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      2. I’d say the above reply is as close to a judicially recognized “Party Admission” as we’re likely to ever get….

        #ImagineADefendantReactingThisWayOnWitnessStand…

        #ForemanReading5MinuteVerdict:”Guilty,YourHonor.”

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      3. KAM: Charlie Bucket hates it when she gets outed.

        DON: Hence the thousands of aliases and impersonations and writing all is caps to try to make her opinion more valid than the rantings of a lunatic.

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      4. Here is the confusing thing …for me at least. Charlie is witty and knows how to effectively respond to a verbal attack. Sybil can’t do that. Why would Charlie EVER want to be Sybil?

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      6. KAM: Multiple personalities are apparently not a “want to”…

        DON: It’s a malady, best treated for Cowardly Gabby at Atascadero State Mental Hospital.

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    2. KAM: C on s e r v a t i v e s loathed O b a m a like Cowardly Gabby D e m o c r a t s loath T r u m p. Except they loathed O b a m a because he loathed America.

      DON: D e m o c r a t s loathe me because they loathe America.

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      1. These words should be required reading for all USC students enrolled in Formal Logic…..

        #AndAllUSCStudentsEnrolledInPoliticalScience…

        #…AndAllUSCStudentsEnrolledInAmericanHistory…..

        #….Let’sJustSayAllUSCStudents. Period.

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  3. At some point in the near future, AI will take over the USC directorship of AI. Then, AI will create a virtual Lincoln Riley to replace the old Lincoln Riley and everyone will wonder how he became more effective, though a bit more robotic.

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    1. KAM: Too bad he wasn’t there when we needed him.

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      Mason Edwards did not pitch in the final playoff game because he was reportedly not available for that game, as stated by USC’s coach Andy Stankiewicz. There are speculations that this decision may have been influenced by concerns over protecting Edwards’ draft status.

      DON: College World Series ring > Pitcher of the Year Award.

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  8. Good to know that actual human beings need to be hired to direct AI. Just because AI can help with game planning, the game is still won or lost on the field. Just like the statistical analysis in baseball can tell a player what pitch to throw and where to play the defense against each batter, etc., the human being still needs to make the play unless we get to the time when robots play the game and take all of the suspense out of playing the game.

    Congratulations to Mason Edwards, but I would still like to know why he didn’t pitch the last inning of the third game. Johnson came back and pitched on just a day or two of rest, and he pitched more innings in the super regional and the regional. Do NIL contracts include pitching limits? Mason Edwards, if he had pitched and USC won the game, would have been the Yamamoto of USC baseball. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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