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USC Sunday Buzz: If You Push Aside Tradition, Then You Need To Win

The Salute to Troy kickoff dinner was Friday night at USC.

And for the fifth straight year, Lincoln Riley did not emcee the event. Since at least the mid-1990’s, the USC coach has been the emcee of the dinner. John Robinson used to enjoy it and every coach after him also did it (including Pete Carroll and infamously, Steve Sarkisian).

But the point is they did it. Clay Helton did it, even when the crowd probably didn’t want to hear him. Riley? Well, he’s too important to do it. At least one year, he had his director of operations, Clark Stroud, do it, which didn’t go over well.

The crowd seemed down this year. Why? Maybe the heat? But maybe also because USC fans want more, even with the excitement from the recruiting class and the constant glazing of the team by the fanboy media. It’s going to take some actual winning to get bigger crowds.

65 thoughts on “USC Sunday Buzz: If You Push Aside Tradition, Then You Need To Win”

    1. KAM: Cowardly Gabby, a phrase like “subjective opinions” is called a pleonasm or a tautology.

      Here is what you need to know about these terms:

      Key Terms

      • Pleonasm: Using more words than necessary to express an idea (e.g., “burning fire”).
      • Tautology: Saying the same thing twice in different words (e.g., “free gift”).
      • Redundancy: The general term for words that add no new meaning to a sentence.

      DON: Why “Subjective Opinions” Fits

      An opinion is, by definition, based on personal views rather than facts. Therefore, adding the word “subjective” repeats an inherent quality that the word “opinion” already possesses.

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      4. Nothing screams ‘I have no argument’ quite like desperately proofreading someone else’s comment.

        “poor thing”

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      5. Thank you, Professor Grammarly. Your heroic discovery has completely distracted everyone from the fact that you still have absolutely nothing intelligent to say about the actual topic.

        FIGHT ON!

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      6. KAM: Nothing screams unteachable stupidity like Cowardly Gabby posting under two different names after she is rebuked for her poor grammar.

        DON: BWAAAAAAAAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

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      7. When you can’t rebut the message, just critique the grammar. It’s the intellectual equivalent of changing the subject.

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      8. Ehy that reminds me of what Stalin said to Trotsky after listening top a long harangue at a Central Committee hearing in late 1922.

        “Everyone has the right to be boring buy you abuse the privilege.”

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  2. i don’t know, wolfman, Lil’ Lord Riles is 6-13 vs Top 25 teams, 0-5 vs Top 10 teams, no playoffs, and you are still so self-important you keep blowing off the boosters and students?? not to mention freezing out the illustrious Scott Wolf??? he must really think he flim-flammed the bigget rubes ever to set foot in the Pac12/Big10!!! total disrespect!! SC built him an entire football center, some claim they leveraged his purchase of huge waterfront mansion, and given him an enormous staff!!! and he can’t be bothered to do anything but lose big games!!

    wolfman, you ran Kiff outta town, why not Riles??? oh, i forgot, Kiff made it personal!!

    #BigMistake

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      1. sugar sweet!! dude was def player of year in SUN Belt League at JMU!! Chesney is probably stoked to get this gumball right before start of season!!

        #GreatNews

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  3. 9/26 Oregon
    10/3 Washington
    10/10 @Penn State
    10/24 @Wisconsin
    10/31 Ohio State
    11/14 @Indiana

    This is what makes or breaks Riley this year, that 6 game stretch. Go 2-4, he probably won’t have to worry about not attending another Salute To Troy

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      2. You’re right.

        3-3 is not good either. He needs to go 4-2 against Oregon, Washington, Penn State, Wisconsin, Ohio State and Indiana….

        #EasyPeasy

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      3. KAM: What are the odds our quarterback Jayden Maiava is still standing tall behind our makeshift OL after that punishing gauntlet?

        DON: 50-50. He is elusive.

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      5. If we go 3-3, the brubabes will BE our playoff…..

        #TheCaliforniaChampionshipWillBeOurs!

        #[ProvidedWeBeatSanJoseAndFresno]

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      1. KAM: Until the last 5 years USC was all about tradition. 100 years of the greatest intersectional rivalry in all of sports.

        DON: Now our rich tradition is gone.

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      3. …and they’ll stand up to the Illinois courts that try to vindicate Notre Dame’s rights….

        #InitiatingACivilWar…

        #…WhichCaliforniaWillWin….

        #…AndUSCWillTakeOverNotreDame

        #…AndItsFootballProgram

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    2. KAM: And we begin at least 4 years without playing our arch rival Notre Dame.

      DON: And the rah rahs support Riley Coyote destroying all tradition.

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      1. I like tradition as much as Scott [almost as much anyway]. But nobody could stop Carol from submarining the Pac 12 and all the glorious tradition that went with it….

        #….AWomanOnAMission….

        #…..To”Rightousness”

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      2. KAM: Carol Folt, The Pride of UCSB… the school that dropped football.

        DON: She accrued $30 million while destroying two storied campuses in North Carolina and USC with her woke agenda.

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      3. Thank you Board of Regents!

        [I liked it when USC’s Interim President Wanda Austin said “Clay Helton is our coach cuz he doesn’t do drugs and he leaves the cheerleaders alone”].

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  5. ‘If’ Riley wins no one cares if he did/didn’t attend the ‘Salute To Troy’. Good to see others noting the outcome ‘apres’ the event itself that Sarkisian earned showing up liquored up early afternoon on the practice field.

    Howard Jones was a no nonsense grim individual who was also the equal of any opponent of his era….he won and let others ’emote’.

    This is going to be a great year for USC – sweetest outcome were to face ‘the princess’ and show how truly overrated C.J. Carr is….it’s going to be a great year,

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    1. That’s exactly …and I mean EXACTLY … what my first supervising attorney told me: “If you win all your jury trials no one is gonna give a crap if you skipped the deputy meetings.”

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      2. Mike in a weird equivalency it’s akin to a gifted professor prudently ‘passing’ on being nominated/approved as ‘chairperson’ of a department.. who needs to go to all those ‘dinners’ and ‘dept. fund raisers’..sorryvobe more – or like a Nurse Practioner having all the power of an M.D. ‘but’ none of the legal time consuming headaches of the title.

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      3. Correct, Alv!

        If Lincoln beats Oregon and Ohio State he can tell the president of the university & A.D. Jen to shinny up trees…..

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      4. KAM: Riley Coyote only does softball interviews with Sunshine Pumpers.

        DON: Those don’t count. Has he ever been interviewed by Scott? Or anyone else who is critical and objective ? Nope.

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      6. In the immortal words of Al Davis, “Just win, baby”. Talk is cheap, winning is priceless. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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      2. I’M COUNTING ON YOU NOT TO SAY STUFF LIKE THAT, GEORGE [NO “PERMISSION TO SPEAK FREELY” UNLESS WE BLOW THE OREGON GAME]….

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      3. So Cal —If we beat almost all the big name teams on our schedule, 9-3 might get us into the playoffs…. this is gonna be a weird year in the ultra-competitive Big Ten…..

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  6. MICHAEL. I WISH I HAD YOUR OPTIMISM BUT WE COULD EVEN GO 7–5 DESPITE FOUR EASY OPENERS. I DONT HAVE CONFIDENCE IN LINCOLN ANYMORE. HE HAS TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP AND GET THE HELL OUT. BRING BACK A CARROLL OR ROBINSON ORJOHN MCKAY

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    1. I HEAR YOU, GOOD BUDDY.

      IF HE LOSES TO ORGEON [AGAIN] I WLL JOIN YOUR BANDWAGON…

      …AND IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF POPEYE….

      …HE WILL BECOME MY “EMEMY”.

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  7. WELL GEORGE TIREBITER, COACHES LIKE MCKAY AND CARROT DON’T GROW ON TREES. WILEY MIGHT BE THE BEST SC CAN DO. BESIDES, HE’S STILL OWED 10s OF MILLIONS.

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    1. KAM: Rah rahs want USC fans to accept USC not being a major college football power.

      DON: All they care about is the 9 layer bean dip at the tailgate parties,.

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  9. ONE DAY IN FALL PRACTICE JUST AFTER WINNING A NATL CHAMPIONSHIP A SPORTSWRITER ASKED NOTRE DAME COACH FRANK LEAHY HOW THE TEAM LOOKED. FRANK SIGHED AND SAID WELL I DOUBT IF WE CAN MAKE A FIRST DOWN ALL SEASON. IS THAT WHAT RILEY IS THINKING NOW ??

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    1. I know. I know. It’s almost like everybody’s first girlfriend: you never know what is gonna rub the wrong way.

      #NoTopicalJokes,Please

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      1. Hmm that reminds me of hearing a very respected matron ‘chastising’ her ‘ward’ of a grandson who was intent on making a mess of attempting to eat a ‘on the bone’ chicken by firmly stating said ‘pest’

        “….you must not soil yourself!’

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  13. Scott, on Facebook there is a photo of LR at the podium giving the V sign at Salute to Troy. Was he there or not. Or are you saying that he was there but not the emcee. We need honest reporting from you. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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    1. ambitious, dost not your post prompt yet another query……

      Scott just who is/was the source for what appears to be a false rendering of said event by ‘you’….was it you….better yet…were you actually there?

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