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USC Morning Buzz: Even The “Easy Road Trip” Gets Under Skin

After USC escaped with a victory at Nebraska, you would think Lincoln Riley would be thrilled.

But he still found time to complain about the Big Ten schedule.

“Now thankfully, the Big Ten took care of us schedule-wise and we’ll get home at 3 o’clock and turn this thing over to play on Friday, and it is what it is,” Riley said.

Here is the interesting thing: USC played at 4:30 p.m. PT. The game was at Nebraska, which is the shortest Big Ten road trip for the L.A. schools that isn’t on the West Coast. So it should be viewed as a desireable trip. Especially after the starting QB gets knocked out of the game.

But Riley still found a way to complain about it.

  • Riley did find one thing he liked:

“We certainly played more gap sound, but we were also more aggressive. We triggered more. We were more downhill. The air in the run game for the most part was limited.”

Never mind that Nebraska tailback Emmett Johnson rushed for 165 yards.

21 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Even The “Easy Road Trip” Gets Under Skin”

    1. KAM: You mean the SC team overcame his massive ego.

      DON: It’s all in the assistant coaches. Pete hired Ed Orgeron and Naamie Chow and dominated college football like no other for that 2001-2004 dynasty.

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  2. Only complaint Riley should have is that Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State have Zero Friday games. Mike Bohn a) Cut the Big 10 deal b) Hired Riley for $110 Million and c) Supposedly had an unenforceable “gentlemen’s agreement” that the Big 10 would not add Oregon. How’s all that work out so far?

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    1. Well, Wiley is still the coach, SC is in the Big-10 forever and so is Oregon. As the cliche goes, “It is what it is”

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  3. DON: For those Trojans thinking that they got it made in 2026 with the incoming class, that class will be subjected to a rugged schedule

    KAM: At Indiana, and Ohio St, Oregon and Washington at home

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  4. DON: There were more Dodger fans at this year’s parade than there were last year. Of course, this year’s World Series win was more exciting and more improbable

    KAM: It was nice to see so many thousands of different L.A. nationalities mixing and partying together

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    1. Comey’s “I over-relied on my sources” defense [which he employed in congressional hearings] is out the window now. He’s had it….

      #HeShouldCutAPleaDeal

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    2. Comey won’t be convicted. Jury nullification. Mark Elias was acquitted of lying to the FBI when he said that he was not representing Hillary Clinton even though the lie was in a text message and the FBI produced a legal bill showing he charged Clinton for the FBI visit and was paid.

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    4. I’m still holding out hope, guys —there has been [unsubstantiated] chatter online about Comey bragging to his inner circle that he was prosecution-proof because he could always claim that he was taken advantage of by what turned out later to be unreliable sources — if ONE member of that inner circle testifies to those conversations it constitutes a smoking gun…

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    6. MG: Just read the actual notes. Who takes notes of a plan to commit fraud? Why hasn’t Brennan been indicted? He repeatedly lied to Congress and prepared a second ICA report that concluded that Trump may have colluded with the Russians and a further investigation was warranted when he knew this was all a phony Hillary plot. Why is there no conspiracy allegation with Obama as a Defendant. Do you think they will flip someone who was in the 9/26 meeting such as Susan Rice.

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    7. KAM: Mainstream Moderate California Democrat Assemblywoman Caught Leading Large Group of Non-English Speaking Immigrants to Vote Yes on Prop 50.

      DON: Democrats love to cheat.

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    1. No different than all of the retards now saying, “I’ve never watch South Park before. But I am now!”

      If you cry about the same things we do, we will love you. – The Lib motto!

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  6. Our D this season, let’s face it, is mediocre. The talent is there, but the coaching isn’t. So how does that play out this season? We probably lose at Oregon. Sadly, despite our talent, that’s a given. With how we always play better in the Coliseum with our jumping towel wavers and the annoying DJ, we may win both the Northwestern Friday game and the Iowa game, but Iowa tilt may be more of a challenge, and possibly a loss. The ucla game will be their season’s redemption, and I am still not sure LR and Lynn get that. So saying all that to say this, we could end up with another 3 losses this season, making us 7-5 at season’s end, but we should be able to win all 4 of our remaining games, even the game at Oregon. Shamefully, an 8-4 season is looking probable, and this is not what Trojan football is all about. 7-5 would be an abject failure. And 6-6, while admittedly improbable, is not off the table either with LR at the helm. Yes, he’s that bad.

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