One of the perks when you work in the athletic dept. is you get a couple free tickets to football games. But two athletic dept. employees tell me a new policy is in effect that makes the employees pay the “Coliseum Restoration Gift” of $500 per seat. So the free tickets would actually cost $1,000. As Lynn Swann says, “the change will come.” Continue reading USC Morning Buzz: Coliseum Seat Fees Continue To Rankle

I realize USC donors tend to be mature but couldn’t the university put some people in these pictures who don’t look like the typical USC donor? Counting down the days ‘til the first snap in the new Coliseum ✌️#FightOn pic.twitter.com/fBs3s04wWD — USC Football (@USC_FB) May 6, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Continue reading USC Tweet Of The Night

Well, that was fast. Matt Fink will transfer to Illinois, per sources. I hope Fink did his homework and knows he is definitely better than the current Illinois quarterbacks and that Penn State’s Tommy Stevens will transfer elsewhere. Because when you leave, you need to go somewhere that you can play . . . guaranteed. Continue reading Matt Fink To Illinois

Athlon ranks every college football job in the country and USC ranks No. 6. Excerpt: “How’s this for a selling point: The USC coaching staff has the ability to stock its roster with elite talent without ever having to jump on a plane. No job is perfect — USC’s administration has been a mess of late — but this is an ideal position for someone … Continue reading Is USC The Sixth-Best Job In Country?

USC keeps brining in recruits to visit the campus this month. I spoke to a coach and asked him what the buzz is when talking to most of these prospects at the McKay Center. “One thing we hear from kids is, `We don’t want to go to ‘SC because we don’t know who the coach will be,” the coach said. You can make a long … Continue reading USC Morning Buzz: Here Is What Recruits Tell Coaches