It was 68 years ago today that the New York Yankees played USC before a standing-room only crowd of around 3,000 at Bovard Field. The game is remembered because Mickey Mantle supposedly hit a 650-foot home run that landed in the middle of the football practice — during a spring practice — that was beyond the baseball outfield. There was never any verification of the … Continue reading On This Day In USC History
So yesterday I made the observation that Texas has a real athletic director (Chris Del Conte) and USC has a former football player who doesn’t know what he is doing (Lynn Swann). And I included an article from CBS Sports that has a quote from one of Del Conte’s associate athletic directors: “Listen to your fan base.. I feel like the Texas fan has felt … Continue reading Is USC Capable Of Listening To Its Fan Base?
I spoke to an NFL scout who attended North Texas practices last season to see what he thought of new USC offensive coordinator Graham Harrell‘s offense. With USC having completed just six practices I wanted to talk to someone who went to regular-season North Texas practices to see what they thought about it. “The quarterback makes a decision every play based on the defense,” the … Continue reading A Word On USC’s New Offense
It’s refreshing to finally see a big donor say the people at the top need to go at USC. Lloyd Greif, who has donated more than $5 million to USC to start the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC’s Marshall School of Business, believes changes must be made to prevent the latest scandal from negating all the gains made the past 25 years. … Continue reading USC Morning Buzz: Prominent Donor Wants Changes “At The Top”
I’ve written previously USC’s attendance average last season (55,449) was its lowest since 1987. Well, it turns out the Pac-12 attendance was its lowest since 1982 (46,588), according to Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports. USC and UCLA played a big role in that especially when the Crosstown Rivalry drew only 57,116, the smallest crowd for the game since 1950. But Dodd also points to how … Continue reading Attendance Issues Plague USC And Pac-12
Since USC seems to be the poster child for greed these days, the timing is good for L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn to write a column against changing the name of the Coliseum to “United Airlines Memorial Coliseum.” There is some news here: Hahn, who is president of the Coliseum Commission, said she has been working for months to get USC to consider a compromise … Continue reading Coliseum Commission President Wants Stadium To Retain Name
