USC will announce Jen Cohen as its new athletic director, according to Pete Thamel. Cohen has been athletic director at Washington since 2016. It’s not surprising USC hired a woman. There’s been a feeling at USC that Carol Folt wanted to hire a woman, especially after the problems with Mike Bohn. Cohen is a safe choice. She doesn’t have any skeletons and knows the landscape. … Continue reading USC To Hire Washington Athletic Director Jen Cohen

Did you go to the Salute to Troy on Friday night? First, the good. USC ditched the campus hospitality food service and brought back the long-time restaurant/caterer that did previous Salute to Troys before last year. I wrote about this problem last month and a big mistake was fixed. Second, former USC tailback Rod McNeil appeared for the 1973 reunion and answered some questions for … Continue reading USC Morning Buzz: The Good And Bad Of The Weekend

L.A. Times columnist Bill Plaschke predicted USC would go 12-0 in the regular season. But he stopped there, apparently, with predictions. Theoretically, 12-0 doesn’t mean you make the College Football Playoff because you could still lose in the Pac-12 title game. Well, at least he didn’t say Los Angeles belongs to UCLA. Then again, that didn’t work out too well so maybe saying USC will … Continue reading Is USC Going Undefeated?

Tim Ryan is a radio analyst for the San Francisco 49ers. He went viral Saturday night talking about 49ers QB Sam Darnold. “Sam is way more mobile than people give him credit for,” Ryan said. “Remember all those USC days, what he did down there with Pete Carroll.” Carroll was long gone by the time Darnold came to USC. I doubt too many people commenting … Continue reading Former USC All-American Tim Ryan Goes Viral

USC named its team captains for the season and it’s a big group. QB Caleb Williams; OT Jonah Monheim; C Justin Dedich; LB Shane Lee and LB Mason Cobb will be captains. Normally, only four players are captains. Monheim is the most important lineman and Dedich was a captain last season so they avoided a tough choice. Lee was a captain last season and might … Continue reading USC Picks A Lot Of Captains

That list of Pac-12 coaches and their favorite musical artists is amazingly bad and shows how tone deaf some of these guys really are. As usual, Jedd the Fisch proves cluelessness is the only thing he is No. 1 at doing. He lists country artist Morgan Wallen. If you google Wallen, you know what he’s known for besides singing? Using a racial slur on a … Continue reading Saturday Buzz: Maybe Pac-12 Should Break Up Now