Another person who attended the Carol Folt event on Tuesday night in Santa Monica said that when alumni were allowed to ask questions, there was not a single question about football or sports. “She got off easy In the Q & A,” the person said. Can you imagine if an SEC school did a meet-and-greet featuring the president and had an underachiever as football coach? … Continue reading Morning Buzz: USC Fans Tend To Be Very Nice

USC president Carol Folt did an alumni event last night in Santa Monica. She joked if people had comments about athletics, “talk to Mike Bohn.” Bohn was also at the event, which drew several hundred people. He just ate but did not speak. Continue reading Carol Folt, Mike Bohn Show Up At Alumni Event

If you saw reports Cleveland Cavaliers coach John Beilein might resign and hope he might come to USC, think again. Andy Enfield has three more years left on his contract at $3.2 million per year. And USC does not want to pay Beilein what he would command on the open market. Class of 2021 quarterback Jake Garcia, who is committed to USC, was offered a … Continue reading USC Morning Buzz: Presidents’ Day News

Mike Bohn, the USC retweeter in chief, has a lot to be happy about this weekend. He retweeted men’s basketball, lacrosse, women’s water and men’s tennis victories. Plus baseball won 2 of 3 vs. Western Michigan. Women’s basketball lost to No. 3-ranked Oregon, 93-67. But the crowd of more than 2,000 was respectable. Bohn has not composed a tweet since Dec. 4, when he announced … Continue reading It’s A Great Weekend To Retweet!

I haven’t seen a prominent USC alumnus at the Galen Center this season despite the fact he has had football and basketball season tickets since the 1980’s. So I checked to see if he was OK? “We fired USC,” he said. Unfortunately, this is not exactly unique right now. But I’m coming across some extremely loyal graduates who are not renewing their tickets any more. … Continue reading When You Lose A Loyal Donor . . .

Former USC president Max Nikias came out of hiding and was at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival today. He was on a panel that included Geoffrey Cowan, the former dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and and moderated by former California Gov. Gray Davis. The topic was “What will higher education look like 10 or 20 years from now?” and one issue was supposed … Continue reading Max Nikias Sighting!