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#USC
's Lincoln Riley on The Herd today: "We didn't take players from Oklahoma. We took players from the transfer portal. Those players and their families had to make a decision to stay at that university ... or to enter the portal where they could be recruited by anybody ..."
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Lincoln Riley taking a photo with 5-star St. John Bosco prospect Matayo Uiagalelei after the
#USC
win
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#USC
is working with compliance to make Kliff Kingsbury to acting assistant in Riley’s absence.
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Caleb Williams after his performance at
#USC
’s pro day on the time he spent with the Chicago Bears’ brass.
@adamjahns
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Bryson Shaw said Taylor Mays really stepped up when Donte Williams left. Mays was bumped up to safeties coach when Alex Grinch was fired and took on more responsibility when Williams left.
#USC
’s secondary was really impressive tonight.
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Bookie Radley-Hiles has officially been added to
#USC
’s football staff as a defensive analyst. Former Washington State QB/Mississippi State quality control Trey Tinsley has joined the program as an offensive GA.
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This is an all-time Pac-12 refs performance tonight.
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#USC
will face Utah in the PAC-12 title game. Twice at Oklahoma, Lincoln Riley coached against a team he previously lost to in the regular season again in the Big 12 title game. He won both of those rematches (vs. Texas in 2018, vs. Iowa State in 2020).
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Brent Brennan has to fundraise to ensure San Jose State players can have breakfast in the facility every day because the school can’t afford it. And he still makes bowl games. I’ll be interested to see what he could do with any semblance of resources.
SOURCE: San Jose State’s Brent Brennan has emerged as the top target for Arizona's coaching vacancy. Brennan, a former U of A assistant, was a finalist three years ago for the job when Jedd Fisch got it.
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The Los Al wideout is the third 5-star prospect (in the 2022 or 2023 classes) to commit to
#USC
and Lincoln Riley this week.
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Lincoln Riley revealed that LB Tuasivi Nomura sustained a compound fracture on a finger during a game earlier this season, didn’t tell anyone and played three more plays with the bone sticking out of his finger before telling anyone.
#USC
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Tuli Tuipulotu said there was no doubt he’d play in the Cotton Bowl: “I’m for sure playing no matter what. I can’t leave my brothers out there.”
Tuipulotu said he hasn’t decided on whether he’ll return to
#USC
next season but will announce a decision after the bowl game.
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Randomly caught the USD/Davidson game on the radio on the way to the Coliseum tonight. Davidson rushed for 789 yards and lost. What a boxscore.
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Five-star 2023 receiver Zachariah Branch just announced his commitment to
#USC
. He’s the third five-star prospect in the Trojans’ 2023 class, and the fifth five-star prospect who’s signed with or committed to USC since it hired Lincoln Riley a month ago.
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Can confirm the Spirit's report that Shea Patterson has been granted permission to explore a transfer from Ole Miss.
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#USC
’s game at Stanford will be ABC’s Saturday Night Football broadcast for Week 2, ESPN just announced.
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Donte Williams recruiting for
#USC
this weekend, which seems like a sign that he’ll be remaining on staff.
Coach Donte Williams and Taylor Mays enjoying the game with some 5-star football football recruits.
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Lincoln Riley on Colorado transfer DB Mekhi Blackmon, “Up to this point, he’s maybe been our biggest playmaker”on defense.
#USC
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Can confirm that
#USC
’s five-star QB commit Malachi Nelson is visiting Texas A&M this weekend. A source said Nelson made Lincoln Riley aware of this beforehand, and told some other USC recruits in a group chat.
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My wife gave birth to a little five-star yesterday so I won’t be at the
#USC
spring game. If you want bad tweets from the game, follow
@ChrisNTrevino
.
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#USC
DL Tuli Tuipulotu is now at 7 sacks and 12.5 TFLs with at least six regular season games and a bowl remaining. He's poised to put up some big numbers this season.
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#USC
’s Andrew Vorhees and Tuli Tuipulotu are this year’s Morris Trophy winners. The award goes to the most outstanding offensive lineman and defensive lineman in the Pac-12.
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Ole Miss has received its 24-hour notice of a COI ruling. Scheduled to receive it at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow, according to sources.
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"I have a certain passion for this place and what playing (QB) here means, and I’m willing to see that through."
Most QBs in Miller Moss' situation - behind a Heisman while fighting off an incoming 5-star - would transfer. On why he's stayed at
#USC
.
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And with that, going on baby leave so I won’t be writing until June. Gonna be hanging out with this little girl for a bit. I’m sure USC will stay out of the news and that the Pac-12 will get a TV deal in that time.
#USC
spring ball is officially in the rearview mirror and roster movement/the transfer portal is at the forefront. A look at the Trojans’ most pressing needs as summer nears.
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Lincoln Riley had a long answer about recruiting today. Here’s part of it, mainly on local recruiting.
#USC
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This was a hilarious day: Reggie in the building. Urban there too in the midst of peak Helton hot seat talk. Michael Pittman went off for 230 yards. Matt Fink came off the bench and led USC to a win against a top-10 team. Markese Stepp’s celebration and flag. Truly unhinged game.
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Clay Helton opened the press conference today with some words about Ed Aschoff: “Very, very sad. Very surprising. Wish nothing but the best his family. Our condolences go out. He was nothing but first class to this organization and always to me. Ed, you’ll be missed.”
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Per
#USC
’s press release on the Eric Henderson hire: “With the addition of Coach Henderson, USC's coaching staff is now complete.”
Shaun Nua will coach defensive ends.
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Lincoln Riley: “Obviously there’s a much bigger picture and outlook here of the progress that’s been made here in the past 12 months so we’re not going to walk around like this is some funeral.”
#USC
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Caleb Williams has been named Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year. Tuli Tuipulotu was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year.
#USC
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Looks like the No. 5 jersey will be back up in the Coliseum soon
Exclusive: Reggie Bush is getting his 2005 Heisman Trophy back, ESPN has learned, with a formal “reinstatement” of the trophy coming today. The decision comes amid what the Heisman Trust calls “enormous changes in the college football landscape.”
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Lincoln Riley yesterday: "That (defensive) front will probably turn over more than any position on our football team this year."
Anthony Lucas is the fifth transfer (DL, edge or LB)
#USC
has added to its defensive front this offseason.
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Lincoln Riley said
#USC
’s NIL has taken “massive, massive jumps here in the last several months.” Sources have indicated House of Victory’s football budget is significantly bigger this year - triple what it was a year ago.
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#USC
lands four-star receiver C.J. Williams, who chose the Trojans over UCLA. Williams is the fourth top-100 player in the 2022 class to sign with USC since Lincoln Riley's hire.
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I don’t understand how Joe Tess said Alabama has the best win of them all when Texas beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa
People do realize Alabama's win over Georgia makes Texas' win over Alabama even better, right?
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Lincoln Riley on Caleb Williams' Heisman candidacy: "Up to this point, I don't think there's been a better, more valuable player in college football than him."
#USC
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So
#USC
's WR group moving forward looks like (at this moment) ...
Zachariah Branch
Duce Robinson
Dorian Singer
Kyron Hudson
Ja'Kobi Lane
Makai Lemon
Xavier Jordan
Ryan Pellum
That's a lot of youth. Might need to add some experience and depth through the portal.
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That end-of-half incident is hilarious coming off the heels of George Kliavkoff saying he hasn't spoken to anyone in the
#USC
community who's in favor of the move to the Big Ten.
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#USC
WR Jordan Addison on Oregon State's defense: “They did a good job. They had a good scheme going on but like I said, they just didn’t keep up. They didn’t finish it off. You can only win the game in the fourth quarter and that’s where we finished at.”
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Elijah Paige's commitment marks the first time
#USC
has received a commitment from a blue-chip offensive lineman since Jonah Monheim during the 2020 recruiting cycle. Trojans needed to recruit better along the OL so Paige is a crucial get for Lincoln Riley, Josh Henson, etc.
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Lincoln Riley just said that Caleb Williams will not play in the Holiday Bowl (as expected).
#USC
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Not unexpected but looks like Courtney Morgan, Washington’s GM, was on the flight to Tuscaloosa with Kalen DeBoer
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Lincoln Riley: “This is not a revenge game. This is not what this is. We played a really good football game, as did Utah up in Salt Lake and it was an elite college football game. It came down to one play here or there. They got us that time but this is not about that game.”
#USC
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Alex Grinch will take the heat for
#USC
’s defensive struggles and understandably so but the responsibility for the Trojans’ defensive failure falls on Lincoln Riley. This is the path he chose and it’s led to massively disappointing season. Thoughts ⬇️
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"I am a captain of this team, and you don’t get to pick and choose when you want to lead or not. You have to lead constantly. You can’t just quit because you have an opportunity coming up."
#USC
's Michael Pittman Jr. on why he'll play in the Holiday Bowl
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Lincoln Riley: “The officiating was really poor tonight but we still should’ve won the game. That’s part of football …I’m not gonna be the guy up here saying we lost the game because of officiating.”
#USC
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Lincoln Riley didn’t say Miller Moss is
#USC
’s starting quarterback in 2024 but clearly values how he wants to be at USC and said Moss might have scared off anyone who considered transferring in.
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“We’re the ones that stuck around."
There are only 7 players left from
#OleMiss
' 2017 recruiting class. They've had 3 head coaches, played under a 2-year bowl ban and have faced a ton of adversity. On Saturday, they'll play in their first postseason game.
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Caleb Williams on having Ryan Poles and Matt Eberflus at USC to watch him perform in person
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If JT Daniels, Kedon Slovis and Jaxson Dart can win their respective QB competitions,
#USC
would have three of its recent starting QBs starting at Power 5 programs this season. Don’t see that everyday.
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Bishop Gorman safety and top-50 prospect Zion Branch commits to
#USC
over Ohio State and Oklahoma. He's the second top-50 player in the Trojans' class along with 5-star RB Raleek Brown.
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Lincoln Riley on Caleb Williams: “Had one of those nights where he wasn’t at his best throwing wise … it’s gonna happen, even (to) the best of throwers. … That last throw, there ain’t five dudes in the country that make that throw. Especially in that moment. He’ll be fine.”
#USC
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Marshawn Lynch just dropped an F-bomb on ESPN. Pac-12 After Dark really delivers every week.
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Have to rewatch the game, but Elijah Paige didn't seem out of place for a true freshman making his first career start - at left tackle at that - tonight.
#USC
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Oregon running back Travis Dye has committed to
#USC
. Significant get for the Trojans. Dye rushed for 1,000-plus yards at Oregon in 2021, is a hard-nosed runner and can make plays as a receiver out of the backfield as well.
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Lincoln Riley said he was sick and tired of hearing how
#USC
was going to get pounded in the run game: “That didn’t happen.”
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Caleb Williams said if he’s stays at
#USC
, he doesn’t think he wouldn’t play in a bowl. He said he’ll get to talk to his family during Thanksgiving in regard to decisions about his future beyond this year.
“It’s just a decision I have to make that hasn’t been made yet,” he said.
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Benito Jones' mother, Juanita, said Benito is doing fine and the doctor has confirmed he is OK.
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Josh Henson said he figured Bill Bedenbaugh would come with Lincoln Riley to
#USC
. Once he saw that wasn’t happening, he reached out to a mutual contact - DC Alex Grinch - about the opportunity to come to USC.
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#USC
picks up a commitment from Georgia State LB Jamil Muhammad. Second transfer the Trojans have added this weekend.
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Jayden Maiava’s NIL reps announce his commitment to USC
We are thrilled to introduce our Quarterback Jayden Maiava, The first-ever Polynesian QB in the history of the USC Trojans football program! 🙌✌️ Jayden has officially committed to USC, and we couldn't be more proud of this historic achievement 🔴💛
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#USC
did a good job remaking its defensive line this offseason but still needed some more size and athleticism - particularly on the interior. Bear Alexander fits that hole perfectly.
#USC
’s defensive line transfer additions:
6-foot-4, 315 pound Bear Alexander
6–foot-6, 270 pound Anthony Lucas
6-foot-2, 290 pound Kyon Barrs
6-foot-5, 280-pound Jack Sullivan
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#USC
center Brett Neilon on the the Neilon Nudge: “I hit him pretty hard. Maybe the hardest hit of my life. … I channeled my inner-sumo and belly-bumped him.”
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“Emotionally, I want to go home and lay with my dog.” - Caleb Williams on his emotions after losing tonight’s game. It’s the third time in his career he’s led
#USC
’s offense to 40-plus points and lost.
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First public commit of the weekend for USC
BREAKING: Four-Star EDGE Hayden Lowe has Committed to USC, he tells me for
@on3recruits
The 6’5 256 EDGE from Los Angeles, CA chose the Trojans over Texas, Washington, & UCLA
“Grind Time.”
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Caleb Williams, Jordan Addison, Andrew Vorhees, Tuli Tuipulotu and Mekhi Blackmon were all first-team All-Pac-12 choices. Travis Dye, Brett Neilon and Calen Bullock were all second-team selections.
#USC
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Rewatching the
#USC
game and looking through some stats. Coming into last night's game, Zach Charbonnet had lost just 8 yards on 152 carries this season. He finished with 95 yards last night but lost 10 on his 19 carries. USC did a good job of containing the talented UCLA back.
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Lincoln Riley said he rewatched Saturday's game and thought about it that night and Sunday morning before making the decision to fire Alex Grinch: "We simply weren’t making the progress I think we all expected to make.”
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Looks like another commitment is on the way for USC
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#USC
running back MarShawn Lloyd singled out two freshman who have impressed him today. The first ... “Christian Pierce is amazing. He’s a unit. He’s young but he’s a great player. He’s going to be really good for us this year. He just comes down, no fear, he lays the hit.”
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It’s the most anticipated pro day at
#USC
since Sam Darnold’s in 2018 - and probably more anticipated than that. It rained on that day in 2018. Should be no weather issues for Caleb Williams this morning. High 50s and sunny in Los Angeles this morning.
If you’re looking for Caleb Williams updates today, be sure to follow
@AntonioCMorales
. He covers USC for The Athletic and he’ll be at the pro day. He’s got us (and you) covered.
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QB Caleb Williams when asked if Lincoln Riley brought up Heisman potential during the recruiting process: “Yeah. He’s had a couple of Heisman guys who have won and another guy who was there. (He) believed I had traits of them all and had some unique traits myself …” 1/2
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RB Markese Stepp wears No. 30 for Brody Stephens, whose brief life included hard-fought bouts with two types of cancer.
On Saturday, Stepp - a former Notre Dame commit - will play in South Bend with Brody’s family watching from the stands.
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Jake Garcia, who has been committed to
#USC
for more than a year, has announced he is decommitting. The Trojans have been heavily pursuing 4-star Utah QB Jaxson Dart and have a commitment from 4-star QB Miller Moss. Look for Florida State to make a run at Garcia.
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Malachi Nelson, Makai Lemon and Zach Branch are in attendance for the game tonight and are hanging out together on the
#USC
sidelines right now.
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Zion Branch on why
#USC
was always his dream school: “(My dad) brought me and my brother to USC games before. This was the first college team I really started watching. … When I started to go to USC games, I wanted to go to USC, I want to be part of that program.”
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Ole Miss has placed its faith in Matt Corral (
@corral_matt
) on and off the field. It’s a gamble some programs weren’t willing to take.
Now it’s time for him to start making good on it.
“This is my chance. What am I going to do with it?”
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Lincoln Riley on Makai Lemon: “He’s had an awesome camp. We’ve been able to move him around position wise. He’s handled it well mentally, stayed healthy. He’s s dynamic playmaker. I don’t know what’s being said on the outside but he’s not ever overshadowed on this field.”
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There are seven defendants in the lawsuit Rebel Rags filed today - Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin, Mike Sheridan, the NCAA, Lindsey Miller, Leo Lewis and Kobe Jones. The complaint is centered on defamation, civil conspiracy and commercial disparagement like the original case.
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