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JT Daniels will be re-ranked in 2018 by Rivals at the next rankings meeting. That meeting is scheduled to take place after the Under Armour and Army Games.

https://n.rivals.com/news/snapshot-how-things-stand-with-unsigned-rivals100-prospects

The only way Hufanga's signing is a mystery is if you cannot solve for 'x' in the following equation:

9+x = 10

Still an announcement tomorrow?

mist talented WR’s in the league today? I haven’t looked up and down rosters but seems pretty good

https://n.rivals.com/news/how-did-former-five-stars-fare-during-make-or-break-2017-

Credit @MFarrell for owning up to his mistakes, but this is just a reminder that this guy has no idea what he's talking about and that the rankings are subject to huge biases based on subscriber base sizes. Bet you'll never guess what region most of the busts on this list are from, and which conference the schools they committed to are!

Popcorn Worthy – President Trump Has Rejected McCabe’s Terms…

To put a fine point on the anticipatory fireworks for mid-January, let us remind ourselves of what can be anticipated when everyone gets back to DC from the holiday break.



Following a week of growing pressure and sunlight, last week Asst. FBI Director Andrew “Andy” McCabe used The Washington Post -the PR transmission media of the Deep State Intelligence Community- to announce his career saving terms. Essentially McCabe presented the deal that he would leave office in March, in exchange for no returning fire.

President Trump, immediately spotting the intent of the public resignation announcement, responded by saying on Twitter: “NO DEAL“.

On January 15th, 2018, the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz will deliver approximately 1.2 million pages of documentation and evidence gathered in the year-long investigation into the politicization of the DOJ and FBI, by senior leadership and upper-level career leadership lawyers and bureaucrats.

IG Horowitz, having utilized the OIG’s vast 500+ investigative agents, is giving that preliminary evidence -in advance of pending full report- to the congressional committee in charge of DOJ/FBI oversight: House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte. –OUTLINED HERE–




So by mid-January the House Judiciary Committee will have massive investigative documentation surrounding Andrew McCabe, James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, and all of the top-tier team members around them for all of their principle activity throughout the past few years; with emphasis on 2016.

Put another way, Andrew McCabe, is going to be in FULL SUNLIGHT on or around January 15th, 2018, for any misconduct.

That explains the transparent reason for McCabe offering terms. However, the content of that year-long investigation is also the transparent reason for President Trump refusing McCabe’s terms.

In addition to McCabe, and depending on how well they have covered their political tracks, James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, and all of the top officials -lawyers mostly- within the FBI and DOJ will be part of that investigative release.

Depending on IG release content, there will also be downstream officials who will have likely taken action, or positioned themselves with prior public releases of intelligence information (ie. narratives), containing historic support toward the actions taken by those top-tier FBI and DOJ officials.

Those downstream Deep State positions include CIA John Brennan, DNI James Clapper, and all of the officials contained in known communication therein:



In addition to Horowitz, and generally overlooked by media, there has been another internal FBI and DOJ task force quietly gathering information over the Intelligence Community, including those qualified to receive “classified intelligence” within congress, since July/August 2016.

There’s no doubt the “Leak Task Force” has been monitoring all of the committee actions and releases by people they are suspecting of leaks. There’s a solid argument to be made that several leaks that led to false media reporting were actually part of task-force sting operations intended to expose those leakers.

Thankfully, no-one was paying much attention to either the IG investigation or the leak task-force until recently. The MSM completely overlooked their existence until early December reports on FBI conduct indicated the IG had not only collected information, but the investigative discoveries actually led to damage-control reactions by the DOJ and FBI.

Examples of damage-control include reassignments of: FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok; FBI/DOJ lawyer, Lisa Page; DOJ Deputy Attorney, Bruce Ohr; and FBI Chief Legal Counsel James Baker.

These moves, especially the reassignment of FBI’s top lawyer James Baker, indicate the severity of the information gathered by the Inspector General. These are not insignificant personnel shifts. They indicate a much bigger issue is within the IG investigation that currently visible. Hence, current reactions from former officials begin to make sense.

Merry Christmas.

Cool article about those walk on players who's families paid for them to play for them to attend school and help the football team in some ways get the team to where they are today.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/la-sp-usc-specialists-20171227-story.html

The title of the thread is unconfirmed, but LBJ did share a tweet about LB Poly that Chris spoke in. Chris is famous and may be BFF’s with LBJ

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Makes me feel a little better about our chances this week. The Big 10 is a bunch of trash offenses and overrated teams.

Some things to know about the USC-Ohio State Cotton Bowl….

1. The stadium is the scene of one of the USCs worst defeats in 2016 to Alabama, 52-6. In 2016 Ohio State also got walloped by Clemson 31-0 (who beat that Alabama team 35-31) in 2016.

2. In 2017 conference comparison: 8 of 14 teams in the Big 10 made a bowl, but 8 teams of the 14 were below .500 in Big 10 conference play. In the PAC12 10 of 12 made a bowl and 6 teams of the 12 were below .500 in their conference games. The PAC12 was a little less top heavy than the Big10 this year based on these figures.

3. Ohio State played Wisconsin (27-21, PSU (39-38), MSU (48-3), and UM(31-20) of the .555 or better in conference teams. USC played 5 games against top conference teams Stanford twice (42-24, 31-28), WSU (27-30), ASU (48-17), and UA(49-35). of the .555 or better.

4. Both lost 2 games: Ohio State at home against both Oklahoma (16-31), and Iowa(corrected: 24-55). USC lost away to Washington State (27-30), and Notre Dame(14-49). That second loss killed both in the eyes of the playoff selection committee.

5. The long term record for whatever it means, has USC ahead in the series 13-9-1 and 2-0 in the last decade.

6. The key strengths for Ohio State: OL (big and experienced) that is strong up the middle. QB Barrett experienced and a hard runner. RB Dobbins- decent runner. Defense: A tough front seven. A somewhat better than average secondary. Weaknesses: Barrett is not as quick (as was UA's Tate) and mostly an up the middle runner. His passing is sporadic at times. His backup QB is better passer, but green. The defense has given up large pass plays and sustained long drives on the ground. It is average on sacks (both for and against). The secondary has done all right statistically but in 4 games I watched were fortunate that the opposing QB missed wide open receivers in each of the games. Baker Mayfield got near 400 in the air. Iowa's N Stanley got 226 and 5 TDs. Overall their place kicker is good under 40 yards, questionable beyond 40 yards.

7. The key strengths for USC : QB Darnold is experienced and a good combo of accuracy and elusiveness. RB RoJo is one of the top RBs- he will need to get to the corner. Receivers, deep and trustworthy.. Defense: A tough front seven It is one of the best on sacks. A good ball hawking secondary. Weaknesses: OL that is strong against the pass rush but sometimes overwhelmed on run plays. Darnold can be subject to interceptions against better secondaries. The defense has given up large yardage plays. Overall the place kicker is questionable beyond 45 yards, but has hit 3-4 in 40+ yarders.

8.Comparable stats: Many stats are close: Turnover margin SC+1, OSU+2. SC leads in getting Interceptions 16-12 but gives up more ints. 12-10. USC leads in sacks 3.31 - 2.85 pg and in TFL 4.54-4.14 pg. Here are the comparison stats of key personnel.

QB SC/Sam Darnold- 3787 YP, 63.7%, 8.71 yards per attempt-26 TDs, 12 Ints. OSU/QB JT Barrett- 2939 YP, 64.7%, 8.30 yards per attempt-35 TDs, 9 Ints.

RB SC/ Ronald Jones- 1486 yards-6.1ypc, long of 86 yds,18 TD. Stephen Carr- 363 yards-5.8ypc, 52 yd long,3 TD. OSU/ Dobbins- 1361 yards-7.5ypc,86 yds long,7 TD. JT Barrett- 732 yards-4.9ypc, 37 yd long, 10 TD.

Receivers SC/ D. Burnett 74c-975y-13.2ypc-42L, 9TD. T Vaughns 51c-690y-13.5ypc-42L, 5TD. S. Mitchell 41c-649y-15.7ypc-49L, 4TD. M. Pittman 20c-335y-16.5 ypc-54L, 2TD. OSU/ P. Campbell 39c-587y-15.7ypc-74L, 3TD. KS Hill 55c-546y-9.9ypc-29L, 3TD. T. McLaurin 28c-434y-15.5ypc-84L, 6TD. J Dixon- 18c-422y-23.4ypc-70L, 8TD.

9. Bottom line- USC's passing game is better, Ohio State running is slightly better because of Barrett. But both are close overall. SC needs to slow down Barrett, and will win a humdinger of a game 35-31.

Potentially interesting read:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-college-football-hadnt-wasted-decades-on-polls-and-just-used-a-stinking-playoff/

Spoiler alert: USC makes the playoff every year 2002 - 2008 except 2006, but only wins 1.8 NCs, according to the models. So that puts us 6th over the last 20 years, but at least ahead of ND who is 7th.

Stan and WSU scheduled against each other on the tube tomorrow nite....

Just curious--will they have the roof closed during the game?

goes to Tennessee

Gonna be in Palm Desert Friday, and was wondering if anyone knew of any alumni events or pro-USC sports bars in this region.

Thanks in advance!

Fight On!!!

received this information from a friend at USC - looking for confirmation on signing
Anyone have more info?

Here are the transcripts from Tuesday interviews featuring Clancy Pendergast, Chris Hawkins, Cam Smith, Uchenna Nwosu, John Houston and Christian Rector with the national media:

DC CLANCY PENDERGAST

Q. Obviously the big thing is: How do you stop a quarterback like they have, a guy that can do -- I mean, he can do anything. He can run. What he's going to go do?

COACH PENDERGAST: He's obviously very talented. Look at how many starts he's had in his career. He's got a lot of experience. He's thrown for 35 touchdowns, run for ten touchdowns. So very much a dual-threat quarterback. We just have to play with really good discipline and eyes. And a lot of times when you play a running quarterback, it's 11 on 11. So you have to have somebody accounted for him at all times.

Q. I notice you didn't play in college but coached your fraternity team. I don't know if that's accurate, but that seems like you wanted to be a coach from the very start.

PENDERGAST: I wasn't talented enough to play at the Division I level so I missed playing. I started coaching high school while I was going to college.

Q. Their offensive line has had some injuries. Have you been able to tell?

PENDERGAST: They work well together. They're very cohesive. They've got a lot of experience. And I think they do a really nice job, and they have multiple schemes in their running game.

Q. Does this offense remind you of any offense that you've prepared for this season?

PENDERGAST: Last year they actually reminded me of Penn State a lot that we played in the Rose Bowl and probably a lot like Texas that we played earlier in the year. Very similar in their concepts and the running game and passing game. I would say those two teams since I've been coordinator here jump out at me as being similar. And then Arizona State I would say would be another team within the Pac-12 that is similar to what they do.

Q. How does that help you?

PENDERGAST: I just think when you play teams that play with 11-on-11 offense, the more those kind of teams that you play, the more your guys are going to be familiar with how to defend them. So playing with very good eye control is going to be important.

Q. I'm assuming the last time you were here was not the most positive experience, the opener from last season. But, obviously, when you took over, there was things that you wanted to accomplish from then to now. What do you see in this team defensively that has been adjusted and gotten better?

PENDERGAST: I think the first-year guys just getting acclimated with the scheme. They were more of a single two-gap-type defense up front and 3-4 concept. And I wanted to get more to a single-gap responsibility and being more disruptive. And I think we glued as a group last year, made strides in a lot of areas. And then we lost some guys, and so we had to plug guys in different spaces. This year I feel like the crew that we had coming back with the type offense we had, we needed to improve in three areas, most importantly to get our offense the ball back. We felt they could be explosive. We needed to do a better job of pressuring the quarterback, and we led the conference in sacks, and I think we're top ten in the country.

Q. Is there any motivation playing in the first game and coming back to the [AT&T] Stadium?

PENDERGAST: I'm sure there is. There's some familiarity there obviously because we have played a game there. So the guys that do have experience have a feel for coming back to it. We practiced there yesterday for the first time. So that's going to help us, that we get to work there for three days before the game.

Q. What's it look like with [Tee] Martin? And do you see him becoming a head coach down the road?

PENDERGAST: Tee is a talented coach. He and I work one-on-one a lot together because he's the coordinator in terms of scheduling practice and I've known Tee a long time. We coached in 2013 when he was the receiver coach so there's familiarity. I think he's a very good communicator. I think he knows how to get players to respond. And more than anything, which I think is important in a coordinator role, is he knows how to put his player in the position to make plays.

Q. How have you seen him grow from that 2013 year to now being coordinator?

PENDERGAST: I just see him being more involved with the whole offense. And I've seen him take the skill set that he had as a coach when he just coached the receivers and use that with the tight ends, the running backs, running game, quarterback. And I've seen him evolve that way as a coordinator.

Q. You mentioned Penn State. You look back at that game, you shut them out the first and fourth quarters. And they got 49 points in the second and third. Have you ever had a game that was that crazy?

PENDERGAST: No. It was a lot of ups and downs in that game. I think the biggest turning point in that game were the two touchdowns. In the third quarter where on the very first play of the second half, we missed six tackles. We had guys on the block that should have made the play. The back made a great run, cut back against the grain and obviously scored. And then I believe the very next series, they threw a ball up and Iman Marshall tips it and catches it and runs it for a touchdown. So it was a quick strike, scores. And there was a turnover. So there was a lot of ups and downs in that game. And I think as a spectator, I remember that there always seems like a lot of points scored in bowl games. And I think a lot of that is because defensively teams take a three-, four-, five-week break from not seeing the speed of the game weekly, not like practice. And my personal opinion, you can go out there and run your plays at a certain speed and run your plays, run your pass plays, but when you have to defend against that speed, it's never quite the same in practice. So sometimes in a bowl game, I think it takes time for the defense to kind of get caught up because you haven't played for so long. This year, we played in the Pac-12 championship game, which there wasn't quite as long of a lull between the last game and the bowl game as there was for us last year. So I hope that's going to pay dividends for us.

Q. Talk about your NFL days. 2002 was your last year against the (Dallas) Cowboys?

PENDERGAST: Yes.

Q. How much do you see things have changed, not only the stadium but –

PENDERGAST: It's weird driving down 114 and seeing the old (Texas) Stadium gone. But it's changed a lot. I have a lot of fond memories. I still have a lot of friends here. Mr. Jones gave me my first opportunity to be a full-time position coach. So I thank him for that and the opportunities that I had through my whole time here. But it's a very special place. In coaching you're able to spend seven years somewhere and with three head coaches, you're very thankful.

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BEAT OHIO STATE!!!
List you wish for the game. Anything a trick play, running dominance, great D, and Sam the Man is magical AGAIN!
FIGHT ON!!!

Concussion sx.

we can bring jedd Fisch for OC next week. Clean Ronnie and bring the two DB coaches. I like to see Callaway replaced too.

thx

What say you.

% on USC landing him?

I'ver confirmed reports that USC has lost the commitment of Taeshon Cherry.

Cherry is widely recognized as one of the best players in the 2018 class. Rivals has him ranked as the 32nd best player overall.

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