Only 3 of us (?) selected Ugly.
Think about that: The passion and optimism all of you have! Love it.

@jcbraam 36-28. Ugly
@trojan_a_1 31-28. Ugly
@Kylerkeener 42-31. Ugly

The longer it goes, the stronger I get.
I want that Starbucks card.

F-ing joke!!!

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Javian Osborne is one of the best nationally for the 2026 cycle and the Trojans are a major early contender in his recruitment. Story coming tomorrow but Osborne spoke highly of the Trojans' program shortly after running for 200 yards and 2 TDs in a playoff victory in Texas.

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Trump "engaged in an insurrection," judge says, but should remain on Colorado ballot

In the third failed attempt to keep Trump off a state's ballot in just over a week, Colorado judge Sarah Wallace issued a scathing ruling yesterday that the disgraced ex-president “actively primed the anger of his extremist supporters,” and “acted with the specific intent to incite political violence and direct it at the Capitol... and that the First Amendment does not protect Trump’s speech." And since the 14th amendment says, "No person shall... hold any office... [who] shall have engaged in insurrection," the judge has decided... that Trump can stay on the ballot. Apparently Trump was not only above the law at the time, but above the constitution as well due to a little known but oft employed technicality whereby some judges are too chicken shit to hold powerful men accountable for their crimes.

With all the talk of only a few plays away from a different season, the reality is this team was legitimately 2 plays away from not even being bowl eligible.

Converted 2 point conversion by Zona and Cal - literally 2 plays, and this team is 5-7 and the same record as Helton’s worst year. It honestly feels like we were 5-7 this year.

To take it farther, a few more plays and even ASU and Colo could have been losses. There’s no way around it, this was an absolute train wreck of a season.

Yes or no?

The 2023 Trojan defense was an absolute joke.

I’d like to see the following players stay:

DL - Alexander, Lucas, Hughes, Lafitte, and Thompkins

RUSH/OLB - Height, Shelby, Percy, Greene

ILB - Curtis, Madden

CB - Jackson, Wright

S - Pierce, Branch, Fegans

The rest of the player should be told to leave. If Cobb, Gentry, Shaw or Williams suit up for the Trojans next year I may never root for the Trojans again.

The 16 that I identified to stay are not All American caliber… with the exception of maybe Alexander. Needless to say, unless some serious talent is brought in, our defense may be worse in 2024.

A real D1 team probably has 40 defensive players on their roster. Im hoping for a very busy portal season defensively.

Also, the kicker Lynch needs to be removed from the team immediately. There has to be kickers in D-II and D-III who are better.

Building from the outside in will continue here and not change until Coach Lincoln Riley leaves.

And that's it. He can give a rip what happens now to this program or team. His money is already in the dang bank regardless of performance. He knows he can keep blasting diarrhea out of his ass and it won't matter because he is RICH. How else do you explain how he literally turned a Ferrari into a Pinto. Just unbelievable how he's tanked our program so fast.

"Well, we've improved there this year. We've got, I think the No. 1 punt return team in the country. Eddie's done a nice job for us all year. We missed a couple of kicks today, which obviously were the one kick out of bounds, we missed the field goal, so those were obviously some big plays against us. But yeah, I evaluate everything at the end of the year. We've made some improvements. I'm not saying it's been perfect, but that will be part of the evaluation just like every other part of the program."

How many of our decent players are going to hit the transfer portal because they dont wont to be any part of this mess anymore? My guess is we are going to be losing a fair amount of players to the transfer portal. The program is a complete trainwreck.

This is by far worst than Helton era. Back then I at least saw players fighting for wins and really trying hard despite Helton's shortcomings. What I am seeing now is not even football. They have somehow turned this into a disgusting, mindless, apathetic, heartless, soft, display of something they want to call Trojan football but it's such a wannabe, fake version of it, that I am truly embarrassed. Need a complete RESET and unfortunately we are stuck with Riley now that he's been exposed as the frickin fraud that he is. What sucks is that Pete Carroll's teams would have curb-stomped every single opponent we lost to this year and that speaks to how shyty we've become. There is absolutely nothing to look forward to next season.

Can’t be a better tone than now.

Thanks for everything!

Weird they would decide to fire a coach before the USC game….
we are usually their season.

I mean, have they watched our defense at all this year??

7 minutes- from 23:00 min mark to the 30:00 min mark. 👇

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Who is Bari Weiss 👇

SC 34
ugly 21

Beat that ass like a rented little brother!

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the game tomorrow. I want to go on record (with my sons hot take) as saying Aranda would NOT be a home run hire. Would the defense be better? Probably…couldn’t get worse. However, if he is not known as a home run recruiter he won’t attract the cream of the cream talent SC needs. Yes, you need to develop the players, but don’t tell me Georgia has a bunch of 3*’s they’re developing. Utah is the feel good story in terms of developing their players defensively, but they still haven’t won the big prize. We need a great recruiter who has a hard a$$ brand of defense. Furthermore, we believe the DC would be great to have a strong personality to balance out LR’s laid back demeanor. Please check me if I am wrong in a couple years.

Instead of beating a dead horse on the Oregon loss where many of the issues were the same as in previous defeats, Tajwar skewed a little more big-picture, over-arching with his critiques this week ...

Here is the early PFF data ...

OFFENSIVE SNAP COUNTS (GAME GRADES)

QB Caleb Williams -- 67 (90.7)
LT Jonah Monheim -- 67 (73.2)
LG Emmanuel Pregnon -- 67 (58.6)
C Justin Dedich -- 65 (62.2)
RG Mason Murphy -- 67 (51.0)
RT Jarrett Kingston -- 67 (62.9)
WR Tahj Washington -- 56 (67.9)
WR Brenden Rice -- 43 (83.2)
TE Lake McRee -- 41 (48.8)
RB MarShawn Lloyd -- 31 (66.7)
RB Austin Jones -- 31 (60.9)
WR Kyron Hudson -- 30 (61.9)
WR Zachariah Branch -- 28 (57.7)
WR Duce Robinson -- 25 (59.9)
WR Ja'Kobi Lane -- 20 (52.5)
WR Dorian Singer -- 17 (72.6)
WR Mario Williams -- 11 (57.9)
C Kilian O'Connor -- 2
TE Carson Tabaracci -- 1
TE Jude Wolfe -- 1

-This was Ja'Kobi Lane's fourth game played (San Jose State, Nevada and Stanford) and a season-high snaps, but he's probably done now so he can save his redshirt. He got 1 target Saturday (which was incomplete).
-Mario Williams' 11 snaps tied a season-low (Utah), as did his 1 target and 0 receptions.
-After playing a combined 21 snaps over the first six games after the bye, Duce Robinson has now logged 24 and 25 snaps the last two games.
-Brenden Rice had a team-high 10 targets (5 more than anyone else) but hauled in only 5 of them (for 81 yards and a TD).
-The only official drop PFF counted was by Zachariah Branch.
-Of MarShawn Lloyd's 37 rushing yards, 27 came after contact -- that speaks how little space there was to operate up front.
-Mason Murphy had an unsightly 24.4 pass-blocking grade. He allowed 5 pressures (0 sacks). The only good pass-blocking grade went to Jonah Monheim (80.0, 2 pressures allowed), while the others were average. Emmanuel Pregnon also allowed 5 pressures (0 sacks), Jarrett Kingston allowed 3 pressures (2 sacks), Justin Dedich allowed 2 pressures (1 sack).
-Caleb Williams was just 5 of 11 on passes of 10 or more yards downfield.
-This doesn't sound right, but PFF has Williams being under pressure on only 16 of his 38 dropbacks. I would have guessed 35/38.

DEFENSIVE SNAP COUNTS (GAME GRADES)

S Calen Bullock -- 71 (36.3)
S Max Williams -- 70 (55.4)
LB Mason Cobb -- 68 (56.3)
CB Prophet Brown -- 65 (56.9)
DT Bear Alexander -- 59 (64.3)
CB Domani Jackson -- 59 (57.0)
DE Solomon Byrd -- 50 (64.8)
RUSH Jamil Muhammad -- 47 (46.2)
LB Raesjon Davis -- 42 (58.5)
DT Tyrone Taleni -- 36 (70.4)
CB Christian Roland-Wallace -- 33 (64.2)
NK Tre'Quon Fegaans -- 38 (71.5)
DT Kyon Barrs -- 28 (52.7)
RUSH Romello Height -- 21 (48.0)
LB Shane Lee -- 21 (51.5)
DT Stanley Ta'ufo'ou -- 17 (49.5)
DE Jack Sullivan -- 12 (66.5)
LB Tackett Curtis -- 11 (65.2)
S Christian Pierce -- 11 (54.2)
CB Makai Lemon -- 11 (67.8)
RUSH Braylan Shelby -- 9 (61.2)
RUSH Anthony Lucas -- 9 (55.3)
DT Elijah Hughes -- 2
S Bryson Shaw -- 1

-Pretty telling that the first game after Alex Grinch is gone, Bryson Shaw plays only 1 snap despite the struggles Max Williams and Calen Bullock had. Shaw hadn't played fewer than 16 snaps in any other game this season.
-The 28 snaps were a season-high for Tre'Quon Fegans, who played 14 last week and 5 at Cal.
-Makai Lemon has not switched positions permanently, but he was needed at CB with the Ceyair Wright and Jacobe Covington out.
-Prophet Brown had played just 60 snaps all season before playing 65 Saturday. He gave up just 1 reception for 16 yards on 3 targets.
-Raesjon Davis' 42 snaps were his second-most this season (60 vs. Nevada). He hadn't played since the Utah game. He finished with 4 tackles.
-USC had just 3 pressures, per PFF. That's hard to comprehend. Solomon Byrd had 2 and Bear Alexander had the other. The pass rush has gone off a cliff the last month.
-Mason Cobb had 5 missed tackles, Calen Bullock had 2 and Tackett Curtis, Standley Ta'ufo'ou and Domani Jackson had 1 each.
-Christian Roland-Wallace was only targeted twice, giving up 2 receptions for 89 yards. Domani Jackson was targeted twice, giving up 2 receptions for 70 yards. Not a good day for the cornerbacks.

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I don’t play the “look at his gloves!” game. It’s all for attention and rarely means anything. But, there ya have it.