Interview list is Mason Cobb, Shane Lee, Josh Henson, Caleb Williams, MarShawn Lloyd, Brenden Rice, Tahj Washington, Justin Dedich, and Jonah Monheim.

LR a full length mirror he can gaze into to see who has caused the predicament SC is in. CEO takes the fall and arrows.

Filsaime remains committed to Florida but USC is among the programs looking to change that. More:

I would really like to know if the players that Donte recruits and is responsible for coaching up are any good. A lot of these guys are 4-5 star guys and most of the top colleges around the country had recruited most of them yet they have all been disappointing. Is it the system they are playing in, are they not coached up by Donte, are they all overrated? I would love to hear back from Ryan or anyone that is around the team. These guys looked lost, they get beat deep, they get beat all night playing soft, they look lost much of the time, they don't tackle well. Really to be honest they were a mess! So how much responsibility does Donte bare in all of this?

then Oregon at Autzen. I cannot stomach U of O in the playoffs, but it could realistically happen.

Another week, another bummer of a loss. For possibly the first time all year, the GTS pool actually picked over the score for the most part. In big part that was due to some clock grinding as the game really was basically over when Ore took the 2nd half kick and went down and scored to go up 3 scores. SC "held" Ore to only 36, but Ore scored or missed a FG on all but 1 drive. 1 punt forced, zero turnovers for SC on the game. Can't win many like that.

In GTS land, no one was too close this week, but @Bigtrojan78 pulls out the victory with a 13 just edging out @187Bruins who had a 14, and then a whole bunch more who were in the 16 to 19 range. Congrats on the win, @Bigtrojan78. We have one week left, so everyone make your final pick for a chance at glory and GTS immortality.

Season standings didn't change much. @Larr212121 continues to hold a good sized lead over me, with @trojan_a_1 sliding into 3rd, @cramwetzel dropping back to 4th and @187Bruins rounding out the top 5.

Good luck to everyone in the final week, and Fight On! Beat the Bruins!

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USC opened the first week of the season with two wins, and the Trojans are back in action tonight against UC Irvine at Galen Center. Boogie Ellis is out with an ankle injury tonight joining Kobe Johnson (knee) and Bronny James on the unavailable list for Andy Enfield.

Isaiah Collier, Oziyah Sellers, DJ Rodman, Arrinten Page and Joshua Morgan get the start for USC tonight.

This is in the practice thread too, but probably deserves its own conversation.

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Interviews today are Lincoln Riley, Shaun Nua, Jamil Muhammad, Makai Lemon, Shane Lee, Raesjon Davis, and Mason Cobb.

... most Heisman watch boards.

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That we just don't have the dogs to compete at an elite level at this point. Seeing Oregon WRs torch our secondary made this painfully clear. Regarding talent gap, I'm talking both sides of the ball, we are really an average Pac 12 team, when you really consider how we struggle against decent to great Pac 12 teams. Sure a lot of this was due to Grinch but our offense sucked as well. How many times did we see our OL fail to win the line of scrimmage? For me this season hurt much more than others given the huge expectations of making the CFP, and conference championship. Then watching us lose 4 out of our last 5 games was excruciating. Going forward we really need a total culture /mindset reset and recruit ALL POSITIONS not just WR and QBs. We need to stop the "..... we're so close narrative" because it is a lie. I think if CLR is too succeed at SC he will need to change and evolve to admit failure and finally realize that he can't win without a good defense. We need a tried and true elite DC not some risky prospect who only has unproven potential. Unfortunately the fact we are still talking about culture change and defensive struggles heading into year 3 of CLR is a huge concern. That's why it's so critical for him to get a top DC to at least shore that part of our game up. CLR will continue to recruit and develop top QB talent but it remains to be seen if he can have a dominant defense. There's no way they fire Riley anytime soon so we just need to hope and pray he can turn things around get our team headed on the right track through recruiting and player development.

Today they had Lincoln Riley and Tahj Washington. I'm working on the transcript for Lincoln Riley right now.

Trojans Live 11/13/23: Lincoln Riley, Tahj Washington and Maribel Flores

Buyout is upwards of $75M...

Here's what he said:

"Yeah, it could have gone either way. You're going to have to go for it at one point or another, and the good thing about going for it early is it defines what you need to do in terms of the onside kick and all of that. So, yeah, had a call that we liked -- just didn't quite execute it."

Evidently were UCLA recruits .. from the IE..

Another prematurely buried in the depth chart by the Grinch-o-nator and a disinterested HC?

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I don't understand todays players. It’s your prerogative to transfer but to post this on game day doesn’t reflect well as a teammate!
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250K goal. Help where you can

There was a rumor all week that the USC commit was going to visit FSU but he ended up not going and is locked in with the Trojans.

USC's Nov. 18 home football game against UCLA in the Coliseum will kick off at 12:30 p.m. PT. It will air live on ABC.

This likely won't be a popular opinion, but given their emergency appointments, what they had to contend as well as the injuries and lack of depth in battling CFB's best offense, our Co-DCs deserve credit IMO. Keep in mind, until last night, Nua/Odom had virtually no DC experience and were without the aid of their hyperfocused, offensive-minded HC.

Sure, our defense looked mighty shakey and at times quite inept, but bear in mind that not even Saban could've dislodged the Grinch-infused rot with just a couple of days of practice.

Peace, out!