Different Team

Here’s O.J. Mayo on the Trojans’ overtime win over Oregon.
“Over the last three or four weeks weve been talking about being more of a team and playing together and I think tonight that really showed.”

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Caesar’s Circle

Ed Donatell is expected to become the defensive coordinator at Washington, which is significant for USC because Donatell is one of Pete Carroll’s closest friends in coaching and part of the inner circle that also includes Tampa Bay defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin.
Donatell was the defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers and Atlanta Falcons and worked for the New York Jets last season. We hear he’s become a big fan of the 3-4 defense recently, even though he and Caesar are primarily 4-3 guys.

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We Told You

Now you know why we wrote before the Oregon State game that O.J. Mayo was eligible. From USC’s official press release on O.J. Mayo.
“The NCAA ruled it a violation, therefore at that time USC declared him ineligible and petitioned for his reinstatement.”
From the beginning, we expected USC’s aggressive compliance office to do this. And they proved us right.

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Mission Accomplished

There are reports Al Davis wants Lane Kiffin to resign. This follows Kiffin being overruled by Davis when firing defensive coordinator Rob Ryan. We previously mentioned Nick Holt’s name was mentioned for that job.
But don’t gloat about Kiffin getting fired, if it happens. He got what he wanted. He was an NFL head coach and now gets to put that on his resume. And he made a few million dollars.
All in all, he came out ahead.

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