USC Morning Buzz: The Plot Thickens Over Why An Offensive Player Is No. 55

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There seems to be no logical reason for an offensive player to wear No. 55, the most-hallowed number in his USC history and reserved for a top linebacker. But now we have conflicting reasons for how offensive lineman Toa Lobendahn is now No. 55.

“I asked for No. 54 but they just gave (55) to me,” Lobendahn said. “If (Steve Sarkisian) was to give me another number I’d wear it too.”

One problem: There is no No. 54 on the team.

Earlier in the spring, Sarkisian said Lobendahn was promised No. 55 by Lane Kiffin: “It was something that came up in conversation with the previous staff and it was the right thing to do. Somebody has to wear some numbers.”

43 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: The Plot Thickens Over Why An Offensive Player Is No. 55”

  4. Do all roads really lead to Lane Kiffin? This “story” has as much legs as Scottie’s story that Kiffin ordered the game footballs to be deflated.

    • that “story” helped run Kiff outta town, Jack.

      Kiff started the fight, and the wolfman calmly locked the door and did a Kenny Rodgers job on him…

      • Scott, you had absolutely no influence on Kiffin loosing his job. Wake up and smell the puss. Kiffin did a poor job of coaching under difficult times and lost his job for that reason. The only thing that was clear was your lack of professional journalism skills by repeatedly saying Kiffin was responsible for the balls being deflated.

        • and lying about his coaches Poll vote, and trying to set me up and the Number switching shenanigans etc etc etc

          but his ultimate undoing was trying to ban the wolfman from practice. blew up in his face and he never recovered. Lost the next game (Stanford) and kept losing….

          • Booting you from practice was Kiffin’s crowning achievement of his tenure and was a slap in your face… but no, that was not his undoing. Football is about winning not about putting up with media with a vendetta.

            You and the rest of the media totally blew it by not investigating the coaches poll controversy. You took it on face value that Kiffin lied, but the reality was Kiffin was telling the truth. How can that be you might ask? Kiffin did not vote USC #1 because he, like all other coaches in the poll, did not fill out the poll. They all have some underling fill it out and Kiffin never knew that the underling voted USC #1. The great story was never revealed that the coaches poll is a joke because none of the coaches assess the other teams each week and submit their own opinion in the poll. Kiffin almost blew it and accidentally reveal the coaches poll has no credibility. With a little work you could have uncovered the real story and made national headlines.

          • Funny how you mention the word “BORING”…and You Know who shows up…(to take CREDIT).
            fit Un!

          • Scottie: you slipped up and fell out of your faux persona by stating “… and trying to set me up…” Nobody tried to setup Charlie Bucket.

          • Not even the great Charlie Bucket is that clever and devious. To pull off such sublime duplicity, Bucket would have to rely on the assumption his every word is being parsed and analyzed by a fanatical fringe group and then couch the phraseology in a rushed defensive manner to give the illusion of a master mind momentarily letting his guard down and revealing his ultimate deception….I’m good, but I’m not THAT good.

          • There are more twists and turns in this Bucket character than a Hitchcock movie!

  5. I didn’t even go to that school and know that 55 is not “the most hallowed number in SCCC history.”

  6. Not to mention a defensive player could also have that number at the same time. That’s an SCCC journalism degree for ya.

  8. So Sarkiffin thinks he can fool the wolfman???

    Pshaw!! Like Kiff, this guy is WAY out of his depth trying to play checkers against the 3D Chess Master!!

    this is gonna be fun! Wolfman gonna TEAR YOU UP, yo!!

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