Answer Monday!

Q: What is being planned to celebrate the first anniversary of Mitch Mustain's enrollment at USC?

A: The Galen Center was deemed too small so we may move the festivities to the Coliseum with hopes of breaking the attendance of the Dodgers-Red Sox game. At that time, a statue of Mitch would be unveiled beside the naked statues at the peristyle end.

Q: Why have the number of USC Song Girls increased in number this year to 14 members? In the 1980s and 1990s, there were only seven or eight members of the squad and they ranged from very pretty to beautiful. Then by the dawn of this decade, the squad increased to 12 members and they became rather unattractive practically overnight. Now, there are suddenly 14 Song Girls and they quite poor in physical quality. So are the people in charge of Song Girl selection thinking that if the quality of the squad is quite poor, they should try to distract everyone with overwhelming quantity? Does this mean we'll be up to 50 Song Girls in a couple of years?

A: I really don't know much about this size increase. I do know from traveling around the Pac-10 that USC would rank first or second in terms of attractive co-eds. That was not true 10 years ago. Go to Tommy Trojan one day at noon one day and you could pick a squad blindfolded. So I don't know why there was a decline other than to blame the 70's dinosaurs on the selection committee. I think we need to hear from some ex-song girls on this matter.

Q: Regarding the apparent disappointment (by you and supposedly some other people at SC) about the walk-on football tape, is it because you think the tape should not have been released or is it because some assistant coach dropped some F-bombs?
If it's the former then I can somewhat understand. But if it's the latter then it is utterly ridiculous. It would mean you (and these other dudes) probably didn't attend a practice with the late great Marv Goux, a coach I wouldn't trade for any other. There is nothing wrong about using some profanity on the practice field.

A: I knew Marv Goux and heard him give motivational speeches. I've spent my entire career around football coaches and a lot of my friends are football coaches. So I am not naive enough to think profanity does not occur and it is not why people I've talked to are embarrassed by this video.
But since you brought it up, why would you release a tape full of profanity on a web site that is geared toward recruits? These days a recruit can easily be a 14 year old . . . or younger.