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I disdain the USC football program and its fans as much as any other red-blooded American.

But the article's biggest knock against them is underperformance.

I'm 55 years old and their program has had only 5 losing seasons in my lifetime.

Honestly the Holiday Bowl is sounding pretty good right now.

They earned their current (and currently totally undeserved…IMO) rep as the flag bearer of the Pac (and without whom said conference was a B-lister) with John McKay in the 60s. And they WERE good…better than almost everyone. And they remained quite good under John Robinson, although not quite what they’d been. But then there was a whole bunch of mediocrity and less for a long time until Pete Carroll showed up and they became world beaters again. Since “What’s your deal.”, though, they’ve managed a lot of 7-5. This year isn’t really an outlier to me.

Robinson just passed, age 89.

John Robinson, former USC football and Rams coach, dies at 89

[Mick]

1703013811[/url]']

I disdain the USC football program and its fans as much as any other red-blooded American.

But the article's biggest knock against them is underperformance.

I'm 55 years old and their program has had only 5 losing seasons in my lifetime.

Honestly the Holiday Bowl is sounding pretty good right now.

They earned their current (and currently totally undeserved…IMO) rep as the flag bearer of the Pac (and without whom said conference was a B-lister) with John McKay in the 60s. And they WERE good…better than almost everyone. And they remained quite good under John Robinson, although not quite what they’d been. But then there was a whole bunch of mediocrity and less for a long time until Pete Carroll showed up and they became world beaters again. Since “What’s your deal.”, though, they’ve managed a lot of 7-5. This year isn’t really an outlier to me.

Robinson just passed, age 89.

John Robinson, former USC football and Rams coach, dies at 89