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Hey there everyone. I am a new student in the January Cohort of the MAT@USC program. I am very excited about joining USC, and have tried very hard to research as much about the traditions of the University of Southern California. I came here looking for advice and info. I am a graduate of the University of Alabama, and have been a fan of the Crimson Tide my entire life. I'm glad to add USC to my resume, and become a part of the Trojan family. I'm trying to do research so I can be as up on USC athletics as possible. Any and all info and assitance in my learning curve will be greatly appreciated.

Fight On,

Kyle

 

Also, Bix I miss you at RBR, so maybe I can keep up with your antics here now.

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Congradulations and welcome to the family!

The wikipedia page on USC football is pretty good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USC_Trojans_football#Rivalries
Other than that, you need to learn to recognize Tusk by Fleetwood Mac as we play it every time we beat ucla. Let’s see what else. Walking to the Colosseum from campus, you kick the streetlight for good luck. You must buy a danger dog at least once (bacon wrapped hotdog) outside the stadium. If you are a college football fan I’m sure you’ve seen the phrase “Fight On” which goes with flashing the V for victory sign. If you’ve watched a USC game before I guarantee you’ve heard our fight song since we play it just about every 30 seconds. The last song you need to learn is Conquest(college football’s greatest battle cry!). Finally Tommy Trojan sticks his sword in the ground at midfield which is both awesome and hilarious when it happens in other teams stadiums (like UCLA ha). I think I covered most of it but others may chime in

Drinking so much that you forget your name is like trying to cure cancer, it might not be possible, but you should never stop trying.

by Trojanbrand on Dec 6, 2010 5:02 PM PST reply actions  

Learn the alternative version of Sons of Westwood

(to Sons of Westwood)

High up in the hills of Westwood
Sprawled offensive to the eye
Lies a Cal extension campus
Known as Westwood High (high high high)
Home of all the Bruin bearcubs
UGLY is its name
The student body’s vile
The football team’s a pile
and the campus is a shame!

U (clap clap clap) G (clap clap clap) L (clap clap clap) Y (clap clap clap)
U G L Y Eat My Shorts!

Bruins are a bunch of ******s
Songgirls are a bunch of sluts
When they spread their legs so wide
they look like garbage trucks (good food!)
When we all go up to Westwood
Bruins are so gay
Each bruin in the band
his unit in his hand
will whack the night away!

In the locker room at halftime
Bruins give each other head
They congratulate the coach
by taking him to bed
When the bruins break the huddle
Pants will come back up
Each bruin on the squad
will surely shoot his wad
right in <enter quarterback’s name> mouth!

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 6, 2010 6:03 PM PST reply actions  

Ummm correction

These are the real lyrics. Not the alternates.

You’re welcome.

Frak

by frak on Dec 6, 2010 8:19 PM PST up reply actions  

glad to see its been put to good use...

At USC we're not snobs, we're just better than you.

by TrojanCBB on Dec 7, 2010 4:30 PM PST up reply actions  

Q: How do you keep a bRuin out of your backyard?
A: Paint it like an endzone

Q: What do you call a bRuin at a BCS Bowl game?
A: A ticket holder

Q: What does the average UCLA player get on his S.A.T.?
A: Drool.

Q: What do you get when you put 32 UCLA cheerleaders in one room?
A: A full set of teeth.

Q: How do you get a UCLA cheerleader into your dorm room?
A: Grease her hips and push.

Q: How do you get a UCLA graduate off your porch?
A: Pay him for the pizza.

Q: Why do the UCLA cheerleaders wear bibs?
A: To keep the tobacco juice off their uniforms.

Q: Why is the UCLA football team like a possum?
A: Because they play dead at home and get killed on the road.

Q: What are the longest three years of a UCLA football player’s life?
A: His freshman year.

Q: How many UCLA freshmen does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. That’s a sophomore course.

Q: Where was O.J. headed in the white Bronco?
A: UCLA. He knew that the police would never look there for a Heisman Trophy winner.

Q: Why is it so difficult to solve a murder in UCLA?
A: All the DNA is the same and there are no dental records.

Q. What do you call a UCLA grad with a Pac 10 Championship ring?
A. A thief.

Q. How many UCLA fans does it take to make popcorn?
A. Over 100. One to hold the pan, three to shake the stove,
one to hide the bong as the police arrive and the rest to complain
that they missed the recruiting party.

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 6, 2010 6:09 PM PST reply actions  

Q: Where was O.J. headed in the white Bronco?
A: UCLA. He knew that the police would never look there for a Heisman Trophy winner.

No love for Beban?? Will someone please think of Beban!

Also if you ever wander over to a UCLA blog you might note a new trend: instead of typing USC, they use weird combinations of wingdings. *$C seems common. Ok I get the $ thing but keep it under control.

by ilium55 on Dec 6, 2010 6:18 PM PST up reply actions  

Beban stole the trophy from OJ.

OJ should have won it two years in a row, but he was only a junior.

by frak on Dec 6, 2010 8:23 PM PST up reply actions  

Word

"Understanding is a virtue, hard to come by"
J. Airplane

by gnossos on Dec 6, 2010 8:35 PM PST up reply actions  

Stats 1967

Gary Beban- 1359 yards passing- 8 touchdowns 7-2-1 and lost to OJ in the ucla vs USC game.

OJ Simpson- 1451 yards rushing- 11 touchdowns- Won the National Championship

Despite the losses, Gary Beban would win the Heisman Trophy.19 O. J. Simpson would win the Heisman trophy the next season. The most common reason given is that Simpson was a junior, and would have a chance the next year. At the time, the Heisman trophy was rarely given to an underclassman.

by frak on Dec 7, 2010 9:40 AM PST up reply actions  

And now 3 straight Sophs have won it

And yet, none of them repeated. Crazy how things have changed over the years.

"I'm trashed like Oscar the Grouch. Quote That"- Shankapotomous

by morri029 on Dec 7, 2010 9:52 AM PST up reply actions  

While we are on it

Ricky Bell and Anthony Davis got screwed too.

by frak on Dec 7, 2010 9:57 AM PST up reply actions   1 recs

Bingo!

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 7, 2010 10:00 AM PST up reply actions  

Yep

Griffen should not have won two

"Understanding is a virtue, hard to come by"
J. Airplane

by gnossos on Dec 7, 2010 10:26 AM PST up reply actions  

OJ was poor, black and a JC transfer. The Downtown Athletic Club didn’t want to make history (or waves) back in 1967. Ernie Davis was the first black Heisman winner just four years earlier and a lot of crackers were still pissed off about it.

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 7, 2010 10:07 AM PST up reply actions  

Plus he had a great set of kneepads.

Lets face it the Bruins are superior in all aspects of life, heck I here they can wipe their Butts with their mind.

by so.cal.native1952 on Dec 7, 2010 7:48 AM PST up reply actions  

What do you get when you cross a ucla cheerleader and a pig?

Nothing…. there’s just some things a pig won’t do.

by frak on Dec 6, 2010 8:22 PM PST up reply actions  

How does a UCLA Bruin count to 10?

0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 0-4, 0-5, 0-6 …..

You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!

by DFWTrojan on Dec 6, 2010 10:41 PM PST up reply actions  

Take a stroll through Heritage hall

Buy a couple of videos at the bookstore.

Most importantly…. go to the games, and start participating in the tradition.

Meet the alumni. They will prop you up in the future. That’s where the family starts.

Good luck with your studies.

by frak on Dec 6, 2010 8:25 PM PST reply actions  

I wish I could

I am doing the MAT@USC online, but I plan on coming to L.A. sometime to visit and take it all in. Any suggestions of when or cheap places to stay?

"I'm trashed like Oscar the Grouch. Quote That"- Shankapotomous

by morri029 on Dec 7, 2010 6:29 AM PST up reply actions  

frak's house!

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 7, 2010 9:21 AM PST up reply actions  

I would

but i have a kid on the way, and no spare bedroom anymore. Not to mention I rented out my other property so thats a no go.

by frak on Dec 7, 2010 10:00 AM PST up reply actions  

But if you are looking for a hotel

I know the owners of the Casa Del Mar and Shutter’s in Santa Monica.

by frak on Dec 7, 2010 10:01 AM PST up reply actions  

Don't know anything about the area

But if it has recommendations, I feel better about not getting shot….
I will be commenting here a good bit, and when I head to LA we will try to get together.

"I'm trashed like Oscar the Grouch. Quote That"- Shankapotomous

by morri029 on Dec 7, 2010 10:16 AM PST up reply actions  

The area around USC (north of MLK, E. of Vermont, W. 110)

is pretty safe — I lived there for 4 years, no problems. Lots of University cops.

by ilium55 on Dec 7, 2010 10:25 AM PST up reply actions  

I live on Exposition and Budlong

On the south side of Expo, which is generally considered the rougher part of the area inhabited by USC students.

It’s a quiet neighborhood! It’s a little dirty, and the people are pretty poor… but I feel safe and the only sounds I ever hear are ice cream trucks, food carts, and parents walking their kids back and forth from the school bus stop.

"I have a commanding voice." - Ed Orgeron

by RabbitSC on Dec 7, 2010 10:30 AM PST up reply actions  

... and the ghetto bird.

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 7, 2010 10:44 AM PST up reply actions  

what's the ghetto bird?

You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!

by DFWTrojan on Dec 7, 2010 4:07 PM PST up reply actions  

chuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuch

"I have a commanding voice." - Ed Orgeron

by RabbitSC on Dec 7, 2010 4:44 PM PST up reply actions  

The ghetto bird

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 7, 2010 5:36 PM PST up reply actions  

Aaaahhhhh

a sound I remember well!

You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!

by DFWTrojan on Dec 7, 2010 8:35 PM PST up reply actions  

You don’t have these kind of fowl in North Dallas?

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 7, 2010 10:37 PM PST up reply actions  

Ha, no

no gangbangin’ allowed in Dallas proper. but, I sure do remember the thump thump thump at night around campus. kind of surreal. I had totally forgotten. TX has softened me!

You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!

by DFWTrojan on Dec 7, 2010 11:29 PM PST up reply actions  

Dude

I was at a football game in the South Oak Cliff area a few years back, and a ghetto bird flew near the stadium the entire game…it was something else haha.

Don't play F A G! Do not play F A G! Don't- (BLAST F). OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU (BLAST A) DOING?! I SAID NOT TO (BLAST G)!

by DFWTrojanTuba on Dec 12, 2010 3:51 AM PST up reply actions  

Yeah, Dallas does have a 'hood

but, it is tucked nicely and neatly away from the main sections of the city. LOL.

LA IS the hood, or the hood IS LA.

You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!

by DFWTrojan on Dec 12, 2010 11:44 AM PST up reply actions  

That is very true.

Don't play F A G! Do not play F A G! Don't- (BLAST F). OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU (BLAST A) DOING?! I SAID NOT TO (BLAST G)!

by DFWTrojanTuba on Dec 13, 2010 2:53 PM PST up reply actions  

Come on Frak

Those are two of the priciest hotels in the city

"Understanding is a virtue, hard to come by"
J. Airplane

by gnossos on Dec 7, 2010 10:28 AM PST up reply actions  

The Downtown Marriott

always has some kind of deal going on and it’s the official pre-game dorm for USC Football.

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 7, 2010 10:43 AM PST up reply actions  

Vagabond inn!!

"I have a commanding voice." - Ed Orgeron

by RabbitSC on Dec 7, 2010 11:45 AM PST up reply actions  

I think it's closer to La Taquiza

than any other hotel. So that’s a big point in its favor.

by Boy Howdy on Dec 8, 2010 7:59 AM PST up reply actions  

we've got a yogurtland over there now too

whoop whoop

"I have a commanding voice." - Ed Orgeron

by RabbitSC on Dec 8, 2010 9:20 AM PST up reply actions  

The Vagabond Hilton was

closest to the Trojan Barrel. You young dudes are so soft… we laugh at La Taquiza and Yoghurtland. Hahahaha!!!!

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 8, 2010 10:20 AM PST up reply actions  

Dude!

Baby on the way! Congratulations!

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 7, 2010 10:09 AM PST up reply actions  

I am waiting on a response on a job that I applied for

If I get it, I will go part time and graduate in May 2013, if not, I will go full time and Graduate in May 2012. If it’s 2012, I’ll probably wait, and come out then, if it’s 2013, I’ll probably make a trip one summer for a week in between. Any must sees?

"I'm trashed like Oscar the Grouch. Quote That"- Shankapotomous

by morri029 on Dec 7, 2010 10:45 AM PST reply actions  

Always remember

That UCLA to USC is like Auburn to Bama.

by Zoulou on Dec 7, 2010 1:21 PM PST reply actions  

Ahem, Auburn routinely has winning seasons and a real football tradition.
As far as ucla goes, well…

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 7, 2010 2:01 PM PST up reply actions  

UCLA and Auburn are actually very similar

Both Claim 1 NC (Snicker….Point)
UCLA has 17 Conference Titles AU has 11
AU has more AA, UCLA has a real stadium (Pat Dye Field at Jordan-Hare Stadium epitomizes Dump. Holds 86 and change and they can’t even consistently sell it out)

But I do see what your saying. And that sheBear seems gender confused.
Don’t know if you guys saw this out on the West Coast, but with Cam-Gate going on down on the shittiest village on the plains, when he walked into BDS for the Iron Bowl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQ8gv8BBJA

Someone lost their job over that. No worse than painting Tommy Trojan Powder Puff Blue.

"I'm trashed like Oscar the Grouch. Quote That"- Shankapotomous

by morri029 on Dec 7, 2010 2:44 PM PST up reply actions  

What...... The...... F*ck........

I don’t even have the words…..

"I'm trashed like Oscar the Grouch. Quote That"- Shankapotomous

by morri029 on Dec 7, 2010 4:07 PM PST up reply actions  

I am so so so so so so

sorry for you guys

"I'm trashed like Oscar the Grouch. Quote That"- Shankapotomous

by morri029 on Dec 7, 2010 6:48 PM PST up reply actions  

Them Bammers have absolutely no idea...

What we would do to have those effin barners instead :-P

U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 9, 2010 11:14 AM PST up reply actions  

I heard those guys hang with Tydides hangs with these guys, and was best lady at their wedding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvE5RWeCXr8

Lets face it the Bruins are superior in all aspects of life, heck I here they can wipe their Butts with their mind.

by so.cal.native1952 on Dec 9, 2010 3:32 PM PST up reply actions  

Btw, if it looks like Joe has boobs it's because "he" is a girl.

This explains a lot about the “problems” with ucla
Joe Bruin is a girl

UCLA junior Kristen Clemmons, the uber-effervescent Head Mascot, has been my den mother, choreographer and confidante this week. If I am going to be allowed the privilege of being Josie during a quarter of the biggest football game of the year, I needed to be schooled and cooled in All Things Josie. Junior Diana Martinez is my partner, Joe Bruin.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 7, 2010 2:30 PM PST up reply actions  

You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!

by DFWTrojan on Dec 7, 2010 4:10 PM PST up reply actions  

A Little Explainin, or . . . . . . Some Definition Addition?

First off, I’ll offer up a statement. However with it, there’s the realization that it actually proves itself. And then, I’ll provide proof without equations. Got it, we good? Aver. . .

“Every Trojan, is a Brojan- however, not ALL Brojans are Trojans”

The Math: I know AND know of- morri029. He’s as swell as they come, and as far as bloggin’-people are concerned: you won’t find any that are as funny, kind and nice. CC-usual suspects: we got ourselves a gentleman in our midst. (put it this way: we don’t HAVE ONE like him over here, . . . .wait a minute?) Ahem. . . .as I was ‘splainin’- RBR has a treasure trove of good people with great intellect and banter skills. And, practically many of the regulars over there I sincerely consider to be MY “bros”. And well, . . . . .by way of association- that would make ALL OF THEM- “my Brojans”. So, in effect, they’re Brojans, but definitely NOT Trojans.

I know of nothing more to be true than the first couple of words of my “statement” and so should everyone else here. No math required.

To conclude, CONGRATULATIONS MORRI029! “Huzzah!”

Son, you just became the world’s FIRST Brojan that BECAME a Trojan. (We’re living in a CC-colored world over here, in case anyone needed reminding?)

I realize this might be a little early but, FIGHT ON, Kyle! (and a most hearty with love: Roll Tide Roll!!!!!)

"Every rock that someone threw at me, I just used as a steppingstone." (Allen Bradford USC Tailback aka: "B-Rad"- Conquest Chronicles)

by BixBeiderbecke on Dec 8, 2010 12:04 AM PST reply actions  

Bix, I've missed you Brojan

You are the man, and with the depressing season we have had in Bama, I needed some of your great banter. Pete and OTS can make it depressing by telling the truth…. UGH.
Thanks for the kind words, and Fight On, and Roll Tide, if we ever play each other again the stadium will explode with awesomeness

"I'm trashed like Oscar the Grouch. Quote That"- Shankapotomous

by morri029 on Dec 8, 2010 7:53 PM PST up reply actions  

What's your deal?

Football season is here
U feeling Loco?

by M. AGRIPPA on Dec 8, 2010 9:00 PM PST up reply actions  

?

If it’s talking about the depressing season, I’m not using disappointing, just depressing. When you start the year preseason #1, and lose to 2/3 biggest rivals, and one of you biggest rivals is making a run at the NC, it’s depressing

"I'm trashed like Oscar the Grouch. Quote That"- Shankapotomous

by morri029 on Dec 9, 2010 8:26 AM PST up reply actions  

Pac-10 inside joke

"I have a commanding voice." - Ed Orgeron

by RabbitSC on Dec 9, 2010 9:12 AM PST up reply actions  

I'm guessing it's Harbaugh/Carroll Centric

"I'm trashed like Oscar the Grouch. Quote That"- Shankapotomous

by morri029 on Dec 9, 2010 9:19 AM PST up reply actions  

Yeah..

with a guy who runs like he has a thumb up his ass, and still has a losing record while playing for the damn NC

"I'm trashed like Oscar the Grouch. Quote That"- Shankapotomous

by morri029 on Dec 9, 2010 3:54 PM PST up reply actions   1 recs

Za-za-za-za . . . .

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!

"Every rock that someone threw at me, I just used as a steppingstone." (Allen Bradford USC Tailback aka: "B-Rad"- Conquest Chronicles)

by BixBeiderbecke on Dec 9, 2010 10:00 PM PST up reply actions  

& arrogance!

"Understanding is a virtue, hard to come by"
J. Airplane

by gnossos on Dec 8, 2010 10:14 PM PST up reply actions  

That's the ISH . . . .

. . . .(meaning: That’s the SHIT!)
. . . .(translation: You’re badass gnossos!)

morri029: Here’s what gnossos means- there’s this “perception problem” that students prowling the campus streets off Jefferson & Figueroa might have? (and the reality of it all, is that this perception couldn’t be further from the truth!)

Don’t get me wrong- the “old-money” element is still quite apparent, but the attitude and disposition of the student population, as a whole, is very low key.

Arrogance? No, not anymore than you’d find at any other private university.

Ambitious & driven? Yup, BINGO!

"Every rock that someone threw at me, I just used as a steppingstone." (Allen Bradford USC Tailback aka: "B-Rad"- Conquest Chronicles)

by BixBeiderbecke on Dec 9, 2010 2:16 PM PST up reply actions  

I agree with your post Bix

I was also referring to the “Lost Angeles Arrogance”

"Understanding is a virtue, hard to come by"
J. Airplane

by gnossos on Dec 9, 2010 6:27 PM PST up reply actions  

[okay, . . . .now I'm really cracking the heck up!]

You. Got. Me. (and here I thought it was all that “celebrity-like apathy”?)

"Every rock that someone threw at me, I just used as a steppingstone." (Allen Bradford USC Tailback aka: "B-Rad"- Conquest Chronicles)

by BixBeiderbecke on Dec 9, 2010 10:03 PM PST up reply actions  

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