Random thought: If the wind had not shifted mid-week in 1998...

We will
Catch them… give it time

USC is essentially a dead program

Nobody that lives today cares about those old titles.

It us and everyone else and it will be that way for a long long time.

Jay is going no where.

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USC is essentially a dead program

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No it’s not. They’ve put more emphasis on baseball recently. Hell they made it to their regional final this year.. they beat TCU who was the 2 in that regional 13-1 in the first game and then beat the 4 St Mary’s to stay in the winners bracket. Oregon State ended up beating them twice to make the supers (and eventually Omaha).

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They havent been to a CWS in 25 years Call me when they do that

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Ok. But that’s because they basically gave up on baseball. They have changed that and are making it a big focus with their move to the Big10. I bet they make it there within the next 5 years.

may not be dead, actually, but they do have to deal with ucla, and there is no getting around that… come to think of it, they are in different conferences right now, aren't they?… if so, then maybe they could get around ucla… but lots and lots of good baseball on the west coast…

do any of y'all remember when usc came here for regionals?… bob boone was head coach, and his sons were on rhe team, brett and , and mark smith, jacque jones,… can not remember all the stars who went on to be stars in mlb… they came here twice in the nineties, and both times, we won the regionals, but had to come back through the losers bracket… and both times, when we got to omaha, we did not win… beating usc in those regionals just took too much out of us… they were spectacularly entertaining games… i remember, late on a saturday afternoon, winners bracket finals (they beat us in both of those), mark smith was on third, jacque jones at bat, and they called a suicide squeeze play… you knew something was on, because smith all of a sudden went all antsinpants jumpy, and when he took off for the plate, the 3rd base crowd erupted, and the whole stadium caught that electric shock!!.. jones got the bunt down, and we almost caught smith anyway, but his long arms made it possible to slap the plate… those two series were spectacular, some of the best baseball i have ever experienced!!!… some of those games in the nineties were just unbelievable… there was a game in which rich cordani hit a three run homer for lsu to come back and win!!!... cordani's homer went straight down the 1st base line, but as it rose, the strong southerly wind pushed it more fair, and that ball went completely over the right field light tower!!!… place erupted… so many memories!!!…

1994 South Regional was the one where Jacque Jones went off. I was there. 3 HRs I think. He was playing left field and the fans were harassing him so bad through the first few innings. By the late innings when he took the field the left field fans were all chanting "Transfer! Transfer!"

I was in Omaha for the 1998 CWS. LSU beat USC the first Saturday game. Don’t remember the final score but it was hot as hell and we hit several home runs. Then the weather turned cold and we lost 5 to 4 and 7 to 4 to USC. I remember we threw out the Trojans catcher Munson at home in the game we lost 5 to 4. I was sitting near the USC dugout on the 3rd base side and jumped up and yelled you’re out about the same time the umpire made the call. Munson’s grandpa was sitting a couple rows in front of me and got all butthurt and whined to me that was his grandson.

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USC is essentially a dead program

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Totally agree. They were however given a life line by going to the big ten. They and UCLA have a tremendous weather advantage over the traditional big ten schools. This should over inflate their conference wins and allow them easier access to regionals going forward.

Time will tell if they can use that platform to rebuild the talent in the program, but who the hell wants to sign with USC and make cross country road trips to cold weather weekends in March and April?