1) The laid back, lack of focus, no intensity training of the USC football team. When other conferences and teams make adjustments and beef up their training and practice, why should USC do the same? The other teams have obviously adapted enough to beat USC’s conservative and redundant play calling.

2) Why watch your opponents’ game footage and compare each team’s off the line speed??? If you compare side by side, the speed of each team, you will see the lightning speed of other teams versus the molasses quickness of USC’s runningbacks and overall team speed. If USC keeps this up, you might as well send all the upcoming seniors to the senior citizen’s home – they move just as fast.

3) False sense of superiority.
Please do not read or listen to the media about USC’s dominance because it just isn’t there. The hype is just that – all hype. It is one thing to give your players encouragement, but to give them a false sense of encouragement leads to disappointment and a losing season. Be realistic. Tell it like it is so they can work harder, faster and stronger. Without this, USC is looking at a 7 year Las Vegas Bowl run.

Did the coaching staff decide not to watch the Oreson Washington game the week prior? Did they really believe after the loss to Washington that the team was in an any type of bowl contention? Keep the training a few levels below the the top ten and we should see more games like the Oregon blowout. Hats off to Chip Kelly, his coaching staff, and the players. This season belongs to them.

Obviously, our players thought they were playing better than they actually were, and I can’t imagine why. Maybe they were watching different game tape?

In that respect, maybe it was time for us to be humbled, as much as it hurts. Going into any game thinking “it can’t happen to us” is a recipe for disaster. Confidence and talent and potential are great, but they are no substitute for hard work and perspiration and a sense of urgency.

We had it coming, but we’ll get it together I’m sure.