Season will start and end with Cody Kessler


Quarterback. The only position that can bring about devout praise and unheralded hate in a single game. Every team, no matter the conference, surrounding players or level (pro or amateur), starts and ends with the quarterback. If you don’t believe me, just look at Alabama and LSU last year. Two stacked teams at every position […]

Sarkisian was let off too easily


Would it be a proper USC football offseason without some off-field problems? Of course not; it’s a program always under the national microscope, in a city so desperate for drama that it created The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. But even given that, Trojan football had another summer of very bad PR. Not just one, […]

USC Associate AD Mark Jackson named athletic director at Villanova


Senior Associate Director of Athletics and Chief Innovation Officer Mark Jackson was named the athletic director at Villanova University on Tuesday. Athletic Director Pat Haden, who’s worked alongside Jackson for about a half decade now, showed his support for Jackson. “Mark Jackson was an incredible asset to the Trojan family and, while we are sad […]

Coach Steve Sarkisian publicly addresses missteps at Salute to Troy event


Three days after reportedly speaking while intoxicated at USC’s annual Salute to Troy event, head football coach Steve Sarkisian publicly apologized to the media on Tuesday morning before practice in a press conference at Howard Jones Field. “I’d like to apologize for my behavior Saturday night,” Sarkisian said. “It was inappropriate. I feel bad for the […]