Wittek returns to practice field for USC
Despite the return of Wittek, the defense outplayed the offense on Tuesday afternoon.
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USC defense must blend old with new
Every year, across the country, the same thing happens: Schools hire a new head football coach or new assistants. Once spring practice starts, the new schemes and playbooks that each new coach brings are proclaimed to be so much better than those that came before. Sure enough, early returns on new USC Defensive Coordinator Clancy […]
Pendergast has eyes toward the future
The new defensive coordinator sees positives in a unit that underperformed last season.
USC practices in pads minus Wittek, Lee
Freshman safety Su’a Cravens picked off two passes during 11-on-11 drills on Tuesday.
Kiffin gambles with moving Tuerk to center
For all of his detractors who grumble about his predictable, cautious play-calling, no one can accuse USC head coach Lane Kiffin of not thinking outside the box in other ways. Of course, a great deal of that thinking has been controversial and not exactly aboveboard. News broke just last week that NCAA will institute, for […]
USC football kicks off first spring practice
Early enrollees and the rest of the Trojans practiced for more than two hours on Tuesday.
Questions abound for USC this spring
The countdown began as soon as USC departed El Paso, Texas, on New Year’s Eve. The countdown continued in earnest as head coach Lane Kiffin announced a perhaps less-than-desirable recruiting class on national signing day. But the countdown to the 2013 season now takes a backseat. Cue spring practice. Battered and bruised after a 7-6 […]
Kiffin ignoring biggest problem
Spring practice is right around the corner. Matt Barkley, Robert Woods, Khaled Holmes and Nickell Robey are making the rounds at the NFL Combine. This should be a period of positive thoughts and new beginnings for Trojans both past and present. Instead, the focus of USC football continues to be on a recurring topic […]
Kiffin announces three assistants to staff
USC’s three new assistant coaches have extensive college coaching experience.
Barkley is cautionary tale at NFL combine
If you told me a year ago that Matt Barkley wasn’t going to throw at the NFL Scouting Combine, I wouldn’t have batted an eye. Former top picks Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III also decided against showing off their arms at the league’s annual scouting bonanza, and it has been a popular choice among […]