I only mention that as an excuse to show you this video featuring tour pros Mahan, Bubba Watson, Ben Crane and Rickie Fowler. Open, but Hunter Mahan was a Trojan for a year before transferring to Oklahoma State. USC does not have any alums in the U.S."The Sports Curve" profiled USC football play-by-play man Pete Arbogast.Whitney Blaine talked to freshman QB Cody Kessler about the Mark Sanchez comparisons.Barkley talked to Max Kellerman on the radio this week about how he has no regrets playing his college career at USC.Three Trojans made the Lindy's preseason All-Pac-12 team.Michael Lev broke down a potential defensive switch for Devon Kennard.Matt Barkley has tweaked his throwing motion for 2011, reported Pedro Moura. Inside USC with Scott Wolf digs deep into USC Sports and brings to you Raw highlights, Interviews, Game Recaps, and more.Lacrosse is one of the fastest rising sports in California and USC is leading the way, wrote Chris Erskine of the LA Times.Given the all-around team success that we broke down yesterday, it is no surprise that USC is 12th in the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup.Just as USC takes each game one at a time, pollsters-especially those in the Coaches' Poll used for the BCS rankings-should do likewise. On the other hand, not to vote USC Number One in the Week Three poll is equally ridiculous. It will be a doubleheader as Oregon plays Georgia in the other game. Kansas State at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Nov. Kansas State USC (read Bronny James) will open the basketball season vs. But for a sportswriter to state that they are the best after only two games is ridiculous. 70 Comments BASKETBALL USC To Open Season Vs. The other huge plus, and perhaps the most important, is that the coaching staff has remained intact, allowing for continuity on offense, defense, and special teams.Īlso, the coaches have their own self-scouting system to discover their tendencies in various situations and make changes so they will be less predictable.įinally, the USC staff patterns various facets of its game after winning teams in the NFL like the Denver Broncos, the Indianapolis Colts, the New England Patriots, and the pro-style West Coast offense.Īll of these factors combined could make this the greatest USC team of the Pete Carroll era. But of course, that, too, remains to be seen.Īs for speed, they may not have anyone quite as fast as Reggie Bush, but for all-around team speed, I believe this is the fastest squad that Pete Carroll has fielded. I don’t think they would fold like Oregon did last year when they lost Dennis Dixon. But the Trojans could weather a key injury here and there and still come out on the winning end of the score. Now that is not to say that they are all equal in quality. Posted on Jby Scott Wolf The new USC Village project now has a residential college named after former USC defensive lineman Al Cowlings of the Wild Bunch/O.J. The Trojans are six deep at running back, nine deep at receiver, four deep at tight end, and four deep at quarterback. It definitely has the ability to withstand key injuries. What we do know is that Carroll’s current squad is deeper and faster than any other that he has had. No one really knows, but it might be as good as the 1972 squad, the best USC team of all time. Just as it was wrong for Wolf to look back at USC’s losses in previous year, it was just as wrong for Plaschke to look ahead and proclaim this to be Pete Carroll’s best team.Ĭould it be? Of course. The Oregon State game, a week from Thursday in Corvallis, will be the Trojans’ first Pac-10 game. We’ve only played two games and haven’t started conference play yet." When asked by a reporter if this was his best team, Pete Carroll said, "That’s risky business. In his Sunday column, Plaschke wrote that this was the best Trojan team of the Pete Carroll era. In this case, that title goes to Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times. So we go from the supreme USC critic to the supreme USC homer. Yet I believe it is equally wrong to project ahead. Should voters backpedal and look at games played in years past? Or should they concentrate on the games that have been played in the current season? He was also thinking about the upset loss to Oregon State in Corvallis two years ago. He was thinking about last year and the year before. No, that went to the Florida Gators, who didn’t even play.Īpparently, he felt that Florida extended a much better effort not playing than USC did in overwhelming Ohio State. So, Wolf voted USC for the Number Two spot? There was absolutely no comparison between the way the Bulldogs dodged a bullet against South Carolina and the way that USC manhandled Ohio State. The same Georgia Bulldogs that did not perform so well against the South Carolina Gamecocks.ĭid he even watch the Georgia-South Carolina game? It was Steve Spurrier's Gamecocks that fumbled the game away rather than the Mark Richt's Bulldogs actually winning it.
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