Got the incoming frosh's schedules set up and made some adjustments to the upperclassmen as well.
Put the kids through two-a-days and got a sense of what we have for this year. Not quite comfortable with Lance Coe's scouting reports yet, we'll see how that works out. Just can't seem to keep a good Lead Scout more than two years.
Put together our starting lineup, which I hope will produce a lot better running game and some big play passing. Returning as our starting QB will be 5th year senior Malcolm Moreno, who has some scores to settle this season. If he's going to have a big year, this is it. He'll have extremely talented wideouts to throw to, 5th year senior Ronnie Wheeler and redshirt senior Richie Warrick. We hope to see a lot of big plays out of those two this year.
In the backfield with Moreno will be redshirt senior Warren Guthrie at Fullback, blocking for 5th year senior Tailback Aaron Castillo and redshirt junior Wingback Gabe Whalen. We're looking for a very big season from Castillo.
The offensive line will be anchored by junior OC Chester Hoffman. Hoffman returns for his third season as a starter. The guards will be senior Ed Fuller and sophomore Ernie Cheatham and the tackles will be 5th year senior Nathan Padgett and freshman Billy Joe Joyner. This unit will take some time to gel, but we should be able to run behind Hoffman, Fuller and Padgett a lot.
Over on the defensive side of things, redshirt senior Bert Duncan won the NT job in summer camp. He'll be flanked by 5th year senior Alonzo Chevrier and redshirt sophomore Freddie Stender at the ends.
We've got a solid corps of linebackers again this season led by redshirt junior SILB Tyrell Vaughn. The WILB will be redshirt sophomore Chad Berg. Joinging them on the outside will be redshirt sophomore WLB Johnny El Nino and redshirt junior SLB Riddick Taylor.
5th year senior Tyrell Lyons is one of the best CB's in college football and he'll be manning the shutdown corner post. Over on the other side of the field will be senior CB Mo Napiecek. At the safety positions will be freshman Joel Arvold at Strong Safety and junior Louie Finch at Free Safety.
The explosive Ronnie Wheeler will be returning punts and kickoffs this season. Handling the punting duties will be sophomore Brett Thornton and handling the placekicking chores will be redshirt senior Walter Perez.
I think this will be a pretty sound team. Whether we'll be as good as we looked in our first eight games last season, or as bad as we looked in our final three, well, I think we're a lot better than our final three games showed we were.
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The College Years
The University of Southern California Trojans
Roster/Scout Overview
From the Desk of Lance Coe, Lead Scout
Player # Pos Elig Current Estimate Future Estimate
Bernard, Walt 18 QB Sr* 37 100
Bjorke, Wayne 10 QB So* 22 89
Dole, Brock 9 QB Fr 35 100
Krieger, Jason 19 QB So* 37 78
Moreno, Malcolm 14 QB Sr 53 100
Rayburn, Mark 8 QB Sr* 48 100
Berberich, Ross 34 RB Sr* 62 83
Castillo, Aaron 21 RB Sr 69 93
Shultz, Mercury 37 RB Fr 48 70
Whalen, Gabe 25 RB Jr* 53 92
Vanderlaan, Levon 46 RB* Jr* 33 52
Book, Emmanuel 28 FB Fr 31 79
Guthrie, Warren 33 FB Sr* 47 75
Woolley, Jackie 40 FB Fr 20 72
Finley, Jeffrey 30 FB* So* 8 8
Irwin, Marty 80 TE* Sr 6 30
Shreves, Maurice 89 TE* Jr* 7 25
Specter, Jumbo 81 TE* Fr 3 11
Heekin, Sammy 86 WR Jr* 44 77
McConnell, Cole 2 WR Jr* 51 72
Morrison, Ron 82 WR Fr 47 100
Warrick, Richie 1 WR Sr* 60 76
Weiler, Darren 5 WR Sr* 28 46
Wheeler, Ronald 4 WR Sr 93 93
Erickson, Vinny 83 WR* Sr 9 23
Blackburn, Mitchell 58 C So* 35 76
Connell, Tim 53 C Sr* 21 53
Cook, Glenn 57 C So* 15 68
Hoffman, Chester 56 C Jr 55 72
Powell, Mark 52 C Sr 31 100
Rodriguez, Tony 50 C Jr* 22 81
Cheatham, Ernie 72 G So 35 63
Eliot, Frank 66 G Fr 33 63
Fuller, Ed 73 G Sr 51 91
Molina, Graham 64 G Fr 10 65
Pilgrim, Ty 68 G* Jr 8 27
Quinn, Leland 69 G* Jr* 1 1
Aska, Dana 74 T Fr 18 63
Blount, Hunter 67 T So* 24 68
Greene, Howie 76 T Sr 28 100
Harnisch, Vernon 62 T Jr* 27 50
Joyner, Billy Joe 75 T Fr 20 85
Kaplan, Gabe 63 T So* 33 78
Padgett, Nathan 61 T Sr 49 96
Thornton, Brett 12 P So 63 92
Brown, Robbie 15 P* Fr 1 1
Perez, Walter 11 K Sr* 54 84
Samuels, Zach 3 K So* 37 82
Buckley, Victor 16 K* Sr* 3 3
Aalders, Tracy 78 DE Jr 43 68
Chevrier, Alonzo 79 DE Sr 64 100
Stender, Freddie 90 DE So* 44 100
Sutton, William 93 DE Fr 18 73
Cobb, Colin 70 DE* Jr* 9 20
Choate, Clarence 71 DT Sr 26 58
Dragon, Tracy 92 DT Jr 38 78
Duncan, Bert 91 DT Sr* 42 85
Milton, Trent 77 DT Fr 15 94
Berg, Chad 45 ILB So* 37 96
Boone, Eric 96 ILB Sr 35 59
Pathon, Dale 97 ILB Fr 7 52
Sankey, Mo 55 ILB Sr* 32 78
Vaughn, Tyrell 41 ILB Jr 90 100
Vinnick, Brett 49 ILB So 43 88
Warren, Geoff 99 ILB Sr 35 62
Buckley, Reggie 48 OLB Jr* 39 100
El Nino, Johnnie 95 OLB So* 41 90
Holmes, Rick 47 OLB So* 32 81
Mazzeo, Tyrus 59 OLB Fr 11 71
Taylor, Riddick 98 OLB Jr* 52 80
Stagg, Jake 42 OLB* Jr* 16 50
Alexander, Sam 43 CB So* 29 43
Lyons, Tyrell 29 CB Sr 78 78
Majka, Roger 36 CB Sr* 45 97
Napiecek, Maurice 26 CB Sr 64 84
Reed, Buddy 44 CB Fr 20 67
Flowers, Tracy 32 CB* Sr* 27 44
Arvold, Joel 39 S Fr 36 66
Finch, Louie 38 S Jr 78 78
Griffin, Cris 24 S So 35 77
Korinek, Dwight 35 S Fr 23 55
Nordskov, Shaun 20 S Jr* 23 67
Etaton, Vinny 22 S* Sr 17 17