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Old 01-16-2007, 04:10 PM   #101
beargrowlz
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Yeah

I was playing FOF2k7 since almost the day it came out and really played it and played it and played it - so much so that I just needed a break from it, then remembered how much I had enjoyed TCY and the fact that you've got player turnover every four (or five) years. I also like the chaos of the Bowl system - though I wish it's Bowl system was the pre-BCS anarchy where there was always an argument about who was national champion and there weren't automatic BCS seeded games.

I'd definitely recommend getting the game if you like college football. It looks like an antique compared to FOF2k7, but it's still a lot of fun.


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Old 01-16-2007, 04:16 PM   #102
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2015 Season (2nd Qtr)

2015 Season (2nd Qtr.)


WEEK 5
@ Oregon State (0-3) (PAC-10)
(USC -4) USC BCS RANK: #8

1st quarter grades came out, only two players with D's and 1 player with a D+. Gave all three of them a bunch of coaching blocs to help them get more study time.

OC Chester Hoffman and RG Ernie Cheatham just dominated the line of scrimmage opening holes for the Southern Cal running game with 9 key run blocks between them as USC took a solid road win over Oregon State 35-10.

Tailback Aaron Castillo led the Trojan running game with 122 yards and one touchdown on 27 carries while QB malcolm Moreno ran for 52 yards on 5 carries. Moreno also threw for 209 yards and 3 TD's, but also got picked twice.

It was a good, solid win on the road to open the PAC-10 season.

USC 35 -- Oregon State 10
PAC-10 (1-0) -- OVERALL (3-0)

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WEEK 6
@ Oregon (2-2) (PAC-10) *TV3*
(USC -10) USC BCS RANK: #7

We stay in the great state of Oregon again this week, playing the Ducks of the University of Oregon after our solid win against the Beavers of Oregon State.

Three recruits signed letters of intent to play for USC next season. They are; J.B. Wilson, an 80++ (ranked #4) running back from North Cedar High School in Stanwood, Iowa; Albert Wilcox, a 70++ (rank #66) defensive tackle from Glendora High School in Glendora, California; and Max Fitzgerald, an 82- (Rank #45) cornerback from Atwater High School in Atwater, California. Three very good early signings.

OLB Riddick Taylor and WR Ronnie Wheeler look like they'll be out for the year after last week's game. That hurts.

It was a defensive struggle all day with DE Alonzo Chevrier leading the way to a Trojans road win, 19-14 at Oregon.

Chevrier made 7 tackles while assisting on 2 others while sacking the Ducks QB twice on the day. SILB Tyrell Vaughn added 8 tackles to help shutdown the Duck offense.

Kicker Walter Perez booted 4 field goals and the lone USC touchdown came on a 3 yard pass from Malcolm Moreno to Richie Warrick.

A tough win, but a win nonetheless.

USC 19 -- Oregon 14
PAC-10 (2-0) -- OVERALL (4-0)

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WEEK 7
vs. California (3-1) (PAC-10) *TV3*
(USC -14) USC BCS RANK: #5

We're really getting hit by the injury bug early this season. Tyrell Lyons chose this week to come down with tonsilitis - when I was a kid they used to take our tonsils out when we were like 3. I remember watching the moon landing and sucking on grape popsicles in the hospital in the wee hours of the morning when we walked on the moon. Now they wait till college and disrupt football season.

The marvels of medical science.

We lost a DE we had recruit to UCLA, but landed two other erecruit this week. I have no doubt that because UCLA landed him, the DE will go on to be the next Richard Seymour. That's life.

Signing with us were Bobby Burgess, a 68++ (rank #100) offensive tackle from Tillamook High School in Tillamook, Oregon and Rodney Gardner, a kicker from Slater High School in Slater, Missouri. Gardner was the best kicker available in this year's recruiting class and is rated a 93+.

We could get no ground game going this week, but s tingy Southern Cal defense held the Gilden Bears to 166 total yards of offense, Walter Perez kicked 3 field goals and QB Malcolm Moreno seemed to be getting untracked as USC held on for a 14-14 nailbiter against Cal.

The USC defense was so dominating that it held Cal to 0.4 yards per carry on 20 carries, led by LB's Brett Vinnick, Tyrell Vaughn and Johnny El Nino, who made 5, 4, and 4 tackles respectively. This left Cal with no choice to throw the ball, where the Trojan pass rush pressured the Golden Bear QB all day recording 4 sacks, two of them by DE Alonzo Chevrier.

On offense it was all QB Malcolm Moreno, who put it all together this week to go 18/31 for 266 yards and one touchdown pass - that to WR Richie Warrick who had 3 catches for 79 yards.

It was a very hard fought victory for USC, but we'll take it.

USC 16 -- California 14
PAC-10 (3-0) -- OVERALL (5-0)

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WEEK 8
vs. Arizona State (0-5) (PAC-10)
(USC -36) USC BCS RANK: #3

Our solid, if unspectacular play has vaulted us to #3 in the nation this week, just behind Virginia and Florida. Out for this week's game will be WR Ronnie Wheeler, ILB Chad Berg and OLB Riddick Taylor.

Landed two more recruit this week. Lester Kirkwood, an offensive tackle from Pueblo High School in Tucson, Arizona and Andrew Francis, a defensive tackle from Malibu High School in Malibu, California both signed letters of intent to play for USC in 2016. Kirkwood is a 67+ OT ranked 94th in his recruiting class. Francis is an 83-- DT who was ranked 32nd in his recruiting class, but I wasn' all that impressed with him. Still, he'll provide some solid depth at the nose if nothing else.

In what was mostly a defensive struggle for the 1st quarter, ASU struck first with 3:20 left in the 1st on a 79 yard touchdown bomb to take a 7-0 lead after one.

The Trojans wouldn't allow another point all day.

The stifling defense of Southern Cal, led by DE Alonzo Chevrier and his 7 tackles and 3.5 sacks, sacked the Sun Devil QB 8 times and held ASU to 33 yards rushing on 19 carries, and 115 total yards of offense on the day.

Offensively, after a sluggish 1st quarter in which ASU held the Trojans scoreless, 5th year senior QB Malcolm Moreno erupted for what was easily his best game of the year to date, passing for over 400 yards on a 26 for 36 day.

Three Southern Cal receivers broke the hundred yard mark on the day - Wingback Gabe Whalen made 9 catches for 116 yards, WR Cole McConnell had 7 grabs for 129 yards and Richie Warrick had 6 receptions for 112 yards and the lone USC touchdown through the air.

On the ground the Sun Devils were mostly successful in holding Tailback Aaron Castillo in check, limiting him to 93 yards and 1 TD on 26 carries (3.5 ypc) but Wingback Gabe Whalen, who had a fabulous all around performance today, ran for 65 yards and 3 touchdowns on 13 carries (5.0 ypc).

All in all once we woke up we played a thoroughly dominating game. Good win.

USC 47 -- Arizona State 7
PAC-10 (4-0) -- OVERALL (6-0)

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WEEK 9 BCS RANKINGS

Code:
The College Years Week 9, 2015 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Florida 7-0 SEC 1.50 1.00 0.00 3.80 6.30 1 Virginia 5-0 ACC 2.50 3.50 0.00 3.56 9.56 2 Iowa 6-0 B10 4.25 3.00 0.00 4.44 11.69 3 Syracuse 6-0 BGE 4.75 3.50 0.00 4.64 12.89 4 **Southern California 6-0 P10 3.50 8.50 0.00 4.56 16.56 5 Keene State 7-0 NNE 10.50 4.00 0.00 4.92 19.42 6 Toledo 6-1 MAC 6.50 12.50 1.00 0.88 20.88 7 Texas A&M 5-1 B12 11.00 6.00 1.00 3.00 21.00 8 Notre Dame 6-1 IND 9.25 10.00 1.00 4.12 24.37 9 Penn State 5-1 B10 13.00 11.00 1.00 4.28 29.28 10 Nebraska 6-0 B12 19.00 7.50 0.00 4.68 31.18 11 Wisconsin 7-1 B10 13.75 12.50 1.00 4.52 31.77 12 Oklahoma 5-1 B12 11.50 17.50 1.00 1.88 31.88 13 Miami of Ohio 5-1 MAC 9.50 21.00 1.00 1.96 33.46 14 Michigan 4-2 B10 18.75 15.00 2.00 0.36 36.11 15 UCLA 6-1 P10 24.25 8.00 1.00 4.48 37.73 16 Rice 4-1 WAC 16.50 17.50 1.00 3.36 38.36 17 Texas Christian 4-1 USA 18.50 16.50 1.00 2.60 38.60 18 Southern Methodist 5-1 WAC 17.00 21.00 1.00 3.32 42.32 19 Colorado 5-1 B12 11.00 29.00 1.00 2.64 43.64 20 Alabama 5-1 SEC 23.75 18.00 1.00 3.92 46.67 21 Tulsa 5-2 WAC 10.25 36.00 2.00 0.12 48.37 22 North Texas 5-1 SUN 17.75 28.50 1.00 2.12 49.37 23 Louisiana-Lafayette 4-1 SUN 21.00 25.00 1.00 2.40 49.40 24 Louisville 5-1 USA 27.00 17.50 1.00 4.96 50.46 25

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Old 01-16-2007, 05:41 PM   #103
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Wow bear, you have really set-up Keene State. Will they ever get a shot at the national title? Very well-written dynasty.

edited for spelling.

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Old 01-16-2007, 06:30 PM   #104
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Marathoner,

I think I did a solid job recruiting and building the program the four seasons I was there, as well as building up the program's prestige.

I don't think however, that as long as an AI coach is controlling them, they'll ever get to play for a national title. That's mainly because of the way the BCS rankings in the game are calculated. Strength of schedule counts for just enough to keep them out of one of the top two spots in the rankings. A human coach could make up for the weak NNE conference and schedule they play, along with the annual Northen Illinois game, by scheduling two Top 5 or Top 10 opponents.

But the AI isn't likely to schedule those games for them, so while they may make a BCS Bowl Game (Top 8 teams), they probably won't get to the National Championship game.

(Wouldn't it rock if TCY were multiplayer?)

And thanks again for the read and compliments!


-Bear

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Old 01-16-2007, 08:20 PM   #105
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2015 Season (3rd Qtr)

2015 SEASON (3rd Qtr.)


WEEK 9
@ Stanford (5-1) (PAC-10) *TV2*
(USC -13) USC RANK: #5

Wheeler, Berg and Taylor will all be out for this week's game again - and likely the rest of the season. Tailback Aaron Castillo has been listed probable almost all season with a brusied rib cage - same again this week.

Have I mentioned how much I hate it when a new walk-on shows up with a failing grade? When your team loses players to injuries, new walk-ons come out for the team. Normally, if the kid shows up with a failing grade, I cut him and tell him to go to the library and study. In this case, the kid is popular with the rest of the squad, so instead of hurting team morale I allocated a bunch of coaching blocs to him. had two players with D-'s, so allocated blocs to them and 3 players with D's, so I gave them some. A bit worse than 1st quarter grades.

Good news on the recruiting front as we land three recruits this week. Pat Oxendine, a quarterback from East High School in Morristown, Tennessee, Louis Ballard, an offensive guard from Chenango Valley High School in Binghamton, New York and R.J. Lackey, a 76- (rank #45) defensive end from Mountain Valley High School in Rumford, Maine all signed letters of intent to play for Southern Cal next season.

Oxendine is the #6th ranked recruit in the nation and is scouted as an 80+ QB and the second best signal caller in this year's recruiting class. Our scout says he likes to run all the time but alas, his high school stats suggest otherwise. He comes with terrific academics and comes from high school with very good academic and athletic prep programs.

Ballard was the 19th ranked recruit in the nation and was scouted as an 86++ - he looked far better than the 86 my scout gave him, which was an excellent rating to begin with. Ballard's specialty is run blocking, which we need more of here at Southern Cal. His grades are average, nothing spectacular, though his prep athletic program was good - though not great.

That brings our recruiting class to 10. We can sign up to 16 players to letters of intent, but only have 15 scholarships available due to redshirting (I think I may "over-redshirt" in that I don't like to waste a year of a very good player's eligibility sitting on the bench as a backup that may play occassionally, but YMMV), so we may end up recruiting someone to walk-on nearer to the end of the season.

Southern Cal OC Chester Hoffman and FB Warren Guthrie dominated the line of scrimmage, throwing 6 and 5 key run blocks respectively as they opened up holes for Tailback Aaron Castillo all day en route to a 24-6 Trojan victory at Stanford.

Offensive Coordinator Randy Edwards just kept calling Tailback Castillo's number all day as Castillo had a whopping 44 carries, gaining 202 yards (4.5 ypc) while running for one touchdown as the USC running game controlled the ball for over 38 minutes.

Richie Warrick had a solid day at wideout, making 5 catches for 81 yards and hauling in a touchdown pass from Malcom Moreno. Moreno was quiet most of the day, going 10/22 for 143 yards while throwing the one touchdown to Warrick and getting picked once.

On defense the Trojans shut down the Cardinal in fine fashion. Nickel back Roger Majka ran an INT back for a touchdown while redshirt sophomore Rick Holmes, starting in place of injured OLB Riddick Taylor, had two sacks. CB Tyrell Lyons had two picks and the Trojan D had five interceptions on the day.

Even though we didn't put a ton of points on the board, we dominated every facet of the game, especially on defense, where we held the Cardinal to 10 net yards rushing on 19 carries and 115 net yards altogether.

We're playing pretty solid football, particularly on defense. Now if Malcom Moreno could just get untracked and our running attack be a little more consistent, that'd be some truly good news.

USC 24 -- Stanford 6
PAC-10 (5-0) -- OVERALL (7-0)

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WEEK 10
@ Washington (5-2) (PAC-10)
(USC -5) USC BCS RANK: #6

No new injuries to report, and Castillo is still probable.

Both UCLA and us are 5-0 in the PAC-10, everyone else has lost at least a game to date. We just need to keep playing hard and taking them one game at a time and things will fall as they may.

We landed another big offensive lineman recruiting this week as Nate Lauvray, an offensive guard from Wethersfield High School in Wethersfield, Connecticut signed a letter of intent with USC. Lauvray is scouted at 84-- whose specialty is run blocking. He has very good grades and comes from a very solid academic program, but only a fair athletic program. He'll be a project.

QB Malcolm Moreno lit a fire under the Trojans this week, leading the way to a dominating win over the Washington Huskies, 44-10.

Moreno had a big day passing going 17/25 for 292 yards while tossing two touchdown passes - one of them an 86 yard strike to Wingback Gabe Whalen, who had three receptions for 102 yards on the day.

And then it was all defense and the special teams of the Trojans as SILB Tyrell Vaughn returned an INT for a touchdown and Mo Napiecek returned a punt for a touchdown and the rout was on, leading to a very big road win against a solid Huskie program.

USC 44 -- Washington 10
PAC-10 (6-0) -- OVERALL (8-0)

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WEEK 11
vs. Arizona (0-8) (PAC-10)
(USC -39) USC BCS RANK: #4

Injury list the same as it has been; Berg, Wheeler and Taylor listed as out; Castillo as probable.

Deja vu all over again it seems. We lost to an 0-8 Arizona team last season that started our downward spiral out of conference (and national?) championship hopes and into the Liberty Bowl. This year the boys say they are more mentally prepared and have a score to setle with the Wildcats.

We'll see.

We had one more recruit sign a letter with us this week, Edwin Kidman, a wide receiver from Glencoe High School in Hillsboro, Oregon. Kidman is a 70++ receiver who is an outstanding punt returner. He comes to us from a school with an outstanding academic program and very solid grades. The atheletic program is fair to good.

We seem to be getting more players from the Pacific Northwest these days - maybe I'm just recruiting more up there, but as three of our PAC-10 opponents are from Washington state and Oregon, it's nice to win kids over from their backyards.

Invited a number of students to come to visit campus and come out for the program as walk-ons. Most were high academic types with good skill sets but under-recruited because they come from programs with poor athletic prep. As they'll be back of the roster types, that should work out fine for us and them - and you never know, one may turn out to be a solid contributor one day. But at least they won't be academic problems.

Arizona opened the game 9 minutes into it with a field goal. Then Safety Louie finch returned the ensuing kickoff for a touchdown and we never looked back, vengeance on the minds of the men of troy as we built a 31-3 lead at the half on the way to a dominating 52-6 victory over the Wildcats.

The passing attack was quiet all day - wasn't much need for it and backup Mark Rayburn played a good part of the game as Malcolm Moreno got much of the second half off.

Backs Aaron Castillo and Gabe Whalen had a field day running through the Arizona front seven, with Castillo galloping for 120 yards and four touchdowns on 21 carries (5.7 ypc) and Whalen rushing for 70 yards and a TD on 16 carries (4.3 ypc). Much of their success was due to the blocking of OC Chester Hoffman who had a terrific 6 key run blocks on the day.

Defensively DE Alonzo Chevrier got to the Wildcat QB 2.5 times and backup Safety Shaun Nordskov had two picks as we dominated all facets of the game.

And with UCLA's 16-14 loss at home to Stanford in Week 10, and their one point home loss to Cal this week, we are the only PAC-10 team undefeated - every other PAC-10 team has at least two losses. That means, that with our dominant win this week, we just captured our first PAC-10 Conference Championship of my tenure here at Southern Cal.

Damn that feels good. And give what Zona did to us last year, couldn't have worked out beter than to clinch by beating them, and beating them badly.

We've got two games left - one at Notre Dame and one at home against UCLA. We need to maintain our intensity.

Because now there's a lot more at stake than just the PAC-10 title.

USC 52 -- Arizona 6
PAC-10 (7-0) -- OVERALL (9-0)

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WEEK 12
@ #9 Notre Dame (7-1) *TV5*
(ND -2) USC BCS RANK: #4

A big showdown this week in South Bend. This will easily be our toughest game of the year. The Irish blew us out last year en route to the National Championship Game. This year, the boys have some more vengeance to take. Let's see if they can do what it takes to win.

Starting OT Nathan Padgett is added to the injury list as probable. Castillo remains probable. Same guys are out as all year.

We landed two more recruits this week, Renaldo Elder, a 75++ (rank #25) inside linebacker from Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark, New Jersey and Artie Waugh, a 65+ safety from Glen Ridge High School in Glen Ridge, New Jersey have committed to USC for next season. turned out to be another very solid recruiting year for us.

At this point, we have two slots left open in our recruiting class. We have one scholarship remaining and one offer out there. We also have offerred four players walk-on spots, but I think the way it works is that only one will be able to accept because you're limited to a recruiting class of 16.

Well, we just weren't able to stay with the Fighting Irish, it was a game for the first half but they blew it open in the 3rd quarter. We couldn't run the ball or pass the ball against that defense, and eventually they just wore us down, beating us 34-10.

Our lone touchdown came on a Malcolm Moreno pass to wideout Richie Warrick, who had only two receptions on the day. Defensively Alonzo Chevrier got to the Irish QB twice and NT Bert Duncan had a sack and a half.

A tough loss, but not a heartbreaking one - we just didn't have the hosses to stay with them. Maybe next year.

Notre Dame 34 -- USC 10
PAC-10 (7-0) -- OVERALL (9-1)

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WEEK 13 BCS RANKINGS

Code:
The College Years Week 13, 2015 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Florida 10-0 SEC 2.00 1.00 0.00 4.00 7.00 1 Virginia 9-0 ACC 1.25 3.00 0.00 4.80 9.05 2 Iowa 9-0 B10 3.50 3.00 0.00 4.16 10.66 3 Syracuse 9-0 BGE 5.00 3.00 0.00 4.96 12.96 4 Texas A&M 8-1 B12 7.25 5.00 1.00 2.32 15.57 5 Toledo 8-1 MAC 5.50 10.50 1.00 1.08 18.08 6 Notre Dame 8-1 IND 9.00 6.50 1.00 2.80 19.30 7 Rice 8-1 WAC 5.50 10.00 1.00 4.64 21.14 8 **Southern California 9-1 P10 8.75 10.00 1.00 3.80 23.55 9 Keene State 9-1 NNE 11.75 6.50 1.00 5.00 24.25 10 Wisconsin 10-1 B10 9.75 9.50 1.00 4.52 24.77 11 Louisville 8-1 USA 9.75 12.50 1.00 4.88 28.13 12 South Florida 9-1 USA 12.75 11.50 1.00 4.44 29.69 13 Penn State 8-2 B10 12.00 13.00 2.00 3.72 30.72 14 Michigan 7-3 B10 12.25 15.50 3.00 0.12 30.87 15 Virginia Tech 8-1 ACC 18.00 19.50 1.00 4.76 43.26 16 Hawaii 8-2 WAC 20.00 18.50 2.00 3.48 43.98 17 Nebraska 8-2 B12 22.75 16.00 2.00 4.32 45.07 18 Pittsburgh 7-2 BGE 17.25 25.50 2.00 2.20 46.95 19 Baylor 9-1 B12 13.00 29.00 1.00 4.40 47.40 20 Bowling Green 8-2 MAC 20.25 23.00 2.00 3.76 49.01 21 Middle Tennessee State 8-1 SUN 21.75 22.00 1.00 4.92 49.67 22 California 7-2 P10 23.50 21.50 2.00 4.48 51.48 23 Boston College 8-2 BGE 25.50 20.00 2.00 4.36 51.86 24 San Diego State 8-2 MTW 21.25 26.00 2.00 3.20 52.45 25



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Old 01-16-2007, 09:12 PM   #106
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2015 Season (4th Qtr.)

2015 SEASON (4TH Qtr.)


WEEK 13
vs. UCLA (7-3) (PAC-10) *TV4*
(USC -7) USC RANK: #9

Even though we've already clinched the PAC-10 championship -woo! - this game is BIG in more ways than one. We're ranked #9 in the BCS rankings. We're close enough in the rankings that with a win here, we might be able to creep into one of the top 8 BCS spots and go to a BCS Bowl Game. That'd be a super huge accomplishment for our program and tremendous progress after a real downer of a season last year.

Oh, and besides, the alumni want this one real bad.

No changes to our injury list, good or bad.

Quarterly grades came out, three D-'s and one D+, major improvement from last quarter. Gave out a bunch of coaching blocs to those four students and still have 15 blocs left for the 4th quarter grades before finals. Two of the four players are walk-ons - grr.

Deron O'Neal, a 60+ outside linebacker from Chatsworth High School in Chatsworth, California accepted the last scholarship we could offer this season. Now we just wait to see if any of the players we invited accepts a walk-on spot.

96.600 fans at the Rose Bowl sat in stunned silence as UCLA returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown. 9:30 into the game the Bruins added another touchdown and it looked like UCLA was going to win in a walk.

They wouldn't score again.

Tailback Aaron Castillo then took over the game, rushing for four touchdowns and WR Cole McConnell, playing in place of the injured Ronnie Wheeler made 10 receptions for 144 yards and a touchdown as Southern Cal put up 41 unanswered points en route to a crowd pleasing 41-14 win over our arch-rival the UCLA Bruins.

QB Malcolm Moreno had a fantastic day passing against the Bruin secondary, going 26/35 for 342 yards and one touchdown as he stayed mistake free the entire game. Aside from hitting McConnell ten times, Moreno also hit wideout Richie Warrick 5 times for 93 yards in a winning effort.

Castillo did not have a great day statistically - aside from the four, rather important touchdowns that is - as he ran for 145 yards on 38 carries (3.8 ypc), but he got the yards he needed to when it counted.

The defense came up big again, allowing only 119 total yards on the day and limiting the Bruins to 42 net yards rushing on 19 carries.

Just how dominating was the defense after UCLA's 1st quarter scoring drive? Here's a look at the Bruins drive chart.

Code:
UCLA Drive Chart Quar Began Poss From Plays Yards Result 1 11:56 2:36 OWN 42 6 58 Touchdown 1 2:29 1:22 OWN 26 3 -3 Punt 2 9:12 4:32 OWN 30 7 35 Downs 2 2:58 2:00 OWN 22 4 16 Punt 2 0:10 0:10 OWN 20 1 -1 Half 3 10:34 0:58 OWN 20 3 -3 Punt 3 7:50 1:30 OWN 27 3 7 Punt 3 2:43 1:57 OWN 20 4 14 Punt 4 10:35 0:37 OWN 20 3 0 Punt 4 8:44 0:31 OWN 36 3 0 Punt 4 4:39 0:33 OPP 47 4 0 Interception 4 2:25 1:46 OWN 18 3 -4 Punt


Bucky Riley's defense played simply amazing.

Credit also needs to go to Offensive coordinator Randy Edwards and his play calling, whose offense controlled the ball for over 41 minutes in this big, big win.

So we go a perfect 8-0 in the PAC-10 and win the conference championship, and beat our arch rival UCLA to boot.

One terrific year.

Now let's see where we end up bowl game-wise.

USC 41 -- UCLA 14
PAC-10 (8-0) -- OVERALL (10-1)

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WEEK 14
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #6

That big win catapulted us back into the top eight at #6. Hopefully we can stay in the top eight through conference championship week - then we'll go to a BCS Bowl.

PAC-10 (7-0) -- OVERALL (9-1)

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WEEK 15
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #6

We stayed at #6, that's good news.

We're hoping Caly boy OC Cornell Ours, a 53+ OC accepts our walk-on offer. He's decent academically and probably won't be much more than an end of the bench player, but he's better than most walk-ons, academically and athletically, that we usually get.

PAC-10 (8-0) -- OVERALL (10-1)

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WEEK 16
MINOR BOWL TIER
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #7

We got word, we'll be going to the Fiesta Bowl to play #4 Virginia (11-0). Truly outstanding for our program.

Cornell Ours, a center from Bret Harte Union High School in Angels Camp, California, has agreed to come out as a walk-on for USC next season, filling out our recruiting class.

PAC-10 (8-0) -- OVERALL (10-1)

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WEEK 17 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 17, 2015 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Iowa 11-0 B10 1.25 2.50 0.00 2.84 6.59 1 Florida 12-0 SEC 2.50 1.00 0.00 3.76 7.26 2 Texas A&M 11-1 B12 2.25 4.00 1.00 0.76 8.01 3 Virginia 11-0 ACC 3.00 2.50 0.00 4.80 10.30 4 Syracuse 10-1 BGE 6.25 5.50 1.00 4.44 17.19 5 **Southern California 10-1 P10 6.50 8.00 1.00 3.48 18.98 6 Rice 10-1 WAC 6.75 7.50 1.00 4.88 20.13 7 Keene State 11-1 NNE 10.00 5.50 1.00 5.00 21.50 8 Toledo 11-2 MAC 11.75 12.00 2.00 1.16 26.91 9 Notre Dame 9-2 IND 12.75 10.50 2.00 3.12 28.37 10 Hawaii 10-2 WAC 9.75 15.50 2.00 3.32 30.57 11 Penn State 9-2 B10 15.25 9.50 2.00 3.84 30.59 12 Michigan 8-3 B10 12.75 15.50 3.00 0.12 31.37 13 South Florida 10-1 USA 16.00 9.50 1.00 4.96 31.46 14 San Diego State 9-2 MTW 14.25 19.00 2.00 2.76 38.01 15 Pittsburgh 9-3 BGE 11.00 24.00 3.00 0.04 38.04 16 Wisconsin 10-2 B10 19.00 13.50 2.00 4.48 38.98 17 Boston College 9-2 BGE 17.50 17.50 2.00 4.00 41.00 18 California 9-2 P10 18.50 16.50 2.00 4.24 41.24 19 Miami of Ohio 10-3 MAC 16.50 21.50 3.00 2.04 43.04 20 Louisville 10-2 USA 22.00 14.50 2.00 4.68 43.18 21 Middle Tennessee State 10-2 SUN 20.50 23.50 2.00 4.60 50.60 22 Tulsa 9-3 WAC 17.50 30.00 3.00 0.32 50.82 23 Virginia Tech 9-2 ACC 23.25 22.50 2.00 4.64 52.39 24 Bowling Green 9-3 MAC 21.75 25.50 3.00 3.56 53.81 25



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Old 01-16-2007, 10:32 PM   #108
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Was a great season. And a much needed catharsis after the last one.
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2015 Season (Final)

2015 SEASON (FINAL)



WEEK 17
MAJOR BOWL TIER
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #6

QB Malcolm Moreno was ticketed by police for creating an unlawful disturbance for making too much noise by having a party at a house off campus. Moreno was apparently caught en flagrante delecto with two cheerleders along with some alcohol, but the police only cited him for the noise the party was making. The NCAA took no action. School officials wanted me to suspend him, but I'm not going to suspend the 5th year senior from going to the Fiesta Bowl for making too much noise and joining the glee club, so to speak.

Quarterly grades came out. A walk-on failing a class, a few D-'s. Allocated coaching blocs and hope that's enough to keep anyone from failing this semester.

News of note: UCLA lost to Georgia Tech in the Liberty Bowl, 20-17. Notre Dame beat UNLV 70-6 in the Patriot Bowl. Ouch. And my old school, Keene State, defeated Middle Tennesee State in the Georgia Bowl 13-7. Good for them.

PAC-10 (8-0) -- OVERALL (10-1)

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WEEK 18
FOUR STAR TIER
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #6

PAC-10 (8-0) -- OVERALL (10-1)

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WEEK 19
NEW YEAR'S TIER
FIESTA BOWL: vs. #4 Virginia (11-0) *TV1*
(Virginia -3) USC BCS RANK: #5

We'll be facing off against a very good Virginia program, one that you could arguably make a case for that they should be playing for the national championship. A win for us would be a huge victory for our program. It would also give us 11 wins on the season, the most in a single season since I've been at USC.

Wheeler, Berg and Taylor will miss the game due to injuries as they have most of the year. WR Richie Warrick is listed as probable.

Bucky Riley expects the Cavaliers to come out trying to run the ball against us -- our defensive strength. I guess we'll see if he's right.

1st Qtr: We trade scores as Tailback Aaron Castillo takes it in from one yard out to give us a 7-0 lead before the Cavaliers tie it up on a Ryan Maas touchdown pass.

After 1: Tied 7-7.

2nd Qtr: Trojan QB Malcolm Moreno takes over and tosses two touchdown passes, the first a 15 yarder to WR Cole McConnell, the second to FB Warren Guthrie. Virginia is only able to answer with a field goal with 4 seconds left on the clock before the end of the half.

Halftime: USC 21-10

3rd Qtr: Cavalier QB Ryan Maas tosses his second touchdown pass of the day and Virginia adds a field goal. We are unable to answer. This game has suddenly gotten too close for comfort.

End of the 3rd: USC 21-20

4th Qtr: We start off the fourth and drive to the Cavalier 39 where we go for it on 4th and 5. Aaron Castillo ran for 4 yards and we turn the ball over on downs. Virginia takes over and our defense holds and they go three and out.

We then begin a 7 minute drive to the Virginia 9. Walter Perez tries a field goal but the Cavalier defense comes up big and blocks the kick - ouch! They take over at their own 24 with 6:11 left in the game.

Virgnia then proceeds to drive down the field to our 24 with 2:31 left on the clock. The Cavs send out placekicker Sean Oreck, who has already connected for two field goals today, to try a 41 yarder.

Wide right.

We take over at our own 24 with 2:24 left to play, ahead by one. They stop our QB option for no gain, then stuff Castillo for a 1 yard gain on 2nd down.

On third and nine QB Malcolm Moreno drops back and hits WR Cole McConnel for 14 yards and a first down, but he's forced out of bounds stopping the clock -- no harm no foul as it hit the 2 minute warning mark anyway.

On 1st down they stuff Castillo for no gain again. On 2nd Castillo pounds out three yards bringing up a 3rd and 7 on our own 42 with 1:07 left to play.

Offensive Coordinator Randy Edwards calls the QB option and Moreno sprints left and pitches to Aaron Castillo. Redshirt senior Fullback Warren Guthrie just hammers his man, throwing a key run block and springs Castillo for a 9 yard gain and a first down. Virginia is out of timeouts and Malcolm Moreno takes a knee a couple of times and that's the ball game -- one heckuva game but we hold on, 21-20.

Just reading from the game log the game was frackin exciting. What a big, big win for us.

Neither team could run the ball all day. They gained 69 net yards on 24 carries on the day. We gained a little more yardage (89 yards) , but ran the ball 46 times. But we got a big nine yards on that one play thanks to FB Warren Guthrie.

Malcolm Moreno played extremely well in his final game as a USC Trojan, going 16/24 for 240 yards and two touchdowns while getting picked off once. His favorite target was who it has been down the stretch, Cole McConnell, who started the year on the bench as a backup. McConnell, who caught the big 14 yard first down play to keep the ball in our hands late in the 4th quarter, had 6 receptions on the day for 100 yards and one touchdown. Moreno's other TD toss went to who else - FB Warren Guthrie.

Our defense was led by two other players who started the year as backups: redshirt sophomore WLB Rick Holmes, who made 7 tackles and sacked the Cavalier QB twice on the day; and WILB Brett Vinnick, who also made 7 tackles.

The play of guys who started the year on the bench, or at seemingly unimportant positions like Fullback, just show how important it is to recruit depth. Without the play of McConnell, Holmes, Vinnick and Guthrie, we probably don't win the Fiesta Bowl. They played a heckuva game.

What a truly exciting and terrific end to a fabulous season.


FIESTA BOWL
USC 21 -- Virginia 20
PAC-10 (8-0) -- OVERALL (11-1)

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WEEK 20
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Week off.
USC BCS RANK: #4

We move up to #4 in the BCS Rankings off our tremendous Fiesta Bowl victory.

Florida hammers Iowa 42-14 to win its second consecutive National Championship. Florida QB Heath Hammond wins his second consecutive Heisman.

We end the year where we started the week, ranked #4 in the final BCS rankings.

Awesome.

PAC-10 (8-0) -- OVERALL (11-1)

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2015 FINAL BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Final 2015 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Florida 13-0 SEC 1.25 1.00 0.00 2.44 4.69 1 Texas A&M 12-1 B12 1.50 2.00 1.00 0.56 5.06 2 Iowa 11-1 B10 3.25 3.50 1.00 1.20 8.95 3 **Southern California 11-1 P10 3.25 6.50 1.00 2.36 13.11 4 Virginia 11-1 ACC 5.50 4.00 1.00 4.16 14.66 5 Keene State 11-1 NNE 10.25 4.50 1.00 5.00 20.75 6 Syracuse 10-2 BGE 8.25 8.00 2.00 3.48 21.73 7 Notre Dame 10-2 IND 11.00 8.00 2.00 2.72 23.72 8 Michigan 9-3 B10 9.75 12.00 3.00 0.08 24.83 9 South Florida 11-1 USA 12.50 7.50 1.00 4.92 25.92 10 Toledo 11-2 MAC 12.00 10.50 2.00 1.64 26.14 11 California 10-2 P10 9.00 14.00 2.00 3.96 28.96 12 San Diego State 10-2 MTW 7.50 18.00 2.00 1.96 29.46 13 Hawaii 10-2 WAC 11.25 14.00 2.00 3.80 31.05 14 Rice 10-2 WAC 12.50 12.00 2.00 4.60 31.10 15 Boston College 10-2 BGE 14.75 16.00 2.00 3.64 36.39 16 Pittsburgh 9-3 BGE 12.75 24.00 3.00 0.04 39.79 17 Louisville 10-2 USA 22.75 13.50 2.00 4.76 43.01 18 Miami of Ohio 10-3 MAC 15.50 22.50 3.00 2.12 43.12 19 Virginia Tech 10-2 ACC 16.25 20.50 2.00 4.40 43.15 20 Tulsa 9-3 WAC 14.50 28.50 3.00 0.36 46.36 21 Penn State 9-3 B10 25.25 16.00 3.00 3.24 47.49 22 Wisconsin 10-3 B10 22.25 19.50 3.00 4.44 49.19 23 Middle Tennessee State 10-2 SUN 22.25 22.50 2.00 4.72 51.47 24 North Carolina State 9-3 ACC 21.00 25.50 3.00 2.96 52.46 25


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Old 01-17-2007, 12:30 AM   #110
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2015 Season Summary & Review

2015 SEASON SUMMARY & REVIEW


SEASON REVIEW

What a fabulous season. 2015 turned out to be the complete antithesis of 2014. We went undefeated in the PAC-10, smoked our arch-rival UCLA, earned a BCS Bowl bid, then defeated Virginia in a hard fought 21-20 victory in the Fiesta Bowl. We ended up ranked 4th in the BCS final rankings. We simply played very solid football all year, and it was tremendously rewarding to see it all come together. What a big step for our program here at Southern Cal.

As you'll see below, the All PAC-10 teams look like our starting lineup. Big congrats go out to graduating senior QB Malcolm Moreno for being named PAC-10 MVP. His play down the stretch and in the Fiesta Bowl was remarkable. It was good to see him put it all together.

From an analytical perspective, I still don't think we ran the ball as well as we could have. I was however quite pleased with our passing attack and very pleased with the fact we hardly ever turned the ball over - our turnover margin was 2nd best in the nation.

Defensively teams found they simply couldn't run the ball against us, and when they tried they just got stuffed by our front seven. Teams tried to throw at an incredible rate against us, but we held them to a 42.7% completion rate. And of those completions, our opponents averaged only 5.66 yards per reception - 12th best defensively in the nation.

And finally, on crucial third downs, we converted third downs at a rate of 44.1%, a very good 13th nationally, while our defense held opponents to a 26.4% third down conversion rate, good enough for 10th best in the country.

All in all it was a terrific year by both our offense and defense, with a wonderful outcome that matched the high statistical ratings we produced.

Clearly, Southern Cal football has taken a giant step up in the world.

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2015 USC Award Winners

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2015 University of Southern California Trojans Individual Awards * DE Alonzo Chevrier (5th yr Sr.) - 2nd Team All-American - Senior All-American - 1st Team All PAC-10 * QB Malcolm Moreno (5th yr. Sr.) - PAC-10 Most Valuable Player - 1st Team All PAC-10 * S Joel Arvold (Fr.) - PAC-10 Freshman Defensive Player of the Year * WR Richie Warrick (5th yr Sr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 - Academic All PAC-10 * OC Chester Hoffman (Jr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 * OG Ed Fuller (Sr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 * OT Nathan Padgett (5th yr Sr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 * K Walter Perez (RS Sr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 * TB Aaron Castillo (5th yr Sr.) - 2nd team All PAC-10 * FB Warren Guthrie (RS Sr.) - 2nd Team All PAC-10 * OG Frank Elliot (Fr.) - Academic All PAC-10 * CB Tyrell Lyons (5th yr Sr.) - Academic All PAC-10 * S Louie Finch (Jr.) - Academic All PAC-10


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2015 USC Team Summary

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2015 Team Summary Head Coach: Bear Growlz (8th yr.) Offensive Coordinator: Randy Edwards (4th yr.) Defensive Coordinator: Bucky Riley (8th yr.) Syndicate Coordinator: Pete Prior (17th yr.) Lead Scout: Lance Coe (1st yr.) Overall Record: 11-1 BCS Rank: #4 Coach's Poll: #7 Fan's Poll: #6 PAC-10 Record: 8-0 PAC-10 Finish: 1st Place ***PAC-10 Champions*** Southern California Team Rank Rushes 541 9 Rushing Yards 1934 23 Yards Per Carry 3.57 57 Pass Attempts 313 73 (T) Completions 193 39 Passing Yards 2867 18 Yards Per Attempt 9.15 11 3rd Down Conversions 44.1 13 Points Per Game 30.5 27 Turnovers 11 4 (T) Turnover Margin +16 2 (T) Opponents Team Rank Rushes 322 1 Rushing Yards 652 3 Yards Per Carry 2.02 5 Pass Attempts 377 116 Completions 161 30 (T) Passing Yards 2136 42 Yards Per Attempt 5.66 12 3rd Down Conversions 26.4 10 (T) Points Per Game 12.5 7 (T) Turnovers 27 17 (T) Primary Formation: Flexbone Formation Week Team Versus Oppnt 1 28 NCAR (80) 9 2 30 BALL (57) 7 5 35 at ORST (101) 10 6 19 at OREG (83) 14 7 16 CALI (13) 14 8 47 AZST (111) 7 9 24 at STAN (41) 6 10 44 at WASH (51) 10 11 52 ARIZ (123) 6 12 10 at NODM (9) 34 13 41 UCLA (28) 14 19 21 vs VIRG (5) 20 ***Fiesta Bowl (BCS)*** Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int 14 Moreno QB 300 185 2722 9.07 14 7 Team --- 313 193 2867 9.15 15 7 Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Stff YdLst 21 Castillo RB 351 1318 3.75 16 91 130 25 Whalen RB 82 318 3.87 5 27 38 14 Moreno QB 62 124 2.00 1 29 107 Team --- 541 1934 3.57 25 160 306 Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc YAC TD 1 Warrick WR 78 48 876 18.2 354 8 2 McConnell WR 73 39 603 15.4 209 2 25 Whalen RB 44 29 389 13.4 176 1 33 Guthrie FB 39 30 304 10.1 153 2 21 Castillo RB 31 20 227 11.3 113 0 4 Wheeler WR 19 9 155 17.2 85 1 86 Heekin WR 17 11 197 17.9 64 1 Team --- 313 193 2867 14.8 1194 15 Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack TFL Ints Defn 79 Chevrier DE 51 21 17.5 27 0 0 95 El Nino OLB 44 13 1.0 7 0 5 49 Vinnick ILB 43 17 0.0 3 2 4 39 Arvold S 40 17 0.0 2 3 7 41 Vaughn ILB 38 18 1.0 5 2 6 47 Holmes OLB 37 6 5.5 10 0 4 38 Finch S 36 9 0.0 4 3 17 26 Napiecek CB 35 11 0.0 5 1 10 91 Duncan DT 32 16 7.5 12 0 1 90 Stender DE 30 14 5.0 9 0 0 36 Majka CB 26 7 0.0 1 1 11 29 Lyons CB 20 3 0.0 1 5 9 Team --- 542 166 44.0 103 20 85



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Old 01-17-2007, 01:37 AM   #111
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Big jump in USC's prestige rating after the 2015 Fiesta Bowl win, from Excellent (80) to Excellent (85). That makes Southern Cal the 10th most prestigious program in the nation.

Southern Cal's academic reputation is now Very Good (70), 11th highest in the nation. The GPA of students in the football program is now 3.18, still highest in the country. I do find it kind of funny however, that of the three majors USC doesn't offer, one is Spanish.

Just saying.

OLB Reggie Buckley left the football program because of last year's suspension. Hey, it's not like I suspended him for crying out loud.

QB Jason Krieger, a highly touted recruit coming out of high school, left the program because of a lack of playing time last season. Krieger would have been a redshirt junior this season and may have competed for the starting job. My fault for recruiting too many quarterbacks.

WR Thurman Whelan was inducted into the USC Football Hall of Fame. Thurman was here during the dark years of USC football when i first took over the program. He was an excellent wideout who made 227 receptions for 3829 yards and 24 touchdowns in his career. Interestingly enough, he becomes the first player inducted into the USC Hall.

I receive a large number of job offers, but don't seriously consider any of them - even though this is liable to be a major rebuilding year at USC. Among the more prestigious offers were Louisville (Excellent-81), San Diego State (Very Good-78) and Hawaii (Excellent-80). One PAC-10 rival, Arizona State also offerred me their job.

But I turn them all down and stay at USC for my ninth season at the helm of the Trojans.

The football program financials came out today and the program earned $54,870,000 for the university - 6th highest amount in the nation. Our television revenue was $14,950,000, also 6th best in the country. I'm sure the Board of Trustees is pleased with those numbers.

The entire staff remains intact. I'm not entirely pleased with Lance Coe's work at Lead Scout, but can find no one much better, so he'll stay.

TCY Today ranked our recruiting class #13 in the nation - one of our poorer showings as of late. Here's a look at the class.

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The College Years University of Southern California Trojans 2015 Recruiting List, Ranking View TCY Today Ranking: #13 Player Pos HT WT ST NRank ByPos StRank ByPos ##Oxendine, Pat QB 6-0 188 TN 6 2 1 1 **Wilson, J.B. RB 5-9 190 IA 4 1 1 1 $$Kidman, Edwin WR 6-1 181 OR 235 19 5 1 ##Ours, Cornell C 6-4 247 CA --- 97 --- 16 **Ballard, Louis G 6-3 271 NY 19 1 3 1 ##Lauvray, Nate G 6-5 274 CT 376 23 4 1 $$Kirkwood, Lester T 6-6 291 AZ 94 16 2 1 $$Burgess, Bobby T 6-4 282 OR 100 17 1 1 $$Gardner, Rodney K 5-9 168 MO 13 1 1 1 $$Lackey, R.J. DE 6-2 246 ME 47 7 1 1 **Francis, Andrew DT 6-3 253 CA 32 2 2 1 **Wilcox, Albert DT 6-5 262 CA 66 4 5 2 **Elder, Renaldo ILB 6-1 227 NJ 25 1 1 1 ##O'Neal, Deron OLB 6-0 214 CA 919 52 --- 8 **Fitzgerald, Max CB 6-2 184 CA 45 1 4 1 ##Waugh, Artie S 5-10 164 NJ 996 62 24 1 Player All-St All-US Status ##Oxendine, Pat Yes No Committed * **Wilson, J.B. Yes No Committed * $$Kidman, Edwin Yes No Committed * ##Ours, Cornell No No Committed * **Ballard, Louis Yes No Committed * ##Lauvray, Nate Yes No Committed * $$Kirkwood, Lester Yes No Committed * $$Burgess, Bobby Yes No Committed * $$Gardner, Rodney Yes No Committed * $$Lackey, R.J. Yes No Committed * **Francis, Andrew Yes No Committed * **Wilcox, Albert Yes No Committed * **Elder, Renaldo Yes No Committed * ##O'Neal, Deron No No Committed * **Fitzgerald, Max Yes No Committed * ##Waugh, Artie Yes No Committed * Rough Estimate of Player Interest: No Prefix - player unlikely to be interested, ** - a bit of a stretch for your school, $$ - likely interest, ## - almost certain interest. The College Years Recruiting List, Worksheet View Player Pos ST Visit Cost Dist. Fit Score ##Oxendine, Pat QB TN 1210 1999 76 **Wilson, J.B. RB IA 987 1587 97 $$Kidman, Edwin WR OR 577 844 87 ##Ours, Cornell C CA 335 305 91 ##Lauvray, Nate G CT 1187 2554 74 **Ballard, Louis G NY 1199 2389 98 $$Kirkwood, Lester T AZ 384 459 83 $$Burgess, Bobby T OR 589 854 88 $$Gardner, Rodney K MO 980 1454 84 $$Lackey, R.J. DE ME 1213 2668 90 **Wilcox, Albert DT CA 244 32 94 **Francis, Andrew DT CA 237 10 99 **Elder, Renaldo ILB NJ 1200 2477 96 ##O'Neal, Deron OLB CA 238 14 95 **Fitzgerald, Max CB CA 320 260 94 ##Waugh, Artie S NJ 1201 2476 91 Player Scout Phone Visit Emphasis Status ##Oxendine, Pat 80+ 4 1 Acad/Dist Committed * **Wilson, J.B. 80++ 3 2 Acad/Prest Committed * $$Kidman, Edwin 70++ 3 2 Dist/Acad Committed * ##Ours, Cornell 53+ 2 2 Dist/Prest Committed * ##Lauvray, Nate 84-- 4 3 Dist/Acad Committed * **Ballard, Louis 86++ 5 1 Prest*/Acad Committed * $$Kirkwood, Lester 67+ 2 3 Acad/Dist Committed * $$Burgess, Bobby 68++ 2 2 Acad*/Dist Committed * $$Gardner, Rodney 93+ 2 2 Acad/Dist Committed * $$Lackey, R.J. 76- 3 2 Acad*/Dist Committed * **Wilcox, Albert 82- 3 2 Acad/Dist Committed * **Francis, Andrew 83-- 2 2 Dist/Acad Committed * **Elder, Renaldo 78++ 3 2 Acad*/Prest Committed * ##O'Neal, Deron 60+ 2 2 Prest*/Dist Committed * **Fitzgerald, Max 70++ 4 2 Prest*/Dist Committed * ##Waugh, Artie 65+ 1 1 Acad/Prest Committed * Rough Estimate of Player Interest: No Prefix - player unlikely to be interested, ** - a bit of a stretch for your school, $$ - likely interest, ## - almost certain interest.



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Old 01-17-2007, 01:47 AM   #112
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2016 PRESEASON (SPRING)

We already have a full schedule for 2016. Besides our eight PAC-10 games, we have our annual game against Notre Dame, and the second half of home and home's against North Carolina and Ball State.

As always, there is one PAC-10 team we don't play each season. This year we don't play Oregon State.

Here's a look at our 2016 schedule.

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2016 Schedule BCS Preseason Rank: #11 Preseason Coach's Poll: #11 Preseason Fan's Poll: #10 Rival: UCLA Stadium Capacity: 96,600 Season Tickets Sold: 96,600 Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather Television 2 at North Carolina 3 at Ball State $$5 (43) STANFORD $$6 at Washington State $$7 ARIZONA $$8 at Washington $$10 OREGON $$11 at (15) California $$12 ARIZONA STATE 13 at (8) Notre Dame $$14 at (9) UCLA Home Games in ALL CAPS $$-Conference Games, ##-League Championship Games, **-Post-Season Games


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Old 01-17-2007, 03:33 AM   #113
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Well, we play seven road games this season, so we've got our work cut out for us. But time to manage academic schedules and all. No one was placed on academic probation this season. That's good news.

After setting up the schedules for the incoming frosh and tweaking the schedules of the upperclassmen, one thing that made me laugh is that one of my Tight Ends was angry at me because of his lack of playing time.

There's a reason we don't recruit tight ends, we run a flexbone. There are no tight ends in the formation. We've run that formation for 8 years. Why would a tight end walk onto the team, and then be angry that he doesn't play? Cripes.

Looks like this might be a rebuilding year for us, it really depends on how well the offensive line comes together and how well the secondary - easily our weakness this year, plays.

Starting at QB will be 5th year senior Mark Rayburn, but don't be surprised to see redshirt sophomore Brock Dole taking some snaps this season as well. If he continues to develop he'll likely be our starter next year. I'm not real happy with how well Offensive Coordinator Randy Edwards has developed quarterbacks as I don't believe they're achieving their full potential, but in this offense Malcolm Moreno played well enough to win the conference MVP, so we'll see.

Rayburn's primary targets this season will be 5th year senior receiver Richie Warrick and redshirt sophomore sensation Ron Morrison. We expect outstanding things from Morrison this year and in the future. Our third receiver will again be Cole McConnell, who filled that role quite ably last year.

Joining Rayburn in the backfield will be 5th year senior Fullback Warren Guthrie. He'll be blocking for 5th year senior Tailback Ross Berberich, who finally gets his chance to show what he can do. Returning as the starting Wingback will be redshirt senior Gabe Whalen, who is also an excellent receiver. Redshirt sophomore Mercury Schultz shoul;d also get some carries this season, and next year we expect him to step into the starting Tailback position.

A lot of our success will depend on how well the offensive line run blocks this year. Anchoring the line will be four year starter, senior OC Chester Hoffman - hard to believe he graduates already this year. At the guard positions will be junior Ernie Cheatham and sophomore Frank Elliot. And at the tackle positions will be redshirt junior Hunter Blount and redshirt sophomore Dana Aska. You can also expect to see OT Billy Joe Joyner and OG Graham Molina see a little action as well.

We'll have a strong front seven on defense once again this season, as Defensive Coordinator Bucky Riley always seems to develop a good unit. Anchoring the D-line will be 5th year senior NT Bert Duncan. He'll be flanked by DE's senior Tracy Aalders and redshirt junior Freddie Stander. Freshman R.J. Lackey will also see some time on passing downs.

Senior ILB Tyrell Vaughn returns at ILB along will redshirt junior Chad Berg. On the outside will be redshirt junior Johnny el Nino (got to love that name) and redshirt senior Riddick Taylor. We're not sure what to expect from taylor this season as he's coming off some serious ACL damage to his knee. In case he falters, redshirt junior Rick Holmes, who filled in ably last year, will step up into Taylor's position.

It's in the secondary where we may have our biggest problems. Aside from senior safety Louie Finch, there's not a lot of experience or developed talent here. Joining Finch at safety will be second year starter, sophomore Joel Arvold. At the corners will be 5th year senior Roger Majka and redshirt junior Sam Alexander, with redshirt sophomore Buddy Reed playing the nickel.

It's difficult to know at this stage how good we'll be. Our passing attack should be quite good as Mark Rayburn has plenty of highly talented targets to throw to. We'd like to improve our running game some, as that's our bread and butter, but much of that depends on how well the offensive line plays. Defensively, the secondary could be a seive, but the front seven looks to be as strong as ever.

Here's a look at our 2016 roster.

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2016 Roster/Scout Overview From the Desk of Lance Coe, Lead Scout Player # Pos Elig Current Estimate Future Estimate Bernard, Walt 18 QB Sr 39 100 Bjorke, Wayne 10 QB Jr* 26 89 Dole, Brock 9 QB So* 35 100 Oxendine, Pat 4 QB Fr 26 87 Rayburn, Mark 8 QB Sr 49 100 Berberich, Ross 34 RB Sr 70 83 Shultz, Mercury 37 RB So* 49 70 Whalen, Gabe 25 RB Sr* 64 92 Wilson, J.B. 48 RB Fr 50 95 Vanderlaan, Levon 46 RB* Sr* 39 52 Book, Emmanuel 28 FB So 42 79 Guthrie, Warren 33 FB Sr 64 75 Woolley, Jackie 40 FB So* 31 72 Finley, Jeffrey 30 FB* Jr* 8 8 Glover, Randy 88 TE* Fr 9 26 Shreves, Maurice 89 TE* Sr* 8 25 Specter, Jumbo 81 TE* So* 6 11 Heekin, Sammy 86 WR Sr* 54 77 Kidman, Edwin 6 WR Fr 32 88 McConnell, Cole 2 WR Sr* 56 72 Morrison, Ron 82 WR So* 68 100 Warrick, Richie 1 WR Sr 72 76 Weiler, Darren 5 WR Sr 32 46 Blackburn, Mitchell 58 C Jr* 43 76 Connell, Tim 53 C Sr 29 53 Cook, Glenn 57 C Jr* 38 68 Hoffman, Chester 56 C Sr 69 72 Rodriguez, Tony 50 C Sr* 22 81 Ours, Cornell 52 C* Fr 10 66 Ballard, Louis 61 G Fr 34 84 Cheatham, Ernie 72 G Jr 47 63 Eliot, Frank 66 G So 34 63 Lauvray, Nate 71 G Fr 11 59 Molina, Graham 64 G So* 18 65 Pilgrim, Ty 68 G* Sr 16 27 Quinn, Leland 69 G* Sr* 3 3 Aska, Dana 74 T So* 38 63 Blount, Hunter 67 T Jr* 39 68 Burgess, Bobby 60 T Fr 5 79 Harnisch, Vernon 62 T Sr* 26 50 Joyner, Billy Joe 75 T So 34 85 Kaplan, Gabe 63 T Jr* 30 78 Kirkwood, Lester 79 T Fr 4 53 Thornton, Brett 12 P Jr 70 93 Brown, Robbie 15 P* So* 1 1 Gardner, Rodney 17 K Fr 44 100 Perez, Walter 11 K Sr 52 84 Samuels, Zach 3 K Jr* 44 83 Buckley, Victor 16 K* Sr 3 3 Aalders, Tracy 78 DE Sr 67 68 Lackey, R.J. 76 DE Fr 33 68 Stender, Freddie 90 DE Jr* 46 100 Sutton, William 93 DE So* 23 72 Cobb, Colin 70 DE* Sr* 10 21 Dragon, Tracy 92 DT Sr 37 78 Duncan, Bert 91 DT Sr 48 85 Francis, Andrew 99 DT Fr 31 60 Milton, Trent 77 DT So* 36 93 Wilcox, Albert 94 DT Fr 22 68 Berg, Chad 45 ILB Jr* 48 96 Elder, Renaldo 54 ILB Fr 38 75 Pathon, Dale 97 ILB So* 12 52 Sankey, Mo 55 ILB Sr 38 78 Vaughn, Tyrell 41 ILB Sr 98 100 Vinnick, Brett 49 ILB Jr 49 88 El Nino, Johnnie 95 OLB Jr* 39 90 Holmes, Rick 47 OLB Jr* 39 81 Mazzeo, Tyrus 59 OLB So* 27 71 O'Neal, Deron 96 OLB Fr 6 71 Taylor, Riddick 98 OLB Sr* 50 80 Hoffman, William 51 OLB* So* 6 18 Stagg, Jake 42 OLB* Sr* 17 50 Alexander, Sam 43 CB Jr* 35 43 Fitzgerald, Max 31 CB Fr 31 71 Majka, Roger 36 CB Sr 47 97 Reed, Buddy 44 CB So* 27 67 Flowers, Tracy 32 CB* Sr 29 44 Arvold, Joel 39 S So 46 66 Finch, Louie 38 S Sr 78 78 Griffin, Cris 24 S Jr 43 77 Korinek, Dwight 35 S So* 35 55 Nordskov, Shaun 20 S Sr* 28 67 Waugh, Artie 27 S Fr 21 50



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Old 01-17-2007, 03:37 AM   #114
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2016 PRESEASON (BCS RANKINGS)

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The College Years Preseason, 2016 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Florida 0-0 SEC 1.00 1.00 0.00 2.04 4.04 1 Texas A&M 0-0 B12 2.00 2.00 0.00 1.24 5.24 2 Michigan 0-0 B10 4.00 3.50 0.00 0.52 8.02 3 Iowa 0-0 B10 3.00 5.00 0.00 0.48 8.48 4 Virginia 0-0 ACC 5.00 4.50 0.00 0.32 9.82 5 Syracuse 0-0 BGE 6.00 5.50 0.00 1.48 12.98 6 UCLA 0-0 P10 9.00 8.50 0.00 1.92 19.42 7 Notre Dame 0-0 IND 8.00 7.00 0.00 4.56 19.56 8 Penn State 0-0 B10 10.00 9.50 0.00 0.72 20.22 9 Keene State 0-0 NNE 7.00 9.00 0.00 4.84 20.84 10 **Southern California 0-0 P10 11.00 10.50 0.00 1.88 23.38 11 Toledo 0-0 MAC 13.00 13.00 0.00 4.08 30.08 12 Rice 0-0 WAC 12.00 17.00 0.00 3.44 32.44 13 California 0-0 P10 15.00 18.00 0.00 1.72 34.72 14 Louisville 0-0 USA 17.00 15.50 0.00 3.04 35.54 15 Hawaii 0-0 WAC 18.00 15.00 0.00 3.32 36.32 16 Boston College 0-0 BGE 16.00 20.00 0.00 1.32 37.32 17 South Florida 0-0 USA 14.00 19.50 0.00 4.60 38.10 18 Wisconsin 0-0 B10 19.00 19.50 0.00 0.80 39.30 19 Nebraska 0-0 B12 24.00 20.00 0.00 1.04 45.04 20 San Diego State 0-0 MTW 22.00 22.50 0.00 2.72 47.22 21 Pittsburgh 0-0 BGE 20.00 27.00 0.00 1.40 48.40 22 Oklahoma 0-0 B12 27.00 22.00 0.00 1.12 50.12 23 Texas Christian 0-0 USA 26.00 22.00 0.00 3.16 51.16 24 North Carolina State 0-0 ACC 30.00 24.50 0.00 0.28 54.78 25


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Old 01-17-2007, 06:25 AM   #115
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Wow, only four home games? Nice reward for a great season the year before ...
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Old 01-17-2007, 10:35 PM   #117
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2016 Season (1st Qtr.)

2016 SEASON (1st Qtr.)


WEEK 1
Off week.
BCS Rank: #11

We don't open up Week 1, so most of my time is spent recruiting. Again we'll be targeting high profile recruits and expect to have a solid recruiting class. I'm not real pleased with the holes I perceive in the year's team - whether that has to do with recruiting too many players at certain positions so that developemtn gets blocked for some players, or whether my coordinators aren't doing their job in development - which I particularly think is true of Randy Edwards and quarterbacks - or some combination of both, I'm no Svengali so it's difficult to tell. Suffice to say it may be a bit of both phenomena.

PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (0-0)

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WEEK 2
@ North Carolina (0-0)
(NC -1) USC BCS RANK: --

Ahh the fickle fates of early week BCS rankings. We fall out of the Top 25 - not sure we belong there yet anyway this year. I think our preseason ranking was based on last year's terrific season - but many, if not most, of those players graduated. But the polls are always screwey the first three weeks.

Resisted the strong, almost irresistable urge to recruit an OT named George Patton. Wasn't a good fit for our program, not a real run blocker, but halftime speeches would have been a blast.

Continued making more first time contacts and getting scholarship offers out there. Really trying to narrow mthe credentials of what I am looking for - high academic kids with high athletic preperation. Of course, that's what every school wants.

As if to say "I've been sitting here patiently on the bench for four years coach, it's my turn now", 5th year senior Tailback Ross Berberich led the way to a 35-0 stomping of the Tar Heels at Chapel Hill.

Berberich rushed for 3 touchdowns and 121 yards on 26 carries, while Wingback Gabe Whalen added another 33 yards and FB Warren Guthrie had 18 yards on three carries as USC just ground the ball into the NC defense. OC Chester Hoffman and company ldominated the line of scrimmage, Hoffman manhandling his opponent for 6 key run blocks while OG Ernie Cheatham and OT Dana Aska had four each.

5th year senior QB Mark Rayburn had an adequate performance in the first start of his career, going 13 for 20 for 180 yards while throing one touchdown and one INT.

The Trojan defense, led by ILB Tyrell Vaughn who made 8 tackles and assisted on 2 others and DE Tracy Aalders who got to the NC QB twice, stifled the Tar Heel offense and held North Carolina to 154 yards total offense on the day.

It was a very good road win to start the year and I'm pleased with the running game. Rayburn was mediocre - rather like a bowl of oatmeal or unflavored grits in the morning - good enough to get you through the day, but nothing to write home about.

USC 35 -- North Carolina 0
PAC-10 (1-0) -- OVERALL (1-0)

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WEEK 3
@ Ball State (0-1) *TV5*
(USC -1) USC BCS RANK: #16

Oddsmakers don't like us much this season, underdogs last week, only favored by a point this week. Still, this year's squad is an unknown quantity, so i can see their point.

Spent the week adding even a few more kids to our primary list - a little unusual as I usually have my primary list done by now, but we've been forced to scramble at the end of the year to land our last one or two recruits so I thought I would expand our original pool a bit this year.

FB Warren Guthrie ran for one score and had another receiving in leading the Trojans to a narrow 26-22 win over Ball State.

Southern Cal rushed for two touchdowns on the day, the other by Wingback Gabe Whalen, and QB Mark Rayburn was on target all day with his passes - though the targets weren't always wearing the USC colors. Rayburn went 15/18 for 189 yards while throwing one touchdown, but also got picked off again in the win.

The Ball State D held Tailback Ross Berberich in check for the most part, making him earn every one of his 125 uards on 32 carries (3.9 ypc).

FB Warren Guthrie had 5 receptions for 69 yards on the day.

A solid, if unspectacular win on the road.

USC 26 -- Ball State 22
PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (2-0)

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WEEK 4
Week off.
USC BCS RANK: #25

An off week and some time to contemplate what to do about the QB situation. Rayburn hasn't really developed as he should have - much of that comes from riding the pine behind Malcolm Moreno for most of his collegiate career, but a lot of the blame has to go to Offensive Coordinator Randy Edwards, who hasn't been developing QB to their potential - even Moreno didn't develop anywhere close to his potential.

But clearly, Rayburn is the best we have at this point in time. The thing is, if we give redshirt sophomore Brock Dole playing time now - lots of playing time - down the road he's likely to develop into a far better QB than Rayburn is now.

But I don't have the luxury of being at a program where we can say "the heck with it" and go 3-8 and start Dole all year. Dole is really raw and Rayburn is good, but not by any means as good as he should have become. There's a big qualitative difference in their development right now - Rayburn can at least keep us in games, I'm not certain Dole can.

Rayburn is going to throw a ton of INT's unless I completely check down the passing attack - which is an issue because his best asset is his arm strength. Bleh - I guess we'll see how the early season progresses and go from there.

PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (2-0)

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WEEK 5 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 5, 2016 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Iowa 3-0 B10 3.75 4.00 0.00 2.80 10.55 1 South Florida 4-0 USA 1.25 13.00 0.00 1.48 15.73 2 Syracuse 3-0 BGE 7.25 4.50 0.00 4.28 16.03 3 Florida 3-0 SEC 13.00 1.00 0.00 3.48 17.48 4 Toledo 3-0 MAC 5.75 9.50 0.00 2.84 18.09 5 Texas A&M 2-0 B12 14.00 2.00 0.00 3.32 19.32 6 Wisconsin 2-0 B10 4.00 14.50 0.00 3.12 21.62 7 UCLA 3-0 P10 11.75 6.50 0.00 3.68 21.93 8 Keene State 3-0 NNE 14.75 6.50 0.00 4.44 25.69 9 Alabama 3-0 SEC 5.25 19.50 0.00 2.32 27.07 10 Marshall 3-0 MAC 8.00 16.00 0.00 3.24 27.24 11 Virginia 3-0 ACC 19.25 3.50 0.00 4.88 27.63 12 Louisville 3-0 USA 12.75 11.50 0.00 4.08 28.33 13 Arkansas State 2-0 SUN 2.25 25.50 0.00 1.32 29.07 14 Rice 2-0 WAC 17.25 13.00 0.00 3.88 34.13 15 Michigan 2-1 B10 14.75 18.00 1.00 0.68 34.43 16 Nebraska 3-0 B12 15.50 15.50 0.00 4.20 35.20 17 Notre Dame 3-1 IND 17.75 16.00 1.00 1.72 36.47 18 Colorado State 3-0 MTW 16.75 20.00 0.00 3.36 40.11 19 California 2-1 P10 12.75 28.50 1.00 0.96 43.21 20 Penn State 2-1 B10 19.50 22.50 1.00 2.36 45.36 21 Utah 2-0 MTW 18.75 24.50 0.00 4.84 48.09 22 **Southern California 2-0 P10 36.00 8.00 0.00 4.92 48.92 23 Hawaii 3-0 WAC 34.00 12.00 0.00 4.32 50.32 24 Boston College 2-0 BGE 29.75 16.50 0.00 4.48 50.73 25




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Old 01-18-2007, 01:35 PM   #118
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2016 SEASON (2nd Qtr.)


WEEK 5
vs. Stanford (2-1) (PAC-10) *TV5*
(USC -11) USC BCS RANK: #23

Quarterly grades came out this week. Five players had D+'s, no lower grades. I allocated 3 coaching blocs to each of them - I started the year with 63 blocs, keeping a lot in reserve for the rest of the year. Hopefully that will get them into the C- range or C range at best, at worst keep them from failing.

No recruiting committments or rejections yet, so I keep hitting the trail re-contacting the players we want and letting them know what we have to offer.

We took the apron strings off Mark Rayburn a bit this week and allowed him to air it out some, and he had a fine, fine day, leading Southern Cal to a 49-17 rout over the Stanford Cardinal.

Rayburn went 14/20 for 229 yards this week while throwing four touchdown passes and only being picked once. His favorite target on the day was redshirt sophomore wideout Ron Morrison, who caught 6 passes for 140 yards - three of them for touchdowns.

Tailback Ross Berberich also had a fine day running the ball, gaining 139 yards on 26 carries (5.3 ypc) while running for two touchdowns.

The defense was once again led by senior ILB Tyrell Vaughn, who made 9 tackles and also had a sack, as well as DE Tracy aalders, who had two sacks.

A fine way to open the PAC-10 season for us, especially on the road.

USC 49 -- Stanford 17
PAC-10 (1-0) -- OVERALL (3-0)

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WEEK 6
@ #25 Washington State (3-0) (PAC-10) *TV3*
(USC -8) USC BCS RANK: #6

This week will be a tough road test against a very solid Washington State Cougar team. We've popped up to #6 in the BCS after last week's win. We're completely healthy at this point, knock on wood.

We land one recruit this week, losing three others to schools back east - fine with me so long as UCLA doesn't get them.

Gino Lyubashevsky, a center from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California has signed a letter of intent to play for us next season. Gino is a run blocking OC who is only rated a 68++, but it's the ++ and the excellent (98) athletic prep work that got me, as well as his solid grades. A 68 OC wouldn't normally excite me - not that we'd turn him away or anything, that's a solid scouting grade, but when I saw him play he looked much better (hence the "++" suffix), and the high athletic preperation indicates he might be a solid contributor as an underclassman.

5th year senior wideout Richie Warrick led the USC attack both through the air and on the ground as Southern Cal captured another big win on the road, 31-0, against the Washington State Cougars.

Warrick ran for a 28 yard touchdown on a reverse and hauled in 5 catches for 65 yards in leading the Trojans to victory. QB Mark Rayburn had another solid day, going 18/24 for 283 yards while throwing one touchdown, but was mistake free all day. He hit Tailback Ross Berberich for his lone touchdown pass, and Berberich added two more on the ground, though only rushing for 78 yards on the day.

Defensively this is getting to be the Tyrell and Tracy show, as ILB tyrell Vaughn led the way with another 10 tackles on the day and Tracy Aalders added two more tackles to his team leading total. The defense also picked off three Cougar passes and completely dominated Washington State on the road.

A very good win and solid play all around for us this week.

USC 31 -- Washington State 0
PAC-10 (2-0) -- OVERALL (4-0)

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WEEK 7
vs. Arizona (0-4) (PAC-10)
(USC -34) USC BCS RANK: #5

We seem to be the only team Arizona can beat in recent years - hopefully like last year, we'll avoid playing down to their level. No injuries to report this week.

We lost a wideout I really would have liked to have to Florida this week, but we did get three more players to sign letters of intent with us. They are: Brian Barton, an 89-- offensive guard from Bloomfield High School in Bloomfield, New Mexico; Wally Knight, a defensive end from Cherokee High School in Marlton, New Jersey; and Moe Oben, an inside linebacker from Derby High School in Derby, Connecticut.

Oben is an 86+ ILB with top notch grades coming from an excellent (93) athletic program. It's quite possible he could make a solid contribution as an underclassman. Knight is a 91+ DE with good academics coming from one of the best prep athletic programs in the country (100). Again, exactly the type of player we were trying to land this year.

Made some new contacts with some OLB and DB recruits. Hoping to nbring in a few with high level of athletic preperation and good grades. I find myself not even looking at poor students these days. I just can't get them properly developed and keep their academics up.

This game was over at the half as Southern Cal built a 31-0 lead over the Wildcats on the strength of Tailback Ross Berberich's running en route to a 45-10 pasting of Arizona in front of a packed house at the Rose Bowl.

Berberich ran for four touchdowns and 164 yards on 20 carries (8.3 ypc) and Wingback Gabe Whalen also pounded out 61 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries as Arizona was totally unable to stop our running game.

Three QB's saw action for Southern Cal with Mark rayburn giving way early as USC built up a huge lead. Redshirt sophomore Brock Dole, expected to start next year, had a fine day in relief going 9/11 for 202 yards. Wideout Richie Warrick had 5 catches for 156 yards on the day, breaking open the Wildcat secondary.

DE Tracy Aalders had another 1.5 sacks and the Trojan defense limited the Wildcats to 17 yards rushing and 190 yards total offense on the day. Another game in which we dominated all facets of play.

Good, solid win in a game we should win. I'll take it.

USC 45 -- Arizona 10
PAC-10 (3-0) -- OVERALL (5-0)

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WEEK 8
@ Washington (4-2) (PAC-10) *TV4*
(USC -18) USC BCS RANK: #7

We continue to play very good football and be ranked high. The team has come together pretty well and Ross Berberich has done a very solid job at Tailback in his senior year. Hopefully we can keep this brand of football up and have a very solid season. Another difficult road game this week however, so we've got to be at our best.

We landed another kid from the pacific northwest this week as Eddie Casillas, a quarterback from Naches Valley High School in Naches, Washington signed a letter of intent to play for USC next year. Casillas is a 68+ QB and was ranked the 5th best QB in his recruiting class. He is scouted an an above average running QB - though I have found those scouting reports to be unreliable, but he did run for over 500 yards in his senior year in high school. He has excellent academics and comes from s chool with excellent athletic prep (98) and academic prep(99). He'll likely redshirt then be a solid #2 QB for most of his collegiate career, with a shot at starting his 5th year.

In what can only be hailed as the most inexplicable of playcalling, we ran the ball only 16 times this week en route to getting whitewashed by the Huskies 19-0.

The defense played well, toughening up every time Washington got into the red zone and allowed only one touchdown. ILB Tyrell Vaughn had 10 tackles and assisted on 5 others, adding a QB sack. DE Tracy Aalders added another sack and made 8 tackles.

But our offense was inexplicably weird this week. We only ran the ball 16 times, QB Mark Rayburn went 3/12 and got picked off once and we didn't make a single visit to the Huskies redzone.

Our offense was just totally overwhelmed as you can see from our drive chart. We were just really bad.

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Southern California Drive Chart Quar Began Poss From Plays Yards Result 1 8:00 1:51 OWN 6 3 -5 Punt 1 1:08 2:05 OWN 35 3 7 Punt 2 7:01 3:02 OWN 32 4 15 Punt 2 2:02 0:33 OWN 44 3 0 Punt 3 15:00 1:58 OWN 29 3 5 Punt 3 10:12 2:14 OWN 31 3 -9 Punt 3 1:23 1:30 OWN 32 3 -1 Fumble 4 12:03 0:43 OWN 29 1 0 Interception 4 8:40 1:06 OWN 13 4 46 Missed FG 4 2:08 0:40 OWN 6 2 2 Interception


Washington 19 -- USC 0
PAC-10 (3-1) -- OVERALL (5-1)

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WEEK 9 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 9, 2016 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Florida 7-0 SEC 3.50 1.00 0.00 3.80 8.30 1 Iowa 7-0 B10 2.25 4.00 0.00 2.20 8.45 2 Texas A&M 5-0 B12 6.50 2.00 0.00 4.28 12.78 3 South Florida 7-0 USA 1.00 9.50 0.00 2.40 12.90 4 Keene State 7-0 NNE 7.00 6.00 0.00 4.24 17.24 5 UCLA 6-0 P10 6.50 6.50 0.00 4.64 17.64 6 Syracuse 6-0 BGE 12.75 5.00 0.00 4.76 22.51 7 Rice 6-0 WAC 9.00 9.50 0.00 4.84 23.34 8 Virginia 7-0 ACC 15.00 3.50 0.00 4.96 23.46 9 Nebraska 6-0 B12 9.00 10.50 0.00 4.48 23.98 10 Toledo 5-1 MAC 7.25 16.00 1.00 0.36 24.61 11 Louisville 6-0 USA 12.00 9.00 0.00 4.32 25.32 12 Arkansas State 6-0 SUN 4.25 19.00 0.00 3.04 26.29 13 Alabama 6-0 SEC 11.50 13.00 0.00 4.68 29.18 14 Notre Dame 5-1 IND 14.50 11.50 1.00 3.32 30.32 15 Bowling Green 5-1 MAC 8.75 22.00 1.00 1.04 32.79 16 **Southern California 5-1 P10 15.75 14.00 1.00 2.64 33.39 17 Pittsburgh 5-1 BGE 12.50 21.50 1.00 2.04 37.04 18 Penn State 5-2 B10 15.75 20.00 2.00 1.88 39.63 19 Boston College 5-1 BGE 16.75 20.00 1.00 3.68 41.43 20 Marshall 5-1 MAC 22.75 20.50 1.00 3.12 47.37 21 Hawaii 6-1 WAC 30.00 16.00 1.00 4.60 51.60 22 Michigan 5-2 B10 32.25 16.00 2.00 3.72 53.97 23 Michigan State 5-2 B10 22.50 28.50 2.00 1.08 54.08 24 Wisconsin 4-2 B10 22.75 30.00 2.00 1.60 56.35 25




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Old 01-18-2007, 03:45 PM   #119
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2016 SEASON (2nd Qtr.)


WEEK 9
Week off.
USC BCS RANK: #17

Quarterly grades came out this week. Five players had D+'s, nothing lower. Allocated three coaching blocs to each player, hopefully that will get them up to C-'s or at minimum keep them where they are. Still hav 31 blocs left for the final twp sets of grades.

Not able to land any of the WR recruits I wanted this year, but Dan Cipa, a cornerback from Windsor High School in Windsor, Connecticut did sign a letter of intent to play for us next season. Cipa is an unspectacula 71-- who comes to USC from a high school with very good academic and athletic programs, and his academics are stellar. A good signing, nothing to write home about though.

Spent a bunch of time smashing my keyboard against the desk, apparently despite me always typing 100% perfectly the keyboard insists on misspelling words.

Damn keyboard.

In any case, spent some time pursuing more new recruits, particularly at the OLB and DB positions as I'd like to add some freshmen at those positions.

PAC-10 (3-1) -- OVERALL (5-1)

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WEEK 10
vs. Oregon (3-5) (PAC-10)
(USC -23) USC BCS RANK: #12

Back up to #12 in the BCS rankings, surprises me we're still that high. But we've played mostly well this season, especially so given the fact it's really a rebuilding year here.

Landed four recruits this week. Billy Vance, a 64+ running back from Baker County High School in Glen Saint Mary, Florida, Devin Benzer, a fullback from Yankton High School in Yankton, South Dakota, Dana Long, a center from Murray High School in Murray, Utah and Xavier Eason, a 100- punter from Stanwood High School in Stanwood, Washington all signed letters of intent to play for the Trojans next year.

Benzer is a 76++ Fullback that comes from an outstanding high school athletic program. We suspect he may be able to contribute immediately. His grades are outstanding and his prep school atcademic prep is very good, though not outstanding.

Long is a 77+ OC that also comes from a high school with a tremendous athletic program. Dana's grades are avera and his high school's academic programs were only slightly above average, so we may need to help him along some - but by no means are his academics bad.

Tailback Ross Berberich had a simply outstanding day rushing for 182 yards and two touchdowns on 20 carries (9.1 ypc) in leading the Southern Cal Trojans to a 49-10 rout over Oregon in front of a pleased sellout crowd of 96,600 at the Rose Bowl.

5th year senior wideout Richie Warrick also had a fine day, making 7 catches for 134 yards and a touchdown reception from QB Mark Rayburn. Rayburn was quietly efficient on the day, going 12/17 for 226 yards with two TD strikes.

WR Ron Morrison caught Rayburn's second touchdown pass and also returned a punt 51 yards for another score.

Defensively OLB Riddick taylor led the way making 7 tackles and assisting on 3 others and 5th year senior NT Bert Duncan got to the QB for a sack and a half on the day.

A good, solid win and a good way to bounce back from the whitewashing at Washington.

USC 49 -- Oregon 10
PAC-10 (4-1) -- OVERALL (6-1)

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WEEK 11
@ #21 California (6-2) (PAC-10) *TV4*
(USC -3) USC BCS RANKING: #12

I'm actually a little bit surprised to see us favored playing on the road against a good Cal team, especially after we got manhandled by Washington. Hopefully yhe oddsmakers are right.

We landed two recruits this week; Skipjack - mighty cool name - Walker, a 72++ running back from South High School in Parkersburg, West Virginia and Oliver Hartl, a 72+ wide receiver from Homestead High School in Homestead, Florida signed letters with USC this week.

Neither school did a whole heckuva lot on offense and both squads relied on their field goal kickers, but Cal eeked out a 20-16 win over us up in Berkeley.

They pretty much shut down our running game, which is really the key to defeating us. Mark Rayburn was ok passing the ball, but he just never developed into the player he was supposed to be coming out of high school and really can't carry a team when it gets no running game. Rayburn went 13/23 for 203 yards, tossing 1 TF while being picked off once.

Wideout Richie Warrick had a fine day however, making 5 catches for 103 yards and a score, while Wingback Gabe Whalen added 6 receptions on the day.

On defense, Johnny "The Storm" El Nino sacked the Golden Bear quarterback twice while picking off one of his passes. A big day for El Nino.

California 20 -- USC 16
PAC-10 (4-2) -- OVERALL (6-2)

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WEEK 12
vs. Arizona State (4-4) (PAC-10) *TV4*
(USC -20) USC BCS RANK: #17

Still hanging around in the Top 25 with three games in the year - the last two on the road against Notre Dame and UCLA. Should be an interesting challenge to see if we can remain in the Top 25 with that rough end of the season.

We landed one recruit this week, Jon Brennan, a safety from Ravenna High School in Ravenna, Michigan. Brennan is an 81-- Safety from a poor prep athletic program but has excellent academics and comes from a high school with a great academic program. He'll be a project, but won't require much, if any, help from the staff maintaining his grades. So he stands a good chance of being a solid contributor as an upper classman.

We have three slots in our recruiting class left this year, but only one scholarship, as again I tend to "over-red-shirt". So we'll be inviting some good academic players with decent skill sets to walk-on for next season.

The defense was the story in this one as senior ILB Tyrell Vaughn made 12 tackles while the D held the Sun Devils to 37 yards rushing on 27 carries en route to a very solid 34-10 win at a filled to capacity Rose Bowl.

The Trojans manhandled the ASU QB all day, sacking him four times and causing three interceptions on the day.

Tailback Ross Berberich led the offense with another solid effort, rushing for 154 yards and two touchdowns on 26 carries (5.9 ypc) while QB Mark Rayburn struggled mightily, going 10/18 for 79 yards and getting picked off twice.

Well, Rayburn has been mediocre at best this season. To date, through nine games he is 107/165 (65.1%) with 11 TD's and 8 INT's while being sacked 14 times. We're out of PAC-10 contention as UCLA is 7-0 at this point. I'm seriously considering starting redshirt sophomore Brock Dole in our final two games just to get him the reps. I know Rayburn gives us the best chance to win today, but his mediocre play hasn't helped a lot - though it hasn't really hurt aside from the one game where we really needed a QB who could be a playmaker. But going with dole might be what's best for the next three years.

USC 34 -- Arizona State 10
PAC-10 (5-2) -- OVERALL (7-2)

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WEEK 13 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 13, 2016 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Iowa 11-0 B10 1.50 2.50 0.00 3.08 7.08 1 Florida 10-0 SEC 5.25 1.00 0.00 2.96 9.21 2 Virginia 9-0 ACC 6.50 2.50 0.00 5.00 14.00 3 Rice 9-0 WAC 3.75 6.50 0.00 4.84 15.09 4 South Florida 9-1 USA 2.75 11.00 1.00 1.20 15.95 5 UCLA 10-0 P10 7.25 4.50 0.00 4.88 16.63 6 Nebraska 10-0 B12 6.75 7.00 0.00 4.04 17.79 7 Keene State 10-0 NNE 10.00 4.50 0.00 4.96 19.46 8 Notre Dame 8-1 IND 9.50 7.50 1.00 4.24 22.24 9 Pittsburgh 8-1 BGE 6.25 14.50 1.00 0.52 22.27 10 Louisville 9-1 USA 10.25 11.00 1.00 2.76 25.01 11 Bowling Green 9-1 MAC 7.00 14.00 1.00 3.16 25.16 12 Texas A&M 7-2 B12 14.50 9.00 2.00 0.80 26.30 13 Boston College 8-1 BGE 8.00 13.50 1.00 4.28 26.78 14 Michigan 8-2 B10 13.75 11.00 2.00 2.16 28.91 15 **Southern California 7-2 P10 13.50 16.00 2.00 1.76 33.26 16 Toledo 7-2 MAC 16.00 18.00 2.00 0.36 36.36 17 California 8-2 P10 18.75 18.50 2.00 1.72 40.97 18 Alabama 8-2 SEC 18.75 23.00 2.00 3.56 47.31 19 Penn State 7-3 B10 19.25 24.00 3.00 2.68 48.93 20 Nevada-Las Vegas 8-1 MTW 21.50 22.50 1.00 4.16 49.16 21 Hawaii 8-2 WAC 28.00 18.00 2.00 4.00 52.00 22 Colorado State 8-2 MTW 21.50 24.00 2.00 4.92 52.42 23 Southern Methodist 8-2 WAC 22.25 26.00 2.00 4.20 54.45 24 Syracuse 7-3 BGE 27.75 20.50 3.00 4.44 55.69 25



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Old 01-18-2007, 05:04 PM   #120
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2016 SEASON (3rd Qtr.)


WEEK 13
@ #9 Notre Dame (8-1) *TV4*
(ND -5) USC BCS RANK: #16

A very tough road game for us this week against our annual foe, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. It'll be a big win for us if we can pull it off. Decided to go with Mark Rayburn again at QB, can't really justify starting Brock Dole when I know Rayburn gives us a lot more of a chance to win.

Quarterly grades came out - 6 D+'s and one D. Allocated three coaching blocs to the D and 2 each to the D+'s. That leaves me with 16 blocs remaining for before finals. I think we'll keep them all eligible.

No recruiting news to report this week as we wait to see if OT Bernie Kirk from North Carolina accepts the offer of our last scholarship this year.

DE Tracy Aalders and LT Hunter Blount are out for this week's game. OLB Riddick taylor is listed as questionable and WR Richie Warrick is probable.

Sophomore RG Frank Elliot and senior OC Chester Hoffman spent the day dominating the line of scrimmage, throwing 7 and 5 key run blocks respectively, as Tailback Ross Berberich ran for 226 yards and 3 touchdowns on 32 carries (7.0 ypc) en route to a wild 49-49 USC victory in overtime.

5th year senior Mark Rayburn rewarded the coaching staff for their confidence in starting him again by having a very solid, mistake free day, going 19/23 for 255 yards while throwing two touchdown strikes, one to wideout Richie Warrick (6 catches for 103 yards) and the other to WR Cole McConnell. FB Warren Guthrie added 7 receptions for 85 yards in the very efficient Southern Cal passing attack.

Senior ILB Tyrell Vaughn led the Trojan defense with 10 tackles while USC also picked off three Irish passes on the day.

Really a terrific win for us.

USC 49 -- Notre Dame 46 (OT)
PAC-10 (5-2) -- OVERALL (8-2)

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WEEK 14
@ #3 UCLA (10-0) (PAC-10) *TV3*
(USC -3) USC BCS RANK: #12

Do the oddsmakers know something we don't? UCLA is undefeated and if they beat us stand a good chance of playing in the National Championship Game, yet we're at UCLA and favored by three.

Just saying.

We lost Bernie Kirk to Virginia - damn they're a mighty fine recruiting school, offerred our last scholarship to a middling OT. Invited an OLB to walk-on.

Aalders and Blount will miss this game as well. Backup NT Tracy Dragon is listed as doubfutl. DE R.J. Lackey is questionable and Riddick Taylor and Richie Warrick are probable.

Our arch-rivals contained Tailback Ross Berberich very well, but QB Mark Rayburn took over in leading Southern Cal to a 30-10 win at UCLA.

Rayburn had arguably the finest game of his collegiate career, going 21/37 for 320 yards and two touchdowns in a game when the Trojans needed him to carry the load.

Rayburn kept going to his wideouts all day, and the Bruins simply couldn't keep up with them, as Richie Warrick grabbed 8 passes for 135 yards and Ron Morrison made 7 more receptions for 115 yards and a TD. Wingback Gabe Whalen also had 4 catches for 52 yards and a touchdown to go along with a very solid day on the ground where he rushed for 62 yards and another score on 10 carries (6.2 ypc).

Defensively sophomore Safety Joel Arvold had two interceptions as the Trojan D picked off the Bruin QB three times on the day.

A very solid win on the road against our arch-rival, making two years in a row we've beaten them - making the alumni particularly happy.

And we probably just killed their national title hopes. Not too shabby for a rebuilding year.

USC 30 -- UCLA 10
PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (9-2)

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WEEK 15
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #8

Well, that's a mighty fine surprise. With our win over UCLA, we passed them in the BCS rankings and jumped up to #8. If we can maintain that ranking through this week - in which a few conferences have championship games - we'll be going to a BCS Bowl game for the second year in a row. What a major success that would have to be considered for this year.

For now, we sit and wait and watch.

Kurt Berry, a 61- offensive tackle from Lakewood High School in Sumter, South Carolina signed a letter of intent with us to play for Southern Cal next year. He may be able to contribute as an upperclassman, but likely is a depth player.

PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (9-2)

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WEEK 16
MINOR BOWL TIER
Off week.
USC BCS RANKING: #8

We get jobbed as we are ranked #8 in the BCS rankings, but UNLV, ranked #19 goes to the Sugar Bowl instead of us.

I'm thoroughly perplexed how the decision was made. We're # 8 in the BCS, an average of #5.50 in all the computer polls, and #14 in both the Coach and Fan polls.

Meanwhile UNLV is #19 in the BCS, an average of #15.5 in the computer rankings, and #18 and #22 in the Coach and Fan polls respectively. I just don't get it - unless each conference can only have one team in a BCS Bowl - that being UCLA who snuck back ahead of us.

Anyway, it means a trip to the Hoosier Bowl against (11-1) Nebraska, ranked #9th in the BCS - a school that recently offerred me their job. Not a bad bowl bid to get, but still Top 8 is Top 8.

In recruiting news, Joe Merchberger, a fullback from Herndon High School in Herndon, Virginia and Wayne Biakabutuka, an outside linebacker from South San Antonio High School in San Antonio have agreed to come out for the Trojans next season as walk-ons, filling our recruiting class for the year.

PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (9-2)

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WEEK 17 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 17, 2016 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Florida 12-0 SEC 1.75 1.00 0.00 2.32 5.07 1 Iowa 11-0 B10 1.00 2.00 0.00 3.48 6.48 2 South Florida 10-1 USA 3.75 8.00 1.00 1.24 13.99 3 Rice 10-1 WAC 4.50 7.00 1.00 4.44 16.94 4 Pittsburgh 10-1 BGE 4.25 11.00 1.00 1.64 17.89 5 UCLA 10-1 P10 10.25 4.50 1.00 4.88 20.63 6 Nebraska 11-1 B12 8.25 9.00 1.00 2.60 20.85 7 Virginia 10-1 ACC 13.25 3.00 1.00 5.00 22.25 8 **Southern California 9-2 P10 7.75 13.00 2.00 0.48 23.23 9 Louisville 10-1 USA 14.00 7.50 1.00 2.92 25.42 10 Texas A&M 9-3 B12 12.00 11.00 3.00 0.20 26.20 11 Keene State 11-1 NNE 18.00 4.50 1.00 4.96 28.46 12 Toledo 9-2 MAC 11.50 14.50 2.00 1.48 29.48 13 Boston College 10-2 BGE 11.00 16.00 2.00 2.88 31.88 14 Michigan 9-2 B10 18.00 9.50 2.00 2.80 32.30 15 California 9-2 P10 13.50 16.00 2.00 1.20 32.70 16 Hawaii 10-2 WAC 12.50 15.50 2.00 4.20 34.20 17 Nevada-Las Vegas 10-1 MTW 14.25 18.00 1.00 4.60 37.85 18 Southern Methodist 10-2 WAC 14.75 20.50 2.00 2.04 39.29 19 Penn State 8-3 B10 13.50 21.50 3.00 2.84 40.84 20 Georgia Tech 9-2 ACC 16.25 21.00 2.00 1.80 41.05 21 Alabama 9-3 SEC 15.50 25.50 3.00 2.08 46.08 22 Notre Dame 8-3 IND 22.75 19.00 3.00 1.84 46.59 23 Bowling Green 9-3 MAC 26.00 25.50 3.00 1.52 56.02 24 Army 9-3 USA 19.50 34.50 3.00 1.96 58.96 25




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Old 01-18-2007, 05:50 PM   #121
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2016 SEASON (FINAL)


WEEK 17
MAJOR BOWL TIER
Week off.
USC BCS RANK: #9

4th quarter grades came out, 1 D- and three D's. Allocated 7 coaching blocs to the D- and three each to the D's. Hopefully the D+'s can handle it on their own till finals.

No recruiting news as our recruiting class is filled for this year.

PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (9-2)

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WEEK 18
FOUR STAR TIER
HOOSIER BOWL: vs. #7 Nebraska (11-1)
(USC -4) USC BCS RANK: #9

A little jumping around in the BCS rankings has put us down at #9 and Nebraska at #7 this week. They look like a very good team and this should be a tough challenge for us.

Out: OT Hunter Blount
Doubtful: DE Tracy Aalders
Probable: DE R.J. Lackey, DE William Sutton and NT Tracy Dragon.

I noticed a decrease in injuries this year as I severely reduced the amount of specials teams time starters play - as it was only one season, could just be a coincidence or it could be something of merit to note. We'll try it again next season and see what happens.

A scoreless first quarter belied the end result, as Southern Cal poured it on the rest of the game for a 34-6 rout of Nebraska in the 2016 Hoosier Bowl.

Leading the Trojan attack was 5th year senior QB Mark Rayburn who just systematically picked apart the Cornhusker defense going 16/21 for 297 yards and one touchdown strike to wideout Ron Morrison. Morrison had a huge day against the Huskers, hauling in 4 passes for 137 yards, including the 87 yard scoring strike from Rayburn.

Wingback Gabe Whalen was as versatile as ever, catching 4 passes for 44 yards and breaking off a 47 yard run against an overwhelmed Nebraska defense. Tailback Ross Berberich broke the 100 yard barrier and ran for two touchdowns on the day.

The triumphant USC defense was led by redshirt junior ILB Claude Berg who made 8 tackles and 5th year senior NT Bert Duncan, who sacked the Cornhusker QB twice on the day.

A totally dominant victory to end a very good year.

Hoosier Bowl
USC 34 -- Nebraska 6
PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (10-2)

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WEEK 19
NEW YEAR'S TIER
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #5

PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (10-2)

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WEEK 20
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #5

The Florida Gators win their unprecedented third consecutive National Championship by beating Iowa 45-21 in the BCS Championship Game.

Michigan QB Johnny Lake won the Heisman, throwing an incredible 50 touchdown passes this year.

We end the season ranked #5 in the nation. A very good year which far exceeded my expectations.

PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (10-2)

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2016 FINAL BCS RANKINGS


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The College Years Final 2017 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Florida 13-0 SEC 1.00 1.00 0.00 0.96 2.96 1 Iowa 11-1 B10 2.50 2.00 1.00 1.32 6.82 2 Rice 11-1 WAC 3.00 5.50 1.00 3.88 13.38 3 UCLA 11-1 P10 4.75 3.50 1.00 4.40 13.65 4 **Southern California 10-2 P10 4.00 9.00 2.00 0.24 15.24 5 Louisville 11-1 USA 9.00 6.00 1.00 3.12 19.12 6 Michigan 10-2 B10 9.75 6.50 2.00 1.84 20.09 7 South Florida 10-2 USA 6.75 11.00 2.00 0.72 20.47 8 Pittsburgh 10-2 BGE 9.25 14.50 2.00 1.48 27.23 9 Keene State 11-1 NNE 19.00 3.50 1.00 5.00 28.50 10 Boston College 10-2 BGE 11.25 12.50 2.00 3.44 29.19 11 Hawaii 10-2 WAC 11.50 11.50 2.00 4.24 29.24 12 Nevada-Las Vegas 11-1 MTW 10.50 14.50 1.00 3.76 29.76 13 Alabama 10-3 SEC 7.50 21.00 3.00 1.16 32.66 14 Southern Methodist 10-2 WAC 13.25 17.00 2.00 2.00 34.25 15 Virginia 10-2 ACC 21.25 8.00 2.00 4.76 36.01 16 Nebraska 11-2 B12 18.50 13.50 2.00 2.20 36.20 17 California 9-3 P10 16.25 19.50 3.00 1.00 39.75 18 Texas A&M 9-4 B12 23.00 13.50 4.00 0.16 40.66 19 Toledo 9-3 MAC 20.25 18.00 3.00 1.68 42.93 20 Wisconsin 9-3 B10 19.00 21.00 3.00 4.12 47.12 21 Colorado State 9-3 MTW 15.25 26.00 3.00 4.28 48.53 22 Georgia Tech 9-3 ACC 21.00 26.50 3.00 1.36 51.86 23 Notre Dame 8-4 IND 28.50 22.50 4.00 1.52 56.52 24 Penn State 8-4 B10 23.00 27.50 4.00 2.40 56.90 25




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Old 01-18-2007, 08:37 PM   #122
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2016 Season Summary & Review

2016 SEASON SUMMARY & REVIEW


SEASON REVIEW

Well, I really thought this would be a very rough season for us. I felt this season would pretty much be a rebuilding year after our PAC-10 championship run in 2015. Given the fact we played seven road games - two of them at UCLA and Notre Dame - as opposed to four home games, I wasn't expecting too much success from this group.

I really wasn't expecting us to play as well down the stretch as we did, especially after our losses at Washinton and at Cal. I really didn't expect to on on a run that saw us end the year winning at Notre Dame, at UCLA and then win the Hoosier Bowl against Benraska. The team really gelled and came together and I'm real happy about how well the season turned out.

Our defense really had a wonderful season. We posted two shutouts, held teams to ten points or less in seven games - including at UCLA and in the Hoosier Bowl against Nebraska - and only allowed 14.1 points per game. Teams once again found they simply could not run the ball against us, rushing for only 812 yards and 2.18 ypc. Our pass defense was considerably weaker this year than last, allowing a 48.7% completion percentage for opposing quarterbacks. We did however intercept 22 opponent passes - contributing to our very good +13 turnover margin for the season.

ILB Tyrell Vaughn had a terrific season, good enough to be named PAC-10 Defensive Player of the Year. He seemed to be everywhere the ball was this year. Tracy Aalders had a fine year rushing the passer and sophomore Safety Joel Arvold picked off five passes and seems to be growing into that position. While I felt our secondary was relatively weaker than it has been in years, I think as a whole our defense was quite strong and put us in position to win a lot of football games - when your opponent scores 10 or fewer points, you better win games.

On the offensive side of things, Tailback Ross Berberich played extremely well after being patient for four years and waiting his turn, when he finally got the opportunity he ran with it - literally. Berberich gave us our strongest running game in years rushing for over 1500 yards, 20 touchdowns and averaging 4.79 yards per carry. Very impressive numbers.

QB Mark Rayburn gave us little hope for a big season through the first half of the campaign. He was mediocre at best, couldn't generate much offense and turned the ball over as often as he hit our guys for scores. But about the midway point of the year he seemed to grow into the position and he was lights out down the stretch, leading, and sometimes carrying us when we needed it, culminating in his fantastic Hoosier Bowl performance.

None of Mark's, or the offense's success however, would have been possible without seniors WR Richie Warrick, FB Warren Guthrie and OC Chester Hoffman. All three played crucial roles and were very clutch down the stretch, Warrick as Rayburn's primary target, Hoffman as a dominating offensive lineman opening holes and protecting the passer, and Guthrie both for his blocking and as a check down receiver for Rayburn. Without them, we wouldn't have had the success we did this year.

I can't be anything but pleased with the results this season. It's true we didn't go to a BCS Bowl, but we did crack the Top 8 to qualify for one, we went to a Four Star Tier bowl game, we went 10-2 on the year, and we beat both Notre Dame and UCLA, on the road to boot. Given the expectations at the start of the year, this season goes down as an unqualified success.

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2016 AWARDS

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2016 University of Southern California Trojans Award Winners * DE R.J. Lackey (Fr.) - Freshman All-American * OC Chester Hoffman (Sr.) - Senior All-American - 1st Team All PAC-10 - Academic All PAC-10 * LB Tyrell Vaughn (Sr.) - PAC-10 Defensive Player of the Year - 1st Team All PAC-10 * TB Ross Berberich (5th yr Sr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 * FB Warren Guthrie (5th yr Sr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 * WR Richie Warrick (5th yr Sr.) - 2nd Team All PAC-10 - Academic All PAC-10 * K Walter Perez (5th yr Sr.) - 2nd Team All PAC-10 * WB Gabe Whalen (RS Sr.) - Academic All PAC-10 * OG Frank Elliot (Soph.) - Academic All PAC-10 * LB Chad Berg (RS Jr.) - Academic All PAC-10 * OC Gino Lyubashevsky (Inc. Fr.) - High School All-American * S Jon Brennan (Inc. Fr.) - High School All-American


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2016 USC TEAM SUMMARY

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2016 Team Summary Head Coach: Bear Growlz (9th yr) Offensive Coordinator: Randy Edwards (5th yr) Defensive Coordinator: Bucky Riley (9th yr) Syndicate Coordinator: Pete Prior (18th yr) Lead Scout: Lance Coe (2nd yr) Overall Record: 10-2 BCS Rank: #5 Coach's Poll: #9 Fan's Poll: #9 PAC-10 Record: 6-2 PAC-10 Finish: 3rd Place Southern California Team Rank Rushes 527 11 Rushing Yards 2101 18 Yards Per Carry 3.98 35 Pass Attempts 261 107 Completions 175 59 Passing Yards 2728 31 Yards Per Attempt 10.45 5 3rd Down Conversions 45.4 6 Points Per Game 33.1 19 Turnovers 13 14 (T) Turnover Margin +13 9 (T) Opponents Team Rank Rushes 372 25 Rushing Yards 812 6 Yards Per Carry 2.18 4 Pass Attempts 343 82 (T) Completions 168 36 (T) Passing Yards 2228 42 Yards Per Attempt 6.49 30 (T) 3rd Down Conversions 33.5 55 (T) Points Per Game 14.1 5 Turnovers 26 20 Primary Formation: Flexbone Formation Week Team Versus Oppnt 2 35 at NCAR (79) 0 3 26 at BALL (31) 22 5 49 STAN (58) 17 6 31 at WAST (49) 0 7 45 ARIZ (119) 10 8 0 at WASH (41) 19 10 49 OREG (98) 10 11 16 at CALI (19) 20 12 34 AZST (55) 10 13 49 at NODM (22) 46 14 30 at UCLA (4) 10 18 34 vs NEBR (16) 6 ***Hoosier Bowl*** Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int 8 Rayburn QB 246 163 2459 9.99 16 9 Team --- 261 175 2728 10.45 16 10 Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Stff YdLst 34 Berberich RB 317 1521 4.79 20 73 80 25 Whalen RB 113 432 3.82 6 29 47 8 Rayburn QB 45 -8 -0.17 0 24 137 Team --- 527 2101 3.98 32 136 277 Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc YAC TD 1 Warrick WR 76 54 958 17.7 277 3 82 Morrison WR 61 34 666 19.5 211 7 25 Whalen RB 47 30 360 12.0 235 2 33 Guthrie FB 36 29 333 11.4 179 2 34 Berberich RB 18 13 143 11.0 75 1 2 McConnell WR 17 10 213 21.3 97 1 Team --- 261 175 2728 15.5 1113 16 Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack TFL Ints Defn 41 Vaughn ILB 87 33 4.0 19 1 7 98 Taylor OLB 52 22 0.0 8 1 5 38 Finch S 47 10 0.0 8 0 21 95 El Nino OLB 39 14 3.0 7 1 4 91 Duncan DT 38 16 5.5 17 0 0 39 Arvold S 37 15 0.0 7 5 11 78 Aalders DE 35 13 10.5 16 0 0 45 Berg ILB 35 14 0.0 10 0 1 36 Majka CB 34 15 0.0 3 3 6 44 Reed CB 20 8 0.0 2 2 9 90 Stender DE 17 7 1.5 3 0 1 43 Alexander CB 17 11 0.0 1 0 2 55 Sankey ILB 13 4 0.0 2 0 0 32 Flowers CB 13 1 0.0 0 2 1 47 Holmes OLB 13 4 0.0 4 0 0 93 Sutton DE 12 2 2.0 5 0 1 Team --- 610 214 31.0 123 22 72




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Old 01-18-2007, 11:17 PM   #123
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2017 PRESEASON (Winter)

USC took another jump up in prestige, going from Excellent (85) to Excellent (88), now tied for the seventh most prestigious program in the nation (tied with the University of Virginia). The six schools more prestigious than Southern Cal at this point are (all "Excellent"); University of Florida (100) - three consecutive national championships will do that for ya - Texas A&M (96) - they won two in a row awhile back - Iowa (95), Michigan (91), UCLA (89) and, heh, finally, Keene State at (88).

For those interested, here is a list of the schools that have won the National Championship to date.

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The College Years Solecismic National Champion List Year Champion 2016 Florida 2015 Florida 2014 Florida 2013 Michigan 2012 Syracuse 2011 Louisville 2010 Texas A&M 2009 Texas A&M 2008 Penn State 2007 Texas 2006 Michigan 2005 Oklahoma 2004 Georgia


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USC's academic rating remains at Very Good (70), 11th best in the nation. The schools with better academic reputations than USC are listed below.

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School GPA Overall Reputation Duke 3.08 88 Rice 3.09 87 Wisconsin 3.01 82 Northwestern 2.92 81 Stanford 2.82 78 UCLA 3.05 76 Michigan 2.95 73 Maryland 2.89 72 Illinois 2.84 71 0 Tulane 2.82 71

I'm not sure if I can get Southern Cal's reputation over 70, as we don't offer three majors. Once again, the GPA of the players in the football program was best in the nation at 3.22. So we're doing all we can to make it a highly rated football program and academic school.

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FB Jackie Woolley and TE Jumbo Specter have left the program because of a lack of playing time. Woolley I can understand, but Specter is just dumb as nails - we don't use tight ends, of course he's not going to play. Oy.

ILB Renaldo Elder has been suspended by the NCAA for, and I quote, "recording a truly awful rap album about the pain and humiliation of athletes foot."

When they're right, they're right.

I received a number of job offers over the Christmas holidays. The most pretigious school was SMU (Very Good-79), and the one with the most name cache was Florida State. I didn't give serious consideration to any of them and will return to Southern Cal for my tenth season.

TCY Today has ranked our recruiting class from last season 6th in the nation. Here's a look at the incoming freshman for 2017.

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2016 Recruiting List, Ranking View TCY Today Ranking: #6 Player Pos HT WT ST NRank ByPos StRank ByPos $$Casillas, Eddie QB 6-3 215 WA 67 5 2 1 $$Vance, Billy RB 5-7 171 FL 132 11 9 3 $$Walker, Skipjack RB 5-9 179 WV 280 21 3 1 $$Benzer, Devin FB 5-11 217 SD 45 2 1 1 ##Merchberger, Joe FB 6-0 193 VA --- 76 58 4 $$Hartl, Oliver WR 5-11 166 FL 278 26 18 2 $$Lyubashevsky, Gino C 6-2 265 CA 69 1 9 1 $$Long, Dana C 6-6 299 UT 93 3 1 1 $$Barton, Brian G 6-6 295 NM 64 10 3 2 ##Berry, Kurt T 6-3 272 SC --- --- 27 6 $$Eason, Xavier P 6-0 195 WA 58 1 1 1 $$Knight, Wally DE 6-2 241 NJ 1 1 1 1 $$Oben, Moe ILB 6-2 231 CT 25 2 1 1 ##Biakabutuka, Wayne OLB 6-1 199 TX --- --- --- 9 ##Cipa, Dan CB 6-0 168 CT 510 31 12 2 $$Brennan, Jon S 6-2 176 MI 853 52 32 5 Player All-St All-US Status $$Casillas, Eddie Yes No Committed * $$Vance, Billy No No Committed * $$Walker, Skipjack Yes No Committed * $$Benzer, Devin Yes No Committed * ##Merchberger, Joe No No Committed * $$Hartl, Oliver No No Committed * $$Lyubashevsky, Gino Yes Yes Committed * $$Long, Dana Yes No Committed * $$Barton, Brian Yes No Committed * ##Berry, Kurt No No Committed * $$Eason, Xavier Yes No Committed * $$Knight, Wally Yes No Committed * $$Oben, Moe Yes No Committed * ##Biakabutuka, Wayne No No Committed * ##Cipa, Dan Yes No Committed * $$Brennan, Jon Yes Yes Committed * Player Scout Phone Visit Emphasis Status $$Casillas, Eddie 68+ 2 2 Acad*/Dist Committed * $$Walker, Skipjack 72++ 2 2 Acad/Prest Committed * $$Vance, Billy 64+ 1 1 Acad/Dist Committed * $$Benzer, Devin 76++ 3 3 Acad*/Dist Committed * ##Merchberger, Joe 54+ 1 1 Acad/Prest Committed * $$Hartl, Oliver 72+ 2 1 Prest*/Acad Committed * $$Long, Dana 77+ 2 2 Acad/Dist Committed * $$Lyubashevsky, Gino 68++ 4 1 Acad/Dist Committed * $$Barton, Brian 89-- 2 1 Prest/Acad Committed * ##Berry, Kurt 61- 1 1 Prest/Acad Committed * $$Eason, Xavier 100- 3 2 Prest/Dist Committed * $$Knight, Wally 91+ 3 3 Prest*/Dist Committed * $$Oben, Moe 86+ 3 1 Prest/Acad Committed * ##Biakabutuka, Wayne 61- 2 2 Acad*/Dist Committed * ##Cipa, Dan 71-- 2 2 Acad/Dist Committed * $$Brennan, Jon 81-- 1 1 Acad/(Dist) Committed * Rough Estimate of Player Interest: No Prefix - player unlikely to be interested, ** - a bit of a stretch for your school, $$ - likely interest, ## - almost certain interest.


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No PAC-10 teams make coaching changes this off-season.

Our entire staff aside from Offensive Coordinator Randy Edwards will be returning for 2017. I have been displeased for some time the way Edwards has failed to develop players - most notably quarterbacks, and his playcalling was pretty good, not excepttional. Replacing Edwards will be Zach Fuchs. Fuchs comes to USC from the Florida State Seminoles where he was Offensive Coordinator. Fuchs is a brilliant play caller (rated Excellent) and excells at developing players, particularly quarterbacks. We'll continue to run the flexbone under Zach.

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Old 01-19-2007, 03:22 PM   #124
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Spring, 2017

Time to set up our schedule for 2017.

All home and home contracts have expired. We have our annual game against Notre Dame, this year once again at South Bend. And every season there is one PAC-10 team we don't play. This season that school is Oregon.

So that leaves us two free games to schedule. As one of my readers suggested a couple of seasons back, I'm going to offer my old school, Keene State - which has become a national power - a home and home series.

Stage 1: Keene State rejected my offer. Perhaps if I offer them the game at Keene this year they will accept. Iowa State is offering me a home game for Week 2. I'm going to accept that and then offer Keene the home and home again during stage 3.

State 2: Changed the terms slightly on Iowa State, moving the game to Week 1. Now to see if Keene State will accept the home and home starting on their turf.

Stage 3: Keene State rejected us again. They simply won't play with the big boys. Chickens.

Stage 4: Akron has offerred me a home game for Week 2. Might as well accept it.

Stage 5: I changed the game to week 3 and Akron accepted. That fills our schedule.

Here's a look at our 2017 schedule.

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2017 Schedule Preseason BCS Rank: #7 Preseason Coach's Poll: #8 Preseason Fan's Poll: #5 Rival: UCLA Stadium Capacity: 96,600 Season Tickets Sold: 96,600 Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather Television 1 IOWA STATE 2 -Off Week- 3 AKRON 4 -Off Week- $$5 OREGON STATE $$6 at Arizona State $$7 at (17) California 8 -Off Week- $$9 at (43) Washington State $$10 (42) WASHINGTON $$11 ARIZONA $$12 STANFORD 13 at (11) Notre Dame $$14 at (5) UCLA Home Games in ALL CAPS $$-Conference Games, ##-League Championship Games, **-Post-Season Games


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Old 01-19-2007, 05:31 PM   #125
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Summer, 2017

Spent much of the summer getting the workout and practice schedules together, as well as the bulk of my time spent on student-athlete academics. We're obviously doing something right as we have the highest GPA of any Division 1 football program in America.

Once we got the kids into summer two-a-days in camp, two things became evident in regards to how far we go this season. First, how new starting QB, redshirt junior Brock Dole, and first year starting Tailback redshirt sophomore J.B. Wilson can avoid the turnover bug. Second, on how well the defensive secondary plays. Our secondary has been a big question mark for me ever since Lnce Coe took over as Lead Scout. He's not a real good of defensive backs, so it's kind of an educated blind duck hunt, so to speak. In any case, if they can cause more turnovers than they give up big plays, that'll be a big success and it'll help our cause.

Considering we lost a lot of seniors to graduation, including QB Mark Rayburn and Tailback Ross Berberich, our offense could even be better this season. We've got an explosive backfield with redshirt sophomore J.B. Wilson, just a phenominal talent, at Tailback. He'll be accompanied by Wingback Gabe Whalen, who has really developed nicely entering his final season for us. At Fullback will be junior Manny Book - but don't look for Manny to get many carries, he's there to block and to catch the ball. Backing them up is redshirt junior Mercury Schultz, who could start at Halfback for a number of Top 25 programs.

How explosive the passing game depends a lot on the arm of QB Brock Dole. Dole has some talented receivers to throw to, but he needs to avoid turning the ball over as he grows into the position. Our number one wideout will be redshirt junior Ron Morrison, who we expect to have a big season. He'll be paired with redshirt sophomore Ed Kidman, who has a lot of potential. Our third receiver will once again be the reliable Cole McConnel, a 5th year senior. Dole will also likely be throwing the way of Whalen, Wilson and Book a lot as well.

Blocking for what could be our most explosive backfield in years will be a solid run blocking offensive line. First year starting OC Mitchell Blackburn, a redshirt senior, anchors the line and is flanked by guards senior Ernie Cheatham and junior Frank Elliot. You can expect to see redshirt sophomore Louis Ballard a bit at OG as well this year. At the tackles will be redshirt senior Hunter Blount and junior Billy Joe Joyner. This unit will continue to have time to grow together, as only Cheatham graduates this season. We'll miss alumnus OC Chester Hoffman who was just a dominating presence at OC, but we're hopeful Mitch Blackburn can step in and fill some of that void.

On defense we look to be very strong against the run again this year. Our line is anchored by redshirt sophomore Nose Tackle Andy Francis, who won the job in summer camp as a big run stopper. He'll be flanked at DRE by redshirt senior Freddie Stender, who gets an opportunity to show off his pass rushing skills this year. At DLE, redshirt junior William Sutton will be starting, but he'll be subbed out on passing downs for sophomore R.J. Lackey.

Our linebacking corps is solid, if not spectacular, as we return all four starters from last season. Up the middle will be ILB's redshirt senior Chad Berg and true senior Brett Vinnick. Freshman Moe Oben is the first backup there, so he may see a good share of action as well. On the outside at WLB is Johnny "The Storm" El Nino, a redshirt senior. Over on the strong side will be 5th year senior Riddick taylor, who has had a very solid career here at Southern Cal.

In the secondary the only returning starter is junior Joel Arvold at safety. Joining Joel at safety is senior Shaun Nordskov. Our dime back will be redshirt junior Dwight Korinek.

On the corners will be first year starters redshirt senior Sam Alexander and redshirt junior Buddy Reed, who will man the shutdown corner position. Our nickel back will be redshirt sophomore Sam Alexander.

As you can see, we have a very inexperienced secondary, and in essence, a rookie quarterback. It'll be up to these two areas of the team to avoid mistakes and not beat ourselves. If our defensive backs and our Quarterback can play relatively mistake free football, we should go a long way this season.

Here's a look at our 2017 roster.

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2017 Roster/Scout Overview From the Desk of Lance Coe, Lead Scout Player # Pos Elig Current Estimate Future Estimate Bjorke, Wayne 10 QB Sr* 33 89 Casillas, Eddie 18 QB Fr 17 55 Dole, Brock 9 QB Jr* 48 100 Oxendine, Pat 4 QB So* 35 87 Shultz, Mercury 37 RB Jr* 62 69 Vance, Billy 40 RB Fr 37 53 Walker, Skipjack 36 RB Fr 39 80 Whalen, Gabe 25 RB Sr 72 93 Wilson, J.B. 48 RB So* 72 95 Vanderlaan, Levon 46 RB* Sr 50 52 Benzer, Devin 22 FB Fr 43 86 Book, Emmanuel 28 FB Jr 45 78 Finley, Jeffrey 30 FB* Sr* 9 9 Merchberger, Joe 32 FB* Fr 15 44 Dresselhaus, Graham 84 TE* Fr 0 4 Glover, Randy 88 TE* So* 10 26 Shreves, Maurice 89 TE* Sr 8 25 Hartl, Oliver 83 WR Fr 27 82 Heekin, Sammy 86 WR Sr 51 77 Kidman, Edwin 6 WR So* 51 88 McConnell, Cole 2 WR Sr 60 72 Morrison, Ron 82 WR Jr* 90 100 Blackburn, Mitchell 58 C Sr* 48 76 Cook, Glenn 57 C Sr* 31 68 Long, Dana 53 C Fr 29 71 Lyubashevsky, Gino 56 C Fr 29 70 Rodriguez, Tony 50 C Sr 39 81 Ours, Cornell 52 C* So* 22 66 Ballard, Louis 61 G So* 40 84 Barton, Brian 65 G Fr 23 93 Cheatham, Ernie 72 G Sr 54 63 Eliot, Frank 66 G Jr 54 63 Lauvray, Nate 71 G So 22 59 Molina, Graham 64 G Jr* 33 65 Pilgrim, Ty 68 G* Sr 16 27 Quinn, Leland 69 G* Sr 2 2 Aska, Dana 74 T Jr* 41 63 Berry, Kurt 78 T Fr 5 70 Blount, Hunter 67 T Sr* 57 68 Burgess, Bobby 60 T So* 35 79 Harnisch, Vernon 62 T Sr 31 50 Joyner, Billy Joe 75 T Jr 34 85 Kaplan, Gabe 63 T Sr* 40 78 Kirkwood, Lester 79 T So* 22 53 Eason, Xavier 8 P Fr 58 85 Thornton, Brett 12 P Sr 68 93 Brown, Robbie 15 P* Jr* 1 1 Gardner, Rodney 17 K So* 74 100 Samuels, Zach 3 K Sr* 54 83 Knight, Wally 91 DE Fr 40 74 Lackey, R.J. 76 DE So 40 68 Stender, Freddie 90 DE Sr* 63 100 Sutton, William 93 DE Jr* 30 72 Cobb, Colin 70 DE* Sr 10 21 Francis, Andrew 99 DT So* 40 60 Milton, Trent 77 DT Jr* 39 93 Wilcox, Albert 94 DT So* 30 68 Flynn, Buddy 73 DT* So 11 24 Berg, Chad 45 ILB Sr* 71 96 Elder, Renaldo 54 ILB So* 34 75 Oben, Moe 92 ILB Fr 27 78 Pathon, Dale 97 ILB Jr* 13 52 Vinnick, Brett 49 ILB Sr 63 88 El Nino, Johnnie 95 OLB Sr* 42 90 Holmes, Rick 47 OLB Sr* 38 81 Mazzeo, Tyrus 59 OLB Jr* 25 71 O'Neal, Deron 96 OLB So* 9 71 Taylor, Riddick 98 OLB Sr 61 80 Biakabutuka, Wayne 55 OLB* Fr 11 50 Hoffman, William 51 OLB* Jr* 5 18 Stagg, Jake 42 OLB* Sr 14 50 Alexander, Sam 43 CB Sr* 47 47 Cipa, Dan 21 CB Fr 30 68 Fitzgerald, Max 31 CB So* 37 71 Reed, Buddy 44 CB Jr* 39 67 Arvold, Joel 39 S Jr 57 66 Brennan, Jon 29 S Fr 20 62 Griffin, Cris 24 S Sr 48 77 Korinek, Dwight 35 S Jr* 42 55 Nordskov, Shaun 20 S Sr 28 67 Waugh, Artie 27 S So* 37 50



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Old 01-19-2007, 10:00 PM   #126
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2017 SEASON (1st Qtr.)



WEEK 1
vs. Iowa State (0-0)
(USC -14) USC BCS RANK: #7

We open up with what should be a good tune up for our year. We'll get a chance to see how everyone meshes and works together as we have a lot of first year starters. Really high BCS ranking to start, let's hope it stays that way.

Made our initial recruiting contacts for the season. Looking mainly to bolster our defensive secondary and find a quarterback as heir to Brock Dole.

In what could only be labeled absolute dominance, the capacity crowd at the Rose Bowl saw its Southern Cal locals rout the Iowa State Cyclone 66-7.

First year starting QB Brock Dole got off to an auspicious start for the Trojans, going 20/24 for 344 yards and 5 touchdowns before giving way to backup Pat Oxendine. Wideout Cole McConnell had a big day hauling in those passes, making 6 catches for 120 yards and a touchdown. FB Manny Book lit the scoreboard as well, as he caught two touchdown passes on the day.

The USC backfield ran wild all day as well. Tailback J.B. Wilson carried the ball 20 times for 171 yards (8.5 ypc) and two scores and Wingback Gabe Whalen managed another 71 yards on 17 carries 4.1 ypc).

Defensively, OLB Johnny El Nino and CB Max Fitzgerald each returned an interception for a touchdown on the day and ILB Chad Berg made 9 tackles to complete the all around dominance of the Cyclones by Southern Cal.

Well, a damn fine start to the season - but they just weren't in our class.

USC 66 -- Iowa State 7
PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (1-0)


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WEEK 2
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #2

Bad news as we lose wideouts Cole McConnel (up to 6 weeks) and Ron Morrison (up to 13 weeks) due to injury. We're going to remove the redshirt from freshman WR Oliver Hartl and he could see a bunch of action in the coming weeks as we're down to two healthy wideouts - redshirt sophomore Eddie Kidman and 5th year senior Sammy Heekin.

Spent the week making more contacts and expanding our recruiting poor. Really want to land Ike Daugherty, a RB from Nebraska - he'd be a perfect fit for our program though his academics are only average. But he'd make one heckuva tailback in this system.

PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (1-0)

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WEEK 3
vs. Akron (0-1)
(USC -7) USC BCS RANK: #17

Ahh the fickle fates of early BCS rankings as we bounce from #2 to #17. Hopefully once the season gets rolling along we'll be moving up, not down.

Injury Report: (Out) - WR's Cole McConnell and Ron Morrison, (Probable) CB Max Fitzgerald.

Akron just came in and shut us down. Brock Dole had a rookie-like day going 13/33 and getting picked twice. We obviously didn't get the ball into the hands of J.B. Wilson enough, as Wilson ran for 83 yards but on only 10 carries.

Safety Joel Arvold made 12 tackles and ILB Chad Berg 11 as DE Freddie Stender recorded two sacks.

The perils of an untried and untested QB.

Akron 21 -- USC 18
PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (1-1)

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WEEK 4
Off Week.
USC BCS RANK: --

Yup, definitely deserve to drop from the Top 25 after that one. We'll get back though, I have faith in the boys.

Spent the week heavily contacting recruits on our shortlist (house rule of only 1 phone call and 1 visit to their home per week). We've got a larger list than usual, and already have a number of kids visiting USC so far. Hopefully that's a good sign.

PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (1-1)

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WEEK 5 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 5, 2017 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Hawaii 3-0 WAC 1.75 9.00 0.00 2.04 12.79 1 Boston College 4-0 BGE 1.75 10.00 0.00 1.68 13.43 2 Virginia 3-0 ACC 6.25 5.50 0.00 4.52 16.27 3 Keene State 3-0 NNE 7.50 6.00 0.00 3.56 17.06 4 UCLA 3-0 P10 11.50 3.50 0.00 4.04 19.04 5 Florida 2-0 SEC 13.50 1.00 0.00 4.64 19.14 6 Marshall 3-0 MAC 6.25 12.00 0.00 3.76 22.01 7 Wisconsin 3-0 B10 8.75 12.00 0.00 3.72 24.47 8 Iowa 3-0 B10 19.50 3.00 0.00 4.68 27.18 9 Georgia Tech 3-0 ACC 8.75 15.50 0.00 2.96 27.21 10 Fresno State 3-0 WAC 4.50 24.50 0.00 1.16 30.16 11 Virginia Tech 3-0 ACC 9.50 21.00 0.00 4.16 34.66 12 South Carolina 2-0 SEC 16.00 17.00 0.00 4.24 37.24 13 Penn State 2-1 B10 10.50 24.50 1.00 1.32 37.32 14 Michigan 3-0 B10 31.25 2.50 0.00 4.40 38.15 15 Memphis 3-0 USA 11.50 24.50 0.00 3.48 39.48 16 Alabama 3-0 SEC 23.00 12.00 0.00 4.60 39.60 17 West Virginia 3-0 BGE 17.75 18.00 0.00 4.12 39.87 18 Syracuse 3-0 BGE 30.75 7.00 0.00 4.72 42.47 19 Illinois 3-0 B10 7.50 32.00 0.00 3.12 42.62 20 Tulsa 2-0 WAC 20.00 20.00 0.00 4.28 44.28 21 Nevada-Las Vegas 2-0 MTW 20.00 20.00 0.00 4.36 44.36 22 Rice 3-0 WAC 31.50 8.00 0.00 5.00 44.50 23 Pittsburgh 3-1 BGE 23.75 22.00 1.00 3.40 50.15 24 Michigan State 3-0 B10 30.25 16.00 0.00 4.80 51.05 25



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Old 01-19-2007, 11:17 PM   #127
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WEEK 5
vs. Oregon State (1-2) (PAC-10)
(OSU -2) USC BCS RANK: --

Going to do some rearranging of the gameplan a bit this week as we haven't been getting JB enough carries and perhaps we've been expecting too much out of Dole this early. We'll see.

3rd string QB Walter Bjorke was found possessing a small amount of marijuana in his car. The NCAA took no action, but he has been suspended by the program for the year.

Quarterly grades came out this week. A new walk-on failing a class but only two D+'s from everyone else, everyone else lowest grade was a C- or higher. Fewer coaching blocs to assign this year as Randy Edwards was quite good at that stuff, but live and learn. Gave 5 to the failing student and 3 each to the students with D+'s. That leaves me with 40 for the rest of the season.

Made some more recruiting trips and calls, offerred one or two more scholarships. If things break right we'll have a well rounded recruiting class.

We got the running game going today and ran all over the Beavers, 45-16. Tailback J.B. Wilson led the way with 167 yards and 2 TD's on 20 carries (8.3 ypc) and Wingback Gabe Whalen added another 59 yards and a touchdown to lead USC to victory.

Dole really couldn't get it going, my guess is he just doesn't have the experienced receivers to rhwo too, and that he's still young and inexperienced - though no mistakes today.

Still, a good, solid win to open the PAC-10 schedule.

USC 45 -- Oregon State 16
PAC-10 (1-0) -- OVERALL (2-1)

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WEEK 6
@ Arizona State (1-3) (PAC-10) *TV5*
(USC -11) USC BCS RANK: --

Still not back into the BCS Top 25, but heavily favored at ASU. Some more fine tuning of the game plan for Brock until he develops - think we all got carried away with his lights out performance against Iowa State.

Great news on the recruiting front, we landed the back we were looking for. Ike Daugherty, a running back from South High School in Omaha, Nebraska signed a letter of intent o play for Southern Cal next year. Daughtery is an 87++ RB that comes from one of the best high school athletic programs in the nation (100). While it's too early to tell for sure, I think he may have the ability to be one of the best backs in the nation in our program.

Also signing with us this week were Austin Lew, an 89++ defensive end from Spring-Ford High School in Royersford, Pennsylvania and Monty Garcia, an 88+ inside linebacker from Barstow High School in Barstow, California. A terrific week of signings.

Offensive Coordinator Zach Fuchs continues to make every effort to get the ball into JB's hands more, and JB keeps rewarding us, rushing for 173 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries (6.4 ypc) for a 23-20 USC victory.

ILB Chad Berg made 8 tackles and DE Freddie Stender had two more sacks as the defense kept the Sun Devils in check most of the day.

But it was a close one.

USC 23 -- Arizona State 20
PAC-10 (2-0) -- OVERALL (3-1)

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WEEK 7
@ California (3-2) (PAC-10) *TV4*
(USC -1) USC BCS RANK: #22

Popped back into the BCS rankings this week, but yet another tough game at the Golden Bears. Hopefully our play will continue to improve, particularly that of QB Brock Dole. I don't really have an alternative to go to yet if he can't cut it with Jason Krieger having left the program.

Three more good signings this week, though not the quarterback we were hoping for. Signing with us were Glen Jacobs, a wide receiver from Wishkah Valley High School in Aberdeen, Washington, Floyd Jeffers, a defensive end from Harriton High School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and Matt Blackston, an outside linebacker from Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California.

Blackston is an 82+ LB that comes to us from an excellent athletic program. Jacobs is an 85- wideout that comes from yet another outstanding athletic program. Finally, Jeffers is a 69++ DE who once again comes from an excellent prep program. All three could become key contributors early in their collegiate careers at Southern Cal.

J.B. Wilson ran for 113 yards and one touchdown while making 4 receptions and scoring another touchdown to lead USC past the Golden Bears at Berkeley, 31-17.

QB Brock Dole was alright but a bit shaky, though getting the job done when needed today, going 15/32 for 224 yards, 2 TD and 1 INT. His favorite target of the day was freshman wideout Oliver Hartl, who started the year as a redshirt. Hartl made 6 catches for 122 yards and a touchdown.

But it was on defense where the Trojans really dominated. Pass rush specialist RJ Lackey sacked the Golden Bear QB 3.5 times while Freddie Stender sacked him three times and OLB Johnny El Nino got him twice more. It's hard to complete a pass when you're sitting on you're ask him, he'll tell ya.

A big, big road win for us, though I haven't a clue about how to get Brock Dole on track. Maybe he just needs the year to grow into the job.

USC 31 -- California 17
PAC-10 (3-0) -- OVERALL (4-1)

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WEEK 8
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #20

So far it seems like it's been a good move to give the starting Tailback job to J.B. Wilson. He and Gabe Whalen and Mercury Schultz all battled for it during the summer, but Wilson just had that something extra that makes you think he's going to be a superstar. Hopefully he'll prove me right.

Spent the week rounding up new recruits to invite onto campus. We've still got a bunch of slots to fill in this year's class.

PAC-10 (3-0) -- OVERALL (4-1)

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WEEK 9 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 9, 2017 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Iowa 7-0 B10 4.50 2.00 0.00 2.12 8.62 1 Syracuse 5-0 BGE 1.50 5.50 0.00 2.24 9.24 2 Florida 6-0 SEC 5.00 1.00 0.00 4.40 10.40 3 Rice 6-0 WAC 2.25 5.50 0.00 3.84 11.59 4 Virginia 6-0 ACC 5.50 4.00 0.00 4.88 14.38 5 UCLA 7-0 P10 8.25 3.00 0.00 4.56 15.81 6 Michigan 6-1 B10 10.25 7.00 1.00 1.20 19.45 7 Memphis 6-0 USA 6.00 12.50 0.00 3.36 21.86 8 Miami of Ohio 6-0 MAC 8.00 10.00 0.00 4.60 22.60 9 Colorado State 6-1 MTW 7.50 16.50 1.00 0.60 25.60 10 Georgia Tech 5-1 ACC 6.25 19.00 1.00 1.68 27.93 11 Tulsa 5-1 WAC 4.75 24.00 1.00 0.68 30.43 12 Pittsburgh 6-1 BGE 15.50 11.00 1.00 3.24 30.74 13 Notre Dame 5-1 IND 17.50 8.50 1.00 3.80 30.80 14 Wisconsin 5-1 B10 15.50 15.00 1.00 2.56 34.06 15 West Virginia 5-1 BGE 12.00 22.00 1.00 2.60 37.60 16 **Southern California 4-1 P10 27.25 8.50 1.00 4.92 41.67 17 Alabama 5-1 SEC 23.25 14.00 1.00 4.80 43.05 18 Marshall 5-1 MAC 22.00 16.00 1.00 4.08 43.08 19 Nevada-Las Vegas 4-1 MTW 14.25 27.50 1.00 1.52 44.27 20 Boston College 5-2 BGE 20.50 22.00 2.00 1.24 45.74 21 Washington State 7-1 P10 23.50 20.00 1.00 5.00 49.50 22 Maine 5-1 NNE 16.75 30.00 1.00 2.28 50.03 23 Utah 5-1 MTW 22.50 25.50 1.00 3.12 52.12 24 Nebraska 5-2 B12 25.75 22.50 2.00 2.72 52.97 25



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Old 01-20-2007, 12:26 AM   #128
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WEEK 9
@ #22 Washington State (7-1) (PAC-10) *TV3*
(WSU -4) USC BCS RANK: #17

Big challenge this week as we play at a very good Washington State Cougar team. We'll have Cole McConnell back - he always seems to make a key catch at the right time.

A bunch of recruiting signings this week. Al Myers, a 79+ wide receiver from Sweet Home High School in Amherst, New York; Desmond Connell, an 81- offensive guard from Page High School in Page, Arizona; Walt Whalen, a 92+ inside linebacker from James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York,; Brad Knight, an 89- cornerback from Fountain Valley High School in Fountain Valley, California; and Lawrence Abdul-Jabbar, an 81++ safety from Berkshire High School in Burton, Ohio all signed letters of intent to play for USC next fall. Shaping up to be a very good recruiting class.

It was a defensive struggle all day and we really couldn't get anything going offensively, but neither could the Cougars as the Trojan defense, led by ILB Chad Berg who made 10 tackles, held Washington State to 10 points while we were able to put up just enough to win, 13-10.

Tailback J.B. Wilson didn't have his best day, but he grinded out the yardage, rushing for 111 yards on 28 carries (3.9 ypc), and that was about it for us offensively.

In one of the weirdest stat lines I have ever seen, well, just take a look.

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Receiving Catch Yards Avg YAC Long TD 6 Kidman 2 47 23.5 106 37 1

Those must have been some deep in the backfield screen passes.

Still, a terrific win for us on the road against a very solid PAC-10 opponent.

USC 13 -- Washington State 10
PAC-10 (4-0) -- OVERALL (5-1)

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WEEK 10
vs. Washington (4-3) (PAC-10) *TV4*
(USC -10) USC BCS RANK: #15

That last win oputs us and UCLA alone atop the PAC-10 at 4-0, every other team has at least one loss. No looking ahead now though - we never have any idea how Brock Dole is going to play from week to week. OT Hunter Blount and FB Manny Book will be out for this week's game, along with WR Ron Morrison who is still out. if Ronnie could keep himself healthy, he'd be a star, But he hasn't been able to as of yet.

We landed two more recruits this week, bringing our current recruiting class to 13 on the season. Vinny Ratto, a 72++ quarterback from Morse High School in San Diego, California who probably will need some development time, and Jared Esparza, a 92-- safety from Westhampton Beach High School in Westhampton Beach, New York who comes from an excellent atheltic program in high school, both committed to playing for the Trojans in the fall. Esparza could make a contribution as early as next year given the weakness of our secondary.

Defense and Brock Dole were the stories of the day as the Trojan D held the visiting Huskies to 87 yards total offense and Brock Dole had a terrific game passing the ball in leading Southern Cal to a 48-3 rout over Washington.

Dole went 26/40 for 353 yards and 2 touchdowns while being picked off once, hitting WR Cole McConnell and Gabe Whalen with scoring strikes.

Meanwhile, the Trojan defense was as stifling as a D can be, holding the Huskie QB to a 4/36 passing day while picking him off 4 times. Backip NT Trent Milton and DE Freddie Stender each had a sack and a half in the victory.

While we couldn't get a running game going, we dominated every other phase of the game. A terrific win for us.

UCLA kept pace with us, moving to 5-0 in conference.

USC 48 -- Washington 3
PAC-10 (5-0) -- OVERALL (6-1)

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WEEK 11
vs. Arizona (3-6) (PAC-10)
(USC -19) USC BCS RANK: #11

Notice some improvement in the Arizona program as compared to the previous few years and they're actually winning a few games this season. Here's to not being one of them.

Missing this week's game will be OT Hunter Blount, ILB Chad Berg, FB Emmanuel Book and DE Colin Cobb, a walk-on. WR Ron Morrison is questionable but we'll try and play him.

Wingback Gabe Whalen had a terrific day, rushing for two touchdowns and 50 yards on 9 carries and Tailback J.B. Wilson ran for another two scores as USC beat an up and coming Arizona Wildcat progra, 34-21.

QB Brock Dole through for a lot of yardage but no scores as he went 17/26 for 353 yards and 1 pick on the day. Brock's favorite target today was wideout Ron Morrison, who had 8 receptions for 157 yards. WR Cole McConnel also caught three passes for 128 yards.

Not a spectacular win, but a win in a game we should have won. We'll take it.

USC 34 -- Arizona 21
PAC-10 (6-0) -- OVERALL (7-1)

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WEEK 12
vs. Stanford (5-4) (PAC-10) *TV4*
(USC -10) USC BCS RANK: #12

The Cardinal are playing solid, if not spectacular football this season and we have to watch out and keep our heads in the game. We're still tied with UCLA, both at 6-0 in the PAC-10, and they're are only conference game left after this one. No looking ahead now though, we've got to take care of Stanford.

Out for this game will once again be Blunt, Berg and Book.

Landed one more recruit this week as Nate Dillon, an offensive tackle from Montgomery-Lonsdale High School in Montgomery, Minnesota signed a letter of intent to play for USC next year. Dillon is a 100- OT and was the #1 rated OT coming out of high school this year.

Stanford came into the Rose Bowl and shut down our running game cold, but somehow we were able to stay in the game despite the mediocre play of QB brock Dole, just losing 42-39.

Freshman ILB Moe Oben ran an interception back for a touchdown and Freddie Stender sacked the Cardinal QB twice, but that was about it for Trojan highlights on the day.

UCLA won their game this week, but because we're only a game behind them, if we can beat them we'll still win the PAC-10 title.

If.

Stanford 42 -- USC 39
PAC-10 (6-1) -- OVERALL (7-2)

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WEEK 13 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 13, 2017 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Florida 9-0 SEC 1.75 1.00 0.00 3.00 5.75 1 Iowa 11-0 B10 4.25 2.00 0.00 4.32 10.57 2 Michigan 9-1 B10 3.00 6.00 1.00 1.04 11.04 3 Rice 10-0 WAC 2.50 5.00 0.00 4.76 12.26 4 UCLA 10-0 P10 5.50 3.00 0.00 4.64 13.14 5 Virginia 9-0 ACC 7.00 4.00 0.00 5.00 16.00 6 Miami of Ohio 10-0 MAC 4.50 8.00 0.00 4.40 16.90 7 Syracuse 8-1 BGE 9.75 8.00 1.00 2.28 21.03 8 Notre Dame 8-1 IND 8.00 8.00 1.00 4.48 21.48 9 Pittsburgh 9-1 BGE 9.25 10.00 1.00 2.20 22.45 10 Nevada-Las Vegas 8-1 MTW 6.25 14.00 1.00 2.68 23.93 11 Colorado State 9-1 MTW 11.00 11.50 1.00 1.84 25.34 12 Boston College 7-2 BGE 14.75 16.00 2.00 1.92 34.67 13 Alabama 8-2 SEC 15.75 14.50 2.00 4.00 36.25 14 **Southern California 7-2 P10 22.00 11.50 2.00 4.36 39.86 15 Wisconsin 8-2 B10 17.75 16.00 2.00 4.24 39.99 16 Memphis 9-1 USA 21.00 15.00 1.00 4.08 41.08 17 Maine 8-1 NNE 17.50 19.00 1.00 3.92 41.42 18 Penn State 7-3 B10 17.75 23.00 3.00 0.36 44.11 19 Southern Methodist 7-2 WAC 20.00 19.50 2.00 3.08 44.58 20 Tulsa 7-3 WAC 10.75 33.50 3.00 0.28 47.53 21 Michigan State 8-2 B10 25.00 20.00 2.00 4.88 51.88 22 Hawaii 7-3 WAC 23.25 24.00 3.00 1.72 51.97 23 Wake Forest 8-2 ACC 17.75 30.00 2.00 3.20 52.95 24 Georgia Tech 6-3 ACC 15.00 36.50 3.00 1.00 55.50 25



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Old 01-20-2007, 01:04 AM   #129
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2017 SEASON (4th Qtr.)


WEEK 13
@ #9 Notre Dame (8-1) *TV3*
(ND -12) USC BCS RANK: #15

Tough game against the Fighting Irish this week, like it is every year. They're looking to use us as a stepping stone to a BCS Bowl game and we're looking to stop them.

Blount, Berg and Book will once again miss this week's game because of injuries.

Two failing walk-ons, 2 D's and a D+. Gave them all coaching blocs of time - now have ten left for the end of the year. Used up way too many on the walk-ons but those two guys are real popular with the team, so I really can't cut hem without harming team morale.

No recruiting news this week.

Tailback J.B. Wilson and Wingback Gabe Whalen ran all over the Fighting Irish en route to a huge 48-25 Southern Cal win over Notre Dame at South Bend.

Wilson finished the day with two touchdowns and 116 yards rushing on 28 carries (4.1 ypc) and Whalen added 90 yards and another score on 16 carries (5.6 ypc) as the Irish were helpless against the Trojan rushing attack.

Senior walk-on punt returner Levon Vanderlaan - one of the walk-ons recruited when we were short of scholarships a few years ago - took a punt 79 yards to the house for a score. What a culmination of a collegiate career for a kid who paid his own way through school and worked hard for 5 years just to have this moment in the sun.

Bet no one's getting that football away from him.

A very big win for us and it takes us into the game with our arch-rival UCLA on a very high note.

USC 48 -- Notre Dame 25
PAC-10 (6-1) -- OVERALL (8-2)

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WEEK 14
@ #5 UCLA (10-0) (PAC-10) *TV1*
(UCLA -11) USC BCS RANK: #12

This game is for all the marbles. Winner wins the PAC-10 championship. If UCLA wins, they might get a shot at the national championship. What better way to kill two birds with one stone by winning the PAC-10 and killing UCLA's national title hopes?

Blount and Berg will miss this week's game again.

Landed one more recruit this week, Dexter Leong, a 71- center from Central High School in Aurora, Colorado has signed a letter of intent to play for the Trojans. That leaves us with one recruiting slot and one scholarship offer pending.

UCLA just proved to be a little too much for us this year, beating us 29-20 on their home turf, in no small part due to picking off Brock dole three times on the day.

Tailback J.B. Wilson had a fine day, rushing for 105 yards and one touchdown on 21 carries (5.0 ypc) and Gabe Whalen had a solid day, rushing for 31 yards on 6 carries while hauling in 7 passes for 72 yards.

Dole, who was picked off three times, hit WR Cole McConnell for his only scoring strike of the day. He played pretty poorly today, he's still got quite a bit to learn.

Now we just sit back and see what bowl game we're going to.

UCLA 29 -- USC 20
PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (8-3)

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WEEK 15
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK
Off week.

Tough loss last week, but some outstanding news on the recruiting front this week. After taking all season to make a decision, Mel McWilliams, a defensive tackle from Clovis High School in Clovis, California has signed a letter of intent to play for Southern Cal next year.

Mel is an 89+ run stopping NT who comes from an outstanding high school atheltic program. He was ranked the #3 recruit in the nation by TCY Today and the best NT in his graduating class. He fills our final recruiting slot - and boy does he fill it.

PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (8-3)

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WEEK 16
MINOR BOWL TIER
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #20

Well, I think they're going to get sick of us in Indianapolis, as we're headed to the Hoosier Bowl again, this time to play (7-5) Texas. I have confidence we'll acquit ourselves well once again.

PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (8-3)

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WEEK 17 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 17, 2017 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Florida 12-0 SEC 4.25 1.00 0.00 1.96 7.21 1 Iowa 11-0 B10 3.50 2.00 0.00 4.44 9.94 2 Rice 11-0 WAC 1.50 5.00 0.00 4.28 10.78 3 UCLA 11-0 P10 4.75 3.00 0.00 4.52 12.27 4 Michigan 10-1 B10 4.75 6.00 1.00 2.00 13.75 5 Syracuse 11-1 BGE 4.75 7.00 1.00 2.76 15.51 6 Virginia 11-0 ACC 6.75 4.00 0.00 5.00 15.75 7 Pittsburgh 10-1 BGE 4.75 9.00 1.00 1.44 16.19 8 Miami of Ohio 13-0 MAC 6.50 8.00 0.00 4.36 18.86 9 Nevada-Las Vegas 10-1 MTW 7.25 11.00 1.00 4.32 23.57 10 Colorado State 10-1 MTW 13.00 10.00 1.00 2.04 26.04 11 Wisconsin 9-2 B10 14.50 13.00 2.00 4.72 34.22 12 Boston College 9-3 BGE 14.50 17.50 3.00 1.48 36.48 13 Southern Methodist 9-3 WAC 12.25 20.50 3.00 0.80 36.55 14 Memphis 10-1 USA 22.50 12.00 1.00 4.92 40.42 15 **Southern California 8-3 P10 21.50 14.00 3.00 3.12 41.62 16 Hawaii 9-3 WAC 20.50 16.50 3.00 1.68 41.68 17 Alabama 9-3 SEC 16.50 19.00 3.00 3.44 41.94 18 Penn State 8-3 B10 19.25 19.50 3.00 0.40 42.15 19 Notre Dame 8-3 IND 21.50 16.00 3.00 3.72 44.22 20 Arkansas State 10-2 SUN 20.50 17.50 2.00 4.56 44.56 21 Toledo 8-4 MAC 20.50 23.50 4.00 0.64 48.64 22 Tulsa 8-4 WAC 14.25 34.00 4.00 0.84 53.09 23 Georgia Tech 7-4 ACC 14.00 35.00 4.00 0.48 53.48 24 Maine 9-3 NNE 23.25 28.50 3.00 1.72 56.47 25



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Old 01-20-2007, 01:33 AM   #130
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2017 SEASON (FINAL)



WEEK 17
MAJOR BOWL TIER
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #16

Well, I ended up cutting the two walk-ons failing classes. Despite using an absurdly amount of coaching blocs on them to get them tutors and all, they still couldn't get their grades up to passing - so I let them go, they shouldn't be practicing football, they should be in the library studying.

The sad thing is, both were midseason walk-ons. Had they walked on at the start of the year, we could have worked out their academic schedules with enough study time for them to pass their courses.
Allocated the rest of the coaching blocs to kids with D's and just sense I used up too many on the walk-ons and we'll have some academic probations next year.

PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (8-3)

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WEEK 18
FOUR STAR TIER
HOOSIER BOWL: vs. Texas (7-5) *TV2*
(USC -16) USC BCS RANK: #17

Only OT Hunter Blount is listed as out for the game.

I think if we play like we're capable of, we can win this one. The big question mark is Brock dole, our quarterback. He's been more off than on this season, and we need him to come up with a big game this week.

Well Brock Dole showed up to play this week, going 20/31 for 273 yards and a touchdown while remaining mistake free in leading Southern Cal to a resounding 31-7 victory in the Hoosier Bowl over the Texas Longhorns.

Offensive Coordinator Zach Faust just kept calling Tailback J.B. Wilson's number all day as the redshirt soph carried the ball a whopping 37 times, running for 2 scores and 136 yards (3.6 ypc). 5th year senior Wingback Gabe Whalen had a fine day in his last as a USC Trojan, rushing for 80 yards on 6 carries (13.3 ypc) in a winning effort.

Wideout Ron Morrison, finally fully healthy, hauled in 5 passes for 116 yards including a touchdown reception.

NT Andrew Francis had two sacks and nickel back Max Fitgerald had two interceptions as the Trojan defense slammed the door on the Longhorns all day.

A very solid win and great way to end the year for the program.

Hoosier Bowl
USC 31 -- Texas 7
PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (9-3)

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WEEK 19
NEW YEAR'S TIER
Off Week.
USC BCS RANK: #12

Jumped up to #12 in the rankings. With Morrison and Wilson coming back and a year of experience under Brock Dole's belt, I'm going to be expecting a lot more next season. Still, not a bad year at all.

PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (9-3)

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WEEK 20
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Off Week.
USC BCS RANK: #10

Moved on up to #10 this week. UCLA won its bowl game over Michigan, didn't get a shot at the national title. This year's title game is a rematch of last year's, Florida vs. Iowa, as the Gators go for an unprecedented fourth straight national championship.

Well, the Iowa Hawkeyes broke the Gators string, romping to a 41-21 victory in the Rose Bowl in the National Championship Game.

Florida RB B.J. Kanellitsas won the Heisman.

Southern Cal finishes ranked #10 by the BCS.

PAC-10 (6-2) -- OVERALL (9-3)

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2017 FINAL BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Final 2017 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Iowa 12-0 B10 2.00 1.00 0.00 3.24 6.24 1 UCLA 12-0 P10 1.75 2.50 0.00 3.72 7.97 2 Rice 12-0 WAC 2.00 5.00 0.00 3.40 10.40 3 Virginia 12-0 ACC 4.00 3.50 0.00 4.96 12.46 4 Florida 12-1 SEC 8.75 3.00 1.00 1.08 13.83 5 Syracuse 11-1 BGE 5.50 6.00 1.00 2.84 15.34 6 Pittsburgh 11-1 BGE 5.25 8.50 1.00 1.24 15.99 7 Miami of Ohio 13-0 MAC 5.00 7.00 0.00 4.60 16.60 8 Michigan 10-2 B10 8.75 8.50 2.00 0.92 20.17 9 **Southern California 9-3 P10 15.00 10.00 3.00 2.44 30.44 10 Colorado State 10-2 MTW 16.25 11.50 2.00 1.48 31.23 11 Penn State 9-3 B10 13.75 14.50 3.00 0.20 31.45 12 Nevada-Las Vegas 10-2 MTW 12.00 14.00 2.00 3.84 31.84 13 Southern Methodist 9-3 WAC 11.00 19.00 3.00 0.84 33.84 14 Boston College 9-3 BGE 15.75 15.50 3.00 1.52 35.77 15 Notre Dame 9-3 IND 18.50 11.50 3.00 3.00 36.00 16 Hawaii 9-3 WAC 22.00 15.50 3.00 1.84 42.34 17 Georgia Tech 8-4 ACC 10.50 30.00 4.00 0.28 44.78 18 Arkansas State 10-2 SUN 22.50 15.50 2.00 4.80 44.80 19 Wisconsin 9-3 B10 19.00 19.50 3.00 4.48 45.98 20 Wake Forest 9-3 ACC 12.25 28.00 3.00 2.92 46.17 21 South Carolina 9-3 SEC 19.75 21.50 3.00 4.56 48.81 22 Alabama 9-4 SEC 22.25 22.50 4.00 2.48 51.23 23 Toledo 8-4 MAC 23.75 24.00 4.00 0.64 52.39 24 Memphis 10-2 USA 27.75 19.00 2.00 4.84 53.59 25


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Old 01-20-2007, 10:43 AM   #131
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2017 Season Summary and Review

2017 SEASON SUMMARY & REVIEW



SEASON REVIEW

2017 was a pretty good year for us. We blew out Notre Dame, went 6-2 in the PAC-10, won a Four Star Tier Bowl Game, and finished ranked #10 in the nation by the BCS.

But I don't think we played up to our potential. The early season loss to Akron was embarassing. I guess stuff like that happens every now and then, but there's no excuse for this program to lose to Akron when we are capable of winning a Four Star Tier Bowl and blowing out the Irish in South Bend. I also think we should have won the game against Stanford at home. We were a far better club than the Cardinal, plus we had home field advantage. So it wasn't all hugs and puppy dog kisses for us in 2017. We had a good year, but not as good as it could have been.

The development of Tailback J.B. Wilson was crucial to this team's success - and will be for the next three years. The progress he made during his redshirt year was remarkable, and his performance earned him 1st Team All PAC-10 honors. I think he'll be even better next year, and that bodes well for the Trojan program over the next three seasons.

Not sure what to think about QB Brock Dole. I realize he was a first year starter this past season, but I'm not at all sure he's the "one". I think right now, when you add in this incoming crop of freshman, easily our best recruiting class ever, we have the talent to make a serious run at the National Championship. The big question mark is Dole. He's got a rifle for an arm, but can't run worth a damn - which in our offense hurts him a lot - and he's very unreliable in the short passing game.

Where is Malcolm Moreno when you need him?

Defensively we were once again solid. Teams had difficulty running the ball against us - though not as much as in the past - and we held opponents to a 43.7% pass completion percentage. Our turnover margin was down, but that was mainly because we turned the ball over a lot more on offense than we did the year before.

The jury is still out on whether I made the right move in replacing Offensive Coordinator Randy Edwards with Zach Fuchs. One of the major reasons I made the change was that, aside from being a better tactician and play caller than Edwards was, Fuchs is outstanding at developing quarterbacks, a failing of Edwards. So I guess we'll see what happens with Brock Dole, and his successor signal caller, which I haven't recruited yet.

So all in all, I think we had a good, solid season, but not quite as good as it should have been. I'm counting on next season to be a big one for us.

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2017 AWARDS

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2017 University of Southern California Trojans Individual Awards * TB J.B. Wilson (RS Soph.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 - Academic All PAC-10 * OT Billy Joe Joyner (Jr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 * LB Johnny El Nino (RS Sr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 * OG Frank Elliot (Jr.) - 2nd Team All PAC-10 - Academic All PAC-10 * OT Hunter Blount (RS Sr.) - 2nd Team All PAC-10 * P Brett Thornton (Sr.) - 2nd Team All PAC-10 * LB Riddick Taylor (5th yr Sr.) - 2nd Team All PAC-10 * OT Bobby Burgess (RS Soph.) - Academic all PAC-10 * LB Chad Berg (RS Sr.) - Academic All PAC-10

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2017 USC TEAM SUMMARY

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2017 Team Summary Head Coach: Bear Growlz (10th yr) Offensive Coordinator: Zach Fuchs (1st yr) Defensive Coordinator: Bucky Riley (10th yr) Syndicate Coordinator: Pete Prior (19th yr) Lead Scout: Lance Coe (3rd yr) Overall Record: 9-3 BCS Rank: #10 Coaches Poll: #10 Fans Poll: #10 PAC-10 Record: 6-2 PAC-10 Finish: 2nd Place Southern California Team Rank Rushes 483 29 Rushing Yards 2035 19 Yards Per Carry 4.21 15 Pass Attempts 318 67 (T) Completions 185 42 Passing Yards 2922 23 Yards Per Attempt 9.18 12 3rd Down Conversions 38.8 44 Points Per Game 34.6 11 (T) Turnovers 21 62 (T) Turnover Margin +4 40 (T) Opponents Team Rank Rushes 372 23 Rushing Yards 920 12 Yards Per Carry 2.47 14 Pass Attempts 421 123 Completions 184 78 (T) Passing Yards 2451 85 Yards Per Attempt 5.82 10 (T) 3rd Down Conversions 31.8 35 (T) Points Per Game 18.1 25 Turnovers 25 33 (T) Primary Formation: Flexbone Formation Week Team Versus Oppnt 1 66 IAST (108) 7 3 18 AKRN (95) 21 5 45 ORST (123) 16 6 23 at AZST (90) 20 7 31 at CALI (24) 17 9 13 at WAST (42) 10 10 48 WASH (46) 3 11 34 ARIZ (89) 21 12 39 STAN (52) 42 13 48 at NODM (12) 25 14 20 at UCLA (3) 29 18 31 vs TEXS (53) 7 ***Hoosier Bowl*** Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Com% 9 Dole QB 317 184 2910 9.17 21 13 58.0 Team --- 318 185 2922 9.18 22 13 58.2 Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Stff YdLst 48 Wilson RB 297 1409 4.74 14 50 53 25 Whalen RB 126 494 3.92 7 39 75 9 Dole QB 34 -44 -1.29 0 21 104 Team --- 483 2035 4.21 23 116 236 Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc YAC TD 25 Whalen RB 51 30 355 11.8 191 2 6 Kidman WR 51 19 337 17.7 167 2 48 Wilson RB 42 33 400 12.1 225 4 2 McConnell WR 41 25 519 20.7 139 3 82 Morrison WR 40 25 485 19.4 186 2 83 Hartl WR 38 20 421 21.0 175 4 86 Heekin WR 23 12 200 16.6 98 2 28 Book FB 19 13 127 9.7 52 2 Team --- 318 185 2922 15.7 1271 22 Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack TFL Ints Defn 39 Arvold S 64 19 1.0 11 2 16 95 El Nino OLB 49 13 5.0 13 4 1 98 Taylor OLB 45 19 0.0 13 0 4 45 Berg ILB 45 16 0.0 7 0 6 49 Vinnick ILB 45 17 0.0 9 0 3 44 Reed CB 44 7 0.0 4 2 10 90 Stender DE 38 14 15.0 16 0 0 20 Nordskov S 35 16 0.0 2 2 9 99 Francis DT 26 13 2.0 6 0 0 31 Fitzgerald CB 24 7 0.0 2 5 8 43 Alexander CB 23 11 0.0 1 1 7 77 Milton DT 20 10 4.0 7 0 0 92 Oben ILB 18 8 0.0 1 2 3 93 Sutton DE 17 4 1.5 5 0 0 76 Lackey DE 14 2 9.5 11 0 0 21 Cipa CB 13 4 0.0 2 1 4 Team --- 606 193 41.0 117 22 74




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Old 01-20-2007, 11:30 AM   #132
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2018 PRESEASON (WINTER)


Winter, 2018

Southern Cal's prestige remained at Excellent (88), but the football program is now the 8th most prestigious in the nation.

Among the job offers I received -and turned down - this offseason were two from schools with an Excellent (80 or higher) prestige level - Boston College and Texas A&M, which is the third most prestigious football program in the nation.

But I'll be staying at Southern Cal for my eleventh season. After ten years in a place, it gets to feel like home, and we really have done some great things with the program during my ten year tenure here. The only thing we haven't done is win a national championship, and I certainly think we have a terrific shot at competing for one over the next three years.

Redshirt senior Safety Dwight Korinek has been suspended by the NCAA for taking money from a Southern Cal booster.

QB Wayne Bjorke has left the program because I suspended him last season.

OC Glenn Cook has left the program because he wasn't playing enough.

And Defensive Coordinator Bucky Riley has retired after ten years on the job. Bucky will be sorely missed and definately hard to replace.

Tailback Donny "Big Money" Cash was inducted into the USC Hall of Fame. Always liked Donny and am happy he has received this honor.

Our academic reputation remains at Very Good (70) and I'm pretty well convinced it can't go any higher because we fail to offer three majors. Once again, the students in our football program had the highest GPA (3.20) of any Division 1 college football program.

I fired Lead Scout Lance Coe. After three years of his scouting, which in general was fairly good, we needed to make a change because of his inability to judge talent in the defensive secondary. Lester Stargell, the Head Coach at Los Angeles Community College, replaces Coe.

To replace the retired Bucky Riley we hired Clarence Ackerman, who was the Defensive Coordinator at the University of Miami (Fla). Ackerman is an outstanding tactician and we hope to see a step up in play calling from Riley, who was mainly a developmental expert.

The rest of the staff returns for another season.

We had a fantastic recruiting season, and TCY Today has ranked our recruiting class first in the nation. Here's a look at our incoming freshmen.

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2017 Recruiting List, Ranking View TCY Today Ranking: #1 Player Pos HT WT ST NRank ByPos StRank ByPos $$Ratto, Vinny QB 6-2 177 CA 57 9 8 2 $$Daugherty, Ike RB 5-11 196 NE 5 1 1 1 $$Jacobs, Glen WR 5-11 185 WA 28 1 2 1 $$Myers, Al WR 6-5 213 NY 51 2 6 1 ##Leong, Dexter C 6-0 237 CO 860 39 14 1 $$Connell, Desmond G 6-5 288 AZ 37 3 1 1 $$Dillon, Nate T 6-4 277 MN 9 1 1 1 $$Lew, Austin DE 6-6 273 PA 1 1 1 1 $$Jeffers, Floyd DE 6-6 274 PA 4 2 2 2 $$McWilliams, Mel DT 6-5 287 CA 3 1 1 1 ##Whalen, Walt ILB 6-0 217 NY 15 1 3 1 $$Garcia, Monty ILB 5-10 201 CA 273 19 42 5 $$Blackston, Matt OLB 6-1 205 CA 73 7 11 1 $$Knight, Brad CB 5-9 166 CA 32 4 4 2 $$Abdul-Jabbar, Lawrence S 5-10 192 OH 26 1 2 1 $$Esparza, Jared S 6-3 194 NY 33 2 4 1 Player All-St All-US Status $$Ratto, Vinny Yes No Committed * $$Daugherty, Ike Yes No Committed * $$Jacobs, Glen Yes No Committed * $$Myers, Al Yes No Committed * ##Leong, Dexter Yes No Committed * $$Connell, Desmond Yes No Committed * $$Dillon, Nate Yes No Committed * $$Lew, Austin Yes No Committed * $$Jeffers, Floyd Yes No Committed * $$McWilliams, Mel Yes No Committed * ##Whalen, Walt Yes No Committed * $$Garcia, Monty Yes No Committed * $$Blackston, Matt Yes No Committed * $$Knight, Brad Yes No Committed * $$Abdul-Jabbar, Lawrence Yes No Committed * $$Esparza, Jared Yes No Committed * The College Years Worksheet View Player Scout Phone Visit Emphasis Status $$Ratto, Vinny 78++ 2 2 Dist/Prest Committed * $$Daugherty, Ike 87++ 2 2 Prest*/Dist Committed * $$Jacobs, Glen 85- 2 2 Prest/Dist Committed * $$Myers, Al 79+ 4 1 Prest/Acad Committed * ##Leong, Dexter 71- 2 2 Acad/Dist Committed * $$Connell, Desmond 81- 3 3 Dist*/Prest Committed * $$Dillon, Nate 100- 3 2 (Dist)/Acad Committed * $$Jeffers, Floyd 69++ 4 2 Acad*/(Dist)Committed * $$Lew, Austin 89++ 4 1 Prest*/Dist Committed * $$McWilliams, Mel 89++ 4 2 Prest*/Dist Committed * $$Garcia, Monty 88+ 3 2 Acad*/Dist Committed * ##Whalen, Walt 92+ 2 2 Acad/Dist Committed * $$Blackston, Matt 82+ 2 2 Prest*/Acad Committed * $$Knight, Brad 89- 3 3 Dist/Acad Committed * $$Esparza, Jared 92-- 3 2 Prest/Acad Committed * $$Abdul-Jabbar, Lawrence 81++ 3 2 Acad*/Prest Committed * The College Years Statistics View Player Statistics Status $$Ratto, Vinny 9 GP, 125-208-2228(10.7)-22-2 pass, 66-Committed * $$Daugherty, Ike 9 GP, 265-2106(7.9)-21 rush, 53-900-11 Committed * $$Jacobs, Glen 9 GP, 77-1886(24.4)-11 rcv. Committed * $$Myers, Al 9 GP, 94-2180(23.1)-10 rcv. Committed * ##Leong, Dexter 9 GP. Committed * $$Connell, Desmond 9 GP. Committed * $$Dillon, Nate 8 GP. Committed * $$Lew, Austin 9 GP, 89 tckls, 14.5 sacks, 1 Int. Committed * $$Jeffers, Floyd 9 GP, 70 tckls, 15.0 sacks, 3 Int. Committed * $$McWilliams, Mel 9 GP, 90 tckls, 11.0 sacks, 0 Int. Committed * ##Whalen, Walt 9 GP, 19-290-2 rcv, 118 tckls, 4.5 sackCommitted * $$Garcia, Monty 9 GP, 16-294-2 rcv, 112 tckls, 5.5 sackCommitted * $$Blackston, Matt 8 GP, 12-107-1 rcv, 99 tckls, 7.5 sacksCommitted * $$Knight, Brad 9 GP, 51-322-7 rush, 21-492-4 rcv, 46 tCommitted * $$Abdul-Jabbar, Lawrence 9 GP, 37-235-3 rush, 8-241-2 rcv, 76 tcCommitted * $$Esparza, Jared 9 GP, 47-213-2 rush, 19-392-0 rcv, 67 tCommitted * Rough Estimate of Player Interest: No Prefix - player unlikely to be interested, ** - a bit of a stretch for your school, $$ - likely interest, ## - almost certain interest.


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Old 01-20-2007, 11:53 AM   #133
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2018 PRESEASON


Spring, 2018

Scheduling time. This year, as every year, we have our annual game against Notre Dame, and once again it will be in South Bend. Every year there is one PAC-10 school we don't play, and this season that school is Stanford. At least this year we get UCLA in the Rose Bowl instead of at them in the Colliseum.

That leaves us two games to schedule. I'll be looking for two home games this year against middling programs.

Stage 1: We offerred a game at the Rose Bowl to Georgia. They rejected our offer.

Stage 2: Louisiana-Monroe offerred us a home game for week 3 and we accepted.

Stage 3: UTEP offerred a home and home but we're not interested. We offerred Arkansas a game at the Rose Bowl for Week 1 and they rejected our offer.

Stage 4: Southern Mississippi offerred us a home game for Week 4. We countered with an offer for Week 1 and they accepted. That fills our schedule for 2018.

Here's a look at our 2018 schedule.

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2018 Schedule Preseason BCS Rank: #7 Preseason Coaches Poll: #8 Preseason Fans Poll: #7 Rival: UCLA Stadium Capacity: 96,600 Season Tickets Sold: 96,600 Week Opponent 1 SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 2 at (10) Notre Dame 3 LOUISIANA-MONROE 4 ---off week--- $$5 OREGON 6 ---off week--- $$7 at Arizona $$8 (46) WASHINGTON STATE $$9 at Oregon State $$10 ARIZONA STATE $$11 at (23) California $$12 at (50) Washington 13 ---off week--- $$14 (4) UCLA Home Games in ALL CAPS $$-Conference Games, (#)-Preseason Coaches Poll Ranking.




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Old 01-20-2007, 01:46 PM   #134
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Summer, 2018

Spent the early part of the summer putting together practice schedules and working on the academic schedules of our students. Looks like we'll have a few more coaching blocs this year - 59 instead of 52 - in case any of the kids get into academic difficulties.

Once we got the kids in two-a-days, my expectations rose a bit. QB Brock Dole looked really good in camp, though he still is barely average in the short passing game - but boy does he have a rifle for an arm. Joining him in the backfield will be 1st Team All PAC-10 Tailback J.B. Wilson and freshman sensation Wingback Ike Daugherty. Ike was just too good to redshirt this year, and ideally he'd play Tailback, but J.B. is something special. So to get Daugherty on the field we start him at Wingback and hopefully he'll get us 500+ yards and a bunch of scores there. Blocking for those two budding superstars will be senior Fullback Manny Book.

Dole's primary targets this season will be redshirt senior wideout Ron Morrison and redshirt junior Ed Kinman. We're still waiting for that breakout season from Morrison and hopefully this will be the year. Wilson, Daugherty and Book also will all figure prominently in the passing game out of our flexbone offense.

I think we've got the makings of a real exceptional offensive line - at least run blocking anyway. At OC will be Mitchell Blackburn - the one pass blocking specialist we have on the team. Mitchell is not too shabby a run blocker either. He'll be flanked by senior OG Frank Elliot who looked simply dominating in camp, and redshirt senior OG Graham Molina. At the tackles will be 5th year senior Hunter Blount and redshirt junior Bobby Burgess. All in all, this group should open up some big holes for JB and Daugherty.

On defense, the line is once again a strength of the team. Redshirt senior Trent Milton won the starting Nose Tackle job away from Andrew Francis in camp. On his right will be 5th year senior DE Freddie Stender, who led the team in sacks with 15 last season. Over at left end will be redshirt sophomore Wally Knight, who has the potential to become a dominant pass rusher. He'll likely move to DRE when Stender graduates.

The linebacking corps features three 5th year seniors, ILB Chad Berg, and OLB's Johnny "The Storm" El Nino and Rick Holmes. Redshirt junior ILB Renaldo Elder fills out the starting quartet. Not the best linebacking unit we've had since I've been here, but respectable.

The secondary is once again the weakest part of our defense - though I have a much better grasp of the talent with new Lead Scout Lester Stargell on the job. Starting at the corners will be 5th year senior Sam Alexander and redshirt junior Max Fitzgerald. Both are pretty average and that's likely where we'll be attacked the most. 5th year senior Joel Arvold returns in a starting role at Safety, and he's really developed into a fine player. Starting at the other safety spot will be freshman Lawrence Abdul-Jabbar. Abdul-Jabbar has the potential to become a standout safety, and he was just too good to redshirt this year, even though he's a little rough around the edges.

On special teams we have one of the best placekickers in the nation, redshirt junior Robbie Gardner. Redshirt sophomore Xavier Eason takes over the punting duties this year and he's got a pretty good leg. Handling our return duties will be wideout Ron Morrison, who is simply explosive returning both punts and kicks, with an assist from Ed Kinman on punts and J.B. Wilson on kickoffs.

I think we've got a solid chance at making a run at the PAC-10 title this year, and if we play up to our potential, we're a legitimate contender for the national championship.

That's if our corners don't get burned too bad.

We'll know fairly early on how much of a chance we stand, as we face Notre Dame in Week 2.

Here's a look at our 2018 roster.

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2018 Roster/Scout Overview From the Desk of Lester Stargell, Lead Scout Player # Pos Elig Current Estimate Future Estimate Casillas, Eddie 18 QB So* 35 65 Dole, Brock 9 QB Sr* 64 100 Oxendine, Pat 4 QB Jr* 42 72 Ratto, Vinny 2 QB Fr 18 89 Daugherty, Ike 24 RB Fr 66 100 Shultz, Mercury 37 RB Sr* 59 84 Vance, Billy 40 RB So 42 59 Walker, Skipjack 36 RB So* 48 66 Wilson, J.B. 48 RB Jr* 86 100 Benzer, Devin 22 FB So 50 71 Book, Emmanuel 28 FB Sr 61 68 Finley, Jeffrey 30 FB* Sr 9 26 Merchberger, Joe 32 FB* So* 23 51 Dresselhaus, Graham 84 TE* So 7 7 Glover, Randy 88 TE* Jr* 9 19 Leavitt, Joel 81 TE* Fr 10 27 Hartl, Oliver 83 WR So 20 54 Jacobs, Glen 7 WR Fr 32 66 Kidman, Edwin 6 WR Jr* 70 72 Morrison, Ron 82 WR Sr* 95 95 Myers, Al 86 WR Fr 31 62 Henderson, Norbert 87 WR* So 7 7 Blackburn, Mitchell 58 C Sr 48 84 Leong, Dexter 50 C Fr 11 77 Long, Dana 53 C So* 40 63 Lyubashevsky, Gino 56 C So* 38 61 Ours, Cornell 52 C* Jr* 23 58 Ballard, Louis 61 G Jr* 33 100 Barton, Brian 65 G So* 27 75 Connell, Desmond 68 G Fr 28 90 Eliot, Frank 66 G Sr 74 74 Lauvray, Nate 71 G Jr* 20 79 Molina, Graham 64 G Sr* 39 88 Aska, Dana 74 T Sr* 52 54 Berry, Kurt 78 T So* 19 51 Blount, Hunter 67 T Sr 53 76 Burgess, Bobby 60 T Jr* 54 88 Dillon, Nate 69 T Fr 19 81 Joyner, Billy Joe 75 T Sr 35 77 Kaplan, Gabe 63 T Sr 27 69 Kirkwood, Lester 79 T Jr* 30 61 Eason, Xavier 8 P So* 72 94 Brown, Robbie 15 P* Sr* 3 3 Gardner, Rodney 17 K Jr* 94 100 Samuels, Zach 3 K Sr 59 91 Jeffers, Floyd 72 DE Fr 42 99 Knight, Wally 91 DE So* 51 83 Lackey, R.J. 76 DE Jr 42 60 Lew, Austin 70 DE Fr 48 100 Stender, Freddie 90 DE Sr 57 95 Sutton, William 93 DE Sr* 29 65 Francis, Andrew 99 DT Jr* 43 88 McWilliams, Mel 98 DT Fr 31 100 Milton, Trent 77 DT Sr* 54 86 Wilcox, Albert 94 DT Jr* 29 77 Flynn, Buddy 73 DT* Jr 11 32 Berg, Chad 45 ILB Sr 80 80 Elder, Renaldo 54 ILB Jr* 50 84 Garcia, Monty 41 ILB Fr 12 76 Oben, Moe 92 ILB So 35 70 Pathon, Dale 97 ILB Sr* 32 61 Whalen, Walt 49 ILB Fr 31 91 Blackston, Matt 42 OLB Fr 32 81 El Nino, Johnnie 95 OLB Sr 41 81 Holmes, Rick 47 OLB Sr 57 90 Mazzeo, Tyrus 59 OLB Sr* 38 64 O'Neal, Deron 96 OLB Jr* 20 62 Biakabutuka, Wayne 55 OLB* So* 20 42 Hoffman, William 51 OLB* Sr* 6 26 Alexander, Sam 43 CB Sr 55 55 Cipa, Dan 21 CB So 39 50 Fitzgerald, Max 31 CB Jr* 44 88 Knight, Brad 26 CB Fr 37 97 Reed, Buddy 44 CB Sr* 35 79 Abdul-Jabbar, Lawrence 38 S Fr 46 85 Arvold, Joel 39 S Sr 67 78 Brennan, Jon 29 S So* 28 57 Esparza, Jared 20 S Fr 42 66 Korinek, Dwight 35 S Sr* 47 67 Waugh, Artie 27 S Jr* 37 61



Here's a look at the preseason BCS rankings.


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The College Years Preseason, 2018 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Iowa 0-0 B10 1.00 1.50 0.00 0.48 2.98 1 Florida 0-0 SEC 2.00 1.50 0.00 2.04 5.54 2 Texas A&M 0-0 B12 3.00 3.00 0.00 1.24 7.24 3 UCLA 0-0 P10 4.00 4.00 0.00 1.92 9.92 4 Virginia 0-0 ACC 5.00 5.00 0.00 0.32 10.32 5 Michigan 0-0 B10 6.00 6.00 0.00 0.52 12.52 6 **Southern California 0-0 P10 8.00 7.50 0.00 1.88 17.38 7 Rice 0-0 WAC 7.00 8.50 0.00 3.44 18.94 8 Syracuse 0-0 BGE 9.00 8.50 0.00 1.48 18.98 9 Notre Dame 0-0 IND 10.00 9.50 0.00 4.56 24.06 10 Penn State 0-0 B10 13.00 12.00 0.00 0.72 25.72 11 Pittsburgh 0-0 BGE 12.00 13.50 0.00 1.40 26.90 12 Keene State 0-0 NNE 11.00 12.00 0.00 4.84 27.84 13 Boston College 0-0 BGE 14.00 16.00 0.00 1.32 31.32 14 Hawaii 0-0 WAC 15.00 13.50 0.00 3.32 31.82 15 Wisconsin 0-0 B10 18.00 16.00 0.00 0.80 34.80 16 Southern Methodist 0-0 WAC 16.00 17.50 0.00 3.52 37.02 17 Colorado State 0-0 MTW 17.00 21.00 0.00 2.60 40.60 18 Toledo 0-0 MAC 20.00 18.50 0.00 4.08 42.58 19 Alabama 0-0 SEC 24.00 22.00 0.00 2.28 48.28 20 Louisville 0-0 USA 25.00 20.50 0.00 3.04 48.54 21 California 0-0 P10 23.00 24.50 0.00 1.72 49.22 22 Georgia Tech 0-0 ACC 22.00 28.00 0.00 0.16 50.16 23 Miami of Ohio 0-0 MAC 19.00 28.00 0.00 3.84 50.84 24 South Florida 0-0 USA 21.00 28.00 0.00 4.60 53.60 25



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Old 01-20-2007, 03:37 PM   #135
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2018 SEASON (1st Qtr.)


WEEK 1
vs. Southern Mississippi (0-0)
(USC -14) USC BCS RANK: #7

Spent the early part of the week making our first recruiting contacts. A priority this year was to find a quarterback that could run, throw, and had good academics. Does Jesus mind being redshirted?

The offensive line just dominated the line of scrimmage today, springing J.B. Wilson for 206 yards and 4 touchdowns as the Trojans won in a rout, 62-7.

LT Hunter Blount made 7 key run blocks while RG Graham Molina made 6 and LG Frank Elliot 5, completely controlling the point of attack and making it easy running for Wilson all day.

Redshirt sophomore DE Wally Knight made 3.5 sacks and ILB Renaldo Elder returned an interception for a score as the defense completely shutdown the Southern Mississippi attack.

A good way to start the season off and we head into next week's game against Notre Dame on a high note.

USC 62 -- Southern Mississippi 7
PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (1-0)

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WEEK 2
@ Notre Dame (0-1) *TV1*
(ND -2) USC BCS RANK: #4

We head into this week ranked 4th in the BCS but #1 atop the nation in the Coaches Poll. Finding the right balance for Brock dole is the important thing however, as we don't want him throwing too many picks, but we need him to be able to hit the deep ball. So it's a work in progress. This week will be a big test for us.

Continued to work at rounding out this year's primary recruiting list. Hopefully we'll land a kid or two that can help us in the secondary some right away, like Abdul-Jabbar this year.

LT Hunter Blount and LG Frank Elliot continued their domination of the line of scrimmage, making 8 and 6 key run blocks respectively as they opened holes for J.B. Wilson all day en route to a big 30-24 road win at Notre Dame.

Offensive Coordinator Zach Fuchs knows a good thing when he sees one and he's determined to ride J.B. Wilson as far as he can go, calling his number a whopping 43 times today as Wilson ran for 153 yards (3.5 ypc) and 3 more touchdowns. Wingback Ike Daugherty added 47 yards on 9 carries (5.2 ypc) as the Trojans just kept running and running and running.

QB Brock Dole, while not shooting the lights out, continued to play solid, mistake free football and allowed the running attack to do the damage.

DE Wally Knight continues to excel in his rookie season, sacking the Irish QB twice rushing from the strong side. NT Trent Milton also got to the Notre Dame QB twice.

A big, big win for us early in the year.

PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (2-0)

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WEEK 3
vs. Louisiana-Monroe (1-0) *TV3*
(USC -10) USC BCS RANK: #1

Moved up to #1 in the BCS rankings this week coming off our big win at South Bend. ILB Renaldo Elder will miss up to 9 weeks with some broken ribs. The team trainers didn't think it funny when I told him to rub some dirt on it and suit up. Oh well. Sophomore Moe Oben will move into his starting spot.

Made some second and third contacts with recruits, as well as making new contacts with some defensive backs that I think might be able to help us. In looking at the recruiting pool this year, there doesn't seem to be a lot of stud DB's to recruit.

Offensive Coordinator just kept pounding J.B. Wilson at Lousiana-Monroe and Wilson rushed for 150 yards and two scores as Southern Cal whitewashed the Indians 37-0.

QB Brock Dole was quite efficient on the day, going 14/18 for 223 yards while throwing for one touchdown. Dole hit wideout Ron Morrison for the scoring strike.

The Trojan D was strong as an entire unit this week, holding the Indians to 120 yards of total offense.

A good win for us, we played well and didn't play down to a weaker opponent's level.

USC 37 -- Louisiana-Monroe 0
PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (3-0)

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WEEK 4
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #7

Ahh the fickle fates of early season BCS rankings. It's like pulling numbers out of a hat. Still, we're playing well and can't complain about that. The rankings will be what they will be.

With the off week spent most of the time on the recruiting trail. We've already had a few campus visits, that's a good sign. Still scouring the country for d-backs and also a linebacker or two.

PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (3-0)

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WEEK 5 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 5, 2018 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Rice 2-0 WAC 4.50 6.50 0.00 3.08 14.08 1 UCLA 3-0 P10 9.50 3.00 0.00 3.72 16.22 2 Colorado State 2-0 MTW 1.00 13.50 0.00 1.80 16.30 3 Florida 2-0 SEC 11.75 1.50 0.00 4.08 17.33 4 Wisconsin 3-0 B10 4.75 11.00 0.00 3.52 19.27 5 Boston College 3-0 BGE 8.25 10.50 0.00 3.16 21.91 6 Hawaii 3-0 WAC 13.25 9.00 0.00 3.64 25.89 7 Miami of Florida 3-0 ACC 3.50 22.00 0.00 2.36 27.86 8 Iowa 3-0 B10 23.75 1.50 0.00 4.00 29.25 9 Michigan 3-0 B10 21.75 4.50 0.00 4.64 30.89 10 Marshall 3-0 MAC 14.25 17.00 0.00 2.12 33.37 11 California 3-0 P10 13.50 16.00 0.00 4.32 33.82 12 Alabama 3-0 SEC 15.50 15.00 0.00 3.96 34.46 13 **Southern California 3-0 P10 25.00 6.00 0.00 3.88 34.88 14 Keene State 2-0 NNE 24.00 8.50 0.00 4.52 37.02 15 Toledo 2-0 MAC 20.75 12.50 0.00 3.80 37.05 16 North Carolina State 3-0 ACC 11.50 22.00 0.00 4.24 37.74 17 San Diego State 3-0 MTW 8.75 28.00 0.00 2.76 39.51 18 Miami of Ohio 2-0 MAC 19.75 18.00 0.00 4.36 42.11 19 Pittsburgh 3-1 BGE 15.75 25.00 1.00 1.76 43.51 20 Georgia Tech 2-0 ACC 22.00 19.50 0.00 4.48 45.98 21 South Carolina 2-0 SEC 25.50 17.50 0.00 4.12 47.12 22 Arkansas 2-0 SEC 11.50 34.50 0.00 3.40 49.40 23 Kent State 3-0 MAC 14.25 32.50 0.00 3.36 50.11 24 Penn State 2-1 B10 20.50 27.00 1.00 2.64 51.14 25





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Old 01-20-2007, 04:39 PM   #136
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2018 SEASON (2nd Qtr.)


WEEK 5
vs. Oregon (0-3) (PAC-10)
(USC -12) USC BCS RANK: #14

Even with our two cupcake games I thought we'd be higher than #14, but Notre Dame isn't in the Top 25 right now so it kills our strength of schedule. But we move into the PAC-10 schedule which is always a dogfight. Are we ready?

Quarterly grades came out, three players with D's, tqwo with D+'s. Allocated 4 coaching blocks to each player with a D, 3 to each with a D+. Leaves me with 41 blocs left on the season.

Had to suspend walk-on punter Robbie Brown for stealing starter Xavier Eason's punting cleat so that Brown could start. He's gone for the year - the NCAA took no action.

Lost a CB I wanted to UCLA. Need to write the Board of Governors of the University System of California about closing that school or something.

The Ducks managed to contain Tailback J.B. Wilson to 116 yards and a score on 16 carries (3.8 ypc) but QB brock Dole was deathly efficient going 13/18 for 182 yards while throwing four touchdown passes and only being picked off once. Wideout Ron Morrison haukled in two of those scoring strikes while making 5 catches for 104 yards. Fellow wideout Eddie Kidman made 7 catches for 97 yards and a score.

A solid win in our PAC-10 opener.

USC 45 -- Oregon 20
PAC-10 (1-0) -- OVERALL (4-0)

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WEEK 6
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #3

Moved up to #3 this week. Hopefully we can keep playing well enough to stay up there.
Lost a couple more recruits, none to UCLA thankfully. Got the week off this week before we get to the heart of our PAC-10 schedule. Will be following up with recruits mostly.

PAC-10 (1-0) -- OVERALL (4-0)

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WEEK 7
@ Arizona (3-2) (PAC-10)
(USC -2) USC BCS RANK: #9

Arizona always gives us trouble and it looks like they have turned their program around the past couple of seasons, so this one could be a tough one. Backup NT Andrew Francis will miss up to 11 weeks due to injury.

We landed three recruits this week - I was starting to worry we might have to scramble around with no early committments. Jeffrey Thompson, a running back from John F Kennedy High School in Taylor, Michigan, Justin Jacobs, a 79+ cornerback from Gladstone High School in Covina, California and Stephen McElroy, an 82+ safety from Farmington High School in Farmington, Arkansas all signed letters of intent to play for Southern Cal next season.

Thompson is an 88+ RB that comes to us from one of the most impressive high school athletic programs in the state. Given our current backfield, he'll likely redshirt next year but should prove to be a fine back down the road. Thompson is rated the best RB in this recruiting class.

Tailback J.B. Wilson ran all over the Wildcat defense as OT's Hunter Blount and Bobby Burgess made 7 key run blocks each en route to a 44-14 schellacking at Arizona.

Wilson is interjecting himself into the Heisman race with his performance this season, and added to his numbers rushing for 271 yards and two touchdowns on 41 carries.

QB brock Dole was once again effective in a supporting role, going 14/22 for 239 yards and throwing three touchdowns while being picked only once, hitting wideout Ron Morrison, who made 5 catches for 94 yards, for one of his TD's.

Redshirt sophomore sensation DE Wally Knight added two more sacks as the defense harried the Wildcat QB all day.

Another big win for us on the road.

USC 44 -- Arizona 14
PAC-10 (2-0) -- OVERALL (5-0)

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WEEK 8
vs. Washington State (3-2) (PAC-10) *TV5*
(USC -13) USC BCS RANK: #7

We need to keep playing solid football and avoid any early season mishaps. CB Sam Alexander will miss a week or two due to injury. ILB Renaldo Elder should be back this week and NT Andrew Francis is still out.

Landed another defensive back this week as Mel Kinsey, a 76++ safety from William C Bryant High School in Long Island City, New York committed to play for USC next season.

Tailback J.B. Wilson kept the Heisman talk going as he scored on runs of 54 and 48 yards while leading Southern Cal to a resounding 34-3 victory in front of a packed Rose Bowl.

Wilson dominated the game rushing for 193 yards and two touchdowns on 29 carries (6.6 ypc) while QB Brock Dole continued his quiet, but effective play, going 13/18 for 200 yards and throwing for one score.

5th year senior Safety led the Trojan defense with 7 tackles while CB Sam Alexander ran an interception back for a touchdown as USC totally dominated the Cougars in every phase of the game.

A very solid win for us.

USC 34 -- Washington State 3
PAC-10 (3-0) -- OVERALL (6-0)

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WEEK 9 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 9, 2018 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank UCLA 7-0 P10 2.50 1.00 0.00 2.44 5.94 1 Michigan 7-0 B10 1.75 2.50 0.00 2.12 6.37 2 Virginia 7-0 ACC 5.75 2.50 0.00 3.88 12.13 3 Hawaii 6-0 WAC 4.25 7.00 0.00 3.20 14.45 4 **Southern California 6-0 P10 7.25 4.50 0.00 4.32 16.07 5 Miami of Florida 6-0 ACC 4.25 11.00 0.00 1.76 17.01 6 Toledo 6-0 MAC 6.25 8.50 0.00 3.32 18.07 7 Rice 6-0 WAC 10.50 4.50 0.00 4.64 19.64 8 South Carolina 5-1 SEC 5.00 17.50 1.00 0.44 23.94 9 Florida 4-1 SEC 13.75 6.50 1.00 4.16 25.41 10 Michigan State 5-1 B10 6.75 18.00 1.00 0.56 26.31 11 Colorado State 5-1 MTW 13.25 14.00 1.00 1.12 29.37 12 California 6-1 P10 13.25 14.00 1.00 1.80 30.05 13 Iowa 5-2 B10 20.25 8.50 2.00 1.00 31.75 14 Marshall 5-1 MAC 11.25 17.50 1.00 2.92 32.67 15 Keene State 5-1 NNE 24.25 10.50 1.00 3.48 39.23 16 Maine 5-1 NNE 13.25 23.50 1.00 1.48 39.23 17 Utah 5-1 MTW 14.00 26.50 1.00 1.24 42.74 18 Penn State 4-2 B10 17.75 23.00 2.00 0.68 43.43 19 Syracuse 5-2 BGE 25.50 14.00 2.00 2.04 43.54 20 South Florida 5-1 USA 22.50 16.50 1.00 4.68 44.68 21 Pittsburgh 5-2 BGE 24.00 21.00 2.00 0.28 47.28 22 San Diego State 5-1 MTW 19.75 28.50 1.00 2.68 51.93 23 Arkansas 5-1 SEC 14.75 35.50 1.00 2.80 54.05 24 Alabama 4-1 SEC 30.25 18.00 1.00 4.96 54.21 25



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Old 01-20-2007, 05:52 PM   #137
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2018 Season (3rd Qtr.)

2018 SEASON (3rd Qtr.)


WEEK 9
@ Oregon State (2-5)
(USC -20) USC BCS RANK: #5

Quarterly grades came out this week. 2 D's and four D+'s. Gave the two D's 4 blocs each and the four D+'s two blocks each. Pointed out the direction to the library to two students that tried to walk on with failing grades. They're just numb.

Only NT Andrew Francis is listed as out for this week's game.

Spencer Washington, a 77+ fullback from George W Wingate High School in Brooklyn, New York and Walter Cheng, a 79+ cornerback from Blount High School in Maryville, Tennessee have signed letters of intent to play for the Trojans next fall.
This is shaping up to be a solid recruiting class, not spectacular like last year's, but pretty solid.

Tailback J.B. Wilson rushed for four touchdowns and QB Brock Dole threw for two more as Southern Cal put up 583 yards of total offense en route to a 58-0 trouncing of the Oregon State Cougars on the road.

Before Dole was pulled from the game when it got out of hand he went 12/20 for 246 yards and two scoring strikes. Wideouts Ron Morrison and Ed Kidman both broke the 100 yard receiving mark on the day, with Kidman making two touchdown grabs.

The Trojan defense held the Cougars to 53 yards of total offense as Safety Joel Arvold led the way with 7 tackles.

A terrific win for us on the road.

USC 58 -- Oregon State 0
PAC-10 (4-0) -- OVERALL (7-0)

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WEEK 10
vs. Arizona State (0-8) (PAC-10)
(USC -33) USC BCS RANK: #5

We're really playing good football right now, and J.B. looks like a solid Heisman contender. I'm pleased with how well Brock Dole has fit into the offense, not trying to do too much but yet making some key plays and good throws. Let's hope we keep it up down the stretch.

We landed four recruits this week, but still no quarterback. Afraid I may have to wait until next year to land a quality QB. Alfred Snyder, an 86+ running back from Hoopeston Area High School in Hoopeston, Illinois, Tyrone Horie, an 84- fullback from Tucumcari High School in Tucumcari, New Mexico, Vince Andersen, a 95- inside linebacker from Dallastown Area High School in Dallastown, Pennsylvania and Kenneth Kariya, a 70+ outside linebacker from Red Mountain High School in Mesa, Arizona all committed to play for the Trojans next fall.

Good solid signings.

QB Brock Dole had a very difficult day passing the ball, going 11/26 and getting picked off twice, but J.B. Wilson and the Trojan defense took over the game leading USC to a convincing 34-7 victory over Arizona State in front of a capacity Rose Bowl crowd.

Wilson ran for three scores and 144 yards on 34 carries (4.2 ypc) while DE Wally Knight added a sack and a half, Safety Joel Arvold made two interceptions and CB Dan Cipa ran one back for a score as everything but the passing attack was clicking for Southern Cal today.

A good win, but today's performance raises some questions about Brock dole's reliability down the stretch.

USC 34 -- Arizona State 7
PAC-10 (5-0) -- OVERALL (8-0)

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WEEK 11
@ #13 California (8-1) (PAC-10) *TV3*
(EVEN) USC BCS RANK: #5

Spent some time fine tuning the game plan for Brock Dole. This is a huge game for us, on the road against the Golden Bears. A must win - heck all of them are must win at this point. But we've got to be at our best this week, this is a damn fine Cal team this year.

Landed three more players this week, one of them a QB. Kenneth Finch, a quarterback from Ocean Township High School in Oakhurst, New Jersey, Casey Sly, a 91+ inside linebacker from North Salem High School in Salem, Oregon and Amos McCollum, a 100-- safety from Madison County High School in Madison, Florida signed letters with us this week. This brings our recruiting class to 13, with three slots open but only two scholarships to offer.

Finch might be the running QB we've been looking for as he ran for over 1400 yards in 9 prep games. He's a 94-- and his high school is not a top notch athletic program, so he's a project. McCollum was the highest rated safety in this year's graduating class.

Not a good game at all as Brock dole was simply atrocious, going 11/26 and getting picked off three times. Any hopes at a national championship we might have harbored sunk with this gameas we lose miserably, 38-13.

Even J.B. Wilson couldn't save us on this day as Cal shut him down, holding him to 98 yards and our sole touchdown on 30 carries.

A bad, bad loss.

California 38 -- USC 13
PAC-10 (5-1) -- OVERALL (8-1)

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WEEK 12
@ Washington (3-6) (PAC-10)
(USC -6) USC BCS RANK: #7

Not too big a drop in the BCS rankings, but we've got to hope Cal loses its last PAC-10 game or we won't have a shot at the conference title.

NT Andrew Francis, ILB Chad Berg, OT Hunter Blount and NT Trent Milton will all miss this week's game due to injury.

We landed two more recruits this week; Desmond Warkentien, an offensive guard from New Berlin High School in New Berlin, Wisconsin and Peter Grodin, an offensive tackle from Oak Forest High School in Oak Forest, Illinois have signed letters of intent to play for the Trojans next season.

Brock Dole couldn't hit the broad side of a barn today going 8 for 31 as we served up a 41-14 gift to the Huskies.

The Huskies built a 31-7 lead at the half and we simply stopped trying to run the ball, and Dole could do nothing.

We really played about as poorly as we could and were completely outcoached by a bad football team. Hats off to them.

Washington 41 -- USC 14
PAC-10 (5-2) -- OVERALL (8-2)

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WEEK 13 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 13, 2018 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank UCLA 10-0 P10 3.00 1.00 0.00 3.32 7.32 1 Michigan 10-0 B10 1.75 2.50 0.00 3.16 7.41 2 Miami of Florida 10-0 ACC 1.25 7.00 0.00 1.88 10.13 3 Virginia 10-0 ACC 6.00 2.50 0.00 4.68 13.18 4 Florida 8-1 SEC 7.00 4.00 1.00 4.96 16.96 5 Hawaii 9-1 WAC 7.75 7.00 1.00 3.00 18.75 6 South Carolina 8-1 SEC 3.75 14.50 1.00 0.56 19.81 7 Rice 8-1 WAC 9.00 6.00 1.00 4.08 20.08 8 California 9-1 P10 6.00 12.00 1.00 2.72 21.72 9 Toledo 9-1 MAC 10.50 9.50 1.00 3.88 24.88 10 Alabama 8-1 SEC 8.75 12.50 1.00 5.00 27.25 11 Keene State 9-1 NNE 19.75 7.00 1.00 4.40 32.15 12 Georgia Tech 8-1 ACC 12.75 15.50 1.00 4.28 33.53 13 South Florida 8-1 USA 15.25 14.50 1.00 4.60 35.35 14 Syracuse 8-2 BGE 15.00 15.00 2.00 3.68 35.68 15 **Southern California 8-2 P10 20.00 11.50 2.00 4.80 38.30 16 Green Mountain 8-2 NNE 7.75 25.50 2.00 3.28 38.53 17 Michigan State 8-2 B10 13.50 22.50 2.00 1.12 39.12 18 Iowa 8-3 B10 22.75 11.00 3.00 3.04 39.79 19 Pittsburgh 8-2 BGE 22.00 18.00 2.00 1.44 43.44 20 Boston College 8-2 BGE 18.50 19.50 2.00 4.36 44.36 21 Marshall 8-2 MAC 19.00 21.50 2.00 4.00 46.50 22 Penn State 7-3 B10 20.50 24.50 3.00 1.60 49.60 23 Wisconsin 7-3 B10 17.50 28.00 3.00 2.24 50.74 24 Nebraska 8-2 B12 28.50 22.50 2.00 4.24 57.24 25




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Old 01-20-2007, 05:53 PM   #138
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Could this be the year of the Trojans? I think it could be ... Good get em Bear!
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Old 01-20-2007, 05:58 PM   #139
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Next year maybe. Dole just isn't good enough to avoid key turnovers. And even if we're down 30 I don't care, pitch the ball to J.B. Wilson for damn sakes. Ahh well. Got JB for two more years.
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Old 01-20-2007, 06:28 PM   #140
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2018 Season (4th Qtr)

2018 SEASON (4th Qtr)


WEEK 13
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #16

Tha Cal loss I could take, they're a very good team. Getting blown out at Washington was a stinker. Just bad, bad football on our part.

No recruiting news. We've used up all our scholarships so just looking for a WR walk-on.

PAC-10 (5-2) -- OVERALL (8-2)

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WEEK 14
vs. #2 UCLA (10-0) (PAC-10) *TV3*
(UCLA -6) USC BCS RANK: #16

Nothing to play for here but pride and a chance to kill UCLA's national title hopes. Which is after all, better than nothing.

When the best rusher in the nation carries the ball 14 times, it's game over. We gave up on the run again and got plastered, losing to the Bruins 35-11.

Brock Dole proved he isn't yet - or ever? - capable of carrying a team as he went 14/30 and got picked twice.

Nothing good to say about this ass-dragging finish. Maybe next year.

UCLA 35 -- USC 11
PAC-10 (5-3) -- OVERALL (8-3)

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WEEK 15
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #25

Fell to #25 this week, and I can't tell you how excruciatingly disappointing that is. I know we got hit by some injuries in the last few games, but for godsakes man, give the ball to J.B. Taylor and just let him run. Oy.

PAC-10 (5-3) -- OVERALL (8-3)

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WEEK 16
MINOR BOWL TIER
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: --

Going to Indy again to play Oklahoma in the Hoosier Bowl. It's a solid Four Star Tier Bowl, but this team was capable of so much more.

Kevin Linquist, a wide receiver from Empire High School in Duncan, Oklahoma, has agreed to play for Southern Cal next season. He's an end of the bench depth receiver with good grades.

PAC-10 (5-3) -- OVERALL (8-3)

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WEEK 17 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 17, 2018 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Michigan 11-0 B10 1.25 2.00 0.00 3.56 6.81 1 UCLA 11-0 P10 2.75 1.00 0.00 3.32 7.07 2 Miami of Florida 11-0 ACC 1.75 6.00 0.00 3.00 10.75 3 Hawaii 11-1 WAC 3.75 5.50 1.00 2.48 12.73 4 Toledo 12-1 MAC 4.50 7.50 1.00 3.72 16.72 5 Rice 10-1 WAC 8.00 5.50 1.00 3.60 18.10 6 Virginia 10-1 ACC 10.50 3.50 1.00 4.56 19.56 7 California 10-1 P10 5.75 10.50 1.00 2.84 20.09 8 Georgia Tech 10-1 ACC 8.50 10.50 1.00 3.20 23.20 9 Alabama 11-1 SEC 9.75 9.00 1.00 4.96 24.71 10 Florida 10-2 SEC 17.50 5.00 2.00 4.84 29.34 11 South Carolina 9-2 SEC 9.00 17.50 2.00 0.84 29.34 12 Syracuse 9-2 BGE 13.25 12.50 2.00 2.28 30.03 13 Boston College 10-2 BGE 15.75 14.00 2.00 3.64 35.39 14 Green Mountain 10-2 NNE 9.00 22.00 2.00 3.08 36.08 15 Michigan State 9-2 B10 14.50 19.00 2.00 0.96 36.46 16 Pittsburgh 9-3 BGE 13.25 22.00 3.00 0.32 38.57 17 Iowa 8-3 B10 20.50 12.50 3.00 3.52 39.52 18 Miami of Ohio 10-2 MAC 15.50 17.50 2.00 4.92 39.92 19 Nebraska 10-2 B12 21.75 17.50 2.00 4.24 45.49 20 South Florida 10-2 USA 23.00 17.50 2.00 4.20 46.70 21 Wisconsin 8-3 B10 15.75 25.50 3.00 3.04 47.29 22 Marshall 10-3 MAC 19.50 24.50 3.00 2.96 49.96 23 **Southern California 8-3 P10 25.50 17.50 3.00 4.32 50.32 24 Colorado State 8-3 MTW 22.75 25.50 3.00 1.48 52.73 25


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Old 01-20-2007, 06:57 PM   #141
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2018 Season (Final)

2018 SEASON (FINAL)


WEEK 17
MAJOR BOWL TIER
Week off.
USC BCS RANK: #24

Allocated the last of my coaching blocs to help some players with their studies. Hopefully it'll be enough to get them through finals.

PAC-10 (5-3) -- OVERALL (8-3)

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WEEK 18
FOUR STAR TIER
HOOSIER BOWL: vs. Oklahoma (9-3) *TV3*
(USC -10) USC BCS RANK: #22

I took over the game plan this week with good results. A 35 point 2nd quarter blew the game wide open and we gave the damn ball to JB, beating Oklahoma up pretty bad in the Hoosier Bowl, 55-7.

Tailback J.B. Wilson ran for 146 yards and three scores on 27 carries (5.4 ypc) and Brock Dole performed well in the new scheme, going 12/17 for 182 yards while throwing two touchdown passes.

Wideout Ed Kidman hauled in 7 passes for 118 yards on the day.

Defensively 5th year senior Safety Joel Arvold brought an interception back for a touchdown as Southern Cal completely dominated the Sooners.

Now maybe next year we go after that national title.

Hoosier Bowl
USC 55 -- Oklahoma 7
PAC-10 (5-3) -- OVERALL (9-3)

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WEEK 19
NEW YEAR'S TIER
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #15

Got a good bounce in the rankings off last weeks demolition of Oklahoma.

PAC-10 (5-3) -- OVERALL (9-3)

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WEEK 20
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #17

Our arch-rival UCLA plays Michigan in the Rose Bowl for the national title. I consider dressing Tom Brady in Wolverine blue and yellow - hey he still looks young enough - and getting him to go play.

He had other plans.

Michigan routs UCLA 31-10 and wins the national title.

USC Tailback J.B. Wilson is a finalist for the Heisman and finishes 7th in the balloting. Michigan QB Tony Cullen wins the Heisman.

We end the season ranked #18 in the BCS.

PAC-10 (5-3) -- OVERALL (8-3)

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2018 FINAL BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Final 2018 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Michigan 12-0 B10 1.25 1.00 0.00 2.00 4.25 1 UCLA 11-1 P10 3.75 2.50 1.00 1.92 9.17 2 Miami of Florida 12-0 ACC 2.00 6.00 0.00 2.20 10.20 3 Hawaii 11-1 WAC 3.75 5.50 1.00 3.08 13.33 4 Virginia 11-1 ACC 7.25 3.50 1.00 3.68 15.43 5 Toledo 12-1 MAC 4.75 6.50 1.00 3.92 16.17 6 Georgia Tech 11-1 ACC 4.75 10.00 1.00 2.84 18.59 7 Alabama 12-1 SEC 5.50 9.00 1.00 4.96 20.46 8 Florida 11-2 SEC 12.00 3.50 2.00 4.44 21.94 9 Rice 10-2 WAC 13.25 8.50 2.00 2.52 26.27 10 California 10-2 P10 11.50 15.00 2.00 1.72 30.22 11 Iowa 9-3 B10 15.75 10.00 3.00 2.60 31.35 12 Boston College 10-2 BGE 16.75 12.50 2.00 3.64 34.89 13 Green Mountain 10-2 NNE 9.50 20.00 2.00 3.52 35.02 14 Miami of Ohio 10-2 MAC 14.50 15.00 2.00 4.92 36.42 15 Nebraska 11-2 B12 16.50 14.50 2.00 3.80 36.80 16 Wisconsin 9-3 B10 10.25 21.50 3.00 2.08 36.83 17 **Southern California 9-3 P10 15.50 15.00 3.00 3.84 37.34 18 Pittsburgh 9-3 BGE 13.00 21.00 3.00 0.52 37.52 19 Syracuse 9-3 BGE 18.25 17.00 3.00 1.84 40.09 20 South Florida 10-2 USA 21.25 16.00 2.00 4.28 43.53 21 South Carolina 9-3 SEC 16.25 24.00 3.00 0.48 43.73 22 Marshall 10-3 MAC 20.00 21.50 3.00 3.28 47.78 23 Michigan State 9-3 B10 21.75 25.00 3.00 0.24 49.99 24 Penn State 8-4 B10 24.25 26.00 4.00 1.12 55.37 25




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Old 01-20-2007, 11:28 PM   #142
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2018 Season Summary & Review

2018 SEASON SUMMARY & REVIEW


SEASON REVIEW

All in all, I'd have to classify 2018 as a very disappointing season for me. I thought this team was capable of competing for the PAC-10 championship and the national championship. Down the stretch however we simply stopped giving the ball to our bread and butter runner, Tailback J.B. Wilson. We tried to become dependent on QB Brock Dole who simply wasn't ready to carry such a burden. Our inexplicable shift in offensive philosophy in the three games prior to the Hoosier Bowl not only may have cost us a shot at both titles, but likely harmed the chances of J.B. winning the Heisman - for which he finished seventh in the ballotting.

Defensively we handled the transition from Bucky Riley - who retired - to new Defensive Coordinator Clarence Ackerman smooth as silk. The defense kept up its clocklike precision, holding opponents to just over 16 points per game, and even improved dramatically as a pass defense, allowing the 4th fewest yards in the nation - all while still maintaining an outstanding run defense which held opponents to under 1000 yards on the season and less than 3 yards per carry.

The only areas where we were not exceptional was in creating opponent turnovers, and in preventing our own. We need to get better at both.

Southern Cal continues to be a very prestigious football program and annually goes to a major bowl game or higher. But this program is at a level now where it needs to step up, take that step up to the next level and compete for a national championship. Despite our successes this season, we didn't do that this year. And that's something we need to take a look at and reexamine why we didn't step up to the next level and how to fix it so we can.

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2018 USC AWARD WINNERS

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University of Southern California Trojans Individual Awarda * TB J.B. Wilson (RS Jr.) - 2nd Team All-American - Academic All-American - 1st Team All PAC-10 - Academic All PAC-10 * OG Frank Elliot (Sr.) - Academic All-American - 1st Team All PAC-10 - Academic All PAC-10 * OT Bobby Burgess (RS Jr.) - Academic All-American - 1st Team All PAC-10 - Academic All PAC-10 * WB Ike Daugherty (Fr.) - PAC-10 Freshman Offensive Player of the Year * S Lawrence Abdul-Jabbar (Fr.) - PAC-10 Freshman Defensive Player of the Year * FB Emmanuel Book (Sr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 * WR Ron Morrison (RS Sr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 - Academic All PAC-10 * OT Hunter Blount (5th yr Sr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 * K Rodney Gardner (RS Jr.) - 1st Team All PAC-10 * S Joel Arvold (5th yr Sr.) - 2nd Team All PAC-10 * OT Graham Molina (RS Sr.) - Academic All PAC-10 * LB Rick Holmes (5th yr Sr.) - Academic All PAC-10 * CB Justin Jacobs (Inc. Fr.) - High School All-American


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2018 TEAM SUMMARY

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2018 Team Summary Head Coach: Bear Growlz (11th Season) Offensive Coordinator: Zach Fuchs (2nd Season) Defensive Coordinator: Clarence Ackerman (1st Season) Syndicate Coordinator: Pete Prior (20th Season) Lead Scout: Lester Stargell (1st Season) Overall Record: 9-3 BCS Ranking: #18 Coaches Poll: #16 Fans Poll: #14 PAC-10 Record: 5-3 PAC-10 Standing: 4th Place Southern California Team Rank Rushes 533 12 Rushing Yards 2155 19 (T) Yards Per Carry 4.04 33 (T) Pass Attempts 315 64 Completions 176 56 (T) Passing Yards 2991 17 Yards Per Attempt 9.49 10 (T) 3rd Down Conversions 43.1 21 (T) Points Per Game 36.4 15 Turnovers 18 46 (T) Turnover Margin +4 39 (T) Opponents Team Rank Rushes 326 3 (T) Rushing Yards 957 16 Yards Per Carry 2.93 24 (T) Pass Attempts 339 84 (T) Completions 156 19 Passing Yards 1672 4 Yards Per Attempt 4.93 4 3rd Down Conversions 23.8 5 Points Per Game 16.3 19 Turnovers 22 45 (T) Primary Formation: Flexbone Formation Week Team Versus Oppnt 1 62 SMIS (123) 7 2 30 at NODM (33) 24 3 37 LAMN (86) 0 5 45 OREG (110) 20 7 44 at ARIZ (74) 14 8 34 WAST (51) 3 9 58 at ORST (113) 0 10 34 AZST (122) 7 11 13 at CALI (15) 38 12 14 at WASH (73) 41 14 11 UCLA (3) 35 18 55 vs OKLA (34) 7 ***Hoosier Bowl*** Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Cmp% 9 Dole QB 270 148 2575 9.53 16 10 54.8% 4 Oxendine QB 33 20 289 8.75 0 0 60.6% Team --- 315 176 2991 9.49 17 11 55.9% Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Stff YdLst 48 Wilson RB 359 1664 4.63 25 66 73 24 Daugherty RB 113 378 3.34 3 29 49 9 Dole QB 24 16 0.66 0 12 70 Team --- 533 2155 4.04 29 120 221 Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc YAC TD 6 Kidman WR 92 44 801 18.2 341 6 82 Morrison WR 84 40 939 23.4 324 4 28 Book FB 38 27 316 11.7 141 2 48 Wilson RB 35 23 327 14.2 177 3 24 Daugherty RB 29 20 281 14.0 167 1 7 Jacobs WR 24 12 202 16.8 51 0 Team --- 315 176 2991 16.9 1237 17 Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack TFL Ints Defn 39 Arvold S 50 16 2.5 11 5 12 47 Holmes OLB 36 9 0.0 6 0 3 38 Abdul-Jabbar S 34 9 0.0 6 4 3 31 Fitzgerald CB 28 14 0.0 1 3 7 92 Oben ILB 27 7 1.0 4 0 2 95 El Nino OLB 26 13 1.0 4 0 5 44 Reed CB 25 4 0.0 2 1 1 91 Knight DE 25 12 14.0 14 0 0 45 Berg ILB 24 6 3.0 6 0 5 43 Alexander CB 24 5 0.0 4 0 4 90 Stender DE 23 11 6.0 9 0 0 54 Elder ILB 22 7 0.0 5 1 0 59 Mazzeo OLB 21 6 0.0 4 0 2 97 Pathon ILB 19 6 0.0 1 0 1 27 Waugh S 19 6 0.0 4 0 1 21 Cipa CB 17 8 1.0 4 5 6 77 Milton DT 16 9 3.0 4 0 0 29 Brennan S 15 4 1.0 1 0 0 82 Morrison WR 13 0 0.0 0 0 0 94 Wilcox DT 13 6 3.5 3 0 0 Team --- 548 167 41.0 101 19 52




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Old 01-21-2007, 12:12 AM   #143
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2019 Preseason (Winter)

2019 PRESEASON


Winter, 2019

Besieged with job offers this offseason. Most prestigious offers were from the University of Virginia (Excellent-92) and the University of Syracuse (Excellent-83). I didn't give any serious consideration to any of the offers, I'm not ready to leave Southern Cal yet.

Syndicate Coordinator Pete Prior retired from his position after twenty years of service to the University of Southern California. A few regional scouts also retired.

Players Robbie Brown and Dwight Korinek have left the team because of their suspensions last season.

I guess they were mad.

No academic suspensions this season, always a good thing.

We hired 50 year old Arnie Urlacher as our new Syndicate Coordinator. Arnie's expertise is keeping players academically eligible. We hired hima way from Rutgers, where he was their Syndicate Coordinator. We also filled the regional scout vacancies.

The rest of the staff remains intact.

TCY Today once again rated our recruiting class amongst the best in the nation, ranking our incoming freshmen as 7th best in the country. Here's a look at our recruiting class.

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans Recruiting List, Ranking View TCY Today Ranking: #7 Player Pos HT WT ST NRank ByPos StRank ByPos $$Finch, Kenneth QB 6-4 205 NJ 121 11 5 1 $$Thompson, Jeffrey RB 5-9 188 MI 6 1 1 1 $$Snyder, Alfred RB 5-8 193 IL 25 4 1 1 $$Washington, Spencer FB 6-3 237 NY 441 7 31 2 $$Horie, Tyrone FB 6-0 204 NM 610 14 4 1 ##Linquist, Kevin WR 6-5 206 OK --- --- 21 2 ##Warkentien, Desmond G 6-5 271 WI 977 76 24 3 ##Grodin, Peter T 6-7 283 IL 545 54 31 4 $$Sly, Casey ILB 6-1 199 OR 220 6 4 1 $$Andersen, Vince ILB 6-3 195 PA 250 7 13 1 ##Kariya, Kenneth OLB 6-2 216 AZ 498 31 7 1 $$Cheng, Walter CB 6-0 176 TN 96 7 6 1 $$Jacobs, Justin CB 6-1 181 CA 145 12 12 3 $$McElroy, Stephen S 5-11 187 AR 114 5 3 1 $$Kinsey, Mel S 6-1 192 NY 124 6 8 1 $$McCollum, Amos S 6-1 174 FL 125 7 8 1 Player All-St All-US Status $$Finch, Kenneth Yes No Committed * $$Thompson, Jeffrey Yes No Committed * $$Snyder, Alfred Yes No Committed * $$Washington, Spencer No No Committed * $$Horie, Tyrone Yes No Committed * ##Linquist, Kevin Yes No Committed * ##Warkentien, Desmond No No Committed * ##Grodin, Peter Yes No Committed * $$Sly, Casey Yes No Committed * $$Andersen, Vince Yes No Committed * ##Kariya, Kenneth Yes No Committed * $$Cheng, Walter Yes No Committed * $$Jacobs, Justin Yes Yes Committed * $$McElroy, Stephen Yes No Committed * $$Kinsey, Mel No No Committed * $$McCollum, Amos Yes No Committed * The College Years Recruiting List, Worksheet View Player Scout Phone Visit Emphasis Status $$Finch, Kenneth 94-- 2 2 Prest/Acad Committed * $$Snyder, Alfred 86+ 3 2 Acad/Prest Committed * $$Thompson, Jeffrey 88+ 4 1 Acad/Prest Committed * $$Horie, Tyrone 84- 3 2 Prest/Acad Committed * $$Washington, Spencer 77+ 2 1 Acad*/Dist Committed * ##Linquist, Kevin 48- 1 1 Acad*/Prest Committed * ##Warkentien, Desmond 59+ 2 1 Dist*/Prest Committed * ##Grodin, Peter 72+ 2 2 Acad*/Dist Committed * $$Sly, Casey 91+ 2 2 Acad*/Prest Committed * $$Andersen, Vince 95- 2 1 Acad/Prest Committed * ##Kariya, Kenneth 70+ 1 1 Dist/Prest Committed * $$Cheng, Walter 79+ 5 1 Acad/Dist Committed * $$Jacobs, Justin 79+ 2 1 Acad*/Dist Committed * $$Kinsey, Mel 76++ 3 1 Acad*/Prest Committed * $$McElroy, Stephen 82+ 2 1 Prest*/Acad Committed * $$McCollum, Amos 100-- 4 1 Prest/Acad Committed * The College Years Recruiting List, Statistics View Player Statistics Status $$Finch, Kenneth 9 GP, 238-362-4464(12.3)-20-6 pass, 203Committed * $$Thompson, Jeffrey 8 GP, 263-1827(6.9)-23 rush, 50-840-8 rCommitted * $$Snyder, Alfred 9 GP, 258-1823(7.0)-10 rush, 54-963-7 rCommitted * $$Washington, Spencer 8 GP, 71-423-3 rush, 44-765-7 rcv. Committed * $$Horie, Tyrone 9 GP, 79-538-5 rush, 47-681-4 rcv. Committed * ##Linquist, Kevin 9 GP, 48-957(19.9)-9 rcv. Committed * ##Warkentien, Desmond 9 GP. Committed * ##Grodin, Peter 9 GP. Committed * $$Sly, Casey 9 GP, 7-104-1 rcv, 108 tckls, 6.5 sacksCommitted * $$Andersen, Vince 9 GP, 9-131-1 rcv, 108 tckls, 5.0 sacksCommitted * ##Kariya, Kenneth 9 GP, 10-216-1 rcv, 97 tckls, 8.0 sacksCommitted * $$Cheng, Walter 9 GP, 27-194-2 rush, 16-388-3 rcv, 43 tCommitted * $$Jacobs, Justin 9 GP, 15-153-1 rush, 12-297-1 rcv, 39 tCommitted * $$McElroy, Stephen 9 GP, 56-243-1 rush, 14-236-2 rcv, 71 tCommitted * $$Kinsey, Mel 7 GP, 47-263-3 rush, 9-128-3 rcv, 47 tcCommitted * $$McCollum, Amos 9 GP, 54-390-1 rush, 14-286-2 rcv, 82 tCommitted * Rough Estimate of Player Interest: No Prefix - player unlikely to be interested, ** - a bit of a stretch for your school, $$ - likely interest, ## - almost certain interest.



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Old 01-21-2007, 12:34 AM   #144
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2019 PRESEASON


Spring, 2019

Time to make the schedule. We play Notre Dame in South Bend again this year. Luck o'the Irish I guess. Our annual matchup with UCLA is also a road game for us. We have no carry over home and homes, and as every year, there is one PAC-10 team we don't play. This season that school is Arizona State. That leaves us two games to be scheduled.

Looking for a tune up game for Week 1 as we play Notre Dame Week 2, then a more substantial game for Week 4. We're ranked #9 in the Preseason BCS.

Stage 1: We offer a game to San Jose State at the Rose Bowl for Week 1. They reject our offer.

Stage 2: Syracuse offers us a home and home but at them this year. We reject their offer and offer BYU a game at the Rose Bowl. They rejected our offer.

Stage 3: Keene State is offerring an away game. I'm going to see if they will accept a home and home, we play at KSC this year. They accepted for Week 4. That game should be a blast.

Stage 4: We offer Georgia a homa and home for Week 1, this year at the Rose Bowl. They accept. That fills our schedule. Here's a look at it.

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2019 Schedule Preseason BCS Ranking: #9 Preseason Coaches Poll: #9 Preseason Fans Poll: #8 Rival: UCLA Stadium Capacity: 96,600 Season Tickets Sold: 96,600 Conference: PAC-10 Week Opponent 1 GEORGIA 2 at (21) Notre Dame 3 ---off week--- 4 at (19) Keene State $$5 OREGON STATE 6 ---off week--- $$7 ARIZONA $$8 WASHINGTON STATE $$9 at Oregon $$10 at (34) Stanford $$11 (15) CALIFORNIA $$12 at Washington $$13 at (4) UCLA 14 ---off week--- Home Games in ALL CAPS $$-Conference Games (#)-Preseason Coaches Poll Ranking


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Old 01-21-2007, 02:14 AM   #145
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PRESEASON 2019


Summer, 2019

Spent a lot of summer working on the kids academic schedules. Getting the frosh set up to make sure they prepare adequately for academic life and tweaking the schedules of the upperclassmen.

Our academic reputation remains Very Good (70), I'm almost certain now it cannot go any higher because of our failure to offer three majors. The GPA of the student-athletes in the football program remains the highest among Division 1-A schools at 3.23. Our prestige did dip two points down to Excellent (86) this year.

Put the kids through two-a-days this summer and I really like the team we've got assembled for this season. Tailback J.B. Wilson will be leading our attack and most of the offensive burden will fall on his shoulders. We've redshirted Ike Daugherty this year, and starting at Wingback will be 5th year senior Mercury Schultz who really had a great summer camp. At Fullback will be junior Devin Benzer, but expect to see quite a bit of talented freshman Spencer Washington there.

We're expecting much better things out of our passing game this year. 5th year senior Brock Dole is once again at the helm of the offense and it looked like he had matured quite a bit since last season. His primary targets will be wideouts 5th year senior Ron Morrison and redshirt senior Ed Kinman. Both receivers will also be handling kick and punt return duties. It's time for Dole to step up and show what he's capable of.

Our offensive line this year is young, but so talented that it has the potential to be simply dominating. Redshirt junior Gino Lyubashevsky anchors the line at the center position. He's flanked by redshirt sophomore Desmond Connell at RG - this kid can block - and 5th year senior Graham Molina at LG. At the tackles we've got redshirt senior Bobby Burgess and redshirt sophomore Nate Dillon. This line could very well dominate the line of scrimmage this year, but as it grows together over the next two seasons it'll be simply fantastic.

Over on the defensive side of the ball we've put together a very solid defensive line. 5th year senior Trent Milton is a run-stopper at Nose Tackle, and he's flanked on the ends by redshirt sophomore Floyd Jeffers and redshirt junior Wally Knight who had 14 sacks his first season as a starter. This is going to be a very difficult unit both to run against and to get passes off against unpressured.

Our linebacking corps is probably the weakness of the defensive unit this year. Starting on the outside will be freshman Ken Kariya, who is talented but raw, and 5th year senior Tyrus Mazzeo. It'll be on the outside where I would guess most teams will attack us. Up the middle we're quite a bit stronger with redshirt senior Renaldo Elder and redshirt sophomore Monty Garcia starting. They should do a very solid job against the run.

The secondary is looking better and better every day. Sophomore Safety Lawrence Abdul-Jabbar, PAC-10 Freshman Defensive Player of the Year in 2018, has the potential to be a superstar. He's joined at the other safety spot by redshirt sophomore Jared Espanza, who has a lot of potential. Redshirt sophomore Brad Knight starts at the shutdown corner and we think he's going to be a really good player. At the other corner will be returning starter, redshirt senior Max Fitzgerald.

I think Defensive Coordinator Clarence Ackerman is going to have a very strong defensive unit that keeps us in games and allows the offense to win them. Now, it'll just be up to J.B. Wilson and Brock Dole to put some points on the board.

My expectations this year are to make a run at the PAC-10 championship and to be legitimate contenders for the National Championship. We've got a rough schedule this year, but I definitely think we've got a good enough team to go all the way.

I know my expectations are high, but this team has a lot of talent and even more potential for the future.

Here's a look at our roster, and the preseason BCS rankings.

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The College Years The University of Southern California Trojans 2019 Roster/Scout Overview From the Desk of Lester Stargell, Lead Scout Player # Pos Elig Current Estimate Future Estimate Casillas, Eddie 18 QB Jr* 36 64 Dole, Brock 9 QB Sr 75 100 Finch, Kenneth 1 QB Fr 16 92 Oxendine, Pat 4 QB Sr* 49 71 Ratto, Vinny 2 QB So* 28 89 Daugherty, Ike 24 RB So 69 100 Shultz, Mercury 37 RB Sr 69 84 Snyder, Alfred 25 RB Fr 48 69 Thompson, Jeffrey 47 RB Fr 57 76 Vance, Billy 40 RB Jr* 47 59 Walker, Skipjack 36 RB Jr* 48 66 Wilson, J.B. 48 RB Sr* 86 100 Benzer, Devin 22 FB Jr 53 70 Horie, Tyrone 28 FB Fr 31 95 Washington, Spencer 45 FB Fr 44 72 Merchberger, Joe 32 FB* Jr* 28 51 Dresselhaus, Graham 84 TE* Jr* 7 7 Glover, Randy 88 TE* Sr* 11 19 Leavitt, Joel 81 TE* So 11 27 Hartl, Oliver 83 WR Jr* 30 54 Jacobs, Glen 7 WR So 45 66 Kidman, Edwin 6 WR Sr* 80 80 Morrison, Ron 82 WR Sr 95 95 Myers, Al 86 WR So 33 62 Henderson, Norbert 87 WR* Jr 7 7 Linquist, Kevin 85 WR* Fr 11 28 Leong, Dexter 50 C So* 18 77 Long, Dana 53 C Jr* 36 63 Lyubashevsky, Gino 56 C Jr* 55 61 Ours, Cornell 52 C* Sr* 24 58 Ballard, Louis 61 G Sr* 39 100 Barton, Brian 65 G Jr* 26 75 Connell, Desmond 68 G So* 50 90 Lauvray, Nate 71 G Sr* 26 79 Molina, Graham 64 G Sr 62 88 Warkentien, Desmond 66 G Fr 1 47 Aska, Dana 74 T Sr 50 54 Berry, Kurt 78 T Jr* 27 51 Burgess, Bobby 60 T Sr* 73 88 Dillon, Nate 69 T So* 57 81 Grodin, Peter 67 T Fr 11 89 Joyner, Billy Joe 75 T Sr 42 77 Kirkwood, Lester 79 T Sr* 36 61 Eason, Xavier 8 P Jr* 67 94 Terry, Ronald 12 P* So* 1 1 Gardner, Rodney 17 K Sr* 92 100 Sharber, Louise 16 K* Fr 6 6 Jeffers, Floyd 72 DE So* 47 99 Knight, Wally 91 DE Jr* 60 83 Lackey, R.J. 76 DE Sr 37 60 Lew, Austin 70 DE So* 45 100 Sutton, William 93 DE Sr 44 64 Francis, Andrew 99 DT Sr* 53 88 McWilliams, Mel 98 DT So* 50 100 Milton, Trent 77 DT Sr 68 85 Wilcox, Albert 94 DT Sr* 37 77 Flynn, Buddy 73 DT* Sr 12 32 Andersen, Vince 43 ILB Fr 18 73 Elder, Renaldo 54 ILB Sr* 54 84 Garcia, Monty 41 ILB So* 43 76 Oben, Moe 92 ILB Jr 47 70 Pathon, Dale 97 ILB Sr 30 61 Sly, Casey 58 ILB Fr 13 79 Whalen, Walt 49 ILB So* 37 91 Blackston, Matt 42 OLB So* 38 81 Kariya, Kenneth 90 OLB Fr 32 72 Mazzeo, Tyrus 59 OLB Sr 39 64 O'Neal, Deron 96 OLB Sr* 19 62 Biakabutuka, Wayne 55 OLB* Jr* 24 42 Hoffman, William 51 OLB* Sr 5 26 Cheng, Walter 23 CB Fr 20 96 Cipa, Dan 21 CB Jr 48 50 Fitzgerald, Max 31 CB Sr* 47 88 Jacobs, Justin 35 CB Fr 30 62 Knight, Brad 26 CB So* 58 97 Reed, Buddy 44 CB Sr 42 79 Abdul-Jabbar, Lawrence 38 S So 71 85 Brennan, Jon 29 S Jr* 35 57 Esparza, Jared 20 S So* 56 66 Kinsey, Mel 34 S Fr 33 84 McCollum, Amos 46 S Fr 44 80 McElroy, Stephen 39 S Fr 33 98 Waugh, Artie 27 S Sr* 41 61



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2019 Preseason BCS Rankings

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The College Years Preseason, 2019 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank Florida 0-0 SEC 1.00 1.00 0.00 2.04 4.04 1 Iowa 0-0 B10 2.00 2.00 0.00 0.48 4.48 2 Michigan 0-0 B10 3.00 3.00 0.00 0.52 6.52 3 UCLA 0-0 P10 4.00 4.00 0.00 1.92 9.92 4 Virginia 0-0 ACC 5.00 5.00 0.00 0.32 10.32 5 Texas A&M 0-0 B12 8.00 7.50 0.00 1.24 16.74 6 Hawaii 0-0 WAC 7.00 6.50 0.00 3.32 16.82 7 Rice 0-0 WAC 6.00 7.50 0.00 3.44 16.94 8 **Southern California 0-0 P10 9.00 8.50 0.00 1.88 19.38 9 Syracuse 0-0 BGE 11.00 10.50 0.00 1.48 22.98 10 Boston College 0-0 BGE 10.00 13.00 0.00 1.32 24.32 11 Toledo 0-0 MAC 12.00 11.50 0.00 4.08 27.58 12 Pittsburgh 0-0 BGE 14.00 15.50 0.00 1.40 30.90 13 Georgia Tech 0-0 ACC 13.00 19.50 0.00 0.16 32.66 14 Wisconsin 0-0 B10 17.00 15.00 0.00 0.80 32.80 15 Alabama 0-0 SEC 16.00 15.00 0.00 2.28 33.28 16 California 0-0 P10 15.00 18.00 0.00 1.72 34.72 17 Penn State 0-0 B10 20.00 17.50 0.00 0.72 38.22 18 Notre Dame 0-0 IND 21.00 16.50 0.00 4.56 42.06 19 Keene State 0-0 NNE 19.00 21.50 0.00 4.84 45.34 20 Nebraska 0-0 B12 24.00 21.00 0.00 1.04 46.04 21 Miami of Ohio 0-0 MAC 18.00 24.50 0.00 3.84 46.34 22 Southern Methodist 0-0 WAC 22.00 23.50 0.00 3.52 49.02 23 Louisville 0-0 USA 26.00 24.00 0.00 3.04 53.04 24 Colorado State 0-0 MTW 25.00 27.00 0.00 2.60 54.60 25




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Old 01-21-2007, 03:16 AM   #146
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2019 SEASON (1st Qtr.)


WEEK 1
vs. Georgia (0-0) *TV5*
(USC -10) USC BCS RANK: #9

We start off the season against a proud Georgia Bulldog program. It'll be a good test to see how far we've come over the offseason.

Made a lot of first contacts with recruits. We're also going to be recruiting some Tight Ends as we seriously consider a transition to a wishbone with redshirt freshman Kenny Finch being our quarterback of the future - he's a 97 QB scramble and we think that'll add a lot to our offense.

A surprisingly strong Bulldog run defense managed to contain J.B. Wilson to 101 yards on 32 carries (3.1 avg) but QB brock Dole hit wideout Ron Morrison for three scoring strikes, throwing four touchdown passes on the day to lead Southern Cal to a 48-7 rout over Georgia in front of a very pleased capacity crowd at the Rose Bowl.

Dole went 18/22 for 302 yards while throwing for four scores and getting picked once. Morrison had an explosive day, hauling in 10 catches for 187 yards and 3 TD's.

An outstanding way to open the season and get prepped for our trip to South Bend.

USC 48 -- Georgia 7
PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (1-0)

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WEEK 2
@ #14 Notre Dame (1-0) *TV1*
(ND -1) USC BCS RANK: #1

Big game on national TV this week, as we travel to South Bend for our annual matchup with the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Georgia did a solid job in containing J.B. Wilson, so we expect Notre Dame to try the same things against us the Dawgs did. Hope Brock Dole is up to the challenge.

OT Bobby Burgess is out for up to 9 weeks with a seperated shoulder. Not good.

Spent the recruuiting week making more first contacts. Already have a student on campus visiting, never seen a student show up that fast. Hope it's a good sign.

It was the Brock and Ron show in South Bend this week as QB Brock Dole went 20/29 for 443 yards and 4 touchdowns, connecting with Ron Morrison for three of them in leading USC to a 38-25 win over the Fighting Irish.

Morrison had a day that no doubt had pro scouts heads turning, as he caught 11 passes for 245 yards and three scores. Wideout Ed Kinman got in on the fun making 4 catches for 93 yards and a score.

Notre Dame kept J.B. Wilson relatively in check, limiting him to 126 yards and one score on 30 carries (4.2 avg).

Freshman OLB Ken Kariya led the defense with 8 tackles and a sack.

Definitely a good way to start the year.

USC 38 -- Notre Dame 25
PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (2-0)

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WEEK 3
Off week.
USC BCS RANK: #2

Drop to #2 behind Syracuse after our big road win. Guess we weren't impressive enough.

Continued to make more new contacts and follow up on many of the kids who are visiting campus. Getting a lot of early visits this year. That's a good thing I think.

PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (2-0)

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WEEK 4
@ #20 Keene State (2-0) *TV1*
(USC -2) USC BCS RANK: #1

The year of the killer schedule continues. We have a big game against the program I built from the ground up, which has since become a national power. They'd love nothing better than to beat us and show me I was wrong to leave - and we'd love nothing better than to beat them and show people we're true contenders for a national championship.

That's what college football is all about.

What a defensive struggle. Tailback J.B. Wilson managed to grind 115 yards on 27 carries out on the ground against a tough Fighting Owl defense and wideout Ed Kinman returned a punt 91 yards for a touchdown as the Trojans nipped Keene State 20-17 at Owl Field.

Nose Tackle Trent Milton filled the gaps for Southern Cal making 8 tackles in leading a stifling USC defense. QB Brock Dole went 16/26 for 250 yards and hit FB Devin Benzer with a scoring strike, but was also picked off once on the day.

A very solid, if tough, win.

USC 20 -- Keene State 17
PAC-10 (0-0) -- OVERALL (3-0)

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WEEK 5 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 5, 2019 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank **Southern California 3-0 P10 5.50 5.50 0.00 1.84 12.84 1 UCLA 3-0 P10 6.75 3.00 0.00 3.32 13.07 2 Miami of Ohio 3-0 MAC 4.00 13.50 0.00 2.32 19.82 3 Michigan 3-0 B10 15.50 1.50 0.00 3.40 20.40 4 Marshall 3-0 MAC 5.75 13.50 0.00 2.44 21.69 5 Rice 2-0 WAC 13.25 5.50 0.00 3.04 21.79 6 Georgia Tech 3-0 ACC 7.75 11.00 0.00 4.00 22.75 7 Syracuse 3-0 BGE 12.25 7.00 0.00 3.76 23.01 8 Fresno State 3-0 WAC 3.25 18.50 0.00 3.88 25.63 9 Louisville 3-0 USA 9.50 13.50 0.00 3.44 26.44 10 Toledo 3-0 MAC 15.00 8.00 0.00 3.64 26.64 11 South Florida 3-0 USA 9.50 16.00 0.00 4.24 29.74 12 Air Force 2-0 MTW 3.25 23.00 0.00 3.80 30.05 13 Wisconsin 3-0 B10 17.25 10.00 0.00 4.12 31.37 14 North Carolina State 3-0 ACC 14.00 22.00 0.00 2.76 38.76 15 Texas A&M 2-1 B12 18.50 19.00 1.00 1.00 39.50 16 Pittsburgh 3-1 BGE 16.75 22.00 1.00 3.16 42.91 17 Alabama 3-0 SEC 30.75 10.00 0.00 4.72 45.47 18 Virginia 3-0 ACC 36.75 4.00 0.00 4.92 45.67 19 Iowa 3-0 B10 42.25 1.50 0.00 4.84 48.59 20 Florida 1-1 SEC 29.25 18.00 1.00 0.92 49.17 21 Houston 2-0 USA 17.00 30.50 0.00 4.04 51.54 22 South Carolina 2-0 SEC 32.00 15.50 0.00 4.36 51.86 23 Washington 3-0 P10 16.00 36.00 0.00 3.92 55.92 24 Illinois 3-0 B10 19.00 34.00 0.00 3.68 56.68 25




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Old 01-21-2007, 03:38 PM   #147
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2019 SEASON (2nd Qtr.)


WEEK 5
vs. Oregon State (1-2)
(USC -12) USC BCS RANK: #1

Back to #1 in the nation this week. What a stretch of games that was, but hopefully it has prepared us for a tough PAC-10 schedule. Winning a national championship pretty much means going undefeated, so we cab't have any let down weeks or we can kiss those hopes goodbye.

Burgess will still be out again this week and Ron Morrison is doubtful with a sprained knee.

Spent much of my time continuing to pester recruits we have already made contact with. It'll be interesting to see if we land enough tight ends to switch to a full blown wishbone next season. With Dole and Morrison graduating and Finch looking like a great running quarterback, that will be the time to do it.

Tailback J.B. Wilson scored twice and ran for 88 yards on 19 carries (4.6 avg) before leaving the game with an abdominal strain and Wingback Mercury Schultz filled the void running for another another score and 64 more yards as USC handily beat the Oregon State Beavers 31-14 at the Rose Bowl.

For redshirt OT Nate Dillon it didn't really matter who was carrying the ball, he simply dominated the line of scrimmage all day long, making 7 key run blocks to spring the Trojan backs for big gains.

ILB's Renaldo Elder and Monty Garcia had 8 and 7 tackles respectively to lead the Southern cal defense. Elder also assisted on four others.

A solid win, but JB is listed as doubtful for a couple-three weeks. Hope we can get the job done without him.

USC 31 -- Oregon State 14
PAC-10 (1-0) -- OVERALL (4-0)

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WEEK 6
Week off.
USC BCS RANK: #2

We fell to #2 in the BCS rankings behind UCLA - wouldn't that be a hoot of a national championship game.

Good that we have the week off, gives Morrison and JB some time to heal.

Only 1 D and 3 D+'s at quarterly grade time - allocated each of them four coaching blocks. Pretty good academic performance this quarter.

Hrrm, recruiting tight ends is proving to be difficult. I wonder if something is built in that because I am running a flexbone - an offense that doesn't use tight ends - that getting tight ends to committ is more difficult. If so, you'd think that they wouldn't walk on to the team either - but hey, too early to tell.

We did land a QB who ran for 1400 yards this high school season, Anthony Felkey, a quarterback from Woodrow Wilson High School in Los Angeles, California. Felkey's high school atheltic program is seriously lacking in the fundamentals, so he'll be a project, but we can look at him as a longterm replacement for Finch eventually in our system - depending on how he runs in camp. Lots of rejections, mostly from TE's. Heh.

Pretty much maxed out contact with the kids who are visiting campus. Started making new contacts, trying to land one each of an OT, OG and OC. Concentrating on high academic types - we seem to land those easier than team prestige types, even though we're about the same relative to other schools in prestige and academic reputation - I think it's because out overall academic reputation is a 70, but many of our majors our in the high 90's, and the recruits take what they major into account moreso than the overall academic reputation - which is good for us.

PAC-10 (1-0) -- OVERALL (4-0)

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WEEK 7
vs. Arizona (2-3) (PAC-10)
(USC -19) USC BCS RANK: #2

Injury report is a little better this week.

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2019 USC Injury Report Player # Pos Elig Health Injury Full Strn. Fitzgerald, Max 31 CB Sr* Questionable Torn Thumb Ligame 6 Weeks Morrison, Ron 82 WR Sr Doubtful Sprained Knee 5 Weeks Burgess, Bobby 60 T Sr* Out Separated Shoulde 5 Weeks Wilson, J.B. 48 RB Sr* Questionable Abdominal Strain 2 Weeks

We're going to sit Morrison but try and play JB. Morrison did play a bit two weeks ago but only made 1 catch. So we'll sit him down to heal up.

Landed a bunch of recruits this week - including a tight end, woo! Hope he realizes when I told him he was going to be playing in LA I meant Los Angeles and not Baton Rouge.

Dustin Wynn, a 77-- tight end from South Terrebonne High School in Bourg, Louisiana, Marty Westbrook, a wide receiver from Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra, California, Broderick Frias, an inside linebacker from Germantown High School in Germantown, Wisconsin, Jessie Pritchett, an outside linebacker from Bonita High School in La Verne, California and Amos Carpenter, a safety from Troy High School in Fullerton, California all signed letters of intent this week to play for Southern Cal in the fall.

Frias and Carpenter are the 12th and 16th rated recruits in the country according to TCY Today. Westbrook is an 85+ wideout and Pritchett an 89+ LB, but both will need a redshirt year to work on fundamentals. Wynn is a good clutch receiver - but he's a tight end and we need a few of them this class, that's what matters most. Overrated, but we'll take him.

Continued re-contacting those recruits already on our list as well as widely expanding out list and making initial contacts and invitations to visit campus.

Tailback J.B. Wilson had a bust out game this wek, rushing for 255 yards and a touchdown on 32 carries (7.9 avg) to lead Southern Cal to a 34-27 victory over the Arizona Wildcats.

QB Brock Dole floundered all day, getting picked off three times and just didn't have it without wideout Ron Morrison in the lineup.

DE's Wally Knight and Austin lew each had 1.5 sacks and Tyrus Mazzeo returned a blocked punt for a touchdown.

Not a good win, but a win is a win is a win. I'll take it.

USC 34 -- Arizona 27
PAC-10 (2-0) -- OVERALL (5-0)

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WEEK 8
vs. #23 Washington State (4-1) (PAC-10) *TV3*
(USC -6) USC BCS RANK: #5

Guess our win wasn't impressive enough for the BCS folks as we drop to #5 in the rankings. Tough game this week against the Cougars. Injuries look a little better this week and Ron Morrison should play.

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2019 USC Injurt Report Player # Pos Elig Health Injury Full Strn. Fitzgerald, Max 31 CB Sr* Questionable Torn Thumb Ligame 5 Weeks Morrison, Ron 82 WR Sr Questionable Sprained Knee 4 Weeks Burgess, Bobby 60 T Sr* Questionable Separated Shoulde 4 Weeks Wilson, J.B. 48 RB Sr* Probable Abdominal Strain 1 Week


Lost an OLB we wanted to UCLA. No good news on the recruiting front whatsoever this week.

Tailback J.B. Wilson went down early re-straining an abdominal muscle but Wingback Mercury Schultz picked up the slack behind the dominating blocking of LG Graham Molina rushing for 112 yards and a score on 25 carries (4.4 avg) as Southern Cal handles the Cougars quite easily, 35-10.

OG Graham Molina made 6 key run blocks and opened holes all day for the Trojan running backs. WR Ron Morrison seems to be getting back in the swing of things after his injury, making 5 catches for 93 yards and a touchdown.

LB's Renaldo Elder and Ken Kariya led the defense with 9 and 8 tackles respectively. Elder also assisted on four others.

A very solid win for us.

USC 35 -- Washington State 10
PAC-10 (3-0) -- OVERALL (6-0)

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WEEK 9 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 9, 2019 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank UCLA 7-0 P10 2.25 1.00 0.00 2.16 5.41 1 **Southern California 6-0 P10 2.25 3.00 0.00 2.72 7.97 2 Florida 4-1 SEC 4.00 5.00 1.00 0.20 10.20 3 Syracuse 6-0 BGE 3.50 4.50 0.00 3.88 11.88 4 Virginia 6-0 ACC 9.25 2.00 0.00 4.92 16.17 5 Miami of Ohio 6-0 MAC 6.25 8.00 0.00 4.68 18.93 6 Louisville 6-0 USA 6.75 9.50 0.00 3.52 19.77 7 Texas A&M 6-1 B12 8.00 9.50 1.00 2.52 21.02 8 Wisconsin 5-1 B10 6.25 15.50 1.00 1.72 24.47 9 Air Force 6-0 MTW 7.50 14.50 0.00 3.00 25.00 10 Rice 5-1 WAC 13.75 9.50 1.00 3.72 27.97 11 Toledo 7-0 MAC 18.75 5.50 0.00 5.00 29.25 12 Alabama 6-1 SEC 13.00 13.00 1.00 2.84 29.84 13 Georgia Tech 5-1 ACC 12.00 16.00 1.00 1.76 30.76 14 Michigan 5-2 B10 24.00 11.00 2.00 1.20 38.20 15 Iowa 5-2 B10 25.75 9.50 2.00 1.48 38.73 16 Marshall 5-1 MAC 15.75 18.50 1.00 4.56 39.81 17 Fresno State 5-1 WAC 14.00 24.00 1.00 2.48 41.48 18 Illinois 6-1 B10 8.50 30.50 1.00 2.08 42.08 19 Penn State 5-1 B10 22.00 16.50 1.00 2.96 42.46 20 Oklahoma 5-1 B12 18.50 22.50 1.00 3.64 45.64 21 Washington 6-1 P10 10.25 33.50 1.00 3.44 48.19 22 South Florida 5-1 USA 23.25 20.50 1.00 4.36 49.11 23 Arkansas State 5-1 SUN 21.00 25.50 1.00 2.92 50.42 24 Missouri 5-1 B12 18.75 29.00 1.00 1.68 50.43 25





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2019 SEASON (3rd Qtr.)


WEEK 9
@ Oregon (3-4) (PAC-10) *TV5*
(USC -8) USC BCS RANK: #2

Slid back into #2 in the BCS Rankings behind our old friends UCLA. This season is shaping up to be quite interesting.

My problem is, I just can't seem to find the right gameplan to make Brock Dole effective. The one the scout puts together makes him suck lemons - and mine aren't much better.

Code:
Southern California Roster, Injury Report Player # Pos Elig Health Injury Full Strn. Fitzgerald, Max 31 CB Sr* Probable Torn Thumb Ligame 4 Weeks Morrison, Ron 82 WR Sr Questionable Sprained Knee 3 Weeks Burgess, Bobby 60 T Sr* Questionable Separated Shoulde 3 Weeks Wilson, J.B. 48 RB Sr* Doubtful Abdominal Strain 2 Weeks

We'll likely play everyone but JB, who we'll sit today and help him heal. It'll be nice having Bobby Burgess back at OT, the line hasn't been as dominating as I thought it would be. Mercury Schultz will move to Tailback and redshirt junior Skipjack Walker will start at Wingback.

Landed two recruits this week. Josh Woodson, a center from Winfield High School in Winfield, Kansas and Shaun McIntyre, a defensive end from Porterville High School in Porterville, California have committed to Southern Cal for next season.

McIntyre was ranked the #5 recruit in the nation and is an 82+ run stopping DE that comes to us from an excellent atheltic and academic high school. He provides us with tremendous depth on the defensive line and may have to redshirt next year even though it's likely he'll be ready to play. Woodson is a 79++ run blocking center that comes from a high school with a decent (50) athletic program but an excellent academic school.

QB Brock Dole lit up the airways this week with perhaps the best performance of his collegiate career, going 23/32 for 385 yards and four touchdown passes while only being picked off once in leading the Trojans to a 52-24 rout over the Oregon Ducks in Eugene.

Dole hit favorite target wideout Ron Morrison (4 rec/96 yds) for two of his scoring strikes and also hit FB Devin Benzer and 3rd WR Oliver Hartl for 1 score each.

RB Mercury Schultz filled in very ably for J.B. Taylor in the Tailback position, rushing for 146 yards and three touchdowns on 26 carries (5.6 avg) and Wingback Skipjack Walker added another 61 yards rushing behind the completely dominating blocking of OG Graham Molina who made 9 key run blocks on the day.

DE Austin Lew had 1.5 sacks to lead the Trojan defense.

A terrific win for us on the road. Maybe, just maybe, I've found the right combination for Dole to be effective.

USC 52 -- Oregon 24
PAC-10 (4-0) -- OVERALL (7-0)

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WEEK 10
@ Stanford (1-6) (PAC-10)
(USC -25) USC BCS RANK: #2

The only thing keeping us from passing UCLA in the BCS rankings are the voter polls - we have a tougher strength of schedule and a higher computer ranking. Hopefully we'll keep playing good, solid football and it won't matter.

We're going to sit J.B. down again this week, but play everyone else on the injured list. Hopefully JB will heal up completely by next week.

Code:
Southern California Roster, Injury Report Player # Pos Elig Health Injury Full Strn. Fitzgerald, Max 31 CB Sr* Probable Torn Thumb Ligame 3 Weeks Morrison, Ron 82 WR Sr Probable Sprained Knee 2 Weeks Burgess, Bobby 60 T Sr* Probable Separated Shoulde 2 Weeks Walker, Skipjack 36 RB Jr* Probable Influenza 1 Week Wilson, J.B. 48 RB Sr* Questionable Abdominal Strain 1 Week


Landed a few more recruits this week and only lost one to UCLA. Phillip Freeman, a 77-- wide receiver from Stephens County High School in Toccoa, Georgia, Jesse Mercer, a 59+ center from Warren High School in Downey, California, Chester Deason, a 78+ offensive guard from Northridge High School in Layton, Utah and Mario Barber, an 86++ cornerback from West High School in Oshkosh, Wisconsin all signed letters of intent to play for USC next fall.

Barber is ranked the #1 recruit in the nation by TCY Today and comes to us from an excellent high school, both atheltically and academically. It's possible he could start right away next year depending on how he looks in summer camp.

The Cardinal made a game of it, holding Southern Cal to 44 net yards rushing, but QB Brock Dole hit wideout Ron Morrison on two scoring strikes and the Trojans prevailed on the road, 27-13.

Morrison had another ballistic day, making 7 receptions for 174 yards and two scores with 89 yards after catch. Dole went 16/26 for 277 yards, throwing two touchdowns and no interceptions. A good solid day, the kind we'd like him to have down the stretch.

DE Austin Lew and backup NT Andrew Francis each had a sack and a half to lead the Trojan defense.

A solid, if unspectacular win for us, on the road and without JB.

USC 27 -- Stanford 13
PAC-10 (5-0) -- OVERALL (8-0)

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WEEK 11
vs. California (4-4) (PAC-10) *TV4*
(USC -15) USC BCS RANK: #2

We remain barely ahead of Syracuse for the #2 spot in the BCS rankings - didn't they offer me a job recently? We're playing solid football and we get J.B. Wilson back all nice and healed up this week. We're going to need him because Cal always plays us tough.

We'll sit Wally Knight this week because of his injury. Everyone else plays.

Code:
Southern California Roster, Injury Report Player # Pos Elig Health Injury Full Strn. Fitzgerald, Max 31 CB Sr* Probable Torn Thumb Ligame 2 Weeks Morrison, Ron 82 WR Sr Probable Sprained Knee 1 Week Burgess, Bobby 60 T Sr* Probable Separated Shoulde 1 Week Knight, Wally 91 DE Jr* Doubtful Abdominal Strain 4 Weeks

Heh, lost a Tight End recruit to Keene State - ain't that a kick in the teeth.

We did land one recruit this week, Ricardo Carley, a tight end from Lawrenceburg High School in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, signed a letter of intent to play for Southern Cal next season. He's a 77+ but his prep athletic program is only fair, so he's a project. But it's a start to adding TE's - he's the second we have landed this season.

QB Brock Dole didn't try and do too much and played mistake free football as he went 12/20 for 166 yards and two touchdown passes in leading USC to a tough 27-20 victory of Cal.

Dole hit FB Devin Benzer and wideout Ed Kidman with his scoring strikes, while Tailback J.B. Wilson worked overtime for the games he missed, carrying the ball 38 times for 122 yards rushing (3.2 avg) and one touchdown run. The Golden Bears did a pretty good job containing JB, but he got the tough yards when we needed them.

5th year senior NT Trent Milton sacked the Golden Bear QB twice on the day, and Safety Jared Esparza and ILB Monty Garcia had 8 and 7 tackles respectively to lead the Trojan defense.

A nice solid win that keeps us in the hunt for both the PAC-10 title and the National Championship.

USC 27 -- California 20
PAC-10 (6-0) -- OVERALL (9-0)

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WEEK 12
@ #18 Washington (8-1) (PAC-10) *TV3*
(Wash -1) USC BCS RANK: #2

Going to be a tough game this week, on the road against a very good Huskies team. With UCLA at (10-0/7-0) we've got to win this one to have any chance at the titles. We're going to need J.B. Wilson and Brock Dole to step up big for us this week.

Got hit with the injury bug, as Knight will be out again and ILB Renaldo Elder will also sit due to injury. Elder will be gone until next year. Starting in his place will be redshirt sophomore Walt Whalen.

Code:
Southern California Roster, Injury Report Player # Pos Elig Health Injury Full Strn. Fitzgerald, Max 31 CB Sr* Probable Torn Thumb Ligame 1 Week Sutton, William 93 DE Sr Doubtful Hyperextended Elb 2 Weeks Elder, Renaldo 54 ILB Sr* Out Elbow Ligament Su 23 Weeks Knight, Wally 91 DE Jr* Doubtful Abdominal Strain 3 Weeks

We landed two recruits this week, and that brings our rrecruiting class to fifteen. We only had fifteen scholarships to offer, so we're hoping one of the students we invited to walk-on agrees to do so.

Signing letters of intent with us this week were Fred Hastings, a 76-- tight end from Villisca Community High School in Villisca, Iowa and Ryan Gash, an 81+ offensive tackle from Woodcreek High School in Roseville, California. Not big news, but they'll help us out eventually.

Wideout Ron Morrison returned the opening kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown and scored twice more on pass receptions to lead the Southern Cal Trojans to a big road win against Washington, 35-17.

Besides his kickoff return for a score, Morrison had 5 catches on the day for 155 yards and two more touchdowns - including a 63 yard scoring strike from QB Brock Dole. It was the kind of dominating day the 1st team All PAC-10 receiver has begun to become known for and he no doubt turned some NFL scouts' heads yet again.

QB Brock Dole did not play particularly well, going 14/29 for 262 yards and two touchdowns, but he was also picked off twice on the day. Tailback J.B. Wilson only had 18 carries but he made the most of them, gaining 88 yards (4.8 avg), and one has to wonder about Offensive Coordinator Zach Fuchs' playcalling in this one.

The Southern Cal victory today creates a showdown between two undefeated teams, USC and UCLA, with the PAC-10 championship on the line, and perhaps much, much more.

USC 35 -- Washington 17
PAC-10 (7-0) -- OVERALL (10-0)

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WEEK 13 BCS RANKINGS

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The College Years Week 13. 2019 BCS Overall Rankings School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank UCLA 10-0 P10 3.00 1.00 0.00 4.52 8.52 1 **Southern California 10-0 P10 2.25 3.50 0.00 2.84 8.59 2 Syracuse 9-0 BGE 1.50 4.50 0.00 4.24 10.24 3 Florida 8-1 SEC 5.00 4.00 1.00 1.52 11.52 4 Virginia 9-0 ACC 5.00 2.00 0.00 4.92 11.92 5 Louisville 10-0 USA 7.25 6.50 0.00 2.80 16.55 6 Wisconsin 9-1 B10 5.50 9.00 1.00 2.44 17.94 7 Air Force 9-0 MTW 7.50 9.50 0.00 3.84 20.84 8 Rice 8-1 WAC 9.75 6.50 1.00 3.92 21.17 9 Georgia Tech 8-1 ACC 6.50 11.50 1.00 3.12 22.12 10 Penn State 8-2 B10 12.50 15.50 2.00 0.80 30.80 11 Texas A&M 8-2 B12 15.50 13.00 2.00 1.56 32.06 12 Arkansas 8-1 SEC 8.25 19.50 1.00 3.40 32.15 13 Miami of Ohio 9-1 MAC 14.75 12.00 1.00 4.84 32.59 14 Alabama 7-2 SEC 13.00 17.50 2.00 0.56 33.06 15 Toledo 9-1 MAC 18.75 8.50 1.00 5.00 33.25 16 Michigan 7-3 B10 20.50 15.50 3.00 1.32 40.32 17 Missouri 8-2 B12 13.75 24.50 2.00 0.28 40.53 18 Notre Dame 7-2 IND 19.50 18.50 2.00 2.12 42.12 19 Marshall 8-2 MAC 19.50 20.00 2.00 2.68 44.18 20 New Mexico State 9-1 SUN 16.50 22.00 1.00 4.96 44.46 21 South Florida 8-2 USA 18.25 20.50 2.00 3.72 44.47 22 Iowa 8-3 B10 25.00 13.50 3.00 4.36 45.86 23 Washington 8-2 P10 18.50 28.00 2.00 2.24 50.74 24 Miami of Florida 7-3 ACC 22.25 26.50 3.00 1.00 52.75 25



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