What a fine mess we have here at USC football. The program is in bad shape after the blowout loss to UCLA. It could be that Lincoln Riley will come up with an elite defensive coordinator and get the program back on track, but this is more than just filling one spot on a coaching staff.
USC’s offensive line was soft in the loss to UCLA, much as it was soft in the blowout loss to Notre Dame. Josh Henson’s performance as offensive line coach has been substandard. We have to wonder if this is more about Bennie Wylie’s performance as strength coach, or more about the way Riley structures his practices and the overall way the team prepares from week to week throughout the season and, beyond that, the whole 52-week calendar year. How deep do the problems run at USC?
That’s what we tried to explore in our latest call-in show with Tim Prangley at The Voice of College Football. USC fans are angry, and they should be. We fielded calls and tried to make sense of everything:
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