Everyone who cares about USC football is eager to know which players are going to be helped the most by the new defensive scheme being installed by D’Anton Lynn, with help from Eric Henderson and the rest of the Trojans’ rock-star defensive staff. It’s natural to want to see how this scheme will unlock the talents of players who struggled under Alex Grinch. If growth and evolution in this scheme can be exponential and substantial, USC’s ceiling for 2024 rises that much more than previously thought.
Given this obvious desire for fans and outsiders to learn more, it would be easy for Lynn and Henderson to feed that fire, but they actually stepped back from making firm and bold predictions for this defense. They explained why last week when they talked to Los Angeles media.
Let’s look at this notion of patience a little more: