Tabbing players on USC’s defense whose stock rose and fell after Saturday’s opener against San Jose State.
In the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum parking lot adjacent to BMO Stadium, planting their rows of cardinal-and-yellow tarps on sweltering Saturday-afternoon tarmac, the Psychos convened.
, the kind Lincoln Riley was hired to inspire beneath Hollywood glam and donor money. And excitement poured from taps here Saturday, the dawn of the second year of the Riley era that had Nwaisser – who’s seen it all – as optimistic as he’s been “in a long time,” he said. “Walking off the field, there’s a bit of frustration that a couple of the coaches, or myself, the players that have been here and seen and know how it should go … in the first half, I just felt like we weren’t hitting on certain calibers that we’re going to hit on here soon,” Williams said postgame.
The factors Williams pointed to – a couple dropped balls, a fumbled snap, the offensive line missing a couple defensive read cues – concerned the offense. But the major inconsistencies for USC on Saturday came yet again on defense, the unit that’s supposed to bring glory back to the Coliseum, the unit that the Psychos and every Trojans fan know their season will hinge on this fall.
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