USC strength and conditioning coach Bennie Wylie is set to turn around USC's culture which lacks toughness through his life lessons and football journey.
would ever learn about toughness, every lesson he would one day try to pass down as USC strength and conditioning coach, started first with his mother.
In spite of the anger he harbored, he still wanted his father to be proud. “Some of my toughness, I know now, came because I wanted to do well for him,” Wylie said. “Everybody thought it was because I wanted to be good in sports because I was a little runt,” Wylie said.USC is one of just two Pac-12 teams that doesn’t entrust special teams duties to a full-time, on-field member of its coaching staff this season.
Wylie searched for other outlets. He worked as a carhop at Sonic. He became an Eagle Scout. He was on the student council. He was the band captain and the captain of Mexia’s football team. He sang in the all-state Texas Baptist Choir and spent hours every week at Mexia’s First Baptist Church, where Curt Pool, the church’s youth director, offered to listen whenever he needed to talk.
“My dad really took a shine to him and really stepped in to invest in him,” Joel Shoemake says. When Jim Shoemake died in 2013, Wylie served as a pallbearer at the funeral.
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