Updates from August 26th, 2007

Although he argues that the kicking game is suspect and the receivers are a little green, Lenn Robbins of the New York Post seems to have warmed up to junior linebacker Brian Cushing’s evaluation of the Trojan football team:
We’re America’s Team…The best players want to come here. The tradition is amazing. Everyone wants to play us. People […]

Lee Jenkins of the New York Times is the latest in what seems like an avalanche of national sports reporters to profile the crowded stable of high-shcool All-American running backs who have chosen to compete for scarce playing time in the USC backfield.
In U.S.C.’s Full Backfield, Student Body Right Has a New Meaning (New York […]

Knowledgeable USC fans know that one of Pete Carroll’s favorite books, one which inspires his life and which he uses in subtle ways to teach his football players and shape his program, is W. Timothy Gallwey’s “The Inner Game of Tennis.”  Reading it helped DE Lawrence Jackson snap out of his sack drought last season, and […]

Saturday morning’s brief practice marked the close of USC’s fall training camp. The players will enjoy a day off on Sunday, and begin their fall semester on Monday–along with their first day of game-week practice, which kicks off preparations for next Saturday’s contest at the Coliseum against the Idaho Vandals. We recap Saturday’s […]

Just a couple notes resulting from the Trojans’ two practices today:

Freshman PG Angelo Johnson has until September 17th to be certified by the NCAA Clearinghouse. If he is not cleared by that date, he could not join the team until the end of the fall semester (at the earliest).
Daniel Hackett will find out on Monday […]