I think next week comes down to which team can best clean things up and play without mistakes. Finally reaching conference play and hosting USC should wake the team up and get them playing with focus and discipline. My money is on Whitt doing a better job with this than Helton.
How can such an athletically gifted team look so confused and sloppy in a 27-10 loss to seventh-ranked-but-beatable Stanford?
How can so much talent seem so lost? How can so much passion be so continually stunted and squelched?
“If we don’t play disciplined with this talent, this talent is going to waste,” running back Justin Davis said ominously afterward.
…the Trojans were marred by blown defensive assignments, strange play calling, dumb penalties and, yeah, you’ve heard all this before.
WTF Helton?
“I was proud of the kids, the way they competed,” Trojans Coach Clay Helton claimed afterward. “They compete like that, we clean up the errors, we will be a good football team.”
And, oh yeah, it was USC that committed more than twice as many penalties as Stanford with eight infractions, including an amazing six false-start penalties in a quaint stadium that wasn’t even full and was rarely loud.
So far it’s a bad deal for USC after a 27-10 loss to Stanford
I’m glad the non-conference crap is done, we’re 3-0, let’s get this!