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USC's Fourth Quarter Struggles and Coaching Concerns
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10/20/2024
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It circulated quite a bit and I've heard a number of things. First people weren't
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sure where was USC gonna go without their star quarterback anymore. So
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everyone hyper focused on the quarterback situation and and where's
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offense gonna go without that star quarterback but the larger conversation
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when it comes to USC and you you mentioned it it's the fourth quarter
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it's the fourth quarter inefficiency I must say. After looking like they were
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potentially gonna add a W to their column today they fall short to Maryland
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29 to 28. I'm talking about Maryland picking up 15 points in the fourth
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quarter after USC had seven points in the first shutting out Maryland from
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picking up any points. 14 points in the second quarter allowing only one
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touchdown not putting any points on the board in the third quarter and Maryland
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to get in the driver's seat for that fourth quarter. We've seen four plus
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teams in the fourth quarter get into the driver's seat over USC so where do
00:59
we start pointing the fingers here because it's not on the quarter of
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accurate. I think we can agree on that. No I I think Miller Moss the successor
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to Caleb Williams who you were referencing has been fine. I mean I think
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he's played fine enough for USC to not be three and four right now. This is to
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me all about coaching. You touched on the fourth quarter collapses today against
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Maryland last week against Penn State the week before that Minnesota same
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script at Minnesota and then they're lost to Michigan. They were ready to
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pull the road upset in Ann Arbor and then blew that game as well. So this to
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me is about coaching. USC has too much tradition too many expectations too much
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raw talent to be three and four right now. And with five games left the
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program like USC I think Lincoln Riley is gonna have a hard time keeping these
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kids motivated down the stretch. The thought going in was USC was ranked in
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the preseason. USC believed they had a shot to be a playoff contender. Now
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they're playing for a second or third tier bowl game. So you know this is not
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by the way Casey I'm not making any kind of hot seat proclamations at all. You
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know USC likes Lincoln Riley. That's their guy. But man he has got to raise
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the bar. 11 wins two years ago just eight last year. This year looks like he
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could be what six and six. I you know so he is regressing. His inability to win
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close games is starting to remind me of Scott Frost at Nebraska. I'll bring it
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back to UCF former UCF coach Scott Frost. So we'll bring in some UCF ties here for
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you as well. You gotta be able to win close games and he just hasn't been able
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to do that. Of course the players you know deserve some criticism for that but
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this is coaching. You can't keep collapsing in fourth quarters and still
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can still be considered a great coach and Lincoln Riley has a lot of work to
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do over the next month and a half.
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