USC Trojans Searching for Leadership Without Having Returners

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00:00down there and some teams would just keep coming at you with 7th and 8th, 9th man.

00:10You mentioned UCLA, they have a bunch of returners. You guys have one guy,

00:16this team's made up of transfers. A lot of LA area recruits are watching this game,

00:23trying to figure out what kind of program this can be. How do you sell that with the way that

00:30this team is playing right now in this first year where you don't have a lot of continuity?

00:38I hope anyone that came to tonight's game or anyone that watched would say, wow, in year one

00:45they're battling and competing. At one point when there was two and a half minutes to go,

00:51in my heart I sincerely thought we were going to win. We didn't. We'll see where we are in

00:56five years. I don't know. Hopefully I'm still sitting here and we have a team that can play

01:03in sweet 16s, but I don't know. We'll see. Hopefully history repeats itself. If it doesn't,

01:11I don't know. Last question.

01:13Have you found that that's maybe a big 10 officiating thing? They officiate differently

01:22maybe than... Yeah, I'm not what these guys... I mean, look, we lost the game and

01:31part of the...