USC Trojans Head Coach Lincoln Riley Discusses the importance size transfer portal player

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00:00Coach, obviously you guys made size a priority coming into the transfer playoffs last time.

00:05I know it's been just a couple days, but how can you just sort of feel that size

00:08maybe rippling throughout the whole defense, not even just at the home screen?

00:13Yeah, you definitely feel it.

00:16I mean, especially the competitive periods, especially when you start running the football against that front.

00:24You know, you do, you just, you know, it's like the gaps and the holes when you play really big teams

00:33and really strong teams, like everything's smaller, right?

00:35Like literally space is just taken up and like you kind of feel that right now with our guys.

00:40And it's a real battle at the line of scrimmage.

00:44And, you know, and same thing for our defensive line facing our O-line.

00:48I mean, it's just kind of, it's like not two featherweights going at it, you know.

00:52This is like two big cats in the ring that you kind of feel, you know,

00:55you feel the punches of each one of them.

00:58So, yeah, and then I think just the depth of that, that it's not just one guy here or there.

01:03I mean, collectively, it's like this guy, then that guy, then that guy.

01:07And we can roll multiple groups in there and you continue to feel the same thing.