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Come Fly Away: Why a Trip to Hawaii Earns College Football Teams an Extra Game

As college football fans, we want as many games as possible during the regular season, but why is it that when a team travels to Hawaii it is allowed to have an additional game?
As Hawaii is closer to the West Coast, we traditionally see their BCS opponents come from the Pac-10 conference. For example, this [...]

USC Football: The Twists and Turns of the Special Teams in 2010

As the end of the 2009 recruiting season drew near, the USC Trojans thought they had the nation’s premier prep punter/field goal kicker all but signed and delivered.
Matt Darr, Scout.com’s No. 1 high school kicker, from Frontier High School in Bakersfield, CA, had given Pete Carroll his verbal commitment early on and [...]

John Baxter Named To USC Football Coaching Staff

John Baxter, a member of the Fresno State coaching staff for the past 13 seasons, has been named associate head coach and special teams coordinator at USC, new Trojan head coach Lane Kiffin announced today (March 4).
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Laying the Foundation: USC Football Recruiting, 2011 (Part 3)

One of the drawbacks to taking a few days off from the recruiting trail early in the season is that so many changes occur when you aren’t looking.
Part one of this 2010-2011 look at the early USC recruiting process featured the Scout.com five-star prep high school athletes who the Trojans had already offered.
Since I filed [...]

Top 10 Trojans: Three for the Heisman

USC has achieved the lofty position of having seven players win the Heisman Trophy. Four of them have already been mentioned in the ongoing series ranking the top 10 players in Troy’s storied program.
To review here is what has appeared to date regarding the top 10 players selected:
1) O.J. Simpson was one of [...]

Frankie Telfort: The Would-Be Trojan Linebacker Is Still a Winner

About eight months ago, I had the privilege, along with some others at a Trojan round-table chat, to interview Frankie Telfort, the 2009 Trojan linebacker recruit from Gulliver prep school in Miami, Florida.
While this opportunity marked the first time I had engaged Telfort, it was by no means the first time I had [...]