Los Angeles – It began with seven names on a whiteboard.
Employees rolled it to the office of Lincoln Relay in USC this winter, for a churning session that could one day become legend if the Pointment Plan of Pay of the relay for this program. He had no defensive coordinator, after an ineffective two sessions next to the relay, Alex Grinch Midson left with a shark of philosophy of a doom. The relay had promised repeated improvement, but those words were hollow without any change.
So they sat down, the relay reflected on Thursday, and wrote a list of potential defensive fare names on that whiteboard below. Dream list, as Riley said. If they could get AnyHe landed on seven names.
He said that four of them were hired, Riley said.
Addressing a media room at the John McCake Center in the USC on Thursday, Riley said, “I think we have a staff that takes anyone in a period, not anyone.”
And then he doubled.
“I believe no one soccerNot just college football, “USC head coach continued.” And this was a little goal. ,
D ‘Anton Lynn. Eric Henderson. Matt Entz. Dug Bellc. The world can never know three other names in the dream list, but the final reality keeps the employees of the USC with the wealth of NFL and Collegiate-Coordinator Experience, a generous mix of personalities and planned backgrounds that come together in a general goal: the USC hugs the challenge to restore the defensive glory.
And on Thursday in one-on-one media sessions, each employee is speaking to the person since the first arrival at the USC, each, especially mentioned to be prepared for the program in large parts due to the vision of the relay.
“I think, we have to change the story,” Belk said, secondary coach and former Houston Defense Coordinator. “Everyone in the world knows what the coach is able to do with the relay quarterback … and I think we have to have the energy, that we have to match. We have to set the tempo, we have to be aggressive, we have to be physical.”
The world of football coaching has gone ahead in the last few months, a variety of NFL teams have established a Hindola in the entire college football to the head-coaching position and the retirement of Nick Saban, head coach of Alabama. Through all this, the relay-a long time Sawant, who has been closely envisaged and rumored to climb NFL-stopped at the pat, focus on filling the positions in the USC completely, instead of demanding them elsewhere. His clarification on Thursday to stay in the USC, he is always promoted for “climbing”, was simple.
“I want to get it here,” Riley said. “I really do. I really want this. Not for me, I just want really bad for this program, I want it to be really bad for this current team, former players, former coaches, fans, university, just, we have left everything that we left (in Oklahoma) – We really want this to really want bad here.”
It begins correctly, first and most important, with four coaches, who arrive at the podium one by one on a Thursday at the McKay Center. Lynn, as a collegiate coordinator, was kept away from UCLA after its first year, was measured, but humble, a 34 -year -old man took himself with a calm confidence of decades experience. Belk made himself too much, more analytical in nature. Entz was hard, intellectual and cruelly honest, taking a demotion to come to the USC and FBS, the head coach of former North Dakota State. He was betting, he said, not only themselves but the reilement of the relay.
Henderson was the last standout, the former Ram defensive-line coach was booming with pride, confidence and authenticity. Lynn and Henderson, along with the 2017 Chargers, remained in contact for a long time after the coaching-assistant positions; When he saw a fit for Henderson at the USC, Lynn said, he knew that a phone call would not hurt. “And the passion for a rebuilding in the voice of Henderson is deep, describing his #Dawgwork slogan. Going dawg A brief: discipline, approach, functioning morality, patience.
“When you talk about the work, it is right, obsessed with greatness,” Henderson said. “The approach, with an tireless mentality, and then attacking you with that killer’s instinct.”
The relay on Thursday clarified that despite the co-co-operative label, the defense would be in the sight of Lynn-the first decision-maker, no division duty. But now there is an abundance of cooks in this kitchen, and even in simple introductory pressures, there were clearly defensive philosophy. All looked according to Lynn’s 4-2-5-thunder scheme; But Lynn described a target of “aggressive” pre-SNAP communication and the goal of “overcom communication”, which came into a direct struggle with Entz’s words an hour later.
The ENTZ said, “The more you have to put on them and the more they have to think about the pre-snap and post-snap, the slower they are going to be,” Entz said, “Later he input from the current linebackers in the USC that there was a need for excessive communication. “The last thing you want to do defensively is a group of individuals protecting individuals.”
This multi-dimensional partnership is still in its baby stages, however, all are out on the recruitment trail. And all described their goal of a room without ego – Entz here was “to help drive the vehicle”, he placed it, not in charge of it – in support of the general goal of the relay.
Lynn said on Thursday, “He is firm to play elite defense in any way.” “And I believe in him, and I believe in him.”