Lincoln Riley, USC and DeShaun Foster, UCLA head to the Big Ten

let's talk about first of all Southern California situation USC opens on Sunday USC plays Las Vegas UCLA opens late Saturday night they go play Hawaii life after Caleb Williams for that head coach it's going to be very interesting to see what Trojan football will be like with the sixth year starter in Miller Moss the kid that threw six touchdown passes in his Lone Start in the Bowl after Caleb Williams had opted out he's got a tremendous wide receiver in Zachariah Branch they think they're really deep at wide receiver with some young pups that haven't really played they got what I tend to think might be the best defensive tackle in all the college footballs name is be Alexander had to do a lot of it by himself the last year and a half now he's got transfers and people around him including a big fellow defensive tackle who came in from Wyoming they've got nine transfers on the Trojan defense as Lincoln Riley's trying to fix what has been wrong for two years in a row but this schedule holy Cal John this schedule is so rugged they open with Brian Kelly and LSU then over the first four weeks of the Season not only do they play the Bayou Bengals of LSU they play Michigan and they play Wisconsin all that in the first four weeks so they're going to have to hit the floor running however his Playbook last year 466 yards per game on offense however his defense gave up 432 but of all the recruits he brought in maybe the most important is Danton Lynn the defensive coordinator who came from UCLA so that's the storyline with the Trojans cross town UCLA plays Hawaii in Honolulu non-conference game to start their schedule and then they move into the teeth of the schedule just like that and it's really going to be hard I'm not sure that Deshawn Foster the incoming head coach is the biggest acquisition they made maybe the biggest acquisition is Eric benemy who came from the NFL after all those years as a play caller and a coordinator Kansas City and with the Washington commanders Eric bemy will be under the glare of the spotlight to make this thing better there is no Chip Kelly that era of error is over Ethan garbers journeyman spotted a little bit last year played competitive he's going to be the guy he's going to have to be the guy because everybody else is really young uh J Michael Stant Big Time receiver now got to catch more than 35 passes if I'm GNA use the word big time I he's got to be a 50 to 70 reception guy but he's been in the program at 6'4 he's about ready I like their running game I think TJ Harden Keegan Jones pretty dog on good and they return a pile of guys defensively but that being said LSU Oregon Penn State three weeks in a row starting next week their season could be over so John Riley I've given you the thumbnail scotting report on USC Trojans UCLA Bruins and it's your turn to tell me tell everybody on live stream what you like what concerns you the most about Lincoln Riley's team and Deshawn Foster's crew well I'm I'm still trying to learn all the names and faces as they get this thing together the thing that I think about the most though is about Eric benemy because he was in the NFL working with Andy Reid then he goes to Washington he was an offens offensive coordinator everyone thought he had the ability to be the next big- time NFL coach it seems like he's taken a step down and if UCLA really performs poorly is Eric bemy gonna be getting the blame and suddenly his career is down the toilet either that or maybe somebody wakes up and says maybe we made a mistake on Sean Foster you know coming out of the gate Foster didn't do very well uh in his public press conferences and it was really an embarrassment at the Big 10 media day where he just couldn't answer questions and he quote froze up and he's never been a coordinator much less a head coach anywhere so there's there's a volume of questions about him however benmy has coached under the really great one in Andy Reid B got a lot of credit for how Hardy coaches players especially young players and I think he's coached UCLA which by the way is closed to a lot of its practices and not gotten a lot of preseason Pub which I think is wrong I think you need to expose a new coach and the new coordinator to the fans and the alums Etc and they've kind of locked this thing off I've counted two UCLA football stories in the LA Times in about the last 15 days I don't think that's the way to conduct business but that being said I I think B carries a lot of credibility and I don't know if they have enough players but we'll find out starting week two three and four because that's that's just vicious who they have to play out of the gate well life is good when Southern California football is good exactly and now they're going to the big 10 and they're going to probably get their butts kicked around I mean I think if USC could finish in the top three of the Big 10 that would be a huge success wait a minute they were picked to finish 15th out of 18 teams John USC oh no no UCLA yeah UCLA is definitely bottom half if USC and Riley can finish in the top three I would say that's a great accomplishment year one he put together a jigsaw puzzle roster last year with so many transfers around Caleb Williams and they did pretty well till they had injuries and they fell apart at the end defensively he's got another box of jigsaw puzzles he's going to put around Miller Moss he knows Talent he's gotten talent to come there schedules rugged out of the gate for them just like it is for UCLA so fascinated to see what happened happens now I will say this as they play LSU on the weekend on Sunday in Vegas it's not in Baton Rouge it's in Vegas LSU does not have Jaden Daniels right so LSU is going with a 6ear quarterback too and a bunch of young players because a lot of Brian Kelly's good guys went to the National Football League a few of them actually drifted into the transfer portal so we're starting SC UCLA you're a Trojan fan you're a brunes fan hey we 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