Los Angeles, CA – USC hosted a fulfilling Media Day on Monday for their team at Heritage Hall, as the Fighting Trojans and positional coaches with the exception of a few whom participated at last week’s Big Ten Media Day sat with fi360news plus other regional media outlets.
Lincoln Riley in his fourth year as USC’s Head Coach opened up the team’s media event with a prompt welcome before departing the room to allow his returning players and members of his coaching staff to answer a range of questions.
“Mentality I feel is something huge particularly for a kicker, not making anything bigger than the moment,” last year UNLV transfer Caden Chittenden said about key preparation for the season, “you practice so much of the same thing it makes no point of overthinking it…I love verse James 1:1-2 because I feel faith is so important in every aspect of your life that if you keep a strong, firm foundation in what you believe in you’ll be able to do much more than just by yourself.”
From transfers and redshirts describing how they’re grappling with Riley’s complex offense, others embracing team nutritionist “Ms. Rachel” alongside new coaches such as “Coach True” plus an unveiling of a shared faith amongst most of the team present on today demonstrated by their keen focus of “keeping the main thing, the main thing, ” Returning veteran player Anthony Beavers said.
Beavers continued with his outlook of the program’s culture, “this is a hard-nosed program where it’s kind of easy to get blinded by the glitz and glamour in LA, but we honor those whom came before us by carrying on a hard-nose tradition.”
Coach Anthony Jones, USC’s running back coach for his second season, pressed upon a satisfying impression of how their running backs practicing hard thus far, but of note was the Fighting Trojans’ team in unison praising and uplifting one another culminated by the team’s last summer workout at the beach.
“That was my first time actually having a beach workout,” Linebacker TáMere Robinson said, “I’m not from where a beach is at and it was a great team-bonding activity which afterwards we all jumped into the ocean.”
Beavers added, “I think we have unique characters and we did a great job this [off season] hanging out more as a team.”
