USC's Fourth Quarter Struggles and Coaching Concerns

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00:00It circulated quite a bit and I've heard a number of things. First people weren't

00:06sure where was USC gonna go without their star quarterback anymore. So

00:11everyone hyper focused on the quarterback situation and and where's

00:15offense gonna go without that star quarterback but the larger conversation

00:19when it comes to USC and you you mentioned it it's the fourth quarter

00:24it's the fourth quarter inefficiency I must say. After looking like they were

00:28potentially gonna add a W to their column today they fall short to Maryland

00:3329 to 28. I'm talking about Maryland picking up 15 points in the fourth

00:38quarter after USC had seven points in the first shutting out Maryland from

00:42picking up any points. 14 points in the second quarter allowing only one

00:46touchdown not putting any points on the board in the third quarter and Maryland

00:52to get in the driver's seat for that fourth quarter. We've seen four plus

00:55teams in the fourth quarter get into the driver's seat over USC so where do

00:59we start pointing the fingers here because it's not on the quarter of

01:02accurate. I think we can agree on that. No I I think Miller Moss the successor

01:08to Caleb Williams who you were referencing has been fine. I mean I think

01:13he's played fine enough for USC to not be three and four right now. This is to

01:19me all about coaching. You touched on the fourth quarter collapses today against

01:24Maryland last week against Penn State the week before that Minnesota same

01:29script at Minnesota and then they're lost to Michigan. They were ready to

01:33pull the road upset in Ann Arbor and then blew that game as well. So this to

01:39me is about coaching. USC has too much tradition too many expectations too much

01:45raw talent to be three and four right now. And with five games left the

01:49program like USC I think Lincoln Riley is gonna have a hard time keeping these

01:54kids motivated down the stretch. The thought going in was USC was ranked in

01:59the preseason. USC believed they had a shot to be a playoff contender. Now

02:04they're playing for a second or third tier bowl game. So you know this is not

02:09by the way Casey I'm not making any kind of hot seat proclamations at all. You

02:15know USC likes Lincoln Riley. That's their guy. But man he has got to raise

02:20the bar. 11 wins two years ago just eight last year. This year looks like he

02:24could be what six and six. I you know so he is regressing. His inability to win

02:30close games is starting to remind me of Scott Frost at Nebraska. I'll bring it

02:34back to UCF former UCF coach Scott Frost. So we'll bring in some UCF ties here for

02:40you as well. You gotta be able to win close games and he just hasn't been able

02:45to do that. Of course the players you know deserve some criticism for that but

02:49this is coaching. You can't keep collapsing in fourth quarters and still

02:53can still be considered a great coach and Lincoln Riley has a lot of work to

02:58do over the next month and a half.