USC Trojans Coach Lincoln Riley, Defensive Tackle Devan Thompkins, and Quarterback Jayden Maiava discusses improving on penalties

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00:00It's been an emphasis on the penalties here for a few weeks.

00:03How do you do that?

00:04What do you think has not gotten through the group so far?

00:06I mean, I think we're improving on...

00:10There's parts of it we are improving at,

00:13but obviously, you know, we haven't done it enough.

00:17You know, we had a couple substitution errors tonight,

00:20you know, which are inexplicable and can't happen.

00:23That's coaching.

00:24So we got to get a lot better at that.

00:27You know, we've had some aggressive ones,

00:29but I've told people for years, like,

00:31most of the time, if you go at the end of the season,

00:34that's going to be good for you all to look up.

00:35Go look up the least penalized teams in the country.

00:38Typically, it's a bunch of teams with shitty records.

00:41And so, like, there's a balance.

00:45You have to play this game aggressive,

00:47and I'm not going to put a team out there, all right,

00:49at USC that does not play this game aggressive.

00:52The flip side of that is you've got to handle the self-inflicted ones,

00:55and that's where we've got to do better,

00:57and we're going to continue to emphasize it.

01:00It's important.

01:01I mean, a couple players in here just spoke up to the team

01:03about how important that is,

01:05and we understand that's going to be critical going forward.

01:07Coach, as it relates to the body clock,

01:10what were some things that you had to factor in

01:11getting ready for an 8 p.m. kick tonight

01:13versus what does that look like getting ready for an 11 a.m. kick next Saturday?

01:19Yeah, yeah.

01:20You know, nice to the Big Ten.

01:21You know, it's just not going to be an excuse for us.

01:26We've got a plan for it.

01:27We were ready if we had an early kick in a different time zone,

01:32you know, in terms of what we were going to do.

01:34We can't control that tonight was at 8 o'clock.

01:37I mean, our guys got to bank some hours of sleep here today,

01:40our guys and our coaches, which was good,

01:44and we're going to go get ready to go play our ass off next week.