USC Trojans Discuss reps they do during practice

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USC Trojans Coach Lincoln Riley discusses reps they do during practice and how they decide who is going to do them. Riley talks about trimming down towards the end of the season with the big schedule they have.

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00:00Does anyone approach to you about taking a volunteer red shirt to preserve the year just at this point of the season?

00:07No, not really. Not really. Most of our red shirts, I think, were pretty well defined.

00:13You know, I think the kids from the outside have struggled a little bit.

00:18I know the NCAA finally came out and said they're not going to do the five for five right now.

00:24You know, just some of the back and forth on that, I think both them and the schools, not just us,

00:29have been trying to make decisions playing, just guessing on what that's going to be like.

00:33I still have a hard time imagining that that won't happen at some point.

00:37I know they're going to wait until, I guess, what we were told actually today was until after next season

00:42and kind of reevaluate it. So we'll see what happens from that.

00:45But right now, no. I mean, the guys that have been playing are still teed up to play.

00:50You talked about pouring reps into certain guys. Is that more of cutting down the rotation

00:54or is that getting guys ready who you need to rely on more right now?

00:58I'd say a combination of both. You know, where you get to the end of the season

01:01or the latter part of the season, and your reps are always going to start getting trimmed a little bit.

01:06I mean, these guys have been going for a while now.

01:08You know, you can't always just come out and practice the same number of reps

01:11that you do in August or September.

01:13So with that, you know, you've got to trim down, you know, who you're working.

01:17And I think we're just trying to be efficient with our reps and our guys' time right now.

01:21I mean, when you play the schedule that we do,

01:23we can't afford to just sit out here and be reckless and rep guys just for the hell of it.

01:27So guys that we feel like got a really good chance to come in there and help us,

01:30we're trying to pour those in.

01:32But I'm just trying not to come back after a practice week.

01:35And while we poured all these reps into this combination or that,

01:38and we didn't even use it in the game,

01:40I just, for where we're at right now with our roster,

01:42with some of the injuries we've had,

01:43with obviously the quality of our schedule,

01:46that's just not a luxury that we have right now.

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