Selling the NFL at USC worked well against Pac-10 competition where they could out-talent the conference and still get up for the one or two big games every year. The margin of error will be much thinner (more thin?) in the SEC…those lulls you get from recruiting players focused on the NFL will bite us more often than they did the Trojans. Hopefully we’re all assuming too much here.

I’ve never went to an English class to watch a football player answer a question about …. English. Just beat Florida, Baby! And Bama too.

Either the kid buys into the system or he doesn’t. I don’t think Lane will have a problem benching a kid who isn’t on board with the team

if actively guarding against the me-ism was also part of the culture at USC. No names on the jerseys may be just one aspect of that. Who knows what else they might do to make sure it remains more of a positive than a negative.