Here’s what a coach who worked with Gary Patterson said about the idea of him becoming defensive coordinator.
“It will be a good hire if they get the old Gary Patterson and not old Gary Patterson,” he said.
- I wrote last year how USC did not have enough money and had given up on completing Dedeaux Field before the baseball season.
Here’s a current view:
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
So they’re not going to canopy the seats for “New” Dedeaux Field? Brilliant! Add to the fact that there is not enough seating to host a NCAA regional. Is there anything this athletic department can’t screw up?
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I guess Scott thinks USC will hire Paterson. He’s an old guy. Hasn’t coached in a few years but when he did had a reputation with his teams as a real disciplinarian, a hard azz. Maybe this is good but perhaps this approach would be a disaster in the hit the portal era of football.
What concerns me is he runs a unique defensive scheme. So the players will once again need to learn a new system. It took two years to learn Lynn’s defense and they were still lining up wrong and blowing coverages. Nobody learned Grinch’s scheme. Here we go again.
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Sounds like a risky hire, in that you don’t know if you are going to get “the old Gary Patterson” or “old Gary Patterson”.
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