It’s 62 days before football season. Who cares, right? But some publications do countdowns where they mention a player who wore the jersey number to signify the days before the season. The problem is they often pick the wrong player.
Here’s a No. 62 worth mentioning: Chris Foote.
He was the starting center on USC’s 1979 team, which went 11-0-1 and beat undefeated Ohio State, 17-10, in the Rose Bowl.
“It was like so many other games this year, it was like at LSU, at Cal, at Washington — there’s just that confidence we’ll do it, no matter the situation,” Foote said. “Our offense is good at wearing people down. You can actually feel it over the course of a game. The linebacker’s not stepping up as hard, or the lineman’s not charging as hard…. We just wear them down.”
When does USC wear teams down any more?
Foote also spent 10 seasons in the NFL and two in the USFL That’s a pretty good career.
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Not since the Pete years like in Orange Bowl with Oklahoma. Okies were completely demoralized. Petersen held to under 100 yards. There is the story of a OK DL begging the trojans just to get it over with.
Lincoln, Kiffin and Sark were different. The O ‘geniuses’ were going to outsmart everyone.
During the McKay years, the opponents knew exactly what SC was going to run and just couldn’t stop it.
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Pete to Justin Fargas at halftime of Notre Dame game: “Just keep running straight at ’em till they don’t want it anymore.”
I respect Lincoln but I wish he talked this way once in a while.
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Leinart was really, REALLY mad when the center screwed up the snap on our 3 yard line and the score went from 55 to12 to 55 to 19.
He was a COMPETITOR.
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…above is another reference to that Oklahoma game that egquandrio was alluding to…
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Oh, oh….maybe it’s time for he/she/it to demand I abandon retirement in Maui again…and go back to work in Downtown Los Angeles….
#That’sTheTicket
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Sooooo, Maui isn’t like downtown LA ?
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Pete is more than 30 years older than Lincoln, but a hell of a lot tougher.
Similar to most of the old guys on this board, compared to the barking Chihuahua behind the Barstow fence.
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The word tough and Lincoln Riley don’t belong in the same sentence
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Lincoln is not tough…but he’s awful smart …and he now has a tough D-Coordinator…
#HopeIt’sEnough
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btw, karma:
Maui isn’t like Downtown L. A. …yet….
…#ButOurFederal&State&LocalOfficersAreTryingToMakeItThatWay
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You left out Norm Chow, the best coordinator of all of them. Had 49 at halftime of the Orange Bowl. Oklahoma was actually touchdown favorites.
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True….but….Pete continued to prove his stuff after he left USC…. Norm, not so much…..
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Offenses in football are far different from 1979 but you can still beat down your opponent by hammering them with the run. Problem is, coaches today want points, points, points, pass, pass, pass, and their defense takes a beating.
Exhibit A: Lincoln Riley
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Riley has a great bunch of tailbacks…. he needs to use them….
#GuessWhoDoesn’tHaveRunningBacks?Indiana
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Foote was overlooked with the guys he had along side him on the OL, Munoz, Budde, Van Horne, Foster, Mosebar, Matthews was a freshman, not exactly what SC has in the OL these days
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Five first round draft picks, two professional football hall of famers, an outland trophy winner, and a couple of All Americans. White rushed for almost 4,000 yards in two years behind that line. Hard to imagine there was ever a better one.
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