Dedeaux Download: First losing week since February is likely death knell to USC baseball's at-large hopes
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Shotgun Spratling and Jack Smith return with another episode of the Dedeaux Download Podcast to break down a five-game week for the Trojans that proved to be a big disappointment after the Trojans went 2-3 with a pair of losses to Sacramento State, falling to 0-4 against the WAC this season. They break down USC baseball's up-and-down week that did feature a blowout victory over a top 20 UC Irvine team and a late-inning rally from a 10-5 deficit to snag a victory.
The Trojans' inconsistent week saw them go back and forth from a proficient offense that capitalized on extra opportunities given by opponents to one that reverted back to its early-season woes of too many strikeouts and inability to come through in the clutch.
Shotgun and Jack break down all the action from the 2-3 week with each providing three things up, including Austin Overn and experimentation, as well as three negatives from the week, including a struggling Jacob Galloway and a gaudy win-loss record for Tyler Stromsborg.
The podcasting duo also take a look at where USC stands, breaking down what has become a quagmire of seven teams within two and a half games of each other in the middle of the Pac-12 standings. They also look forward to the upcoming week of action that has the Trojans slated to play four road games against traditional powers that are no longer playing like perennial juggernauts, Cal State Fullerton and Arizona State.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Dado Download Podcast, a part of the Parastile |
| 0:18.4 | podcast family shows. I'm your host, Shotgun Sprattling, alongside my co-host |
| 0:23.0 | host Jack Smith. Jack, I gotta ask you you're not gonna any of these other |
| 0:26.1 | podcast you didn't do instant analysis what does you think of the spring game? |
| 0:29.4 | I have mixed feelings on the spring game. |
| 0:33.3 | I think it's cool to be out there in the Coliseum. |
| 0:35.1 | It's nice to get to see some spring football with fans watching. |
| 0:38.6 | I do think it's pretty stupid and the format that they have chosen makes basically zero sense to me. |
| 0:44.0 | I mean, there's no real tackling, they stop the clock when they want, they'll add extra drives. |
| 0:49.0 | So whatever format they do tell you, switches up every now and and then so it was fun to be on the |
| 0:53.6 | Coliseum it's cool to see some of these new players in the Cardinal and |
| 0:56.8 | Gold it's not football. It's not football whoa it is... There wasn't real tackling. Yeah, that didn't make my sense. Actually, I talked about this earlier in the week on the Healing Boys podcast. The thing that baffled me the most is that some guys were thudding some guys were playing two hand touch and some guys were actually tackling like some of the second string guys and the walk-ons were like I'm getting my chance. I'm gonna hit somebody and so it made no sense like there was no rhyme or reason of how it was actually going about. |
| 1:28.1 | Yeah it was very confusing as to how that was all going down and figuring I didn't really understand it I know you're going in and it's just |
| 1:36.4 | another practice really that's how everyone is treating spring showcases now basically |
| 1:41.5 | there's not true offense versus defense, and part of it is, so many guys are in the |
| 1:45.9 | transfer pool or in and out, and you don't have the depth of the roster that you once had, but it's |
| 1:51.1 | it's disappointing not to be able to have it, and didn't make much sense like why are you not tackling or are you so banged up that you can't do it? |
| 1:58.0 | You want I mean you want the guys like Kristen Pierce to be able to play out there sure but like he's the only guy that was in the yellow jersey or maybe one other guy, but it didn't really make so much sense why you're not practicing something you were so bad at last year. |
| 2:10.0 | And then the moment when I realized that the whole thing was flawed is when the referees would look at each other, |
| 2:14.4 | where are we marking this guy down? Was it at the line of scrimmage where he was touched? Was it 10 yards past that? |
| 2:19.8 | And there was also a point where Amarion Peterson got touched |
| 2:22.9 | and so the defense led up because I thought he was down |
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