Dedeaux Download: Previewing USC baseball's 2026 pitching with assistant Sean Allen
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
USCFootball.com - Ryan Abraham, 247Sports, USC, USC Trojans, USC football, College Football
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The Dedeaux Download podcast, part of the Peristyle Podcast family of shows, returns with the 2026 college baseball beginning next Friday. Shotgun Spratling and Kasey Kazliner with the second episode in our three-part season preview, leading up to the start of the 2026 USC baseball season.
In part two of the season preview series, USC assistant and pitching coach Sean Allen joins the Dedeaux Download to talk about the offseason work the Trojans put in to improve the pitching staff, including the coaching staff's roster construction adding an impressive freshman class and some experienced transfers and the players' individual development.
He also discusses the mental and physical development of players from the fall to the spring and where he feels like the roster heading into the final week before the start of the 2026 season. Allen specifically notes the year-over-year improvements of returners Mason Edwards, Andrew Johnson and Grant Govel and points out the potential of freshmen Gavin Luridsen and Rohan Kasanagottu, who both could have immediate roles with the team.
After a break, Shotgun and Kasey then talk all things on the mound with the pitchers in the spotlight. They comb through the Trojans’ 2026 roster looking at what USC will have on the mound. The podcasting duo supply superlatives for the Trojan arms, giving their picks for the team's best pitcher, most impactful newcomer and breakout candidates among others.
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| 1:18.7 | Hello and welcome to the Dato Download podcast, a USC baseball podcast presented by USCFootball.com and the Paris style podcast. |
| 1:20.6 | I'm your host shotguns, probably alongside my co-host Casey Casler. |
| 1:24.1 | Casey, we are less than a week away. |
| 1:27.3 | When we publish this, it will be less than a week until college baseball season officially begins. |
| 1:33.6 | We're hoping to have one more episode before the season begins. |
| 1:36.2 | But this episode, we're going to talk about some pitching. |
| 1:38.7 | How are you doing and how excited are you about the fact that we're one week away? |
| 1:43.1 | I'm super excited. |
| 2:17.9 | I said this last week. I've never been to a USC baseball game at Daydo Field and yet I'm on a podcast with the name Daydo in it. The irony there. So I'm so excited, you know, from a broadcasting standpoint, but also like just being on campus, being able to walk to a baseball game, how many people can say they can do that? Maybe if you live in Wrigleyville or around Fenway Park, like a neighborhood, but I'm going to feel so privileged just to be able to walk to a baseball game. That's going to be so fun. I'm so excited. Or if you go to a lot of other colleges, you can potentially do that too. Unlike USC the last couple of years where you've been to broadcast games, you've been having to drive down to Orange County or whatnot. But for any new covers listening to their first |
| 2:21.6 | episode here on the Datto download podcast, we break down the USC baseball team. All the latest |
| 2:27.2 | news, developments with the program, and each week during the season, we'll recap the latest |
| 2:30.9 | action. We'll look forward to the upcoming matchups. So if you have any USC questions, feel free to send them in. We appreciate if you guys can share, like, subscribe, all those things that you do on your favorite podcast listening platform. They help us out, help us grow the show. So do all those things. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, if you're concerned, then you take it up with your mama, you know, basically. But if you have any questions, comments, concerns. If you're concerned, then you're taking up with your mama, |
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