Defensive Coordinator Gary Patterson at the USC Media Brunch
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday USC held its assistant football coach media brunch, where all of the main offensive and defensive assistants were made available for interviews. This is our session with new Trojan defensive coordinator Gary Patterson, who talked for over an hour about a variety of topics from what he learned about his squad this spring to watching film on USC's early opponents.
The interview lasted over one hour so we decided to upload it as a podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Set this up well for you guys. |
| 0:03.0 | It's perfect. |
| 0:05.0 | There's no, there's no good time this coming here. |
| 0:10.0 | Nice. |
| 0:11.0 | So how's it been going now since spring ball? |
| 0:15.0 | Spring ball's over. |
| 0:16.0 | Starting back, you know, it's one of the things was, is pushed through to get it done. |
| 0:20.0 | You know, and I was always be beat down by the 1st of April, also at TCU, so it's, you know, lifting wise, you get back in, you get to put your bodies back together. How do you kind of, you get stronger, you know, within your six to eight week cycles, however you're lifting. And then you also get back to, especially like for us, |
| 0:40.5 | we have so many freshmen on the defensive side ball, |
| 0:43.1 | being able to then, because they were just starting to come on at the end of spring ball |
| 0:48.6 | as far as the knowledge starting to catch all of it. |
| 0:50.4 | Now you can get a chance when you've gone back to the beginning |
| 0:52.8 | and start |
| 0:54.2 | reteaching the people start reteaching everything so that's for us to do that then |
| 1:00.9 | in June you're going to be able to do that when everybody comes back to summer so I mean |
| 1:05.3 | really you get three times and they get close to probably three different cycles of lifting. |
| 1:11.6 | So you know, you're a freshman or not freshmen anymore. |
| 1:14.6 | Try not to eat as far as strength and all those kind of things. |
| 1:17.6 | Watching your energy at practice, you were popping around, |
| 1:21.6 | going to every physician group, you'd talk to us as we walk by or whatever. |
| 1:25.6 | Is that, when you were head coach, you were doing that too? Oh that just kind of here? You know, I've always been, you know, high intensity. Now, they'll see, I was, because of installing and so many young guys, so, you know, I was probably out of 75%. Wow. As far as the attention and detail of what's going to have to happen. |
| 1:44.4 | Because, you know, play at a high level, you know, it's not that you have to be good on defense, |
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