Helium Boys Podcast: USC opens fall camp after week of media days

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino are back behind the microphones for another edition of the Helium Boys Podcast to break down and react to USC's Big Ten Media Days appearance in Las Vegas as well as the Trojans' football media day at Heritage Hall and the impending start of fall camp for the 2025 season. The duo talk about their takeaways and impressions from listening to and talking with USC head coach Lincoln Riley, offensive lineman Elijah Paige, receiver Makai Lemon and safety Kamari Ramsey in Vegas at the Big Ten Media Days as well as what they learned from news and notes to insights on some position battles during USC's football media day held on campus. The episode opens with the 'Two-Minute Drill' where Shotgun discusses the left guard elephant in the room while Chris talks about his Vegas experience for Big Ten Media Days. The Helium Boys then spend the first half of the show breaking down the news, notes and takeaways from the two media days. After a break, the podcast duo discusses players they are excited to see at USC's fall camp, including their picks for a breakout player during camp. They also discuss some of the players that fans have clamored for to move up or down in the Top 30 Most Important Trojans countdown and answer your mailbag questions discussing DJ Wingfield, the offensive line group, Elijah Newby, Trumain Carroll and more. Shotgun Spratling is then put through a blind ranking of types of bread to close out the show. Please review, rate and subscribe to the Peristyle Podcast on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠! Make sure you check out ⁠USCFootball.com⁠ for complete coverage of this USC Trojans football and basketball teams. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Helium Boys podcast, a serious non-serious U-S.
0:18.3	I am your host Chris Trevino, and this is definitely the first take that I am doing.
0:23.0	I'm joined by shotgun spraddling here on a very hot Tuesday, the eve of USC fall camp. Shotgun,
0:30.4	how are you doing? As you said, it is a warm evening. I got in the car today in New Jersey,
0:35.2	and it was 104 degrees inside the car.
0:37.7	And I don't think it was quite that hot outside, but I think it was a good 97 or so here. So getting a little, to me, that feels like fall camp weather. You know, that sparks me. It's like, all right, it's time to go. It's either it means the end of the baseball season or the start of football season one. and baseball season is over.
0:35.3	So let's get some football rolling.
0:36.9	I'm excited.
0:37.8	A lot of things to talk about with the the baseball season or the start of football season one and then baseball season is over so let's get
0:54.9	some football rolling i'm excited a lot of things to talk about with a lot of media days and stuff
0:59.8	but you know now now's time for fall camp and there's a lot of intrigue right now i think
1:04.7	shotgun very quick aside obviously you do a lot in the baseball season it's hard to get a hold
1:10.0	of you because you're so busy how long does it take you to transition to baseball to football? Do you need like a week to process down and then get ramped up again? How does it work? You know, honestly, I kind of go through like a, I guess I would call it like a malaise at the end of baseball season. I go in a little funk, you know, so that takes a good 10 days or so of decompression, I would say, because the last,
1:32.2	I don't know, month of the season is very go, go, go, go, go, go, constantly.
1:37.1	You know, conference tournaments and, you know, the postseason and whatnot, not including
1:41.8	Omaha's, my season ends in the Super Regionales, but I don't
1:45.1	sleep much during that time. So, you know, it is, it does take a little bit of time for recovery.
1:50.0	And because there's nothing really going on, I can kind of, you know, go into that. And, you know,
1:54.9	it's not like I have to jump immediately into something else, whereas football season just kind of
2:00.0	blends into basketball.
2:01.2	And then basketball goes, starts, baseball starts where it's going.
2:04.5	So it's kind of like the end of, because it's the end of the, you know, it's the summer,
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