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Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
USCFootball.com - Ryan Abraham, 247Sports, USC, USC Trojans, USC football, College Football
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this edition of the Peristyle Podcast hosts Ryan Abraham, Connor Morrissette (aka "Triple-Double") and intern India Otto are back in studio to talk about the various news and notes surrounding the USC football program during this long off-season heading into the extremely important 2026 campaign.
Kicking off the show the crew breaks down all of the new assistant coaches and new roles for returning coaches on the staff. Inside receivers coach and tight ends coach Chad Savage was promoted to passing game coordinator, defensive analyst Skyler Jones was promoted to defensive tackles coach, defensive analyst AJ Howard was promoted to outside linebackers coach, Mike Ekeler was hired as as special teams coordinator and linebackers coach, former Baylor assistant Paul Gonzales was hired as the new safeties coach and passing game coordinator and former Louisiana Tech assistant Sam Carter was hired as secondary coach.
The guys also take a look at the 2026 roster and try to predict who they feel will be breakout candidates for each side of the ball and discuss the seven former Trojan football players that were invited to the NFL Combine.
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| 0:31.6 | Hey Trojan fans, it's time to get into the huddle with the Parastile podcast. |
| 0:41.7 | Since 2008, the Parasstyle podcast has been your ticket for year-round coverage of the USC football program. |
| 0:50.6 | With multiple shows per week in a wide range of experts, no one covers the Trojans like the Peristyle podcast. |
| 0:58.8 | And now, here's the host of the Parastile podcast, USCFootball.com publisher, Brian Abraham. |
| 1:10.0 | Oh, Trojan fans, welcome to another edition of the Parasel podcast. |
| 1:14.6 | I'm your host, Ryan Abraham, joined alongside my friend Triple Double, Connor Morissette, |
| 1:21.6 | and in studio again, what a treat. |
| 1:23.6 | Automatic Indie Auto is back in studio. |
| 1:26.6 | What's up, India? How you doing you doing i'm good i'm excited to be |
| 1:29.6 | back i missed it i'm excited too glad to be here uh we didn't do a show last week Connor but um some |
| 1:35.1 | different stuff going on uh in the world so we want to talk about all of that USC assistant coaches |
| 1:40.3 | uh we're going to meet them uh the new ones we get to talk to the old ones on Friday, |
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