Hello Trojan fans and welcome to a very special edition of the peristyle

podcast we like to call it the Trojan blast today is April 24th 2009 and

USC head coach Pete Carroll held an end of the spring press conference heading into Saturday's Trojan

Huddle. We wanted to bring you all the audio from that press conference about 30 minutes, so

here you go.

Okay, so, uh, spring coming up here tomorrow, so we'll have a coach talk a little bit about

how the spring ball went and go over the depth chart that we just put out and talk about the huddle tomorrow.

First off, I can't believe that it went so fast.

Jesus, already to the last day.

We've had a really, really eventful, good spring here with some obviously, obvious issues that you have to deal with that you do every spring.

I think we've grown with the information and the

input about what's going to happen, what we're going to do. It's critical spots.

New coaches transitioning in. All of these things have come together in a really good fashion.

We really don't feel like we've had to take a step backwards at any time. The spirit of the football

team and the guys work and the competitiveness of practices lasted

throughout the whole spring, which is absolutely the number one criteria is to get our work attitude

right and that happened again.

And so in just judging from years past I know that when that

takes place and we do compete like crazy day in and day out then we're on track

and we're gonna you know make for a good preparation to get into the summertime and get ready for

fall camp and get ready to go again.

So I really don't have any major concerns in any of the issue regards which was quarterback position and really

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