Tunnel Vision: USC falls to Washington 52-42 leading to Lincoln Riley firing DC Alex Grinch

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🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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On the latest edition of Tunnel Vision, USCFootball.com's Ryan Abraham, Shotgun Spratling and Jack Smith are back in studio talking about the huge breaking news that head coach Lincoln Riley has pulled the trigger and fired his longtime defensive coordinator Alex Grinch. The guys give their initial reaction to the news that Trojan football fans have been longing for since the end of last season and if they feel it can make a difference with only two games left in the regular season.

USC's 52-42 loss to Washington Saturday night in the Coliseum was a defensive nightmare and apparently was the final straw for Riley, who brought Grinch with him from Oklahoma. Riley took a lot of heat when he made the decision to keep his entire staff intact even after the embarrassing loss to Tulane in the Cotton Bowl. Fans wanted Grinch gone and Riley's gamble on the importance of staff continuity simply did not pay off.

Our crew talks about all of the good (mostly offense) and bad (mostly defense) from the game against the Huskies and some of the historic marks that were set including the most points Washington has ever scored against USC (achieved in the first half alone) and the Trojan defense giving up 34+ points in six straight games for the first time in program history.

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1:11.0	I'm your host Jack Smith joined in studio by Ryan Abraham and Shotgun Spratling. We were
1:15.0	going to be recapping USC's 52 to 42 loss to Washington. We'll still do a little
1:20.0	bit of that but guys we have to talk about some breaking news in the USC
1:22.8	football program. Alex Trinch is out as defensive coordinator Lincoln Riley
1:26.9	relieved him of his duties earlier today. There's already a lot of
1:30.0	thought in the chat. I'm sure we'll have callers later. We've got a voicemail that we'll get to.
1:34.4	What are you guys' initial reactions to Alex Grinch being fired? It's kind of the big news of the day and
1:38.8	really the big news of the season. Yeah, it's huge, huge news. You know, Ch, shotgun and I were around for years and years
1:45.2	of how many questions were we get?
1:47.7	When is Clay Hilton going to be fired?
1:49.2	It just kept going and going going.
1:51.5	This wasn't that long, but it was approaching it where, you know, the end of last season.
1:57.3	People wanted to make a change in defensive coordinator, the Cotton Bowl.
2:00.1	They really wanted to make a change and then Lincoln Riley announced that
2:03.6	Alex Grinch was coming back. It was not a popular decision just like when
2:08.5	Mike Bone first retained Clay Hilton when he came on and that wasn't a popular decision and unfortunately you make
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