Tunnel Vision: USC spring ball pushes through and recruiting gets red hot
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
USCFootball.com - Ryan Abraham, 247Sports, USC, USC Trojans, USC football, College Football
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
On this latest edition of Tunnel Vision USCFootball.com's Ryan Abraham Shotgun Spratling and intern Makena Arteaga are back in studio talking about the Trojans finishing up spring practice week three and the wave of commitments from some of the top high school football players in Southern California, including a recent Oregon flip for an elite offensive tackle.
USC finished up spring practice No. 11 on Saturday in the Coliseum, completing the third of four weeks of spring football workouts. The crew gives their thoughts on what they have seen and heard out on Howard Jones Field with head coach Lincoln Riley and new defensive coordinator Gary Patterson getting the troops ready for the highly anticipated 2026 football season. Practices were more concentrated this spring, running for five weeks instead of six (with one week off for spring break), and four workouts per week instead of three. March is a critical month for the future of Trojan football with Patterson's new defensive scheme being implemented and 31 true freshmen getting in the mix.
On the recruiting front general manager Chad Bowden and the squad are catching fire, trying to follow up on the No. 1 ranked high school class for 2026 with another impressive haul in 2027. Since spring football started dozens of prospects have continually visited campus to check out practice and so far three new commitments have been announced. It started with San Diego Cathedral Catholic four-star athlete Honor Fa'alave-Johnson followed by Mater Dei four-star defensive back Danny Lang and Saturday's big flip from the Ducks in Servite four-star offensive tackle Drew Fielder.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Trojan fans, it's time to get into the huddle with the Parastile podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | Since 2008, the Parasstyle podcast has been your ticket for year-round coverage of the USC football program. |
| 0:20.4 | With multiple shows per week in a wide range of experts, |
| 0:24.1 | no one covers the Trojans like the Peristyle podcast. And now here's the host of the |
| 0:30.5 | Paristyle podcast, USCFootball.com publisher, Brian Abraham. |
| 0:39.4 | What is up, Trojan fans? |
| 0:41.2 | Welcome to Tunnel Vision presented by USCFootball.com. |
| 0:44.5 | We are live on Facebook and YouTube, so be sure to drop all your comments and questions in |
| 0:49.2 | the chat. |
| 0:49.7 | We'll save the questions for later. |
| 0:51.5 | We're taking live calls at 512 for Tunnel, so be sure to come in and |
| 0:56.1 | we'll get to the calls later. I'm the Kenarantiyaga, and we have a fun show here today, |
| 1:01.8 | joined by Ryan and Shotgun, of course, Spring Ball. Springball has been going. We're in week |
| 1:07.5 | three out of four and lots of motion going, and the Trojans have been really taking their recruitment by stride. Guys, how are you doing? Doing all right, McKenna. Thanks for first time hosting the show and producing the show. Welcome. Get the mean background. Yeah, you got it. The perfect one. We did, so I told her that was something that's going wrong. So we really appreciate it. I gave McKenna about a 20 minute tutorial on how to |
| 1:27.8 | host and run the show. So I'm sure she's going to crush it. But it's been great. Thank you so much for doing this coming in. Thanks to everyone that's watching us. We're live on Facebook, live on YouTube. And we're taking your live calls, like McKenna said, 5124 tunnel. We've got to talk about USA Spring football and three weeks down, one week to go. It's kind of a |
| 1:44.8 | consolidated a little bit. There were four practices a week. They did two weeks, then spring break. And then we here for this last week. Shotgun was out there with us at the last couple of practices. They went to pick his brain on what's going on. And there's been a wave of commitments on the recruiting front. And literally, were about to go live one just came like a half an hour ago you hit the breaking news button there real quick yes yeah uh it's that we know we'll talk about that a little bit but they got another commitment shotgun so it's been there's a lot going on in USC football. Yeah, USC's picked up football has picked up four commitments this week. You throw that on top of about a week ago, USC basketball, getting five-star commitment from Christian Collins, the women's basketball team, getting a five-star commitment from Sarah O'KKK. It is a recruiting frenzy right now over at USC. |
| 2:38.7 | And we get a lot of stuff to talk about with spring ball, but you're seeing the momentum. |
| 2:43.3 | And I think that's just, it's carrying over from all the stuff that's going on on campus, |
| 2:47.8 | as well as some programs that are doing really well right now with the baseball team, |
| 2:49.3 | just coming off another series win. |
| 3:09.8 | So a lot of positive things around. I was excited to get out here and check it out a little bit. You've got to see a couple of practices this past week. We'll see another one on Tuesday. Get another baseball game on Tuesday as well. So if you guys are in town, then come out and check out the USC baseball and come to say hello. Yeah, come and say a little shotgun. Were you doing baseball out in the desert this weekend, or what were you doing? |
| 3:10.4 | I was not. |
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