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Author: Mik Dietlin

College Football Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Towel-Waving No Substitute for Trojan Defense

> USC's energy and motivation must improve for the No. 6 team to defeat better opponents

featured, recent 5 min read

USC’s defense hasn’t been progressing as fast as it must to win the Pac-12 Championship and make the College Football Playoff.

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College Football Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: It’s Time to Stop Doubting USC’s Defense

> Without their defense's toughness and tenacity, the Trojans could be staring at 2-2

recent 5 min read

With four interceptions against Oregon State, USC has 14 for the year and continues to lead the nation in turnover/takeaway ratio. 

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College Football Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Beavers Won’t Slay the Dragon this Season

> The Trojans will struggle a bit at Reser, perhaps more than last week, but they'll be alright

featured, recent 5 min read

Both USC and OSU are well-balanced offensively, and both have pretty good athleticism on defense with play-makers that can cause problems.

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College Football Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Trojans Finding New Ways to Dominate and Win

> USC was more methodical than explosive in controlling the first half against Fresno State

recent 6 min read

There are obvious blemishes the USC coaches will have to clear up on defense, but the Trojans appear ready to step into elite status.

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College Football Pac-12 Football West Coast Football 

Dietlin: That Chip on Haener’s Shoulder Can’t Beat SC

> There's nothing Fresno State can do to keep the Trojan offense from lighting up the Coliseum

featured, recent 6 min read

here are many cities across America that classify as “pass-through towns.” This means, to put it nicely, they aren’t vacation

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College Football Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: USC’s Explosive Offense Hiding its Defensive Flaws

> But at the rate it's improving, that shouldn't keep the Trojans out of the Pac-12 Title game

recent 5 min read

“USC football deserves a Top 10 ranking. But the defense is not Top 10,” says Mik Dietlin. “It probably doesn’t crack the Top 25.”

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Luck Returning as QB couldn’t Help the Tree vs USC

> This Stanford team has few strengths and more question marks than the Riddler's wardrobe

recent 5 min read

An awful lot of improvement in a short period of time has to occur if Stanford is to challenge for a Conference title in 2022.

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College Football Pac-12 Football West Coast Football 

Dietlin: New and Improved 2022 Trojans Off and Running

> USC handled Rice the way championship teams are supposed to handle weaker teams

recent 4 min read

USC football handled Rice the way championship teams are supposed to handle weaker teams, by kicking the crap out of them.

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College Football Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Once-Tough Rice No Match for Lincoln Riley’s USC

> The 1954 Cotton Bowl Owls might have made it interesting, but this 2022 team has no chance

featured, recent 5 min read

ith a 9-2 overall record, and a No. 6 ranking in the final AP Poll, the 1953 Rice Owls fielded

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College Football Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: 2022 Trojans Greatest Experiment in CFB History

> Lincoln Riley's vision for a perennial title contender is better than Christmas for football fans

featured, recent 7 min read

Lincoln Riley and his USC staff have thoroughly disassembled and reassembled a 2021 roster that was nothing short of embarrassing.

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College Football Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Trojans not Exempt from Recruiting Anxiety

> No commitment is secure when another school is willing and able to offer more NIL money

featured, recent 6 min read

USC’s NIL business venture with Stay Doubted and its subsidiary BLVD LLC. will be the genesis of a future national NIL blueprint.

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College Football Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Pac-12 Likely Doomed Without L.A. Gravy-Train

> Despite its recent mediocrity on the field, USC was holding the Pac-12 Conference together

featured, recent 6 min read

USC and UCLA snatched the only available parachutes off the Pac-12’s nose-diving jet airliner, landing safely in Big Ten country.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Title Game Rule Change Welcome, but Not Enough

> The Pac-12 still doesn't block, tackle, or coach as well as other Power 5 conferences

recent 6 min read

Right now, just two Pac-12 head guys qualify as legitimate top 25 coaches: Lincoln Riley and Kyle Whittingham. Clearly, that’s not enough.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Only Two HC Candidates are Worthy of USC

featured, recent 5 min read

These are the only two head coach candidates that unarguably will turn the Trojans into perennial national championship contenders.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Toughness There, But Spark Lacking for USC

recent 5 min read

USC plays the same game, getting the same outcome week after week. The difference between winning and losing depends on the opponent. 

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Pac-12 Football 

Mik Dietlin’s Pac-12 ‘State of the Union’ Address

featured, recent 8 min read

adies and gentlemen…Commissioner George Kliavkoff…Deputy Commissioner Jamie Zaninovich…Senior Associate Commissioner of Sports Management Teresa Gould… Head of Football Operations Merton

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: USC Drowning in Dark Fun Worthy of Poe

featured, recent 8 min read

Dietlin: The USC Underachievers are 3-3 midway through the 2021 season, courtesy of another Coliseum throttling, this time from Utah.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Pac-12 Networks Nightmare Worse than SC’s

featured, recent 5 min read

s you may know, every week our senior football writers at superwestsports.com pick the winners of all the conference games.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Five Really Different USC Coach Candidates

featured, recent 8 min read

Mik Dietlin’s USC Head Coach Search Leader Board, a Top Five list that is sure to keep Trojan fans in their seats.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Disinfect USC of All Traces of Clay Helton

featured, recent 7 min read

USC needs freshman QB Jaxson Dart to regain total health and re-energize the program the way he already has proven he can.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Change Fortuitous for Energized Trojans

featured, recent 6 min read

USC QB Jaxson Dart displayed a resolute doggedness in calling out receivers for breaking off routes, functioning superbly through pain.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Helton is a ‘Good Guy,’ but Be Glad He’s Gone

featured, recent 7 min read

Beneath his golly-shucks exterior, former USC head coach Clay Helton is a far more complicated individual than people imagine.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Torture and the Freak Show Return for USC

featured, recent 5 min read

The hope USC fans had for this season evaporated as the disgruntled Coliseum crowd emptied the stadium during Stanford’s 42-28 win.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Even in victory, Clay Helton seems misguided

featured, recent 6 min read

Clay Helton seemed intent on padding the score against San Jose State with the game already in hand, potentially risking key players.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Informal Alliance as Foolish as it is Toothless

featured, recent 4 min read

The Alliance between the Pac-12, Big Ten, and ACC is well-intentioned, but the informal agreement has left many unimpressed.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Preseason Angst the Norm for SC Fans, Media

featured, recent 7 min read

The Trojans should go 12-0 in 2021, then 13-0 after dispatching Oregon or UW for the Pac-12 championship, but most USC fans don’t believe it.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Why Covid Can’t Keep Us Away from CFB

featured, recent 7 min read

With Covid still looming, no one knows how this college football season will play out. No scientist or doctor can tell us what lies ahead.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Whatever Changes, Grandpa ESPN Still Wins

featured, recent 6 min read

Anytime an upheaval shakes the foundations of college athletics, we look first to see first how it affects television revenue.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: ASU May Need Magick to Avoid NCAA Iceberg

> Right now, the iceberg is of unknown size, and nobody knows for sure if Arizona State is sinking

featured, recent 8 min read

The ASU football program is under investigation for a number of transgressions, including hosting recruits during the recruiting dead period.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Is Reggie Bush Still the Judas of College Football?

> The former USC running back's new plea for clemency coincided with the start of NIL

featured, recent 6 min read

Dietlin: Former USC star Reggie Bush’s latest plea for clemency, timed to coincide with the start of the NIL Era, still rings hollow.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: 12-Team CFP More Proof the World has Gone Crazy

> And "The Cat" just keeps getting more and more lives at the helm of iconic USC football

featured, recent 6 min read

USC coach Clay Helton received another lifeline courtesy of the 12-team College Football Playoff model now under consideration.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: A Russian Hacker, USF, and Why the Irish are Postseason Losers

> Notre Dame's decades-long self-imposed bowl ban remains a conundrum

featured, recent 8 min read

Damn you Domers! I understand the aversion to my “experiment” covering your beloved team, but can’t we just all get

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: The Greatness of ‘The Four Horsemen’ is Long Gone for Notre Dame

> And for what it's worth, the Fighting Irish beat lowly Duke last Saturday

featured, recent 8 min read

While the ND defense is senior heavy and stout, the offense lacks a proven commodity at receiver, and has depth issues at running back.

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Pac-12 Football 

What happens when a rogue USC writer decides to cover Notre Dame?

> No one knows for sure, but our Mik Dietlin is determined to give it a try

featured, recent 4 min read

The Notre Dame/USC rivalry goes back almost 100 years, fittingly fox trotting to life during the Roaring 20’s.

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Pac-12 Football Pac-12 Mailbag Column 

Dietlin Mailbag: The Fate of ‘The Cat,’ USC’s Oregon Problem & NCAA Hypocrisy

> Our featured columnist addresses questions on the Trojans & all of college sports

featured 9 min read

In his first mailbag answer column, our Mik Dietlin holds nothing back, addressing questions in his uniquely offbeat and irreverent voice.

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Pac-12 Conference Business Pac-12 Football 

The Football Gods are Angry, but Pac-12 did Right Thing

> Calls for 'courage' in the face of a coronavirus pandemic are irresponsible and insane

featured, recent 8 min read

To callously state that the sole motive for the Pac-12 postponing football was to avoid an avalanche of lawsuits is short-sighted.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: We Know CFB will Happen & We Know it Shouldn’t

> Our failed response to the upswing in COVID-19 cases makes playing sports this fall untenable

7 min read

he most laughable thing in this suddenly not-so-wide world of sports doesn’t take place on any court, field, ice rink,

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Pac-12 Football 

2020 Preseason All-SportsPac12 Football Team

> Our choices for the Pac-12's best football players as selected by our three senior writers

featured, recent 16 min read

Our Senior Writers have selected the inaugural All-SportsPac12 team based on their collective votes on their all-region teams.

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Pac-12 Football 

2020 SportsPac12 California All-Region Team

> Mik Dietlin's choices for the best Pac-12 football players in the Golden State as the region's top candidates for our SportsPac12 All-Conference Team

featured, recent 8 min read

Our Senior Writers have selected their SportsPac12 All-Region teams and will soon vote on our inaugural All-SportsPac12 Football Team.

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OSU Beavers Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Despite Dismal Helmet Decal, OSU Football on Rise

> Two key stats tell the story of the turnaround under former OSU quarterback Jonathan Smith

featured, recent 8 min read

There are positive signs behind a few of the numbers that speak volumes for the future of OSU football. Confidence is as high as it’s been in Corvallis in a long time.

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Pac-12 Football USC Trojans 

Dietlin: To My Little Brother & Reggie Bush—Sorry, not Sorry

> Many mistakes in life can be forgiven without an apology; what Reggie Bush did to USC cannot

featured, USC 7 min read

Reggie Bush still owes the Trojans an apology for single-handedly squeezing the life out of the USC football program.

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Pac-12 Football USC Trojans 

Dietlin: Graham Harrell Key to USC’s Future

> The OC will likely leave at the end of his contract unless he's made head coach

10 min read

USC offensive coordinator Graham Harrell will likely leave at the end of his contract unless he’s made head coach.

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Pac-12 Football USC Trojans 

Dietlin: What JT Daniels Loses in the Portal

> Given the message his decision sends, he's probably better off leaving

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“All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.” —Blaise Pascal  M y publisher

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: How I’m Coping Without Live Sports

> Everything from reruns on the Olympic channel to inspiring backyard porch speeches

COVID-19, show 9 min read

It’s led to hours of reflection. No, that reflection hasn’t been on my back inside a therapist’s office.

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Pac-12 Football USC Trojans 

Dietlin: Hires Show Trojans Fighting Back

> USC's new assistants might just avert a potential nightmare season

USC 10 min read

The latest and last addition to the revamped coaching staff is Vic So’oto, a 32 year old rising defensive line coach.

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Pac-12 Football 

Dietlin: Costello’s Exit Troubling for Tree

> The transfer portal hasn't been kind to the Cardinal, but David Shaw isn't to blame

Stanford 11 min read

When lives hang in the balance, self-preservation mode kicks in, escorting life as we knew it to the curb.

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Pac-12 Football USC Trojans 

Dietlin: On USC’s Use and Abuse of Tradition

> Canceling FCS opponent contracts won't solve the Trojans' football problems

show 11 min read

USC Athletic Director Mike Bohn has been in Los Angeles only a few months and already he has outworked his predecessor.

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Pac-12 Football USC Trojans 

Dietlin: USC’s New DC, a Bus, and ‘The Cat’

> Clay Helton has been masterful at swapping out assistants to save his job

show, USC 9 min read

Todd Orlando was hired as the new defensive coordinator, snared away from Texas Tech.

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