USC’s Keaontay Ingram ‘feels great’ after rolling ankle against Arizona State
Ryan Kartje (LA Times) — Keaontay Ingram said he feels “great” after rolling his ankle and sitting out the fourth quarter of last Saturday’s loss to Arizona State. But the USC workhorse may soon find himself dealing with stacked boxes the rest of the season after the Sun Devils provided a blueprint to bottle him up.
Ingram expects as much, at least. After rushing for 342 yards over the previous two weeks, he was held to just 54 yards in 14 carries against Arizona State.
“In the box, they always had one extra hat, regardless if that might be a linebacker or a safety,” Ingram said. “Also they were stunting a little bit and also adding a cornerback in there for free runs. It was a little different. Nothing too much we haven’t seen throughout the season, but it is kind of hard to run against a loaded box.”
Those loaded boxes aren’t likely to let up until USC proves its passing attack is a threat without top option Drake London. In London’s first game out, the Trojans struggled to move the ball at all through the air, passing for a season-low 220 yards.
The hope was that Ingram’s emergence might help USC further emphasize the run to make up for the loss of London. Without Ingram or sophomore Darwin Barlow, who injured his hamstring, Vavae Malepeai handled the lion’s share of carries in the fourth quarter. He finished with just eight yards in five carries.
With Saturday’s game against Cal postponed until Dec. 4, Ingram said the extra week should help him get fully healthy ahead of next Saturday’s rivalry matchup with UCLA.
“That’s tremendous for me,” Ingram said of his weekend off. “I’m taking full advantage of it.”
latimes.com
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Talk about a rebuild job. Most think USC will take three years. The most optimistic say two. Former UCLA coach Jim Mora has even a more arduous task at hand.
Mora, coaching for the first time in the northeast, lost his way at UCLA, going 9-14 his last two years. He takes over one of the FBS’s toughest jobs. UCONN is 1-8 this year after not playing last season due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Huskies, who are independent, are just 10-46 since 2016. Randy Edsall went 6-32 in his second stint with the school.
It could be an ideal marriage, with Mora resurrecting his career and UConn gaining some respectability. I hope it works for him.
Mora won’t have to fight the political hogwash he did across town. But UConn is mostly a basketball school so welcome back JM!
A big salute to the true Super Heroes, the men and women who fought, died, and came home to further fight the many demons that never left them. We enjoy the freedom and comforts we have because of their many sacrifices. Watching shows like Band Of Brothers, and World War 2 in color, on Netflix, and the horrors and obstacles that these brave veterans faced, are hard to fathom. Forever grateful
U.S. veterans often come back to such horrific circumstances at home, many still deeply injured and permanently disabled from their service. I’m forever grateful as you are.
Our emotionally wounded warriors often find themselves in the criminal justice system. Until recently they were swept along with others who made their way there through criminal activity, often ending up in jail or prison, consigned to a desperate life of self-medicating with alcohol and drugs, and bouncing in and out of incarceration. Recognizing the debt we owe to those who have served this country, courts have developed Veterans Courts with a team of people devoted to treating veterans who have landed in the system because of service related trauma. Teams include the judge, defense counsel, the prosecutor, mental health… Read more »
God Bless You Rushmore. Hope every jurisdiction in the country has a Veterans Court.🇺🇲
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Matt Rhule would be my choice for USC. With all the QB turmoil at Carolina, he might be sick of it all already, but everyone supposedly in-the-know says he really wants to be in the NFL. He’d be #1 probably for LSU and anyone else too. “Slam Dunk” comes to mind. So does “pipedream.”
It doesn’t hurt to ask. Bring lots and lots of money, that should help.
Like Herbstreit said, bring lots of money and “Make him say no”.
OK Rams, it’s Super Bowl or bust.
Talented receiver but can be a major distraction, hope they got him on the cheap with performance incentives. Go Chargers! 🙂
For those who might be interested in the books which served as real-life accounts which are the actual basis for both Band of Brothers and The Pacific, I highly recommend both Helmet For My Pillow, by Robert Leckie, and With the Old Breed, by E.B. Sledge.
I’m kind of a WWII buff (loved my recent tour of the Midway aircraft carrier in San Diego), and both books are amazingly detailed and heartfelt personal recreations of heroic WWII fighting in the Pacific which turned the tide in favor of America.
I read Sledge’s book and also highly recommend it. I have not read Leckie’s book. I also liked the book for the series “The Pacific”, named after it. If you have not seen it, I also highly recommend the 2019 movie “Midway.” It is I think the 3rd remake of the story (I have seen all 3) and the 2019 telling is by far the best. Hard to believe, but one pilot (Dick Best) was responsible for taking out two carriers that day. He probably won the battle single handedly.
Helmet For My Pillow — “We squirmed up the side of rain-bright hills, in slow sideways progress, like a land crab or a skier; we slid down the reverse slopes, the poor gunners cursing weakly while their tripods banged cruelly against the backs of their heads. The terrain of Guadalcanal seemed composed of steel, over which the demons of the jungle had spread a thin treacherous slime. Our feet were forever churning for a purchase on these undulating paths, our hands forever clawing the air, our progress constantly marked by the heavy clanking fall of a gunner in full gear.… Read more »
By chance, I ran into Ed Shames at the I-75 rest stop at Ashburn, Georgia, a few years ago. He was with Easy Company during WWII. Not the most beloved soldier, but he was one of the few members of that band of brothers still living at that time. He mentioned that he’d written a book about his WWII experiences: Airborne, The Combat Story of Ed Shames of Easy Company. He told me he was giving all profits from the book to veterans’ causes. I bought the book. Not a classic, but still an interesting story from an interesting time… Read more »
Next spring we are going back to Normandy to see more of the area.
There is nothing so emotionally stirring as walking a battlefield, in my experience.
I sure was emotional at the American cemetary. So many died storming Omaha beach.
Good morning Allen. I am late to your Veterans Day thread. I recently finished 2 books I think were interesting and fun reads. The Generals by Thomas Ricks. It is the story of American Military Command from WWII to about 2006. The other book is The Admirals by Walter Borneman. It is the history of the five 5 Star Admirals who Won the War at Sea.
Thanks for the recommendations @Trojan5. I’m definitely gonna read The Admirals so I can learn more about how monolithic presences like Halsey and Nimitz became who they did. My family is all Navy, and during summer vacations I used to hang around a Naval Air Weapons Station called China Lake as a young child where my grandparents lived. I remember the streets were all named after these American military icons. Little did I know I was reading the names of men who completely shaped American history just a few years before I was born.
My dad was a 20+ career Navy Chief. Our family spent a fair amount of time on Naval bases.
Have a son who is an RHO stationed in San Diego.
His service is appreciated. Hope that he stays out of harms way.
Thanks Trojan5
I remember the little league teams for even the smallest kids at China Lake were otherworldly. These teams had the best equipment and uniforms I had ever seen. Games were played in awesome small stadiums which frankly seemed superior to what regular public high schools had. I could go to the movies for 10 cents and watch Elvis Presley flicks like Jailhouse Rock and Flaming Star. You could go to the commissary and spend what seemed like nothing for everything compared to the real world. The adults liked heading off to the Chief’s Club for evening revelry. I bet a… Read more »
Saw plenty of movies at the base theater. Still remember seeing PT109 after Kennedy was assassinated.My older brother & I walked from off base housing (about 2 miles) to the base in an attempt to get away from the non stop news coverage of the assassination. We weren’t successful. lol. I was a month shy of 10 years old.can’t imagine many parents letting their 10 year old walk 2 miles anywhere these days.Also remember drinking Shirley Temples while my folks has drinks at the bar. The early 60’s was a different time.
So true about the Shirley Temples! I had forgotten all about those. Of course, mine were called Roy Rogers, always with a cherry! Thanks for the great memory flashback @Trojan5!
History Channel is playing all the episodes today of a mini-series that I have highly recommended to everyone I know …….Band of Brothers
HBO is showing the sequel series, “The Pacific” today as well.
The inept and unprepared prosecution continues to literally stumble and bumble its way through the Rittenhouse trial. I’m very clear I’ve never seen a worse showing by the state in such a big case. This one takes the cake. My own civil trial advocacy class at Loyola taught me within one week not to make many of the numerous egregious errors made by the Rittenhouse prosecution again today. The DA is just hapless, often completely uninformed about his case, and has no evidence even justifying a trial. Any view of this evidence by a reasonable person should have concluded these… Read more »
This is not ineptness on display, per se. This is rather what it looks like when you bring a case that has no business being brought, against every prosecutorial standard and ethical proscription, for political reasons rather than in service of justice. The prosecutor — who has political aspirations of his own — is pushing the envelope in a way that he damn well knows is NOT in service of justice, in the hopes that he can pull a rabbit out of a hat and be a leftist hero. He knows full well that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. He doesn’t… Read more »
Rittenhouse is walking, either via jury verdict (which the judge would and should prefer) or directed verdict, unless it’s a simple disappointing mistrial because of prosecutorial misconduct. I really didn’t know how obvious the self-defense facts were until I watched this trial and saw all the tape and witness testimony. Unethical prosecutor Thomas Binger is a complete dolt IMO, for both filing the case (or going along with it) and actually trying to prosecute it with a straight face and good conscience. I could use other words for him as well, but he’s already been dressed down in court by… Read more »
Don’t forget the FIB’s tape of the incident that never surfaced until the trial practically started. Totally exonerated Rittenhouse. But the FBI (the FIBs) has taken sides and it isn’t on the side of freedom and justice for the individual.
Rock, At least three of the Board attorneys (you, me and Allen) see it the same way. I really think the DA should be sanctioned by the WI Bar for this one. It ranks right up there with the Duke LaCrosse case. That DA was disbarred. I really think this one should face the same level of penalty. As I wrote earlier, what I find amazing is the total distortion of these riots by the main stream media. Whatever respect I have for those institutions and reporters is now totally gone. They are agenda driven propaganda machines.
Well said.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rule 20:3.8 obligates a prosecutor to refrain from prosecuting a charge that he/she “knows is not supported by probable cause.” The charges against Rittenhouse were brought in haste. No minister of justice was the prosecutor in this case.
For those who don’t know, they charged Rittenhouse with two counts of Murder 1 within 48 hours, before reviewing 90% of the evidence.
While the rest of many cities in the U.S. burned in chaos and were literally destroyed by riotous criminals inflicting deadly harm in targeted downtown areas, nobody was charged, and if they were even arrested, they weren’t prosecuted.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/commentary-im-a-usc-professor-and-i-cant-stay-quiet-about-the-school-administrations-toxic-culture/ar-AAQxqX4?li=BBnb7Kz
Wow. What a hit piece.
“But the culture of the USC administration is rotten from the top. What will it take for that to change?”
And some of us wonder why it has taken so long to fix USC football. Folt has way more important stuff that she can’t get fixed. Maybe she is hoping a big splash over the new coach will gloss over her other problems.
Poor, ineffective Folt. She’s probably trying to still figure out which statue or plaque on the USC campus she can order removed to fit her agenda.
Statues Hmmm…So many to choose;
Traveler-symbol of slavery (Lee’s horse had 2 Ls)
Tommy Trojan, Wild Bunch-male violence and aggression
Youth Triumphant-Prentiss Memorial Fountain, Crouching Bather, Hecuba-objectification of women
Douglas Fairbanks, Edward Muybridge, Neil Armstrong-white male privilege
But Then There Is The Woke Hero
George Tirebiter-saving the climate, fighting to end the internal combustion engine
😉
Hey don’t give her any ideas, she may have gofers reading websites talking about her.
A major complaint of ALL NY/NJ /CONN Newspapers is that the NY/NJ/ CONN area should have a better presence in the world of Division One Football …….Is UCONN trying to fix that ? ……We will see .
Here in NY Metro area I doubted the rumors that UCONN was gonna start throw in a fair amount (or more) of money into their football department ………I guess I was wrong to doubt .
UPDATE:
Per CBS Sports
Cam Newton signed by the Carolina Panthers. Newton was a starter for Carolina for 9 seasons
Thanks, @alfa1. Joseph Person (The Athletic) — The Panthers have signed their former MVP quarterback Cam Newton, the team announced Thursday. It’s a one-year deal for Newton, per source, and the Panthers’ No. 1 jersey is available. Newton, 32, was a free agent after the Patriots released him before this season, while the Panthers (4-5) have struggled under quarterback Sam Darnold, who is battling a shoulder injury. Carolina is the organization that drafted and developed Newton into an NFL star after selecting him first in the 2011 draft. Four years later, in 2015, Newton led Carolina to a franchise-best 15–1… Read more »
In conjunction with Rialto’s summary of SC team (collectively)
This statement from Dodd’s article clearly points out how putrid the PAC12 and those associated with it truly are…
”USC would allow him immediate access to elite athletes in a league that would be easier to win than another potential suitor”
just plain Sad !
INJURY REPORT per Adam Grosbard (OC Register) “Quarterback Kedon Slovis (lower leg) was a non-participant at practice for the second day in a row. Slovis injured his left leg during Saturday’s loss to Arizona State, though he did not have to exit the game early. During the team’s opening stretches, Slovis threw a ball around with an assistant but did not step into the throw with his left leg. “Right guard Liam Jimmons was on the sidelines for practice, too, with a sleeve on his right knee, which he injured during the Arizona State loss. “Defensive end Korey Foreman (concussion)… Read more »
Dennis Dodd (CBSSports.com) on the USC search: Clay Helton was fired two games into his seventh season with the Trojans. Last week, he was named coach at Georgia Southern. USC interim coach Donte Williams has gone 3-4 since Helton’s firing. With Oregon pulling away in the Pac-12 and other conference programs playing with the physicality USC used to be known for (Utah), the administration figured it was time for a makeover. At 4-5, the Trojans face the possibility of only their second losing season since 2000. Who USC should hire — Luke Fickell, Cincinnati coach: Fickell is the candidate who most resembles what… Read more »
“With Oregon pulling away and the other conference teams playing with the physicality USC used to be known for?” I cringe to think the administration is only concerned with playing at the level of an under-performing football conference when your school was known as a flagship program competing for national championships. If Dodd is reporting what is really the mindset here, then just how far is this administration willing to support USC football? Again you can only zero in at Carol Folt’s aim to Lord over everything she has control of and will limit any attempt to challenge her status… Read more »
I never anticipated that USC would become such a non-physical team. The theory is that the adoption of Graham Harrell’s Air Raid “attack” simply softened the entire Trojan team.
I wonder if this creepy softness has to do with other factors as well, such as simply recruiting lower caliber players who cannot make plays, and not having assts who coach toughness like other superior staffs do.
I don’t know of an Air Raid team that is physically imposing on offense. It is a finesse offense that a physical defense will affect it if that defense has a good enough D backfield in punishing air raid all game. Funny that with the calibre of athletes Helton brought in these past years, it still placed USC football at the upper level of PAC-12 football. If the administration was looking only at how well Helton’s teams were competing in conference, I can see why they were patient in not removing him while the fanbase was going crazy seeing championships… Read more »
Allen, a lot of things play into it. But you can look at everyone’s favorite player as an example. Toa never earned anything and was never held accountable for his actions. Just the opposite in fact he was shown great love by his coach for being so bad. Practice soft, play soft.
Remember this Helton Highlight!
Keely Eure @keelyismyname
Clay Helton says that Toa Lobendahn is USC’s best center and best man at the center position, “Toa is one of the loves of my life and he will be our center.”
Clay is responsible for making us a soft team when he decided that loyalty to the him and the school was more important than the idea that the best player plays. Graham’s idea of offense certainly fits the Clay model. If it weren’t for the hyper-agressive play of Michael Pittman and Drake London the offense would have done nothing these last few years.
Jamaica, The problem is not the Air Raid; it is GH style of it combined with Helton culture. OK runs it and does fine. KK is running it in the pros at AZ and dong just fine. It was GH and Helton. That combination was a disaster. Folt kept Clay because, I think, she thought it would give a lever in changing the culture of SC. Based on Clay’s quick exit in 2021, I think it backfired on her and she backed away. My guess is Folt agreed to the replacement so long as Donte got the gig. I bet… Read more »
You have some good points RJJ, especially GH’s air raid & Helton playing favorites & having easy practices. And the idea Folt liked the slow erosion of performance & expectations in harmony with her aim in changing the culture of sports here. And that also fits my view the administration only cares about how USC competes with a woeful football conference. That idea puts concern in my view of Bohn being told to hire a less than top notch “Terry Donnahue” type coach who never came close to winning it all. He would be perfect for Carol Folt!
You know the last three opponents are going to stack the box like Arizona St just did and force SC to pass to receivers that don’t scare anyone.
Just read that Jim Mora jr is going to coach UConn football. It must be a lifestyle change for him because I can’t believe he wouldn’t have been considered for one of the other higher profile jobs that are available
Thanks, SDT.UConn hires Jim Mora: Former UCLA, Seahawks coach aims to turn around HuskiesMora last coached in college at UCLA and previously coached in the NFL with the Seahawks. “Connecticut announced Thursday that Jim L. Mora, the former coach of UCLA, the Seattle Seahawks and Atlanta Falcons, will take over the Huskies football program following the end of the regular season. Mora has agreed to a five-year contract, which will pay him $1.5 million in his first year plus the possibility to earn an additional $200,000 through incentives. He will serve as an assistant coach through the rest of the 2021… Read more »
The first thought I have about this is the elephant in the room sort to speak. USC is not a great team. Great teams are not one man teams. They don’t fold like a Wal-Mart tent with the loss of one player. Great teams teach the rest of their players to be the next man up. USC had one player, that thought is sobering. Was the greatest recruiter west of the Rockies just an illusion? I hate to agree with those saying rebuilding is going to take longer than a couple of seasons. Donte brought in horses, but they are… Read more »