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Find out what the Trojan football machine was up to during the off-season


By Ben Malcolmson
USCRipsIt
PeteCarroll.com


An off-season for Trojan football?

Hardly.

The USC football machine barely took a break during the summer, as the Trojans’ schedule was filled with nonstop activity during what’s typically a down time for football.

In case you missed out, here’s what happened during the three-plus months since Spring Practice ended:

Articles:
- Experience Pac-10 Media Day through linebacker Brian Cushing’s eyes

- Offensive administrative assistant Al Dorsey joins the Oakland Raiders coaching staff for a three-week internship

- Coach Carroll spoke to the U.S. Olympic Swim Team

- Several Trojan legends went out to sea on the USS Stennis

- The Trojan Football Flashback Fantasy camp provided some comical results at a practice featuring old-timers

- The Trojans had several early morning team workouts during the summer

- Find out what makes the Trojan coaches tick while they’re on the road recruiting

- Coach Carroll and Tim Floyd formed a dynamite duo during the seven-stop “Coaches Tour” this summer

- The “Pete Carroll Mic’d Up at the Rose Bowl” DVD went on sale

- Twenty Trojans graduated in May’s commencement ceremonies (see the pictures, too)

- Check out the news and sights from USC’s logistical scouting trip in May to Charlottesville for the Virginia game (see the pictures, too).

- See the off-season combine results

- Ten Trojans were drafted in 2008 NFL Draft

- Bucking a nationwide trend, many of those drafted Trojans stayed at USC to work out in preparation for the Draft


Video features
- Offensive line coach Pat Ruel was mic’d up during the Trojan Flashback Football Fantasy camp:



- Coach Carroll did his best Jay Leno impression in “Pete on the Street:”



• Ben Malcolmson is the Director of Online Media for USCRipsIt/PeteCarroll.com. You can contact him at Ben@PeteCarroll.com.