Feelers or talks had with Leonhard, Texas DC,Lake, Díaz, Sculley, at least, maybe more. Not reading that offers were made to those folks but a conversation happened. White represents Another blow to the , " no one wants to move from our beautiful low tax, no traffic state to Los Angeles". What seems certain is we couldn't close on Leonhard. Not even for $3mill which would have made him the highest paid DC, by far, in America.
Edit: critical next move, who on the defensive staff gets replaced.
If he's the guy I really like the hire. Of all the candidates floated around, Kwiatkowski was the only slam dunk and he would have been a long shot to pull from Texas. I've watched a few Nebraska games this year and their defense is solid and tackles well and they were terrible last year. Seems like he knows west coast recruiting quite well and is no nonsense without being an a-hole. If Nebraska can field a Top 20 defense in their first year under a completely new staff, I think he can work well at USC.
Coach White's defense performed well against B1G teams this season, especially when you consider how bad Nebby was on offense this year. He runs a 3-3-5 just like Grinch, but other than that the two styles look nothing alike. I saw well balanced play (solid reads and disciplined drops bY the LBers, with guys always in position) and a very good tackling defense at Neb..... Rocky Long disciple. Always admired Rocky Long and the defenses he fielded.
Considering they could have had Lynn across town I'm
More than a little shocked. This is not at all a hr hire
Saw on another USC youtube video that talks started breaking down with Leonard when either he couldn't bring in the staff he wanted that USC thought he could bring with him or USC wasn't going to give him full authority to hire the folks he wanted...either way...if USC is no going to allow the DC to pick his assistants and add some toughness in game preparation this hire will not do what most fans want it to do...on the other hand if USC expected the DC to get the guys they thought he should be able to convince to come and he couldn't then thats a different story...I tend to think it's more about USC not wanting the DC to can a bunch of coaches to bring in his guys..