LOS ANGELES -- This one is for the players.
For the past several weeks, USC players made it abundantly clear they wanted Clay Helton’s interim label removed and for him to be named the team’s permanent head coach. They respected and appreciated him as a person, they liked how the atmosphere around the program became more family oriented and they were dreading the thought of another change in leadership, which would have been the program’s fifth in the span of about 26 months.
They also knew their voices only carried so much weight.