USC football has a type when it comes to identifying coaches. Prior connections to the program have reigned above all else in recent years. If there was hope of that trend ending as head coach Clay Helton and athletic director Lynn Swann revamped the Trojans’ staff for 2019, that hope will be undercut by a new report on USC’s open defensive line position.
According to Football Scoop, USC “is interested in hiring” Austin Clark, currently of the Illinois Fighting Illini and formerly a USC graduate assistant, to take over as defensive line coach.
The Trojans parted ways with defensive line coach Kenechi Udeze on Tuesday in a wave of major staff changes which raised the total number of assistants from the 2018 season who will not be around in 2019 to five.