Amid another bone-crushing Saturday evening at Stanford Stadium, between a variety of punches that dropped its finesse players to their knees, USC was hit hardest by the simplest of questions.
When will vibrant young USC realize the way to prosper in the early stages of the JT Daniels era is to act like old-school USC?
They have the backs. They have the need. They have the culture. They have the tradition. But during a frustrating battle against the seemingly beatable Cardinal, they didn’t have the dedication to the ground game, and thus were chewed up in a historically notable 17-3 defeat.