The defensive coordinator cycled through a variety of alignments in the first quarter of Saturday’s Big Ten matchup at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
USC captains Akili Arnold, from left,, Miller Moss and Jonah Monheim walk to the field prior to a game against Penn State on Oct. 12, 2024, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. LOS ANGELES — The journey began, even if he didn’t know it yet, back at D’Anton Lynn’s college apartment in Centre County, Pennsylvania.
“I’m going to coach,” Scherer remembered Lynn telling him, “and I’m going to be a head coach one day.”Roughly 15 years later, USC defensive coordinator Lynn stood at midfield at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Saturday afternoon, watching the program that launched his career warm up across the turf. For the first time since he’d graduated in 2011 and embarked on a rapid rise through NFL and collegiate-coaching ranks, Lynn would face his alma mater.
“When it comes to competition,” Scherer told the Southern California News Group in the winter, “he wants to rip your throat out and win.”And with such fire to win, Lynn came out against Penn State with far more positional defensive rotation than he’d shown in any game thus far at USC.
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