Make sure we're talking about the right elephant

There is a problem with the USC football team, but it's not the one that I've been reading people chime in on. What's going on isn't so much on the defense as people think. We've allowed 28 points this season on botched Special Teams play's turnovers, and at least 6 times we sacrificed field position for the attempt to run it out on either punts or kickoffs.

Add with that we are about last in the nation on punting and a picture starts emerging. We aren't putting our defense in situations to succeed consistently b/c of poor play on Special Teams.

When a guy fumbles once on a kickoff, it happens, however, when it's happening almost every game and we are avg'ing below 25 yards a return (b/c a touchback is worth 25,) there's a huge problem.

If we start fixing the issues consistently, I guarandamntee you we'll start performing better defensively.

Ellis and Lawing were awesome about teaching fundamentals. Last year, our Special Teams play was actually pretty great, and Coach Robinson led that unit then too. What's going on now is the players aren't consistently executing fundamentals on Special Teams, so Robinson needs to make adjustments to whatever he's doing, b/c it isn't working.