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Bill Plaschke: As USC's passing game struggles, plan must be more student body right

PALO ALTO, Calif. - The kid quarterback was getting hammered. His streaking receivers were being smothered.

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.

Why wouldn't the Trojans run the dang football?

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

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