Two days after tensions flared going into halftime of the crosstown rivalry recreation, DeShaun Foster remained salty about UCLA being the one workforce punished.
Three unsportsmanlike conduct penalties had been referred to as in opposition to the Bruins after an trade that Foster mentioned he was informed began when a USC participant punched UCLA large receiver Kwazi Gilmer, resulting in jawing between each groups on the best way to the locker room.
“It could have been an offsetting penalty and then you move on, but they chose to give us three and them none,” Foster mentioned Monday. “So I guess we were the only ones out there.”
Foster disclosed that Corey Miller, the workforce’s head soccer efficiency coach, acquired one of many penalties along with Gilmer and security Bryan Addison. Foster mentioned Miller was making an attempt to maintain the peace, not escalate tensions.
“He was kind of just separating people and keeping our guys from going onto their side,” Foster mentioned, “so I think that they just kind of saw a big guy and was threatened by what he was doing, but he was just separating — keeping our guys from getting any closer to them.
“You’re just disappointed if anybody gets a call, especially people that understand the discipline because he’s somebody that’s teaching that to our players downstairs [in the weight room], so it was very unfortunate that that happened.”
The penalties pressured UCLA to kick off from its personal five-yard line to start out the third quarter, giving the Trojans the ball at their very own 48-yard line after Makai Lemon’s 16-yard return. However USC failed to select up a primary down, giving the ball again to the Bruins after quarterback Jayden Maiava’s fourth-down cross fell incomplete.
No matter whether or not the fracas was pretty settled by officers, Foster acknowledged that self-discipline continues to be a difficulty for a workforce that dedicated eight penalties to USC’s two. UCLA has been the most-penalized workforce within the Large Ten this season, its 90 penalties tying East Carolina for No. 126 amongst 133 main school groups.
Foster mentioned he’s benched gamers after receiving unsportsmanlike conduct penalties this season as a part of his efforts to implement self-discipline, one of many three pillars of the tradition he’s making an attempt to instill.
“Most of those players have been taken out after that play of any unsportsmanlike penalty that they’ve gotten,” Foster mentioned, “so yeah, we do all of that. … This game, I didn’t get to see most of that stuff and it’s not on camera, so you can’t see what happened — I was already running into the tunnel and came back out because it was right at halftime, but during the season, most of the other stuff I was able to see and we’d get those guys out at that time.”
