The USC football team went through a transformation last season under defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn.

Now in Lynn’s second season with the program, the Trojans aren’t satisfied with the strides already taken.

“The goal and the talk in our building has been that we were statistically the most-improved defense in the country last season,” head coach Lincoln Riley said on Trojans Live. “And that’s great. But this isn’t last year anymore. Now it’s like, take that step to be one of the best defenses in the country, period.”

Lynn has expanded his philosophy of obnoxious communication to include shocking effort in attack to help the Trojans reach that standard.

“He demanded it every day,” cornerback DJ Harvey said. “Every day you come out here, and he demands excellence, he demands greatn

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