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Fans have pitchforks out for Alex Grinch after bumpy ride vs Sun Devils

Matt Wadleigh
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The USC defense came up with several fourth-quarter sacks and multiple second-half turnovers which prevented Arizona State from winning Saturday night’s game.

When the score was 27-21 USC, the Trojans led ASU by just one score. The Sun Devils had the ball with a chance to take the lead. The USC defense needed to stand tall. It did. Consecutive stops, some of them concluding with takeaways, enabled USC to gain a 35-21 lead. The Trojans allowed a touchdown to let their lead dwindle to 35-28, but they restored a two-score advantage shortly thereafter and won 42-28. USC’s defense made timely plays in the fourth quarter. That’s good.

What about the first three quarters, however? Those 45 minutes (minutes the last few minutes of the third quarter) were bad. Alex Grinch rightly and reasonably caught a lot of criticism.

Let’s see what that criticism looked like:

LEARN CHINESE, BUDDY

IT WAS BAD IN THE FIRST HALF

DOUBLE WHAMMY

DILLINGHAM DID OUTFLANK GRINCH

CERTAINLY IN THE FIRST HALF

SEEN IT BEFORE

HE WAS BEHIND THE GAME IN THE FIRST HALF

OTHERS AGREED

OUCH

SOME THINK HE SHOULD

BUT THAT DEFENSE DID MAKE BIG PLAYS

TOUGH SCENE

COMPARISONS

HIS CURRENT REPUTATION IS NOT GOOD

BUT USC WON

MANY AGREE

THE TIME TO DO THIS WAS LAST DECEMBER OR JANUARY

WE DID NOT NEED TO SEE THIS GAME -- IT WAS PAINFUL

PURE FEAR

ANOTHER ONE

Story originally appeared on Trojans Wire