Trojan War: USC Dynasty 30 For 30 (Tuesday)

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

His sophomore year his number were good but he wasn't a great player till his last year. He had 12 tds and 13 ints his second year

Just stop. He lost to OU his sophomore year and beat a stacked michigan team with braylon edwards, jason avant, marlin javkson and a freshman chad henne

Stiffer competition

back then yes. Imo college football as a whole has dropped talent wise a lot since 04-07.

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

Just stop. He lost to OU his sophomore year and beat a stacked michigan team with braylon edwards, jason avant, marlin javkson and a freshman chad henne
back then yes. Imo college football as a whole has dropped talent wise a lot since 04-07.

I love VY too but he wasn't great especially as a passer other than his last year

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

I love VY too but he wasn't great especially as a passer other than his last year

Yes but he wasnt a average either. Plus u can say that about a slew of dual threat qbs, i.e. troy smith

 

[Silkk]

I love VY too but he wasn't great especially as a passer other than his last year

You tripping, he went over 1800 passing yards and 1100 rushing yards and capped it off with an incredible rose bowl performance.

His sophomore season was the coming out party for his junior season. And cedric benson being there took some pressure off him unlike his junior season

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Far less impressed with this doc especially when compared to the other CFB 30 for 30s...the SMU and The U and the Maurice Clarett docs blow this out of the water. Only parts I thought really revealed anything new were the portions about life in LA for the players, and the part that explained why Reggie Bush pulled that stupid ass lateral in the Title Game. Everything else covered was common knowledge for anyone that has followed sports in the last 15 years. Seems like all they did was go thru the big games that were played...

Very disappointed, and I was looking foward to this...director def needed to land a Reggie Bush interview to make this doc better than just average.

 

[polokuo]

This shyt was so corny. The narration was corny, the "Hollywood" aspect was corny and the interviews were wack. Talk about stroking the ego of a shady ass university

The whole thing felt like a young filmmaker trying to do some gimmicky take on underlying material that is compelling enough on its own to not need gimmicks. The director is a USC film grad and seemed like he just went around campus interviewing as many of his old professors as he could find (maybe to fill in the gaps he'd originally hoped Reggie Bush would fill?). All the time they spent interviewing that old as fukkk producer and forcing the Hollywood analogy down our throats (we get it, USC is in LA...) they could've devoted to showing us more of the context of that last great season.

But the biggest issue is that the documentary couldn't figure out what it was or what it was trying to say. There were two conflicting ideas here: first, framing it with the '06 Rose Bowl and then going back in time to see how we got there was a great idea. But the other idea was "Not all Hollywood stories have a Hollywood ending" which they kept on hammering with the stupid screenplay directions on-screen. Those two ideas don't work together - can't tell the latter in a non-linear way unless you're fukkkin Tarantino.


Over all, I rate this 30 for 30 as 43% on ColiTomatoes.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Over all, I rate this 30 for 30 as 43% on ColiTomatoes.