One of the unknown taskforces behind the USC football machine doesn't get any credit, but without that work, the Trojans would be a shell of what you see on Saturdays.
The video operations department, headed by Eric Espinoza, manages the team's film necessities and plays a vital role in the daily preparation and Saturday success of the Trojans. Not only does the department, housed in a tiny second-floor brick-walled office in Heritage Hall, handle USC's practice and game film, but Espinoza and his staff are also juggling the game tape of all of the Trojans' opponents week-by-week during the season so that coaches can analyze upcoming foes.
The work is definitely long and tiring. First, they're handling all film requests during the week and videoing each of USC's daily practices from multiple angles. Then, Espinoza, his assistant Dave Scott and a team of student workers typically toil well into Sunday mornings following game days, as they cut up the USC game film and upload the tape from all of the other conference games. Their diligent work allows the coaches to come in first thing on Sunday and have a palette of film to look at without any speed bumps.
Needless to say, the video operations department has a pretty thick library of film. Film from every USC and Pac-10 game since 2000 is stored an in-house server, along with three years' worth of practice film (older practice film is deleted every offseason). All in all, that's 27 terabytes, or 27,000,000,000,000 bytes, of film at the coaches' disposal 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all thanks to the unceasing work of Espinoza and his staff in the video operations department.
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