RipsIt reader Dan Fuentes e-mailed in asking why USC is utilizing just 10 of the NCAA-allowed 15 bowl practices this December: "How many practices are available to the team per NCAA rules and why aren't they using all of the practices available to them?"
Because of finals and an early bowl date, the Trojans simply ran out of days to schedule practices, according to Coach Carroll. With only 21 days between the final regular season game and the bowl and six days of finals jammed in between, the team wasn't going to be able to use all 15 permitted practices, especially since days off are necessary for the health of the players.
"There just aren't enough days," Carroll said.
In previous years with a Jan. 1 bowl date, the Trojans had six more days to finagle into the schedule, allowing them to space out the practices and use up all 15 allotted workouts.
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