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Trojans' D-line makes a statement

By Bruce Feldman
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, January 4, 2005

MIAMI -- A little more than 24 hours before the "Game of the Century," Ed Orgeron, USC's rottweiler of a defensive line coach, is bouncing around a second floor boardroom inside the Westin Diplomat hotel, grinning like a 12-year-old trying his best to keep a real juicy secret. Orgeron normally is a keg of nervous energy, but today he seems downright giddy. Maybe, you wonder, he already checked out to Ole Miss, the program he'll be taking over after the Orange Bowl? Meanwhile, a trio of Tro ...

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