LOS ANGELES — He was the man who’d most fervently backed Alex Grinch when the first low point hit in 2023, sitting at a podium in Boulder after USC gave up 41 points to Colorado and taking up verbal arms for his defensive coordinator.
“I don’t know what else to tell you besides, we gotta fix it,” safety Bryson Shaw said in late September 2023, as anger pierced through his inflections in a viral defense. “Have full faith in this defense … we love Coach Grinch. Coach Grinch puts us in the right spots.