O/NSO: A rooster training camp opener edition

The Obvious: It’s probable that by the time you’re reading Friday’s O/NSO, the 2023 Trojans will have completed their first day of training camp in preparation for its Saturday, Aug. 26, season opener against San Jose State in the Coliseum. The Not So Obvious: Today’s opening of training camp on Howard Jones/Brian Kennedy Fields was at the yawning hour of 6:30 in the morning, and that doesn’t include the actual “rooster” wake-up call and breakfast ingestion. Heaven knows what time these young gladiators had to set their alarm clocks in order also to include taping up, being on the field before the appointed 6:30 hour, and just hoping that their early breakfast wouldn’t revisit them sometime during the first practice session.