As Jaxson Dart nears a return from a knee injury to compete with Kedon Slovis, the USC freshman quarterback can lean on a similar high school experience.
Rick Neuheisel, Jim Mora, Dave Wannstedt and Mike Stoops discuss questions facing USC leaders as the Trojans compete with LSU for a new coach.“I felt like I had to mature really fast through that,” Dart said of his first quarterback competition. “I always treated the other guys the same no matter what. But like, obviously, I’m super competitive. I had my eyes set on something. Sometimes, that happens when you have the same goals and same aspirations as someone else.
Dart believed he was capable of more. He wanted something bigger, a wide-open offense that would allow him to flourish, and he found that in Corner Canyon, the two-time defending state champion an hour up the road. To leave the comforts of Roy, though, meant moving in with his aunt and being thrust into a new situation, with new teammates and a new offense.Fred Fernandes, former high school coach of USC quarterback Jaxson Dart“Jaxson bet on himself,” Brandon Dart said. “There were no guarantees.
But Dart was determined. With the world in quarantine and the season in jeopardy, he trained as much as he could on his own. Every few weeks, he and his father flew to Southern California to work with Taylor Kelly, John Beck and Adam Dedeaux at 3DQB, a renowned quarterback training facility in Huntington Beach where the likes of Tom Brady and Drew Brees had trained.
“Your life is going to change,” he told Dart. They’d spend the entire next day sifting through texts and direct messages from college coaches.
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