In this edition of the Peristyle Podcast hosts Ryan Abraham is joined by a very special guest, USC's director of football sports performance Bennie Wylie talking about his role as the team's strength and conditioning coach and how the players have been performing this summer. Wylie comes to USC after spending four years with Lincoln Riley at Oklahoma, but he and Riley have a much longer history than that. Back in 2002 when Wylie was Texas Tech's head strength and conditioning coach, Riley was walk-on quarterback on the team (and former USC offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury was the starting QB). Wylie talked about following Riley from Norman to Los Angeles and how that transition has been for him. Ryan also gets into a big hire for the Trojans, Mississippi State senior associate athletic director for football Dave Emerick who will now be USC's general manager/senior associate athletic director for football. Emerick has been head coach Mike Leach's right hand man for 18 years and according to Bruce Feldman, this is a huge hire for the Trojans. If you have a question for Ryan and Chris you can drop them an email at podcast@uscfootball.com. Please review, rate and subscribe to the Peristyle Podcast on Apple Podcasts! Thanks to Trader Joe's for sponsoring the Peristyle Podcast! Make sure you check out USCFootball.com for complete coverage of this USC Trojan football team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices