Adapting to different dynamics has been a challenge for USC freshman quarterback JT Daniels

The USC football team needed a savior. Just down the road at an Orange County high school that has delivered the Trojans salvation at the quarterback position twice before, a young man named JT Daniels had every reason to believe he was the right guy for the job.

Who Daniels was for three seasons at Mater Dei, which also developed Matt Leinart and Matt Barkley on their way to USC, directly colors his experience thus far with the Trojans.

“Because he came from that high of having so much influence on the program,” Prohaska said, “so much influence on the play-calling and the offensive scheme, and he had so much influence on the players and their development. To have that kind of omnipotency to…