Eric Gentry took his place at the front of the crowd of reporters, a coy smile already on his face. The lanky linebacker knew the drill by now, here at the start of his third spring at USC. He knew the questions being asked, the suggestions they might make about him or his confounding role last season. Maybe before, those inquiries would’ve left him feeling sensitive. Defensive, even.
Not now.
“Done a lot of these now,” he said. “Don’t get mad if I sound a little nonchalant.”
Nonchalant probably isn’t the first word most would use to describe the Trojans senior linebacker.