LenDale White watched USC’s game against Arizona on Saturday in Nashville with friends Vince Young, Bo Scaife, Keith Bullock and Lavelle Hawkins, who were in town for a Tennessee Titans reunion.
Over steaks, a dispute flared. White told the group that USC’s Ronald Jones II was “the best running back in the country.”
Most of White’s friends preferred Saquon Barkley of Penn State. (Hawkins didn’t have a preference. He went to California, White said, and was preoccupied with praying for USC to lose.)
White didn’t have any support.
Until, that is, Jones offered some: On Saturday, he ran for 194 yards against Arizona to become the first USC back in more than a decade to post consecutive 1,000-yard seasons.