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USC's O'Neill up for challenge, which is what he'll face
Published: 23 June 2009
By Ramona Shelburne
The Daily Breeze
TORRANCE, Calif. -- When you meet O'Neill up close, it's pretty clear there's nothing fanciful or naive about him.
He grew up in a part of upstate New York that only locals know how to get to. The kind of small town city folk generally call "blue-collar" or "quaint."
He played college ball at ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ in Canada, started his coaching career at Central High in his hometown of Hammond, N.Y., moved on to a junior college in Saranac Lake, N.Y., then an NAIA school in Iowa and got his big break in becoming an assistant coach at Delaware in 1984.
Humble beginnings is a nice way of putting it.
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