According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, as much as 25% of USC's football team, including Joe McKnight, has been affected by a run of tinea cruris, known more colloquially as "jock itch." Head Coach Pete Carroll told the Times he'd never seen anything like the current outbreak and pointed a finger at new compression shorts the team has been wearing underneath their football pants. "We've had to adjust to some new equipment that we're wearing that didn't work out right," Carroll said. "It's funny how that happened."