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SALT LAKE CITY -- A judge on Monday ordered a suspended?USC Trojans?football player to stand trial on rape charges after a 19-year-old woman said marijuana and alcohol left her nearly unable to move during an attack following a summertime party in Utah.She testified that the sexual assault left her scared, helpless and injured, and Utah prosecutors laid out evidence against Osa Masina, 19, at the same hearing.The Utah native also has been investigated on similar allegations involving the same woman in California, but criminal charges have not been filed in that case. Masinas lawyer, Rebecca Skordas, said Masina told police that the sex was consensual.The woman said that before the assault, she considered Masina, whom she had known from high school in suburban Salt Lake City, a friend. She said she was on a couch in a friends basement and felt scared, like I needed to get out of there as soon as I could.She was treated by a sexual-assault nurse shortly after she made her way home, according to charging documents.The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they are victims of sexual assault.Masina watched the testimony impassively, sometimes closing his eyes. He declined to testify or comment after the hearing. He is charged with one count of rape and two counts of forcible sodomy.Skordas said the burden of proof is low for a case to head to trial, and the judge doesnt get to decide credibility. Masina is expected to enter a plea Friday.Prosecutors said Masina raped the woman after she drank alcohol and ate part of a marijuana cookie with him at a July 25 party in the city of Cottonwood Heights.He and his teammate Don Hill also were investigated after the woman said she was sexually assaulted two weeks earlier when she visited Masina in California, court documents say.She said the pair assaulted her at Hills off-campus apartment after giving her marijuana, alcohol and the anti-anxiety prescription drug Xanax. Masina took video and sent it to the victims ex-boyfriend, authorities said.The woman said she remembered parts of what happened in California but tried to deny them before she reported the Utah assault.I just hated the thought that someone I thought was a friend could take advantage of me like that, she said.Masina is appealing the decision to suspend him from USC. Hill also was suspended. Penguins Jerseys 2020 . 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Pittsburgh Penguins Gear . -- Jacksonville wide receiver Cecil Shorts will likely be a game-time decision whether hell play Sunday in the Jaguars home game against the San Diego Chargers. Gus Malzahn still remembers the 2006 season, his first in college football. He remembers the wow moment when he stood across the sideline from Steve Spurrier, one of his coaching heroes. Malzahn wore a visor that game, a look that began when he was a high school coach and continued until just recently, because he wanted to emulate Spurriers trademark look.That same season, Malzahn also matched wits with Pete Caroll, Les Miles and Urban Meyer.It was a dream come true for Malzahn. He had made the jump straight from coaching high school football to calling plays in the SEC as the?Arkansas?offensive coordinator. That type of jump was rare back then, and its almost unheard of today.However, by the end of the season, Malzahn was ready to move on. He left Arkansas, an SEC school in his home state to take the same position at Tulsa.Why? It wasnt a promotion. It wasnt even a lateral move. I think it was a deal of having common philosophy in our values and how we run a program and what we believed in, and it was great combination,?former Tulsa and current Arizona State coach Todd Graham said.Ten years later, Malzahn hasnt forgotten that season. Those experiences, both good and bad, helped make him the coach that he is today.To understand what happened in 2006, you have to first understand how Malzahn arrived in Fayetteville. Before taking the job, he was one of the winningest high school football coaches in the state of Arkansas. He won at every stop during his 14 years as a high school head coach -- Hughes, Shiloh Christian, Springdale -- and turned down college job offers after the 2003 and 2004 seasons. In 2005, his Springdale team went 14-0, outscored their opponents 664-118 and captured the Class 5A state championship.?At Arkansas, head coach Houston Nutt was coming off back-to-back losing seasons in 2004 and 2005. He had served as his own offensive coordinator his first eight seasons with the Razorbacks, but there was pressure to make a change. People inside the program, including athletic director Frank Broyles, wanted to bring Malzahn in to run the offense.[Broyles] said the thing that would be really good for this state right now would be to hire Gus Malzahn, Nutt said. I visited with Gus. I was impressed with him. I was impressed with some of the things he did in high school. I said OK, thats probably going to work.He also had five good players with him.Those five players, or the Springdale Five as they were called, played no small part in why Arkansas hired Malzahn. Nutt couldnt afford to let elite-level recruits leave the state, and they were planning to leave. Mitch Mustain, the 2005 Gatorade National Player of the Year, wanted to commit to either Notre Dame?or Texas. Ben Cleveland and Damian Williams both committed early to Florida, and Bartley Webb was already committed to the Fighting Irish.Malzahn changed all that. Mustain, Cleveland, Williams and fellow Springdale teammate Andrew Norman all signed with the Razorbacks in 2006 as a result of his hire. Only Webb stuck with his original commitment and signed with Notre Dame.The only reason we went to the University of Arkansas was because of Malzahn, Cleveland said.If the 2006 season was to be judged solely by results, then it wouldve been a smashing success for Malzahn and that entire Arkansas team. After losing the opener to USC, the Razorbacks won 10 straight games, won the SEC West and played in SEC championship game.No Arkansas team has made it to Atlanta since.But nobody realized what was going on behind the scenes. The arrival of Malzahn led to a division in the locker room between the Springdale group and other members of the team. There were unhappy players and unhappy parents, who complained about playing time, which often was not Malzahns call. It was not what he signed up for when he left high school football to take his shot in college.You were the God of Arkansas and now youre the offensive coordinator, Cleveland said.dddddddddddd Thats a lot of pressure. And then on top of that, you brought in four of your kids that look up to you, trusted you and he has no control over it. It makes him look like a bad person.It was hard. You could see he was frustrated.On the field, it wasnt much better. Malzahn wanted to run his hurry-up, no-huddle offense on every drive, but Nutts style had always been to huddle and he wasnt willing to give up on that. So they did it both ways. At times, theyd go fast and run Malzahns tempo. Other times, theyd slow it down and huddle.We never really had an argument, Nutt said, because I would always say, Hey this is what we want. I know the ideas that you had. You want to be a little bit more up-tempo and you want to throw the ball. But here are your playmakers.Even though everybody might have had a different opinion on what was the best way to go about doing it, when we got to practice and we got to Saturday, everybody was extremely professional, added Auburn offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee, a graduate assistant at Arkansas that year. There were never any blowups or anything like that. We all pulled in the same direction, and I think thats why we were able to win the West.After the bowl game, Malzahn resigned and left for Tulsa. Andrew Norman, one of his former players, followed him there. Both Mustain and Williams transferred to USC. The only Springdale player who remained at Arkansas was Cleveland.On Saturday, Malzahn will coach against the same Arkansas program that gave him his start in college football 10 years ago.It feels like a long time ago, Malzahn said recently. Maybe a couple years ago it didnt, but now it feels like a long time ago.Any time you do something new, you learn on the go. You learn a lot about college football. That first year, I learned a lot about myself. Any time you take the next step to the next level, youre confident but you have questions. Will this really work at this level? Well you dont know until you do it. You dont just tell nobody that.It did work. It might not have worked the way he wanted at Arkansas that first year, but it worked at Tulsa in 2007 and 2008 when his offenses put up more yards than any team in the country. It worked the first time at Auburn when he was offensive coordinator and played an integral role in the Tigers 2010 national championship. It worked at Arkansas State in 2012 when he won a conference championship his first year as a head coach.And its still working for Malzahn, now in his fourth year as Auburns head coach.When youre in this competitive league, one of the toughest leagues in America, its not easy, Nutt said. If you look now, hes not calling plays. That was what he was known for. So hes delegating responsibility, and hes trying to do the best he can.Handing the playcalling duties over to Lashlee was the latest proof that Malzahn has evolved as a coach. He better understands the rigors of recruiting and the daily grind it takes to do this job. Hes even letting his players wear wristbands and gloves, and letting them listen to music in the locker room. He never wouldve done that when he was coaching in high school.In a lot of ways, though, hes the same coach he was 10 years ago.To be honest with you, the thing about Coach that probably stands out the most is hes very consistent, Lashlee said. He is who he is. Hes business. Hes focused on pretty much the one thing that hes doing at the time. And hes a perfectionist. Thats the way he is and thats the way he kind of coaches, and it carries over to his players.He was that way in high school, and he never really changed when he went to college. I think thats probably one of the main reasons hes been successful. Hes stayed true to himself. ' ' '