LOS ANGELES -- Imagine you're the son of a well-known former UCLA placekicker, you're wearing cardinal and gold, and lining up for a potential game-winning field goal in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that would catapult your USC Trojans over your father's alma mater.

Sound too good to be true?

Well, it's a real possibility for Trojans sophomore placekicker candidate Matt Boermeester, who can visualize it all happening with his Bruin father, former star UCLA placekicker Peter Boermeester, sitting amongst the USC faithful next Nov. 28. The scenario has already crossed the minds of father and son, who is competing with experienced junior Alex Wood for the open placekicking and kickoff positions.

"Yes, it's already a dream," said young Boermeester, a left-footed kicker who stands 6-foot tall and weighs 185 pounds. "It's been put on the calendar. Hopefully, that comes."

Now Peter Boermeester, who also kicked for the Cleveland Browns, is trying to come to grips that his son could someday beat his alma mater.

"He's coming around a little bit, a little bit better now," Boermeester said of his father's acceptance of his son playing for the Trojans. "When he goes to games, he won't wear any red, cardinal and gold, but he'll wear a tiny little USC logo, but it's got to be black or definitely not the team's colors. He just won't do it."

Although he is still in a friendly but fierce kicking competition this spring with Wood -- who gained game experience last season when former kicker Andre Heidari went down -- the Matt Boermeester story of how he became a placekicker at USC is a potential fairytale in the making.

"I was a baseball player in high school (San Diego, Calif./Cathedral Catholic), and I was an outfielder," said Boermeester, who helped his team to the 2012 CIF San Diego Division ll title as a senior. "I really wanted to go to school for that. It didn't really work out.

"My dad kicked at UCLA, so we went out one day and he thought I had some potential. That little seed kind of grew from there, and I went to junior college last fall (Saddleback Community College). I played there, which then took me to Chris Sailer and I went to a bunch of his [kicking] camps."

Let's make sure we all understand. A former high school outfielder who had never kicked in his life began playing football at the JC level without any prior kicking experience.

"I really didn't know anything about kicking really," Boermeester said. "We started from the ground there (the Sailer Kicking Camp), and Sailer also hosted the USC Kicking Specialists Camp here (USC), and I attended that and fate was in its own hands."

And when the Trojans offered a scholarship after Boermeester had completed just one season at Saddleback where he was named 2013 All-Southern California Football Association Southern Division second team as a freshman, hitting on 11 of 13 field goals (a long of 43 yards) and 43 of 48 PATs, it came as a major jolt to both Boermeesters.

"We were both very shocked," Boermeester said. "I was very surprised."

The journey, however, had some "fine print" for Boermeester. He was awarded a scholarship by virtue of an NCAA rule known as "blueshirting," a directive that allows a non-recruited student-athlete to receive student aid after beginning practice and having that scholarship count towards next year's class.

Despite the intense USC/UCLA crosstown rivalry, don't believe for a second that Boermeester's dad isn't willing to help his son be successful, even if the kid is wearing the uniform of his father's rival.

"He just tells me you've got to be relaxed and the game is not too big," Boermeester said. "He helps me out in that I can always go to him for the little things, like crowds and anything of that nature. He just tells me to settle down and trust your [offensive] line. It's like golf kind of, it's a very mental game."

As for the present, it's the ongoing competition with Wood that has Boermeester occupied. Both will continue their relentless competition in front of an anticipated large crowd at the Coliseum this Saturday with the annual spring game at 3 p.m. PT.

"Woody (Alex Wood) and I are both doing very well," Boermeester said after a recent practice. "We just finished up our first round of kickoffs today. I think I did OK today; yesterday was kind of getting that muscle memory back and stuff like that. Overall, I think we're all doing really well."

And any success for either kicker, Boermeester credits other teammates for helping with the positive outcomes of competition.

"The reason I think why that both Woody and I are really doing well is because of Zack [Smith] and Connor [Sullivan] are on point on their jobs, as well," said Boermeester, referring to his snapper and holder, respectively.

Make no mistake about it, Boermeester isn't content to share both the placekicking and kickoff duties with his buddy Wood.

"For me, I am definitely going out for both jobs," said Boermeester, a communications major with ambitions to one day enter into the sports industry. "It's healthy competition and it's tense."

The kid with the Hollywood looks expects the competition to continue right through fall camp, but as for now there is the continuous battle to prove who is the better kicker.

"As far as practice goes, we get about four opportunities each, and distance and height on the ball is pretty much how you gauge a kicker," Boermeester said. "I think that's how you would see who would come out on top."

And if Boermeester comes out on top and wins either or both positions, how does he envision his emotions if that dream scenario against UCLA should materialize?

"We practice very week," Boermeester said. "It's the same kick no matter right hash, left hash, down the middle. It's all one straight line. When I was at Saddleback, obviously the stadium wasn't that big. I don't remember the crowd ever being there really."

One thing for sure with the USC/UCLA game in the Coliseum this season, it'll be a sellout, dad will be in attendance, and all the national TV cameras will be there, too. It'll be the ultimate culmination of all that Matt Boemeester's dad has taught him.

And after all, father knows best.