If I were a junior (or a sophomore) who does not play much this season, I would be a little nervous about keeping my scholarship in 2012. Why? The 75-scholarship limit. Let’s say for now USC’s got 79 players on scholarship and there are 12 seniors. And then four juniors turn pro.
That would leave 63 players on scholarship. USC’s going to sign 15 players in February plus, let’s say, another 4-5 in the midyear. How would they bring in 20 new players with only 12 available spots?
By not renewing eight scholarships of returning players. That might be made easier by not renewing a couple walk-ons but it still looks like some other players would be told to leave. The numbers are fluid because Lane Kiffin will decide how many players to bring in but it looks like someone loses a scholarship at the end of the day.
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WOW! I should just quit posting. Mr. Wolf just dropped a nuclear bomb on the the SUC locker room. No bowl games to play for, maybe no scholarship next season…. every guy just turned into a me first player. Here comes a 3-8 season TroGans!
TroBan family indeed, eh Lame Kitten!
Yeah, you should quit posting. Go find an overpass, climb up and jump in front of the first semi you see.
Wow “Dynasty”, you are really showing your intelligence level with that post. WHat Special Education program did you manage to graduate from? Hey numbnuts, SC plays 12 games this year, so how the hell can they go 3-8? I can see why you have 3-8 fixated on that pea brain of yours, thats what FUCLA’s record is going to be going into your annual ass whoopin against USC this year.
You see what you TroBans did there… you didn’t address my initial assertion that Wolf just dropped a ticking time bomb in your locker room… And you won’t address it because you know I am right.
So continue to call me names, it doesn’t bother me, but it certainly does reflect on you. I think urging people to suicide couldn’t be any classier.
Stay classy, SUC!
I don’t think it’s an issue. I think Mr. Wolf is just trying to stir the pot yet again. The staff has said that they can’t do midyear enrollees again to skirt the probation, so that would just leave 3-4 players over 75. There’s a couple walk-ons that got scholarships this year and they may have been told by the staff that they won’t get them next year but wanted to reward the this year. Also, there are inevitably going to be a couple guys that want to transfer due to lack of playing time or other guys that get hurt and decide to call it a career and just finish school. Plus, even if Wolf is correct and this small group of players weren’t playing or weren’t important guys on the team, how are they going to cause the disruption- they will just be ignored. This is yet another non-issue (like the black socks) where Wolf is looking at riling people up… And don’t even respond to UCLA Dynasty- the guy’s obviously an idiot that doesn’t know what he is talking about- he’s just hoping that our program falls to the depth that his has been at for a decade now.
@Jack, why are so nasty?
@SCtrOJan84, “falls to the depth that his has been for a decade now”? 10-2 in 2005 and 13-9 win in 2006…I wouldn’t exactly say in the “depths”.
There are currently 78 scholarship players in camp (DeVante Wilson, Junior Pomee, and Javarius Allen are not counted). DeVante will not enroll in the Fall. So assuming Allen and Pomee qualify there will be 80 scholarship players. We lose 13 seniors. So, down to 67 scholarships. Lose, say, 2 early to the NFL. Now at 65. Have, say 2 players lost to injuries, transfer or ineligibility. Now at 63. Don’t renew the scholarship for Markowitz (walk-on RS Jr). Now at 62. So, maybe two players are in danger if Kiffin is dead set at signing 15 freshman. Prob. a CB or WR (Wiley, Baucham, or Ambles/Flournoy).
No bruin SLOB, telling you to jump isn’t “unclassy”, it’s just ridding the earth of a scumbag like yourself, now go jump you POS.
As far as I can remember, USC has never been the kind of University that goes back on its word in providing a scholarship all four years to the student-athlete who qualifies for it. This isn’t some SEC cut-throat School that unloads an unwanted player who didn’t pan out. If the player quits or gets into trouble, that is another story.
“nuclear bomb”??? dynasty, get your head out of your ass.. USA Today wrote a article on this subject a couple months ago. They came up with a scenario that USC could only have six openings in February. A poster asked Scott about this a couple months ago in the open forum, and he replied he had to look into the sanctions/rulings. It was written in simple English. Fifteen scholies max/seventy five players on scholies/max for the ’12, ’13 and ’14 seasons. Get Scott’s out of there too.
They may have to squeeze a player or two off the roster but they can move a few off the team and onto academic scholarships. Although they won’t be able to suit up and practice/play, at least USC will have met their scholarship committment.
The real issue is after next year is when they start with 75, lose more then 15 and can only bring in 15 new athletes. By year three of the 15 limit, the count will start to drop. They will need to redshirt a bunch of players out of the incoming class so they can have them in year five to bring up the numbers.
UCLA dynasty, how cute 3-8. You just want us to be like you.
CerritosLob – 4 and 8, two of the last three years. Your standard of excellence, measured by your JC education, is very telling. 4 and 8 for any University with a solid football program would be “the depths.”
Clearly, the powder blue pansies have no solid program so you have yet to reach yours. How is YOUR alma mater going to do this year?