Satellite Camp Update

USC is going to send 1-2 coaches to a satellite camp run by TCU. Last year, USC sent coaches to a combine run in Hawaii for local prospects so I wouldn’t say this is unusual but I guess this is what was meant by USC being involved in a camp.

12 thoughts on “Satellite Camp Update

  1. ARMS RACE. Of course, USC will have to participate in this dubious new prong of recruiting. Waste of time…for the USCs of the world.

    I saw an intriguing idea…CA & AZ schools, WA, OR secede and merge with the best of the Big 12. U. Texas might be more pliable now.

    • Nope. Never will happen, because DW was proposing USC, Stanford, UO, UW, ASU (or UA or CU) splitting off. Ain’t gonna happen because USC will not severe the rivalry with UCLA, Stanford with Cal, USC with Cal, UCLA with Stanford, ASU with UA, UO with OSU, etc. Only way this works is for USC, UCLA, the Ferd, Cal and the Ariz schools to split off. Point DW is making is that WSU, OSU, Cal, Utah are essentially drains on the league, where the big market schools — USC, UCLA, ASU, UW, subsidize the smaller market schools, WSU, OSU, Utah.

      More likely will be a divide between the semi-pro schools: the Alabama’s (the entire SEC other than Vandy), the Ohio State’s (the BigTen other than Northwestern) and the academic schools: the Stanford’s, the Cal’s, the ND’s, the Duke’s.

      Biggest question in that is where would UCLA and USC go. Semi-pro or academic? UCLA will probably have a lot a pressure to follow Cal’s lead, being that they are, essentially, satellite campus of the same school system. USC will have a lot of alumni and fan pressure to go semi-pro, but will have an administration and BOT that will favor going academic.

      • You are spot on. The ruin’s Chancellor Blockhead and their communist faculty would love that opportunityfor the Southern Branch to go academic.

        • It is a little bit more complicated than that. For example, Stanford’s mission and Oregon mission are very different, yet they compete in the same conference. Stanford’s mission is to educate the next generation of the Global Economic Elite and athletics is secondary, but they compete because they are rich, because it helps create traditions that tie the alumni to the school, and because they choose to do so. But they could go full-on Ivy League tomorrow and refuse to offer athletic scholarships and prestige, leave the Pac-12, and academics and fundraising will not miss a beat.

          Oregon’s academic mission is to education the next generation of professionals in Oregon, and the athletic mission is not unlike the famous quote of Oklahoma’s President: “To build a school the football team can be proud of.” You can also argue that Oregon’s athletic mission is to broaden the brand awareness of Nike as much as possible. If Oregon were to go full Ivy League and stop offering athletic scholarships, you would hear “A giant sucking sound”, to quote Ross Perot, of money fleeing Eugene.

          Eventually, some school is going to give a football coach an eight figure annual salary, and/or build a half-billion dollar athletic training center, and a good number of schools are going to say “Enough”.

          Ironically, the only thing, tying together, for example, the Stanfords and the LSUs of the world, is the NCAA. But that dinosaur is on it’s last legs and an extinction event is just around the corner. Once the NCAA expires, that’s went I think a split into two different athletic associations will start to occur.

          • Do you think a lawsuit like Northwestern’s will finally spin college football off to the minor leagues of the NFL?

  2. “Inside USC” where the info is always fresh off the day old shelf.

    • Or, when one of the interns gets around to browsing Scout’s pay-walled forums.

      • Or when he reads one our posts SW says to himself out loud “Eureka!”

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