yup: time to take that lamborghini off-roading and crack the axle on a rock. Fucking squander another recruiting class, kiffykins. I look forward to seeing A) UCLA being better than USC, and B) bandwagon californian football fans throw away their trojans garb and start acting like OG Bruins fans.
Wont happen, One of the Reasons USC went so heavily for QB recruits the last couple of years if because of the sanctions.
They now have one of the youngest teams in FBS
This years class is fucking loaded, six 5 star recruits, twice as many as any other program in the nation
Notre Dame and Bama have 3 each
Guys like Max Browne are already enrolled and started classes at USC on Jan 10 and he might not even redshirt and could be the QB starter as a true Freshman in 2013
UCLA Hasnt been relevant since Troy Aikman and the 88 season, and they wont be anytime soon, especially with Stanford and their academic pull and USC who still go lights out eachyear with recruiting and whom Kiffin probably wont be coaching in a year.
Here is how USC Basically stacked the recruiting classes so the so called sanctions would have minimal effect
http://espn.go.com/college-football...e-football-usc-trojans-hope-numbers-add-title
In 2010, the NCAA smacked USC with a loss of 10 scholarships per year for three years and an overall limit of 75, 10 below the FBS maximum. Kiffin laid out for university president Max Nikias and athletic director Pat Haden the difference between serving the penalties immediately and appealing them.
He created a chart showing the impact of the scholarship cuts if taken immediately. Years of undersigning by Kiffin's mentor and predecessor, Pete Carroll, combined with the departure of several players who transferred after the Trojans suffered a bowl ban, left USC with 67 scholarship players as it entered the 2010 season. If Kiffin could bring in only 15 players per year beginning in 2011, it would be difficult to climb back to full strength.
The administration might have decided to file an appeal for the same reason that anyone files an appeal -- to look for relief. But USC also filed an appeal to game the system. By delaying the scholarship penalties until the appeal had been heard -- and denied -- the Trojans could sign a full class of recruits in February 2011. In fact, because several players enrolled in January, the Trojans signed 31 players, well over the limit of 25. (Early enrollees may be assigned to the previous year's allotment.)
"I have to give a lot of credit to the university and to the president, Max Nikias," Kiffin said. "There were a lot of people saying to go the other way and just take it and get it over with. He had belief in our plan. … And it was very glaring, very glaring what it would have done to our program not to sign that big class."
By effectively delaying the scholarship limits, USC set up the 2012 season as the eye of its storm. The Trojans have more experience and more players this season as they return to championship eligibility. Those assets are likely to diminish over the next two seasons as the scholarship reductions exact a greater toll.
Kiffin used the full complement of scholarships with the coming shortfalls in mind.
"We signed a kicker, a punter and a snapper so that we wouldn't have to for the next four years," Kiffin said.
Place-kicker Andre Heidari, who made 15 of 17 field goals and all 50 of his extra-point attempts, made the All-Pac-12 team as a freshman. Punter Kris Albarado and long-snapper Peter McBride redshirted.
"You've got scholarship players at the three specialist positions," Kiffin said. "My point is that isn't for this year. That's for a long time. That's why it's so big. Those guys are either sophomores or redshirt freshmen. They still have three or four years."
Kiffin also signed two quarterbacks, Max Wittek and Cody Kessler, and redshirted both, the post-Barkley years in mind. The rest of the class included four players who reached the starting lineup -- juco corner Isiah Wiley, linebacker Lamar Dawson, left guard Marcus Martin and, like Heidari, freshman All-American Marqise Lee -- and some talented players whom Kiffin insisted on redshirting.
Between those guys and the redshirt freshmen whom Kiffin threw onto the field last year, USC might start as many as 10 sophomores this season.
