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Morning Buzz: Three SEC Schools Offer Local Recruit But Not USC

You want another recruiting story about USC being behind the curve on a local prospect?

When I spoke to a recruiting analyst this week about two Calabasas wide receivers who are not considering USC right now, he told me to check another the Coyotes’ freshman receiver, Larry Turner-Gooden.

So I looked him up. Turner-Gooden has offers from Florida, LSU, Penn State, Tennessee, Oregon, Arizona State, Colorado, Brigham Young, Arizona, Washington State and Nevada.

But he does not have an offer from USC.

What do three SEC schools know that USC does not about a Southern California player? Who cares? I mean LSU only has commitments from a Mater Dei and Narbonne player right now anyways.

If I was an athletic director, I might wonder about this. But not if I am teeing off Saturday morning at a country club.

  • When I mentioned the outragerous requirements and prices for Lynn Swann doing an autograph show yesterday, I should reinforce the obvious: Why is an athletic director doing an autograph show when his performance is a topic of debate for fans?
  • Meanwhile, the USC baseball team lost its second straight game to Arkansas last night, 8-6. The Trojans are 2-3 overall. Remember, USC hyped its baseball team as being better this season.

17 thoughts on “Morning Buzz: Three SEC Schools Offer Local Recruit But Not USC”

    2. Karma: Should the focus now be on the other kind of “football”, i.e., soccer, and maybe volleyball to supplant the “dead” sports at SC?

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      1. The focus should be on hiring the Northwestern AD and ridding the BOT of all the PC LGBTQ loving libs, if that happens everything else will fall into place then Swann will be free to play endless golf and do autograph sessions and Gomer can go be a youth counselor or preacher

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  2. I guess it’s time I share a personal note (which I was asked to keep secret) with your readers. The note was given by Swann to Helton on New Year’s Day. In relevant part, it reads: “We’re both dead ducks if you don’t win 9, make that 7, games this year. So forget recruiting, forget booster gatherings, you can even forget keeping me updated on what you’re doing. Put every second into game planning the living shit outta 7 —-you know what, make it 6 —–games on the 2019 schedule. Nothing else matters. We’ll worry about 2020 if there is a 2020.”

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  3. I can’t believe all those schools are lowering their standards and offering a scholarship to a kid that has an offer Nevada!!! Right Scottie?

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  4. Pat Haden could have hired Tom Herman away from Houston before Texas did, but he didn’t. Because I think Herman has done a great job lifting the Longhorns from the ashes, and he actually started a year after Clay Helton, but the two programs are going in opposite directions.

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    2. FredS: Was it meant to be that Haden pay for not hiring Herman? If Herman really wanted to coach at SC, but couldn’t because of Haden, then the win by the Longhorns last season could be construed as “sweet retribution”. Just saying, I might be dead wrong about all of that.

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    3. Pat Haden could have hired Petersen, he could have had UDUB’s BB coach, he could have hired Savage, but when you’re too busy raiding some foundation of it’s money, wringing your hands over Indiana’s gay stance and being drunk most of the time, well……………..

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      1. Maybe by the time the kid is ready to sign, USC will have gotten it’s act together and hired an actual A.D. and head football coach who know what the hell they’re doing.

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  7. I’m looking forward to the currently restricted SC cheerleaders morphing into a womens beach volleyball club sport.

    #SoundsLikeAWinner
    #FundraisingNotAProblem

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