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USC Ace Transferring To Georgia

USC ace pitcher Caden Aoki has committed to Georgia.

It’s a good example that for baseball, at least, USC is not willing to compete with Georgia in NIL.

Imagine how USC coach Andy Stankiewicz feels. His best pitcher, who is from Huntington Beach, had to go to Athens, Ga., for a bigger payout.

Aoki is worth it. He had a 3.99 ERA in 2025 with 90 strikeouts and 14 walks in 97 innings.

After two years of having to shuttle to Irvine for games, you’d think USC would give baseball some money to keep its ace.

43 thoughts on “USC Ace Transferring To Georgia”

  2. Aoki was out of eligibility at SC. He is a Grad Transfer. The move will help his MLB prospects. I still haven’t heard why he didn’t start the final game last Monday….

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    1. LMAO!!

      Graduate transfers, who have already earned a bachelor’s degree and are enrolling in a graduate program, are treated similarly to other transfers. They must have one year of eligibility remaining within their five-year clock to be eligible. 

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      4. Aoki had NO eligibility left at SC. He has one year somewhere else or off to the MLB in the 40th Round. This way he gets to prepare in front of a prominent conference and maybe get drafted in the top 10 rounds. Can’t blame Caden or SC for this. We just got 2-3 Grad Transfers in Women’s Soccer doing the same thing. There are other players we can go get in Baseball if we so choose….

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    2. He pitched too many innings in the 1st game vs. TCU which was a

      dumb move by Stinkewitz having a big lead. Pitching Coach needs

      to be released.

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    1. True Buddha: But I am not really opposed to prioritizing football. For each NIL dollar that goes to baseball it is one less that goes to football.

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      1. USC doesn’t have enough wealthy alums to fund NIL for all sports ?

        Oh wait, in the last 20+ years SC has admitted how many thousands of Chinese and Middle Eastern students who could care less about USC sports or USC in general?

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      3. College Factual ranks USC as 2nd out of a total 1,079 colleges and universities for sheer popularity with students from Red China.

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  5. EVERYBODY SHAPE UP! BION’S [GEORGE TIREBITER’S] BIRTHDAY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER. HOPE I CAN GET THRU TO HIM ON THE PHONE & SEE WHAT [OR WHO] HE’D LIKE TO SHOW UP AT HIS DOOR ON THE BIG DAY!

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  6. KAM: In Colombia, the right-wing candidate, Miguel Uribe, was just shot. In Ecuador, the right-wing candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, was assassinated. In Brazil, the right-wing candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, was stabbed. In the United States, the right-wing candidate Donald Trump was shot.

    DON: The Left was, is, and always will be, a murderous death cult.

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  7. KAM: If the political violence continues in Los Angeles, it will be used to galvanize and inspire far-left extremists and Antifa cells across the country to incite anti-government insurrections in different cities. What we are witnessing now is almost exactly what happened five years ago. The same networks and militants are involved. It is their same playbook.

    DON: The difference is – their opposition doesn’t care anymore.

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  8. KAM: Just so you know, the pro-illegal immigration riots in Los Angeles are government-funded. Taxpayer funds will keep supporting these protests until we defund NGOs like the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIR) and similar pro-immigration groups. $34 million of its reported $45 million in revenue is from government grants.

    DON: Soon, taxpayer money will also cover legal services for those detained for their violent acts this weekend. According to its website, CHIR has offices in eight California cities and Washington, D.C. How convenient.

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    1. I was talking to a California citizen this morning —he said “I really would prefer that I not finance my own destruction.”

      #No…ItWasn’tGabriella

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  9. KAM: : The authorities discovered pallets of cement bricks within striking distance of the ICE agents. There’s no other pallets around, some are in the back of the gate, but these are in front of the gate. The taxpayer funded Democrat/ Illegal Alien protestors used these cement bricks to throw at ICE agents in Paramount, CA Saturday.

    DON: Yes we taxpayers paid for those pallets of cement bricks as well as the professionally made signs the Democrat Insurrectionist rioters carried.

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  10. The $20-million+ university payments to athletes is broken down as follows: 75% football, 15% mens basketball, 5% women’s basketball, and 5% for all other sports (including baseball).

    Basically, the percentages are based on which sports make the money, although in actuality college football probably brings in 90% of the sports revenue so the taking of 75% was arguably a compromise

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    1. KAM: So it is sexist.

      DON: Title IX lawsuits will almost immediately ensue because most of the $20.5 million will go to men in football & basketball. It will never stand.

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      2. I just don’t understand it, John. 89.9% seems fair to me. But let’s say 89.8% …to show I’m open to negotiation…..

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  11. –And so “The Beat Goes On” with college football, seemingly more popular than ever with pitch-high interest even in the off-season

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    1. KAM: A good example of a vacuum of leadership – the NCAA under Charlie Baker has been ‘fiddling’ while college sports burns – males in female sports and this abomination. The follow on impact will be massive and hurt all athletes in the long run.

      DON: Losers will be the walk-ons and partial scholarship athletes whose spots are gone. One of the adjustments made at Federal Judge Wilken’s behest was to give those athletes a chance to return to the schools that cut them in anticipation of the deal going through.

      Also in limbo are Olympic sports many of those athletes play and that serve as the main pipeline for a U.S. team that has won the most medals at every Olympics since the downfall of the Soviet Union.

      All this is a price worth paying, according to the attorneys who crafted the settlement and argue they delivered exactly what they were asked for: an attempt to put more money in the pockets of the players whose sweat and toil keep people watching from the start of football season through March Madness and the College World Series in June.

      What the settlement does not solve is the threat of further litigation.

      Though this deal brings some uniformity to the rules, states still have separate laws regarding how NIL can be doled out, which could lead to legal challenges

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  12. KAM: A lot of negative news surrounding most Americans these days, you got any uplifting advice?

    DON: No matter what happens to you on earth, it all turns out well in the end

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    1. KAM: Lawsuits are incoming, the 20.5 million colleges can now pay out will go to football and basketball mostly, women will sue and it will be like scholarships, they will have to divide evenly between women and men. This is why the NCAA is allowing it, so they can regulate it.

      DON: The NCAA can not regulate the outside donors money, so……yea it is still the wild West in college sports.

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  13. KAM: I’ve said it before, but the criticisms Democrats and Republicans hurl at each other are ‘too mean and unrealistic.’ Exaggeration gets in the way of reality

    DON: Yeah, well, I’ve always said that the ‘Democrats have got it all wrong,’ and that’s no exaggeration

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    1. The Democrat Party of Kennedy and even Clinton didn’t have it “all wrong.” Those were the Dems we grew up with, John…..

      #…ButThatSpeciesOfDemDoesn’tRunThePartyAnymore

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      1. Michael, check out Clinton’s 1996 State of the Union Speech – “era of big government is over”, “parents shouldn’t be forced to send their kids to a crappy public school”, “from welfare to work”, and more.

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      2. Remember Maynard Krebbs, the beatnik, from the [very] old Dobie Gillis Show? “Work?!!”

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