Breaking Down USC's NIL CRISIS
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Sounds like HOV thinking legacy has more impact with these young kids than NIL. Learned a hard lesson this week that it is far from the truth
Must be run by delusional boomers
USC had zero chance to holding onto those 2 commitments from georgia. Did you think the SEC was just going to stand by while USC took 2 5*s from their backyard? Not happening. They were going to up the NIL offers til they won. Given USC's poor leadership and play the last 10 years, they should have passed on these players. Total waste of time given the status of the program. Riley needs to focus on CA players and competing with Oregon. His lack of priority is alarming and frankly makes me question his intelligence. He needs to wake the F up and start getting USC.
@@brianjacob8728swinging for the fences will never be discouraged in my book. They do need to keep the top instate prospects at home. HOV needs to get behind their staff and get them what they need to compete. Short of that Lincoln is doing all the things I expect from a coach trying to get the talent they want. I am on the Lincoln train till the end. The coaching changes will need to bear fruit on the field to lower the HOV impact required to get these prospects. But I like what I see from the coaching staff and they need support from HOV. It is that simple.
They basically got offered way more money 😆
Go after the best 4*s forget the 5*s that are just chasing the bag 💰 🤑
great video man, other creators won't comment on USC NIL but you will and I respect that
If we lose Riley, we’re absolutely fucking cooked.
I’m a long time. Sooner fan, and I’m glad he left Norman. Even if it meant a 6-7 season. Even if it meant one of the best QBs in the nation left with him. Riley is fool’s gold, and even though you don’t see it now, you will at some point.
@@ubon11I think he refers to Riley leaving if he feels he isn't getting what he needs from HOV to help get the 5☆ players to build the roster like a Georgia or Ohio State or Alabama
@@greg7964 Venables is out recruiting Lincoln, and one of the reasons that Lincoln left is because he believed OU could not recruit up to SEC standards.
riley is a fraud. he proved it again this spring by not tackling.
@@brianjacob8728 so every coach is a fraud because they had their spring not tackling
AD Jen/NIL CEO are accountable! Job is putting team in title run position. NIL is here. Compete with Ducks or resign!
Reality is USC itself has to come up with at least 15 to 20 million a year just to compete in recruiting.
Other top programs like OSU, Alabama, Oregon ect all have at least 12 + million a year just for recruiting.
USC just needs to stop dealing with a 3rd party outside source and just create a system within the university just for football recruiting .🤔✌️✌️
Why am I not surprised. It all starts with the BOT. The University cares about becoming Harvard West and Stanford South. Been going like this for years. Football is not a priority. Administration just does not care about wider community that has supported and cared about SC football for last 100 years 😢
My understanding was HOV did not want pay recruits they wanted to pay the players already on the team. What teams like Oregon Ohio State Texas Texas A&M have are boosters paying players apparently USC doesn’t have type of boosters
love the Oregon jab, G! 🤣
Lanning's Woodshed will be ready for the University of Spoiled Children, in '25.
😂😂😂😂 clowns
I agree Big G Sept 1st can't get Here fast enough!!!
I think the collective needs to turn to Reggie Bush if he would love help get it pointed in the right direction. Reggie seems to understand today's recruits and he would get in order for sure. Call Reggie
Ugh. Shoutout to Seinfeld, “Serenity now, Serenity now”
This weekend our coaches are going to do a great job recruiting but what happens when they go to the NIL department and they promise these guys the world and then give them NOTHING just like they did Gibson and Terry?
I'm also a HuGE S.C. fan in Columbus OH. I can vouche for what you're saying. This STATE revolves around OSU football!...I don't expect S.C. fans to become like them. S.C. and SoCal is just different, with so many more option in their lives...That said. I hope S.C. sees the light, and makes a 1000% effort to see us WIN! Fight ON! ✌️ 🗡🏈 -J.s.
Gabe, can you explain what is meant by the claim that Folt isn’t supporting the collective? Does it mean that USC isn’t writing checks to the Athletic Dept. or the collective? I’m the last guy to defend Folt on a myriad of things but I know that for decades the Ath. dept. supported itself. The idea of the university funding the Ath. Dept. is a sea change from the past.
You have a chance to turn this around now that Grinch is gone. But as an OU fan I have to say until the recruits see it happening on the field, and some semblance of complimentary football, you're going to keep signing 4&5* guys early and losing them late. Now the good news is you got a good DC now. Just have to put something on tape that shows this is more than just a hire with no change from the HC and is in fact a change in philosophy to make things work for the D.
Stop blaming everything on Grinch. He’s a cerebral coach and both programs (OU and SC) would welcome him back in a second
@@forwork2601 you first cause I guarantee you it wouldn't happen here 🤣
Wow Gabe. This is eye opening but makes sense
Great video! Favorite part was what you said about whOregon lol
That was corny
Appreciate your strong support of Riley. Some haters, i mean people are just going to blame him no matter what because that's as far as there brain can take them. They're more pieces to the puzzle than Coach Riley. We've been knocked down again but true Trojan fans will get back on the horse and keep going.
Scared to play the SEC, left his players at OK like a coward. 🤡
@@nupe865 I like that. Yeah keep saying it. Great bulletin board material for the players. I hope it makes it to the bulletin board. Nice. Then we definitely gonna kick some ass. And recruiting isn't over yet. There's other great players out there. Let's see how we do on signing day.
@@nupe865I like your selfie at the end of your response.
@@JackSmith-qi7dr lol nice.
@@nupe865Paul Finebaum’s burner account, I knew would find you, Mr. Burns looking Mother Fck’r! This narrative that SC is scared to play the SEC, was created because SC was stealing recruits out the backyard. That and Finebaum you know if SC becomes a National Power again, it’s over for everyone, especially the SEC. Who wants to play in October with it 85 degrees and 95% humidity, when you can play in SoCal 72 degrees, ocean breeze, playing on real grass, not that fake shit on top of concrete. Go to the SEC and blow out your ACL or play on what god intended football to be played on, West Coast Bermuda sod, that’s grass to you hillbilly tornado chasers.
Y’all need too remember that Lincoln doesn’t believe in defense so…expect a long season.
Love that 0regon reference, as usc fan I hate them more than ucla and note dame
We ain’t beefing with yall 😂😂😂😂😂 you mfs delusional
I'd really like to know who these informants are or strong sources??? Coach Link has already said that the new AD Cohen is the best fit for him, the new facilities are being built. Coach Link can't force Georgia kids to come all the way from the East Coast to LA, if the NiL was bad then how in hell did they get Bear to stay??? 11-3 and 8-5 is a much better start than Sark has at Texas and better than Kiffen at Ole Miss. If Coach Link fired Grinch last year they probably go 9-4 or 10-3, instead of 8-4. How do we know that the Georgia Duo didn't commit to SC knowing full well they were going to de commit using their commitment to increase their NiL profile. Some of u Trojan fans need to chill out and believe in our administration and coaching staff. Best believe SC is fully committed to winning, you don't pay your head coach top dollar and bring in an ultra competitive AD like Cohen to just lay it down. You also don't give Coach Link the resources to bring in the best defensive coaching staff in the country to just lay it down. Plus SC has been bringing in some Dawgs the last couple of recruiting cycles, Fountain, Shelby, Williams, Newby, Jones ETC, but I guess their chop liver. Breath easy and believe⚔️✌🏽
Plain and simple, if we don't figure the NIL we will never be competitive. College sports is all about money these days. No matter how much you win, if you not paying they not coming.
Bingo. Tradition doesn't sell anymore.
@5:07 3 times, not 2. And as a Michigan alum, I'm sorry you have to live in Columbus
The problems here all start with Carol Folt, she is a bureaucrat, not a leader. Who is to blame for hiring Carol? Rick Caruso. He wanted to burnish his liberal credentials for his political career and Carol was the perfect "Woke" president, having lost her job at UNC because she couldnt stand up to the crazies that needed to tear down a statute.
Folt destroyed the Trojan Clubs because they are mostly white males. Fundraising has plummeted under her.
USC is a balanced school with people from many political persuasions. Let's keep it that way and Fire Folt. Let's stand out from the rest of the lame elite schools and hire a leader who is great and not focus on DEI or whatever craziness comes from either political extreme.
Riley is a truly great coach and after learning a hard lesson last season, he is primed to win big within a few years. Let's not let him get stolen away by a smarter leader at another school or NFL team. We wont find a better coach than Riley, but no coach can win without support, particularly in the NIL era.
I didn't know that about Folts. These Liberal politicians are a mess
I don’t want to get into any BS politics the country is divided enough. But Folts seems to be incapable and incompetent to oversee the Football Program. This flows down your Cohen and the HOV it is a shit show which shows us not wanting to build the football program and worse liars making false NIL promises. They need to go .
Couldn’t have said it any better my self
This right here is a masterpiece beautifully explained💯
Tired of liberals!
If Riley and Folt the Dolt leave, oh well
It's apparent we should no longer discuss "committed" players - because these days that means nothing to these players. Just let us know "signed" players so all of us fans don't have to ride this ridiculous roller coaster. HOV is failing Coach Riley and his staff; the signed players; the university; and all of us fans. Fight on!
We need to be real … this isn’t the 2000s, those days are behind us. The program is a joke to the rest of the country currently because they love seeing past empires topple over themselves. This will be the most important season USC has had in a long time. An underachieving season in a talented B1G conference will NOT get the job done, period. Yes, the NIL department needs to be improved VASTLY. It’s unfortunate that this is what college sports has come to, but you must adapt or get left behind. Riley MUST change the narrative and prove to the recruits that he is evolving and will not settle for mediocrity.
Agree 💯
100% spot on
I feel like we can go 10-2 this season and recruitment still wouldn’t be good . That nil has to come through, the two that are running it are women . To me it seems they are not worried about football as much . They are putting more money into the basketball team at this point
@@rocfitness5747Spencer Harris is not a woman.
@@JackSmith-qi7dr Jen Cohen is definitely a female
"Billions?" NIL doesn't come from the university. There must be a money flow problem somewhere. The question is, where?
Great staff put together but SC is once again behind the current era of college football. Riley and staff will be gone before it gets fixed unfortunately. Just focus on Olympic sports…✌🏼
Unfortunately you might be right
We can't compete. Its over.
just a question.....if a player is getting paid - why give them a scholarship? Make them pay for their own education. Only give scholarships to the young meant that really need them.
The genuine 5 stars are going to the league regardless of school…so if we are honest it’s not our record…our coaches…location…it’s the 💰…better fix it quick or standby for a bunch of 6-6 seasons.
Let's be real , Riley is gonna bolt because the school can't get it's shit together
@@Sportsgeek1991 if he does I think it would be as an OC in the pros…Rams or Chargers…keep the house…kids stay in school and he won’t have all the headaches of the year around recruiting circus. I hope they just fix it and he stays put.
@@stevedolan5065 exactly and matt entz will take over. Do we really think entz left his job just to be a linebacker coach ? Lol nah this was always the plan
Fight On !
We need a guy like Sherwood Blount to run the HOV. He understood NIL, just ask Eric Dickerson and his teammates at SMU. We need the best team money can buy.
The remedy: rely on the coaching staff that has been assembled to coach up the players on the squad. Win your games. Success will breed success.
The kids that decommitted won't have an effect on this upcoming season so why are all of you crying? We have current 5 & 4⭐️ guys that the staff needs to get the most out of. I hate hearing you negative Nancy's year in & year out then you start cheering when things pick up. Fake fair weather fans. #FightTFOn✌🏽
You must love being irrelevant and mediocre then
I agree with you completely.
And the church said AMEN-USC J
NIL is, essentially, paying players. If our NIL money is lacking, blame @PresidentFolt and the entire USC administration that disbanded all alumni clubs once Folt got here. This lays right in the lap of Folt. Now we need to raise money from alums and outside sources to pay players to play? Good luck. If Riley can't coach and win on the field, then he needs to go as well. I was skeptical of Riley's hire from the beginning. His contract is too long and he's way overpaid for what he's bringing to the field. Al Davis said, "Just win, Baby." Riley has yet to prove that. NIL won't make any difference if we don't win - that's been proven. Since Folt disbanded all alumni clubs, I haven't dropped a dime on campus...and I won't until Folt is gone. Fight On!
Texan here......Texas oil money is ridiculous.....it is getting out of control.....in the South, they find that money.....the Aggie coach buyout was jaw dropping. In Texas we have Robin Hood laws where property or oil rich school districts have to help poorer school districts.....wonder if we eventually have a flat rate all colleges pay their athletes one day...kinda of sad how NIL or lack of affects one the blue bloods like SC...Fight On
I honestly wouldn’t mind if they just folded the football program altogether and instead invest in women softball where we can probably be more competitive. USC football simply isn’t elite, I’d put us on the same tier with SMU and even they have significantly more NIL and football support than we do.
I agree %100 with TacticalTone5700. Some of these so-called SC fans have already throw in the towel on the 2024 season before the first play. Holding on to JT and IG commitments was always going to be a long shot. Recruiting top tier kids away from SEC territory is a difficult thing to accomplish for any school but for SC it's made harder because they're coming off a disappointing 2023 season with a defense that was dreadful the last 3 years. I believe in the new defensive coaching staff but they need to prove it on the field before top tier defensive recruits will take SC serious once again. Winning will cure a lot of the recruiting issues, but NIL will continue to play a significant role in SC's future success on the field.
Carol Folt needs to go as does any leadership not pushing hard to be competitive with NIL.
What is especially frustrating is after consistently losing local west coast stars to Oregon because of NIL you would think the NIL situation would be good to go by now entering the B1G. Smh.
Noo we can recruit
We're going to lose Riley and a lot of players after this coming season.
Where you been mannn!!
Uncle Nike eats our lunch. Nil is too cheap.
We’re not having that problem in Norman, thanks guys☝🏾⭕️
No thank you
What is Norman?
@@rocfitness5747 Norman, Oklahoma
@@DjSpeccs why is Ou our biggest fans ? I swear I see these people on every USC post. Like carry on bro go cry harder somewhere else. You lost to Arizona in your bowl game
@@rocfitness5747 just like y’all did to Tulane in the Cotton Bowl huh😂😂😂
This shit is embarrassing! We will be an afterthought in the world of college football 🏈 if we don’t get this N.I.L. In order asap #fighton✌🏿
Those players decommitted because did you really think they weren’t going to Georgia with all that shit you were talking 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I heard we are about to lose Juju because HOV is trying to lowball him. Come on Keyshawn! We gotta get the guys in if we want to win.
Heard it where ?
If we can win on the field without the best 5* , why would they give the bag .
Well they couldn't get out of playing Lsu but at least they got out of playing Ole Miss.
I’m not sure we’ll have coach Riley by the time the season starts. He’s absolutely fed up as he should be. Him and the staff have done all that they can to land elite players but the USC administration, NIL and collective have failed him. This will be a death spiral to the program way worse than the sanctions as we sink to a perennial middle of the pack big 10 has-been like Nebraska stuck in mediocrity.
Unserious football school
What is the disconnect? Is there not 100% support for the program?
Nope , Riley is gonna leave watch
@@Sportsgeek1991 I think you're right.
@@adamlamparello8701if we thought helton was rock bottom , Riley leaving after 3 or 4 years will be catastrophic
@@Sportsgeek1991 I agree, but if he isn't getting the support he needs, he will leave.
@@adamlamparello8701 exactly
Do they have money and not know how to use it or are they broke? Not impressed with Spencer Harris but it would be hard to blame him if they don’t have funding
Riley's recruiting strategy is flawed. It relies on recruiting the top HS players from Georgia, Texas, Florida, etc. USC does not have the credibility to hold these recruits as their on-field performance has been poor for years. It's a very high-risk strategy relegating SoCal players as second class. The better short term and long-term strategy is to go back to Pete Carrolls's way. Sign the best SoCal players and then fill in with key players nationwide. Can you imagine, Nick Saban in 2007 implementing a recruiting strategy based upon stealing the top SoCal players from Pete and USC? He was too smart for that when he had to rebuild Alabama. This is one reason why Riley is not a big-time head coach yet as his strategy is flawed and is failing. Also, if USC's OL is garbage this year, JuJu Lewis will decommit and Riley will be toast.
If the Georgia guys would have stuck, your narrative would be completely different. What you need to understand is the SC coaching staff have been recruiting their asses off BUT, the NIL collectives continue to be the biggest problem. This had nothing to do with coaches. These guys were simply offered more money and were poached from SC Because they can’t match the 💰 - something Pete Carroll never had to even fathom dealing with. You are literally comparing an apple to a double cheeseburger with everything on it.
@@sector783 You just confirmed that due to USC’s NIL failure, Riley’s strategy isn’t working. I’m glad we agree.
SoCal isn’t producing 230lbs 300+ lb DT’s and elite offensive line players at the rate it needs to each cycle. So you can’t compare this to the 2000’s
@@garrysinger9704 Riley‘s job is to get these kids on campus and get them committed. He’s done nothing but just that.. It’s Jen Cohen and the administration’s job to figure out the NIL. The fact that these kids were over promised and under delivered has nothing to do with Lincoln Riley strategy. And your comparison to now to the early 2000s is nuts. I would say that’s hardly any agreement.
Riley does have some responsibility. He's the 2nd highest paid coach in the country. He's the one who brought Grinch with him and retained him for far too long. He knew what he was getting into at USC. Folt's record, politics, and lack of interest in athletics were not a secret.
Did the coaches promise certain bag sizes without confirmation? Did HoV flat out lie about what they were willing to do?
HoV leadership....are people not aware that the VP of Ops is Matt Lopes, son of Steve Lopes, who was fired by USC and was one of the most inept leaders in USC athletic history? Spencer Harris IMO, didn't have a strong enough resume to be hired as the Exec Director. The only person on that staff who is qualified IMO, is Magdi El Shahawy.
USC is cheap, always has been. They have screwed over alums who graduated prior to 1990. And people want THOSE folks to donate more? They pay for Riley's ridiculous salary, that ridiculous mansion in PV, and yet another facility "upgrade". The well is only so deep and they want results.
That said, these kids were predicted to decommit almost from the minute they got back to Georgia. NIL wasn't the only issue.
Money ruins everything, but my wallet! Totally turned off by what "College" Football has become, teenagers running the show, greed running rampant...... Will always bleed Trojan football, but getting off the ugly money train for now! WTF!?!?
Yeah, Riley gonna leave probably sooner then later.
Why would Riley, our President and our AD keep this relationship with the collective(s)? Riley came out and stated "our NIL is ready to go"....you're the head spokesman....you're responsible partially.
In LA, who’s the biggest embarrassment right now… USC Football or the Lakers?
It was USC… until the Lakers hired a podcaster as a coach
@@cartersports1😂😂
Not a hard question! The Lakers have been a Joke with Jeanie Buss and Lebron James and No Jerry West for Years‼️
@@kelseydickey7123 no cap 😭
don't get invested: a fan like the rest of you
Why does USC fans keep letting Riley make excuses. He said he left OU due to no support, NIL, can’t recruit at OU. Has anyone at SC looked at recruiting since 22. Oregon and OU have been stealing Cali kids left and right.
Lincoln left OU due to lack of support! Yet a part Deux? I hope not!
Carol Folt could be politically motivated.
WE ARE... USuC!
no fucking clue! well stated...
NIL in cali is worthless cause of taxes…. This is a state problem
It's not that bad. Those kids got offered more money. It won't have an effect on this season. Fight on
You are missing the point lol the goal is to stockpile talent
It seems like our boosters don't back Riley
Riley will leave then
Then we are fucked to mediocrity
Recruiting is toast, NIL has ruined everything
Nil just evened the playing field and now we see who really cares about football
@@Sportsgeek1991 that’s not true, not even close 😂 it’s actually made the “playing field” slimmer than ever and shows who can pay players the most. Do some critical thinking 😂
@@Thankyou423.3 no it shows you can't rely on selling history and tradition anymore if there's no nil to support it. SC can't recruiting their past anymore aren't you paying attention
Don’t know how NIL could have been a major impact for the 2 DLs when Georgia doesn’t allow it for HS players. Can only make promises now anyway.
Your crazy if you think Georgia is not paying freshman anything
@@aroncampos5720 Not crazy, my statement was regarding High School players not College freshman. Why do you think players like the OSU WR commit came to play at Mater Dei from Ohio? Not to be close to USC, but to get paid by OSU collectives because it’s not legal in Ohio either.
Conquest Collective is a great Collective, not HOV.
Our NIL fucking Sucks! We are just going to be an average team every year! Fuck HOV let's get a real company!
What a bunch of whiners and the jealousy is off the charts... Instead of seeing and recognizing the resources that Oregon has
and pointing to them as how you get it done you throw insults. USC has plenty of 1%ers they just don't love football.
Lanning has already shown he's 10 times a better coach and continues to reap SoCal recruits. The other thing is that Cali
is so bad it makes Oregon look like a Red state.
Lanning hasn't won anything of significance and it's easy to say that when he took over a solid program at Oregon compared to a 4-8 mess at USC.
oregon is the shittiest state in the union
😢
Sold here soul is corny also
Blame Caitlyn Clark for this mess
It's easy to criticize the USC's NIL administration, but no amount of management is gonna make up for the fact that they just don't have enough dough to throw around. The phrase people use to describe SEC schools: "it just means more" has never been more applicable. Without football, these schools would be relegated to the backwater. Applications would dry up. You think people are going to Alabama for the education? It's all about beer, ball, and boobs. It would become UAB without football and the same holds true for most of the SEC schools. Having a well-funded NIL program is a life or death proposition for them. Or you have the Oregons of the world where a bizzilionaire booster writes a blank check and money is no object. Seems like we need to adjust our expectations for USC. Given who they are, they will always be a 10-20th ranked team and occasionally they'll pop inside the top 10, but it appears the days of competing for a natty are, sadly, over.
Who is running the collective exactly? And why aren't they being asking directly about these failures? Some honest explanation is needed, instead of leaving everyone guessing as to why. Remember when Ryan Day publicly asked for 13 million. Apparently that works. OSU has had amazing classes and sits at number 1 right now. If HOV needs money, put it out there loudly, don't hide it. That's not working. Losing two 5* in a matter of days is a disaster.
We need the names of the people who are being stingy
Look in the mirror. How much have you donated?
@@j.f.6032 r u talking to me??? I don't think you want to go down that road.
That defensive staff is going to stay one year, and they're gone. Who wants to stick around this dysfunctional ass university.
Between NIL and the transfer portal, college football has been ruined. The positive thing is that now I won’t be glued to the tv all day long on Saturdays in the Fall.
We are going to lose our coach this is serious you're right
Those players weren't coming here anyway get over it we got a bunch of great players coming to USC. Don't pay those high school player's agents that money.
No offense to sc fans but if LR is having the same problem at sc that he said he had at OU than why is OU recruiting way higher than sc?? It seems to me the problem is LR not the schools. Logically.....
The issue is not NIL! It’s recent history, and demographics. Yes, NIL is importantly but I don’t believe it was money. If you’re 18 years old with excellent trainers, and recent championships, and you can go to GA, why would you go to a U that hasn’t had a championship in 20 years. Come on!!!
But, what happened to "we're close" and "nature of the beast"💩💩💩🤡🤡🤡
First comment woot!
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Why is this happening Blade? They know this is the way in college football, yet they don't want to pay the players to come here? I just don't understand it. Jen Cohen came on many shows and said HOV is now up to speed and where they should be with their collective and now I hear you telling me this.. So it's back to disfunction and apathy and just a mess like its been for the last 15 years. Pretty soon Riley and the new staff will be gone and we'll be an irrelevant program in a better conference getting our ass kicked mostly every week by the big boys...This is not good. Some things just never change. And no one can blame Helton or Haden for this... Same old, same old....
The Nil is cheap
JB I hear from reliable sources it is worse than what you are saying . The coaches went out and recruited these players with NIL promises . But when it was time to pay they reneged . Making the coaches look like liars and undercutting their and the schools integrity . This will get out to other recruits so kiss the 2025 class down the drain . The program is fkd now and the coaches will leave . This is on Cohen and the President - incompetent- what a fking joke a complete shit show . A clown car of the past .
JB I hear from reliable sources it is worse than what you are saying . The coaches went out and recruited these players with NIL promises . But when it was time to pay they reneged . Making the coaches look like liars and undercutting their and the schools integrity . This will get out to other recruits so kiss the 2025 class down the drain . The program is fkd now and the coaches will leave . This is on Cohen and the President - incompetent- what a fking joke a complete shit show . A clown car of the past .
idk what ya'lls NIL situation is but 4 and 5 stars committing early then ending up decommitting has been Lincoln Riley's MO for as long as he's been a head coach. Look at Brock Vandergriff or Luther Burden for example when he was at OU. Had this happen with the some DL too back in the day....all prior to NIL. It's kinda a bad look to blame anything but your own program.
NIL is def an issue. Has been; def needs to be fixed. But I think you're being overly dramatic. Last year's frosh class was consensus top 10 regardless of website. It was full of a bunch of 4 & 5 star, top 100 guys.
The 2 guys / DL we lost this week are from Georgia. Seems more like a location thing; it's gon be hard prying the top dogs from the South. Also, the reality is we were pretty bad last year & that was in spite of having the best player in college. I think the top guys (especially on defense) are gon' have to see a much improved team / product first before they commit. And, do you blame them? So, this coming season is veeeery crucial to the success of recruitment moving forward. If we don't show much improvement & promise, we're cooked.
PS: Just watched this On3 clip talking about our 2 de-commits & what happens now. Lol, they literally mirrored everything I said above. They said it's a great sign we're in the hunt w/ all these elite 5 stars; and that now we gotta prove it on the field to really clinch their commitments in coming seasons.
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SC will be nothing but mediocre in the Big 10. I am an alumnus 1988 and I am saying this. Football is not what it once was at SC and won't be again. It is what it is.
NIL destroyed college football ✌️ All these nobody kids don’t deserve a cent because they’ve proved nothing. Go to class and learn something.
Nil just showed us who really cares about winning lol
Nobody kids? But you live to watch them. Clown.
The NCAA destroyed CFB by playing favorites and not allowing for structured payments to athletes. They made billions upon billions but didn't want the kids to get a piece of the pie by hiding behind amateurism.
This guy is just a fan with zero connections and no one reached out to this guy. He's just butthurt that 2 guys who was NEVER going to stick. Stop it Gabe
The shit show follows Riley wherever he goes
I respect Riley, but we made him when he was hired the highest paid coach in college football. He wrecked last season by keeping his buddy as DC and that’s entirely on Riley. If he walks then I think SC can grab another highly qualified candidate for $11 million that can actually coach BOTH sides of the ball. But if SC can’t figure out NIL then top coaches won’t be interested in coming to SC. Folt (and Caruso) are on the clock.
It wasn’t money. Scott Schrader made that clear on the On3 board. People saying it’s about money are just trying to cope
Believing Scott Schrader & thinking its not about NIL is just you in denial & trying to cope with reality of USC recruiting.
@@mattrancho it’s not NIL. That’s just the go to cope for fans when their team misses on a player. Brandon Friske said last year that he took less money to go to FSU over USC. These same people saying USC’s NIL is a mess are the same ones that were hyping it up as being great not too long ago
@@Victor12434 keep coping my little one
@@mattrancho sure just ignore what the insiders and players have said about it lol
@@Victor12434 nice to see you still coping, good job child