USC was in pretty solid shape with a lot of these top ones...from what I can decipher without having any subscription to insider info on these sites, Durant and Jones won't be early enrollers out of JUCO, such as in January, but look to only make it in during the summer.

This means they will miss the spring camp for that offseason, and the USC coaches feel that it's too hard of a transition for most JUCOs to come in with only a fall camp to gear up and contribute any better than a redshirt freshman. And THAT means - unless there's a dire, desperate need for warm bodies to fill gaps NOW, they likely will be of little contribution for their 1st year. So it's only one year the program gets out of the 2-year scholarship.

So our coaches right now are not interested in bringing in JUCOs to contribute so little. Jones has been stating often that he's expecting to stay in college for one year anyways, and then move on to NFL after his junior (3rd) year, so he's already a one-and-done (like Corduroy Patterson was at UT). So that's why things cooled off between him and USC...

We already got Palmer (EE in January), and are after Sawyer (will have 3 to play 3 with his early enrollment at East Miss.). Lewis is looking to be an EE in January, so we are still hot on his trail.....