5 5-Star players in the 2023 class have verballed. 3 of them to Southern Cal. Avg * 99.33

MSB. No one cares

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LA is such a shite hole

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Lots of development plans now in L.A. due to the Olympics…it’s already happening. Major upgrades around campus and in downtown L.A.…

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Consolidating West Coast talent is 100% a recipe to win a National Championship.

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People are whistling through the graveyard with USC.

If they start stacking Bama/Ohio State classes every year they will be dangerous.

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If they start stacking Bama/Ohio State classes every year they will be dangerous

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If they can coach them up it will be.

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LA is such a shite hole, zero chance Riley keeps them on the straight and narrow. Couple that with USC alum that think they live in their own country in CA, he's going to frick it up.

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LA is a huge city with great parts and crappy parts. Where do you think the future multimillionaires will be spending their days?

Here's the real problem - in a NIL world, money talks. Yes Auburn and Gainesville and Columbia and Oxford and Knoxville have alumni with money. But they don't have the biggest corporations in the world sitting right next door ready to capitalize. Metro colleges like USC and Texas are in position to buy the best talent in CFB. And USC was already appealing to kids before this.

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But they don't have the biggest corporations in the world sitting right next door ready to capitalize. Metro colleges like USC and Texas are in position to buy the best talent in CFB.

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The thing is that the corporations in LA really could care less to pay a college player to endorse their products. I’m not saying players won’t get NIL deals, but even if USC is good there are probably 5,000 people in LA more popular than the USC quarterback or head coach. They are a small fish in a big pond compared to a small college town in the SEC.

Also, USC is directly competing with the Rams and Chargers in terms of football popularity in LA. When USC was a powerhouse in the early 2000s there weren’t any professional football teams in LA. They were the only show in town.

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3 verbals.
3 5-Stars.

Avg player rating 99.33

Riley gonna be a problem at USC.

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Please stop posting idiotic statement that isn't related to SEC!

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in a NIL world, money talks. Yes Auburn and Gainesville and Columbia and Oxford and Knoxville have alumni with money. But they don't have the biggest corporations in the world sitting right next door ready to capitalize. 

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The primary business of Los Angeles is still largely filmmaking and entertainment. They don't give two shits about paying college football players unless they get to Leinart/Bush level and I don't see that haooening anytime soon.

Stanford is where the real money is at, and Washington, too, but blue-haired pregnant man tech companies don't give a shite about football either.

The schools who could theoritaclly benefit more than anyone are Texas and Aggie because of the oil alums and Oregon and Arkansas, because of Nike and Walmart/Tyson/JB Hunt/Jerry Jones.

The Texas schools have already shown they are willing to pony up. If Arkansas ever unleashed its true potential, no schools in the South outside the Lone Star state could keep up

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Funny how I don't remember Sooners bashing Riley before he bolted.

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Never been to any Sooner fans board then? Probably for the best. Things have been brutal for Riley for about 5 out of his 7 years. Even the threads that weren't deleted-with-op-banned went for the throat and definitely aren't before bedtime reading.

The problem is that we just had higher expectations at some point. And he was so very consistent in his results. Further I haven't seen any clue that that will change at USC. He's a good recruiter - he'll bring in some great talent. He will have some 11+ winning seasons, maybe even a nice pile of conference titles to go along with it. But his record will frustratingly be peppered with inexecusable losses to teams that the Trojans should out talent right across the board at every position. Far too often, those will be games where they had a decent lead, and let it slip away. They will likely get demolished if they manage a CFP bid. Maybe the expanded version will change that predictable trajectory a bit, but I wouldn't even count on that.

At first, Trojan fans will blame the 'defense'..., and so on.... A wash/repeat of OU's experience.

I actually like him. He is obviously very talented and capable. And I even hope he really can turn a few things around at a program that I think many feel should really be at or around the top of the game. But to say that we Sooners haven't been critical of him? After the blowouts? After the mind boggling losses to teams full of 3 *'s (at best)? After the far-too-many mysteriously close games where the opponent's backup quarterback manages to have a Heisman level performance that one special day? To that I say, just watch the USC boards over the next few years.