Don’t know if USC has any money left

Or if they have any sugar daddies.   BYU has the crumble cookie dude.  Michigan has Larry Ellison and also googles larry pages wife.  Oregon has uncle dead man walking weekend at Bernie’s Phil.   USC?  Not sure.

but if they had unlimited $?   Curious how they play this.

they just got 35 guys.  Who replaced about 20 seniors and about 15 walk ons for the roster spots to get to 105 I think or 100. Whatever the number.  Had thought Mc ree was in that group but maybe not since he just announced.

they have 15 guys this year who are seniors.

they just had 12 guys portal.   Mc ree goes early and I imagine lemon will too. Maybe lane.

so they could either play next year with about 90 guys.  5 more than has been the number for years.  And have a class next year of about 28-30.  Or they could go get 12-15 guys in the portal and have a recruiting class of 15.

I’ve said all along I don’t think in the portal they get more than 5.  1 WR.   Ideally marsh from Michigan state.  And 1 LB.  Not sure who else they’d really pursue  nothing on offense. Maybe more DL.  Though I can’t say the portal has been great for USC other than Caleb.

so if they only take 5 in the portal that means their recruiting class could be 25 again next year.  Resulting in a lot of talent arriving in a short time.

riley arrived to a depleted roster.  Helton was hamstrung by rumors and record for about a year or two.  Then the last class was ruining as he was fired in game 2-3.  Riley shows up in December.  Class is cooked.  Riley goes hard portal for two years so all those guys are gone now.  USC chooses not to pay hs kids and loses Southern California and the trinity league while Ohio the state and U of zero pay up.   So Trojans at the high school level had about a 4 year gap of talent.  This year will be the first real reversal of that.  And hopefully for them in 2027 they’ll do it again and find themselves with 50-60 high school recruits on a very young roster soon .