Updates from July 2nd, 2007

Rivals.com has also announced their first 2008 football recruiting rankings recently (again, seven months prior to signing day!), and USC finds itself ranked 7th on this list. They don’t have to look far to find the current #1 team: UCLA, a school that Rivals lauds for recruiting well in its home state. Of course, they […]

It’s never too early to make wild predictions, so FoxSports has published an article discussing prospects for the 2008 NBA draft, one year in advance. Unsurprisingly, a great deal of attention is paid to incoming Trojan freshman guard OJ Mayo. Says one anonymous NBA scout interviewed for the story:
“He’s really gifted… but he needs to […]

As of July 1st, WeAreSC.com has officially split off from the Scout Network, and is now partnered with ESPN.com. Scout will continue covering USC recruiting and athletics at scout.usc.com, and is currently looking for someone to head those efforts.
As for WeAreSC, Trojan fans have a brand new site to look at, under the continued leadership […]

Despite the fact that signing day is seven (!) months away, Scout.com has issued its first batch of national football recruiting rankings. The Trojans, with eight commits (the list was published before Drew McAllister announced this morning), are currently ranked 9th. Leading the pack is Notre Dame, who certainly have the numbers (17 early commits […]

Danville (Calif.) Monte Vista QB Drew McAllister announced that he would be attending USC next fall, picking the Trojans over Pac-10 rivals Cal. He’ll be playing his second position–safety–at Troy, as USC is already stacked at QB for the foreseeable future.
The announcement is a slight surprise, considering that the 6′2″, 195 lb McAllister grew up […]

Scott Wolf is reporting that redshirt freshman OL Butch Lewis dropped 30 pounds after contracting a virus in Mexico. (What he was doing there and why he was drinking the water are questions that weren’t answered.) Although he is healthy now, at 265 pounds, he is a bit light for a lineman, so will presumably […]