Updates from August 15th, 2007

Scott Wolf is reporting (and the Los Angeles Times is confirming) this evening that tailback Emmanuel Moody has left the USC program and will transfer to another school, possibly Oklahoma State. The sophomore sat out practice and team meetings on Wednesday.
The news does not come as a huge surprise: with ten highly-recruited running backs on […]

Trojan baseball recruits Mike Stanton and Mike Moustakas each agreed to contract terms with the teams that selected them in this year’s MLB draft, narrowly beating a midnight Wednesday deadline–which, if not met, would have seen the players attending USC in the fall. Stanton, an outfielder (who was also asked to play football at USC) […]

Pete Carroll visited the Petros & Money Show on AM 570 this afternoon. Discussing the tailback spot, Carroll reiterated that it’s not his job to make 10 running backs happy but, instead, to ensure they have a chance to perform, so that each feels, “I had a legitimate shot.” Not ready to name a starting lineup […]

Dan Weber of The Press-Enterprise surveys the most dominant unit on USC’s heralded defense: the linebackers. From a pure talent perspective to the internal mentoring system which is already developing the next group of LBs who will support and eventually replace the big 3 (Keith Rivers, Rey Mauaula, and Brian Cushing) the unit has blossomed in […]

Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Ted Miller profiles USC’s sophomore safety and Seattle native Taylor Mays as the one who got away. For University of Washington fans, his departure from the great northwest to LA is a true ”horror story.” Pete Carroll refers to Mays as
the fastest, biggest, strongest, jumpingest guy in our program…He’s an extraordinary athlete. There’s nothing to hold him back.
As Miller […]