Updates: Trouble

Trojan Ticker, the USC athletic department blog, is reporting Sunday evening that second-year WR Jamere Holland has been dismissed from the football team. No reason was given. Earlier in the day, Scott Wolf reported that Holland might transfer due to frustration with lack of playing time. The speedy Holland has been plagued by injuries since […]

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 […]

Scott Wolf is reporting that three freshmen–WR Brandon Carswell, RB Marc Tyler, and RB Broderick Green–have not yet been certified by the NCAA Clearinghouse. In other words, they are not yet eligible to play or practice, and they will not be participating when the Trojans’ fall training camp begins tomorrow.
Not too much should be read […]

Scott Wolf is reporting this morning in his typically detail-deficient fashion that OT Sam Baker is undergoing treatment for strained ligaments in his toe. We haven’t seen that report confirmed elsewhere, and we don’t have any doctors on staff, but we’re guessing that’s not too serious.

In an unconfirmed development, Scott Wolf is reporting that incoming Trojan point guard Angelo Johnson may not qualify academically to play for USC in the fall semester. He did not receive a high enough standardized test score to be approved by the NCAA Clearinghouse; however, with high enough grades in his summer courses, he may […]

Scott Wolf is reporting that Lawrence Miles is no longer on the Trojan football team, freeing a scholarship for use by someone else. In typical Wolf fashion, no source for the information or cause of the departure is named, and there is no confirmation elsewhere yet, although the departure has been rumored for some time […]

Highly-recruited Class of 2006 linebacker Josh Tatum, who did not play for the Trojans during his freshman season last year, is transferring out of USC according to Scott Wolf, Rivals’ Gerard Martinez, and other unofficial sources. He is also unlisted in USC’s 2007 Media Guide, which seems like official confirmation to us. Both Wolf and […]