First, no one can dispute whether the question of "Why? has been answered by Kiffin. It hasn’t. But we can disagree about whether Kiffin SHOULD answer the question…about whether media members and interested fans deserve to be supplied with a laundry list of Baxter’s deficiencies so that hey can judge it for themselves. Not sure how Paragon stands on this, but Wolf clearly feels entitled to such information. And Wolf, not receiving a satisfactory explanation, feels justified postulating the worst of motives on Kiffin’s part…that Kiffin “quickly made Baxter an outsider” because he “comitted to USC under Pete Carroll”. By that logic, then I guess Kiffin also must have quickly made Robert Woods (another Carroll commit) an outsider, too.

The most absurd assault on Kiffin’s character by Wolf is he implication that Ambles was given more chances than Baxter simply because Ambles was initially recruited by Kiffin and Baxter wasn’t. Does Wolf have any idea what he’s talking about? (wait, no need to answer that). By my count, both Baxter and Ambles started getteing into trouble at about the same time. Ambles actually got into far less trouble than Baxter. Ambles didn’t make false statements to USC’s AD about other schools contacting him (a possible NCAA violation on Baxter’s part). Ambles did not accept any benefits from a student agent (another potential violation on Baxter’s part). Ambles didn’t get nearly the playing time that Baxter got, either. As far as I know, Ambles never really sulked about playing time, either. And after all of this…Baxter lasted in the program a half season longer than Ambles…yet Kiffin was supposedly unfair to Baxter because he didn’t give him as many chances as he gave Ambles?

In the end, I see Wolf complaining that Baxter should have been given more opportunity and Paragon complaining that “if Baxter didn’t fit in he should have been gone a long time ago”. It’s hard to make everyone happy. Although the exact “Why?” was never explained, the one thing I take from Wolf’s is that there are plenty of posible reasons. I wish Baxter well, and I respect Kiffin’s decision not to discuss it further.