the-recruiting-wars Stories - Conquest Chronicles
Where was the outcry last year...or in 1998?
Funny... What a difference a year makes. Offering a scholarship to a random 13-year-old probably isn't the most prudent recruiting gamble, but in this case, Vols coach Lane Kiffin is doubling down on 11. Berry's father, James, was a star running back at Tennessee. Eric might be the nation's best...
UCLA Stoops to the Academic Argument Yet Again
Funny how things work. First, a little history... When Pete Carroll was the coach he did not offer Marquis Jackson a scholarship to play at USC. Marquis is the brother of USC LB Malik Jackson. Malik wasn't highly rated as some of the guys at USC, but he has been given ton of opportunities to play...
Clueless...
I often wonder if those in the traditional media really put the effort into their stories that they should for being supposed professionals of their trade. It appears at times that they don't do basic due diligence and it is always perplexing. If they do their due diligence its either on...
Recruiting Notes
So, it looks like a lot has been going on in regards to the recruiting front. I tend not to get all worked up over recruiting because there is still a lot of time before NLOI day on February 4th but a couple of things have caught my eye. Last week Byron Moore decommtited from USC and stated that...
When the only direction you can go is up...
...it's easy to make a splash. There is an interesting article in today's L.A. Times about the "resurgence" of ucla on the recruiting trail. There's an intriguing new dynamic surfacing in the USC-UCLA football recruiting rivalry. It's called competition. For much of this decade, USC Coach...
Is Slick Rick up to his old tricks?
Looks like Slick RIck is living up to his name... USC assistant coach Ken Norton Jr. on Sunday lashed out at UCLA for allegedly using him as bait to lure recruits to Westwood and discourage them from joining the Trojans. Norton, a former All-American linebacker for the Bruins, said UCLA has...
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