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swampspring · 01-14-2013, 10:20 PM

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-...28--ncaaf.html

I hope future recruits read about this. This guy can't coach worth a lick, but he sure as hell can recruit. However, if this gets him bad press in recruiting, which I hope it will, he's done.

Redlands (Calif.) East Valley High School and USC coach Lane Kiffin are at odds thanks to a deferred scholarship.

Defensive end Kylie Fitts, a four-star recruit Rivals ranked seventh nationally at his position, was committed to USC and took extra high school classes so he could graduate early and enroll at the university in January.

Fitts talked to a couple USC coaches at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl on Jan. 5 and they said they were ready to have him on campus. But the following Monday, he received a call saying his scholarship was no longer available for the spring semester.

Fitts was supposed to be on campus on Jan. 10.

The Trojans didn't pull his scholarship entirely, but deferred him to the fall. However, since Fitts had already graduated high school, he had nowhere to go and didn't want to wait.

“Recruiting man, it’s crazy,” Redlands East Valley coach Kurt Bruich told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. “He’s wanted to go to USC for as long as he can remember and now he feels betrayed. He did everything he was supposed to do from his end and he was a loyal kid. I think they thought because of that loyalty he’d still want to go there. He said to me ‘What am I supposed to do for the next five months?’ It seems shady. I think it seems shady to everyone.”

Consequently, Fitts, who was recruited and offered by several major programs around the country, has decommitted from the Trojans and opened up his recruiting.

Bruich told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that Notre Dame, Washington and UCLA were all back in the mix.

The whole scenario has caused some consternation between Bruich, who runs one of the better programs in the state, and USC. Bruich even took to Twitter on Friday to express his feelings about USC and specifically coach Lane Kiffin.

Recruiting issues like this happen everywhere, but this isn’t exactly the kind of publicity USC needs right now, especially on the heels of an underachieving season, which resulted in a bowl loss to Georgia Tech and a 7-6 record.

GATORAZ · 01-14-2013, 10:22 PM

obsessed ?

swampspring · 01-14-2013, 10:24 PM

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obsessed ?

I'm lost? Explain

Tebowism0823 · 01-14-2013, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by swampspring

I'm lost? Explain

Ignore it.

**lurkingator1** · 01-15-2013, 08:24 AM

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Ignore it.

yeah it would be crazy to post something like this on say a Recruiting board

where most of us are in fact Obsessed

Gatorrick22 · 01-15-2013, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Tebowism0823

Ignore it.

GATORAZ · 01-15-2013, 01:36 PM

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you think thats funny?

**hgators** · 01-14-2013, 10:22 PM

What do you have to do to actually read a yahoo link. I never get the article.

rivergator · 01-14-2013, 10:37 PM

I feel bad for the kid. As for Kiffin, the trail he's leaving is really pretty amazing.

gator07 · 01-14-2013, 10:39 PM

Why would it be unavailable now but available in the fall?

GATORAZ · 01-14-2013, 10:44 PM

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Why would it be unavailable now but available in the fall?

USC is on sanctions they have to stay at 75 scholarships or under at all times.

corpgator · 01-14-2013, 10:56 PM

They also have per year limits and probably could only count a certain number of EE's back to next year. Knowing Lane, he probably couldn't count that high and flubbed it.

demosthenes · 01-14-2013, 11:47 PM

Reeks more of incompetence than shadiness. I'm sure he was the lowest early entry recruit on their board and was told to wait.

BengermanV · 01-14-2013, 11:53 PM

This is pathetic. If I'm a player, I stay as far away from this buffoon as I possibly can.

revthejedi · 01-15-2013, 12:22 AM

Does anything Lane Kiffin do surprise anyone anymore?

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Tebowism0823 · 01-15-2013, 01:09 AM

Lane is a pos and won't make it past next year. His daddy is gone and so is the legacy that is Lane. How his wife puts up with him is the real question. Almost makes you wonder if the money is her main.....never mind.

rpmGator · 01-15-2013, 07:57 AM

When McQuay commited, there was no room at the inn. So they booted the guy they wanted least.

I doubt this will sit well with California recruits. How can they claim to be the best in the nation, while getting one of their own kicked to the curb, so a Florida recruit can have their spot.

Socal has first choice of all the California kids, and still would prefer Florida players when ships get tight.

Don't expect the Cal kids to like it.

**gator1986** · 01-15-2013, 08:06 AM

We will take him! Lol

**luciaboy** · 01-15-2013, 08:08 AM

^^^this, the kid was was last on their list

swampspring · 01-15-2013, 08:34 AM

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^^^this, the kid was was last on their list

You're right, I didn't realize how many high level recruits they had this year. A four star is pretty amazing at any school. So while I admit Lane is a damn good snake oil salesman, he can't do $hit with the product.