Recent content by ryoder1

USC is one of the most expensive schools. Their tuition is around $70K and then room and board is another $20-$25K. Point being there is no lack of excessive tuition rolling in so ironic that they are struggling with cash flow. It is likely that where this is headed is dropping some non...

You forgot the most important one - Allar! We need him to go from solid to elite. If he does not have significant improvement versus the top end of our schedule and into the playoffs then we will have a disappointing year.

Did Speca play in the Blue White game? Maybe he is a wildcard that really can help us. Who on the staff has been touting him?

Wylie and Campbell have to step up and produce at LB. Otherwise that will be a weakness for us where we will get exposed. I think Cambbell will be solid and hopefully as good as Kobe King. I don't know about Wylie coming off injury and completely unproven. Specca and other young guys? Not...

Warren is another example of a game changer we had that no one else really thought was going to be a special talent. He obviously played like a 5 star last season. I agree that Franklin has a good eye for talent and probably more the assistants versus him can also develop that talent. We...

Have high hopes for Grunk although Smolik has challenged him but hopefully both are very good. Grunk was highly rated as is Huhn.

Great points and a good reason why you can't take all these ratings as absolute fact. Yes they are accurate for the most part but this example with Sieg is good. Also how does Huhn drop? That seems suspect. In my opinion we need to step up the D Line recruiting. Second would be WR...

I knew Harley was a good player, I meant this Wisky commit at an 87 rating if we flip him then it is an unknown what we have. If we get him I hope he is underrated. We are getting beaten out for many 4 star guys and all 5 stars, especially linemen because of NIL. We need to adjust for this...

We need him to do better than "OK" if we want to make any kind of serious threat to win the NC. I did not know that about the new Iowa QB transfer. All the more reason we better be ready to play there. I am more concerned about that game than the Oregon game. Franklin has done pretty well...

I forgot about Harley at DE. At an 87 ranking we can hope he is underrated or we do a great job developing him. We need to start getting more legit 4 star D linemen.

Franklin may be good at developing talent but he is also good at having them not play well in the biggest games biggest moments.

Do we need him that desperately? We have 2 DTs but only 1 EDGE in '26.

Why didn't we go after him harder earlier? At an 87 he is not that highly ranked and actually is probably bottom third of our current '26 players rankings.

87 247 composite. I guess it would be nice to flip him but how good is he? Did we even recruit him hard earlier? Why now?

I am reserving judgment on the WRs until after Oregon. All the games before that are versus JV patsies and won't tell us anything of real significance.