If the USC investigation was reopened, it would in all probability result in far few sanctions fo USC. The LOI Committee was the chaired by the corrupt Miami AD, Paul Dee, while his school was battling with USC for the #1 recruit in the country. They had a ND committee member passing judgement on USC as well. Still the NCAA, after 4 years of investigating could only find one football player who did anything wrong, and he was being paid by a would-be agent to leave USC early.
For this, USC got about half the effective total sanctions that Penn State did...
losing 45 scholarships instead of 60
losing 2 bowl games instead of 4
Having all Junior and seniors being able to transfer with no 1-year wait period.
Did the football staff cover-up anything? There is zero real evidence they did, except for the cell phone record of a dubious 2 minute phone call at 1:30AM after Reggie Bush's last year from campus. There is no doubt Reggie took money, but this happened at his family home over a 100 miles from campus. The person giving the money was not even an agent. He was a family friend bribing Bush and his family so that he would leave the school a year early and allow him to represent him.
The NCAA added a lot of fluff the their report, but none really had substance. They (after USC self-reported it) found that a Slovenian Tennis player was secretly making phone calls home from the USC athletic office, which allowed them to nail the Trojans with Lack of Institutional control, but most of the national media has now decided, that altough they deserved some sanctions for this, the whole investigation was mainly a witch-hunt to knock USC off their pedestal.
Redd would be a transfer like any other transfer, except he would not have to sit out a year. USC already got one transfer this coming year, and the NCAA had no problem with it. They even granted him a hardship waiver allowing him to play immediately. If USC has room for one more transfer (which they do), then they can take him.
....the downside is that he will probably go pro after this year. With so few scholarships (15), it will be difficult to use one on a player who will only stick around for only one year, instead of getting another 5-star caliber recruit that will help the program for the next 4 years.
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If the USC investigation was reopened, it would in all probability result in far few sanctions fo USC. The LOI Committee was the chaired by the corrupt Miami AD, Paul Dee, while his school was battling with USC for the #1 recruit in the country. They had a ND committee member passing judgement on USC as well. Still the NCAA, after 4 years of investigating could only find one football player who did anything wrong, and he was being paid by a would-be agent to leave USC early.
For this, USC got about half the effective total sanctions that Penn State did...
losing 45 scholarships instead of 60
losing 2 bowl games instead of 4
Having all Junior and seniors being able to transfer with no 1-year wait period.
Did the football staff cover-up anything? There is zero real evidence they did, except for the cell phone record of a dubious 2 minute phone call at 1:30AM after Reggie Bush's last year from campus. There is no doubt Reggie took money, but this happened at his family home over a 100 miles from campus. The person giving the money was not even an agent. He was a family friend bribing Bush and his family so that he would leave the school a year early and allow him to represent him.
The NCAA added a lot of fluff the their report, but none really had substance. They (after USC self-reported it) found that a Slovenian Tennis player was secretly making phone calls home from the USC athletic office, which allowed them to nail the Trojans with Lack of Institutional control, but most of the national media has now decided, that altough they deserved some sanctions for this, the whole investigation was mainly a witch-hunt to knock USC off their pedestal.
Redd would be a transfer like any other transfer, except he would not have to sit out a year. USC already got one transfer this coming year, and the NCAA had no problem with it. They even granted him a hardship waiver allowing him to play immediately. If USC has room for one more transfer (which they do), then they can take him.
....the downside is that he will probably go pro after this year. With so few scholarships (15), it will be difficult to use one on a player who will only stick around for only one year, instead of getting another 5-star caliber recruit that will help the program for the next 4 years.