Mark my words: By the time the 2026 season kicks off, the national narrative about USC being a "skill position school" that can't win in the trenches will be dead. The staff has made interior offensive line their absolute top priority in this 2026 year and I'm hearing the board is deeper than people realize. everybody obsesses over the flashy receiver commits but the real battle right now is about getting two more maulers in the middle of the line before the dead period ends.
The NIL revenue-sharing model capping at $20.5M per school actually helps us here because we can finally compete straight up with the Ohio States and Alabamas for the big bodies instead of getting outspent by bagmen. The crystal ball activity on a couple of our OL targets has been quiet which usually means the staff is playing it close to the vest. Sources close to the porgram say they're confident about at least one silent commit in the interior that hasn't gone public yet.
This is the position group that wil...