USC's 2013 football class continues to grow. (updated)

A few weeks ago, two top running backs (Ty Isaac and Justin Davis) committed within days of each other, to USC.  Once again, the Trojans have received near-back to back verbal commits.

Last week Wednesday, the top safety Su'a Cravens committed to USC on his mother's birthday, and today Rivals #9 wide receiver Steven Mitchell committed to the Trojans.

Nine commits, none lower than #141 on Rivals; #177 on ESPN; #215 on 247 Sports.  Scout has USC's current class at an average 4.56 rating (Rivals has USC's class at 4.33 average).  To put Scout's rating into perspective, #1 overall Michigan has an average rating of 3.86, and #2 Georgia has 3.30.

Right now, if only seniors on the current squad were to leave next January, then USC would only have 14 scholarships available to hand out, in order to keep under the 75 sanction cap.  That means that at the least, USC has just 5 more scholarships available.  Because USC fell 3 scholarships short of the normal cap for last year's recruiting class, at the most USC would have 9 scholarships left to give out, (15+3 = 18  |   18 - 9 = 9).

So somewhere between 5 and 9 scholarships remain available.  But until those juniors announce their intentions in January, you'd expect recruiting to stick at the hard cap of 5 scholarships left, yes?

Hurry!  While supplies last!  :O

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Quick update: I just wanted to point out, we're starting to see what happens when you stall.

According to Scott Wolf of InsideUSC, Darrell Daniels was ready to commit, and would have committed yesterday (Sunday) at on-campus USC skills camp, but then that offer for Steven Mitchell came, and Mitchell didn't sit on the offer -- he verbally committed on the spot.  Thus USC may have filled its needs at receiver, leaving Daniels on the outside looking in.  Daniels now has a chip on his shoulder:

“@ThrowDubsUp @Drinkmysuccess @sonny_alvarez Oh for sure! Darrell is the best WR in this class! Neither of SCs WRs come close!!”

 Don't lose out on a valuable scholarship!  So what if you're ranked higher -- if you want to go to USC, but are holding out, don't be surprised when your slot is taken up by someone else eager to get in.  With the scholarship limits, no player is entitled to an open slot all the way to LOI signing day in February.

USC is going to try to fill the 14 slots of graduating seniors immediately, and only if/when juniors start announcing that they're leaving early, will space open up.

You are not entitled to anything.