Ghosts Of Recruiting Present: USC’s Pick Your Poison Misses

Ghosts of Recruiting -- past, present and future. In the Ghosts of Recruiting Present, we document prominent recruiting makes and misses that changed programs

In the eight years since Pete Carroll arrived in Los Angeles, USC has become THE recruiting power in college football, at one point stringing together five straight consensus No. 1 recruiting classes. They've had a particular knack at pulling in carefully chosen players from outside the state of California who have gone on to big things -- names like Mike Williams, Dwayne Jarrett and Brian Cushing. But they don't get everyone, and it's who they haven't gotten that is a story in itself.