Dillon Baxter Dismissed By San Diego State After Transferring From USC

Baxter was being held out of spring practice at SDSU for a “variety of things” that happened since his enrollment, according to Aztecs head coach Rocky Long last week. At the time, Long said there was a good chance Baxter would be back with the team.

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Baxter did not travel with the team to Notre Dame last week, which head coach Lane Kiffin later said was because of the player’s grades.

“After speaking with Coach (Lane) Kiffin, we decided it was better to part ways,” Anthony Mooney, Baxter’s stepfather, told the OC Register on Thursday. “It was an amicable situation that was better for Dillon and for USC. We want to thank everyone at the university for the opportunity and support they gave to Dillon while he was there. Unfortunately, it just didn’t work out. It just wasn’t a match at this point.”

Baxter has been mixed up in many a situation since stepping onto the Los Angeles campus. There was the agent thing, the making-stuff-up thing and now this. The once-heralded recruit has produced 355 yards from scrimmage in scattered appearances, but evidently nothing that would make it worth putting up with his various adventures.

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As for the reason for his absence, Baxter was mum on Friday.

Whether this is a sign of even more trouble -- Baxter’s parents reportedly met with Kiffin and complained about his playing time -- or is a non-issue remains to be seen. And with nobody talking, it’s unlikely we’ll know more until after the game or next week.

The NFLPA’s Committee on Agent Regulation and Discipline (CARD) revoked the Certification of NFLPA Contract Advisor Teague Egan today for violating numerous provisions of the NFLPA’s Agent Regulations when he provided an improper benefit under NCAA rules by giving University of Southern California player Dillon Baxter a ride in his company’s golf cart, resulting in Baxter being suspended for USC’s game against Oregon State in November. He did so after being advised by USC officials the week before that giving such rides was an improper benefit under NCAA rules. He also is alleged to have placed misleading information on his agency’s website about his relationship with a Southern California attorney.

Under the Regulations, Egan now has the opportunity to have an expedited appeal if he so chooses.

Appeals process or no, it’s hard to imagine the NFLPA reversing field on this decision, not with cleanup efforts in college football so publicly ongoing. Without it, Teague Egan is once again just some sterling prat with a golf cart. And after one look at this video, it’s hard to argue that’s about what he deserves. Join the yub-yub party at Conquest Chronicles.

Baxter reportedly asked Egan for a ride to the student health center after feeling dehydrated on Thursday. He told the USC cmpliance office that he knew Egan, but did not know he was a registered agent. For now, Baxter is ineligible, though a USC compliance officer told the LA Times he expects Baxter to have his eligibility restored pending a charity donation for the value of the ride.

The company was founded in June of 2009, while Campbell was still on the USC football team. On the 1st Round website, Egan’s bio touts his relationships with USC athletes.

Back in July, we wondered, “Who’s lying in the curious case of Dillon Baxter?” The guilty party, as it turns out, looks to be Baxter himself. Suspended for USC’s season opener for reasons that went coquettishly unexpressed by both Baxter and his coaches, Baxter’s name has been bandied about by a vague source as the busted player in an equally vague student housing “controlled substance” report. [game show host voice] But that’s not all!

Weeks before that went down, it turns out, there was this highly captivating document, obtained by the File Blog, that showed Baxter’s been in hot water for a while now:

Lo! The Dillon Baxter saga does get more interesting! Now, this is coming from a Florida site, so take it with whatever seems an appropriate dosage of caution, but the word now is that Baxter contacted the Gators, not the other way around:

GatorCountry.com has learned that Florida not only didn’t contact Baxter but, in fact, Baxter had contacted UF saying he was going to decommit to USC while assistant coach Brian White was in California recruiting.Compounding all this is the convenient fact that Baxter seems to have lost the phone used for whatever contact took place. SBN’s Conquest Chronicles discusses whether Baxter may face disciplinary action if his actual role in all this is ever sussed out.

Hey, internet, remember that thing, with USC’s newest show pony Dillon Baxter allegedly being contacted by five schools for illegal recruiting purposes in the wake of the NCAA sanctions report against the Trojans? Remember how that was a big deal a month ago, with poachers circling the harpooned USC program, and then it all just sort of went away? That going away happened in large part because there wasn’t any there there:

In the letter -- which was dated July 1 and seen by ESPN -- Garrett wrote that he spoke with Baxter and “he has now confirmed that he did not receive a call from your institution. Therefore, USC has no intention of pursuing this matter further.The institution mentioned is Florida, and the other involved programs have received similar apologies. The question that remains is what actually happened, seeing as how it was reportedly Baxter’s own words that got this whole ball of fish rolling, and Baxter’s words that ceased hostilities. But the winner here, of course, is Fresno State’s Pat Hill, whose program never had the wobbly knees to issue a denial in the first place, and who remains ice cold gangsta by any human standards.

On Friday, news broke that USC freshman running back/wide receiver Dillon Baxter reported illegal contact from five football programs -- Washington, Florida, Alabama, Oregon, and Fresno State. According to the Seattle Times’ Bob Condotta, four of these schools have denied Baxter’s claim.

As of this writing, it doesn’t appear as though Fresno State has issued a statement yet.

Dillon Baxter, an incoming USC freshman, is a running back/wide receiver hybrid who’s inspired optimism among USC fans. And as a freshman, teams aren’t allowed to initiate contact with him. However, Baxter himself told his compliance department that once the penalties leveled at USC came to light, five different schools contacted him.

In a series of tweets on Friday evening, ESPN’s Joe Schad reported: