The sky is falling! USC’s football fortunes are an angry icy snowball steadily rolling downhill to form an avalanche the likes of which Trojan faithful have never seen, largely because they live in Southern California! And star players of the disgraced squad are jumping ship left and right!
...well, a player, anyway, one Jarvis Jones, a linebacker who’s departing for reasons of medical clearance, but whatever. And he’s jumping about as far to the right as he can get, choosing his home-state Georgia Bulldogs for his neck’s second act:
Chicken Littles, Start Your Engines: USC LB Jarvis Jones Transferring To Georgia
Jones, then a freshman linebacker, sprained his neck in the Trojans’ eighth game last season and had to sit out the rest of the year. USC doctors subsequently would not clear Jones for spring practice this year.
McGee said Jones sought a second and third opinion and was told he should be able to continue his career but the Trojans still relented. He finally asked for and was granted a release from USC.
A welcome addition in Athens, to be sure -- when he was healthy, Jones was quite the talent off the line, and saw field action for most of his freshman year. But methinks Georgia fans will be just as content to have him on the sidelines during his mandated sit-out year, a little screw-you talisman to remind them of the brassy whippersnapper of a coach who once hung a cool 45 on the Dawgs at home.
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