For USC and UCLA, a talent pool more shallow than deep
by Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times
Nov 15, 2018
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES_In terms of elite draft-eligible NFL prospects, there's a good balance this year between USC and UCLA.
Neither school has any.
Some of the players who will take the field at the Rose Bowl on Saturday will wind up playing on Sundays, but not very many relative to years past. It's unusual for both Los Angeles schools to be in a simultaneous down cycle, but that's the case now, with no marquee talent causing pro evaluators to stare at their stopwatches and blink back disbelief.
Even with the glory days of USC's Pete Carroll a fading memory, the schools
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