and before moving here, I wondered why any midwest football player would ever pass up a USC scholarship. After visiting the USC campus and going to the USC Oregon game, I understand why.

While the Collisuem is a great place for a game and the USC campus is really nice, the atmosphere at the game and the city surrounding the campus leaves something to be desired. I grew up seeing campuses like MSU’s, Michigan’s, and Wisconsin’s – big, safe campuses tucked into modestly sized cities – cities that obsess over their schools. USC, on the other hand, is a small campus tucked into a not-so-nice area of Los Angeles – only a portion of which cares about USC. Yes, there are palm trees, but most of them are inside of the heavily gated/guarded campus, while car dealerships and fast food restuarants line the busy streets surrounding the campus.

I don’t meant to rag on USC here – it’s a great school, don’t get me wrong. Plus, it was 80 degrees on halloween… I’m just saying that after going there, I could see why a midwest player may pass up a scholarship, just in case any other TOC readers are as afraid of a USC offer as I used to be. Of course, Arnett may not agree with me on this at all. I have no insight there.

The freep ran a story a while back about the potential impact MSU’s (at the time) undefeated season could be having on recruiting. The article talked about how they had already signed 16 recruits and were now focusing on a handful of players for their remaining 4 or 5 spots in this class. I can’t find the link, but I believe they have 7-8 higher level targets they are trying to lock up with their remaining spots. At least that was the tone of the article that I remember

That he seems to enjoy playing around on twitter. Don’t know why a kid would call a press conference and then announce it this way over twitter. We’ll see what happens

He’s clearly making a mockery of the entire thing. The kid loves the attention, that’s for sure.

My guess is that he’s going to post one of these videos switching to Cal next.

Then another switching to UT.

Then announce tomorrow night that he’s going to play at MSU.

But you don’t wear an OSU sweatshirt in your video to announce you’re going to UM. And you don’t say that Lane Kiffin is the greatest coach ever and reminds you of Jimmy Johnson. Or that Denard Robinson is going to win the Heisman. All while some idiot is screaming how it’s a monumental decision in the background and playing the whole thing up for drama. Not if you want people to take you seriously anyway.

All that being said, the more he turns this into an attention getting circus the less I care if he picks MSU.