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Originally Posted by valo403
The difference with those schools is that their players weren't hyped up beyond belief for years regardless of their actual NFL capabilities. USC players in the mid 2000's were routinely talked about as if they were locks for the hall of fame, and teams seemed to be falling for it. There were without a doubt a number of good players to come out of USC during that period, the talent level there was incredible, but there will also a lot of guys who were made out to be much more than they were.
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No argument here that many media types were gushing uncontrollably about Trojan players for a while and certainly some of them deerved it while others didnt, but again thats only media hype. Every successful school will see guys taken in the draft that shouldnt be...just part of the way the system works.
Again though...the argument was made that teams shouldnt use "good picks" on USC players....and thats simply ridiculous. USC routinely offers as many NFL caliber players as anyone else depending where they are at in the cyclical nature of NCAA programs.