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He wants to spend less time with his family.

Long overdue. I've always hated his bend-and-just-keep-bending passive defenses at USC, until this season they went completely off the rails. I would imagine that next season will be Lane's last, too, unless there's a dramatic about-face.

And there's no reason to suspect there will be.

Judge is also a USC grad. Things that make you go hmmmmm.

And I don’t see why a ruling in a civil matter would affect the NCAA’s administrative ruling at all. The ruling, if I read it correctly, was denying a motion to dismiss in McNair’s defamation case. That has no impact on USC’s punishment with the NCAA.

And Patrick was opining, much like you, that USC should take a full allotment of scholarships this year. If Haden told Kiffin to take a full class, I can see why he failed the CA bar exam, twice.