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NCAA expert on USC predicament: Existence of smoke doesn’t mean there’s an inferno | The State

South Carolina’s last chance this season to play under the 2017 Final Four banner that hangs at Colonial Life Arena comes Wednesday night against LSU. Of course, returning USC players will have a similar opportunity in November when the Gamecocks begin the 2018-19 campaign.

At least that’s how one prominent sports attorney sees the immediate future for Frank Martin’s program.

Don Jackson heads The Sports Group, a law firm based in Montgomery, Alabama. A former pitcher at Alabama State University, Jackson has a long history of representing college players – including Mississippi State basketball players Mario Austin and Renardo Sidney – and coaches – including Tennessee’s Donnie Tyndall and Binghampton’s Kevin Broadus – in NCAA-related matters

He, too, read Friday’s Yahoo Sports report that listed former USC player P.