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USC football recruiting: Are three-star players the problem?

It’s June, which means it’s time for the annual tradition of debating three-star recruits.

Every offseason, USC football extends scholarship offers to players who stand out at their camps, often prospects who aren’t particularly highly-rated by recruiting services.

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And every year those three-star players jump on the chance to play in cardinal and gold, putting their name down as a pledge far sooner than five and four-star prospects have the urgency to do.

And when that happens each year, a certain segment of fans stresses over USC “settling” for lesser three-star prospects.