USC by the numbers: In which Lane Kiffin successfully staves off scholarship shock
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It took long enough, thanks to an protracted appeals process, but the heavy-handed scholarship restrictions the NCAA dropped on USC in July 2010 are coming home to roost: The Trojans' first recruiting class under the sanctions consisted of just 17 players, the smallest crop in the Pac-12, only a dozen of whom will even count against the reduced 2012 cap. (The other five are early enrollees, who will be counted as part of the unsanctioned 2011 class.) By the start of the season, the roster will have to be culled to 75 scholarship players, ten below the usual limit.
So how ...