Safety Hylton Stubbs decommits from USC as the hits just keep coming

This is getting very old very quickly. Another USC football recruit who had committed to the Trojans in March of 2024 has decommitted from the program before the end of June. This time it’s safety Hylton Stubbs, a four-star safety from Jacksonville.

The excruciating aspect of this decommitment, on the heels of other recent decommitments from Justus Terry and Isaiah Gibson, is that the USC coaching staff earned commitments from players. That takes work. That takes time. That takes a certain level of skill. It would be one thing if the coaching staff wasn’t even getting commitments in the first place. That would indicate USC was really falling short and wasn’t even making a good first impression on recruits. This is yet another example of a recruit making a commitment to USC but then, in a three-month period of time, changing his mind. What is it about a three-month period which changes the equation? We are all left to guess and speculate, but it’s not as though the coaching staff isn’t getting in the door with these recruits. They are being sold on USC but are then being swayed. That carries an extra sting. The staff is doing its job, but the larger apparatus isn’t producing retained recruits who sign after they make their commitment.

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