Bear Alexander exit reaffirms the need for Lincoln Riley to recruit true Trojans

USC football fans aren’t going to miss Bear Alexander for one simple reason: He didn’t really want to be a Trojan. He was immersed in his own personal dramas more than in the quest to make USC better. Bear Alexander tweeted about the need to free himself, to get more snaps and more overall playing time. Bear Alexander, who has chosen to redshirt and enter the transfer portal, is thinking about himself. Not that it’s a problem to think about oneself — that alone is not problematic. However, USC is trying to compete and pursue a Big Ten championship right now. Bear Alexander had a full offsseason in which he could have made choices about where to play and what he wanted to become. Now, the season is underway. This is a distraction for USC and an interruption of the flow of the season. Bear Alexander has become the story at USC in a week when the team and the football program have a lot of work to do in bouncing back from the loss to Michigan. Lincoln Riley needs to recruit true Trojans for all the obvious reasons. One is to avoid bringing aboard players who will be a distraction the way Bear Alexander was at USC.

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