{"id":652799,"date":"2026-05-19T17:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/652799\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:53:08","slug":"breaking-wr-eli-woodard-decommits-from-usc-trojans-not-budging-on-no-visit-policy-for-committed-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/652799\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: WR Eli Woodard Decommits from USC, Trojans Not Budging on No-Visit Policy for Committed Players"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when you thought nothing could go wrong with USC recruiting, because there have been very few setbacks the last two years, Eli Woodard<\/a> announces his decommitment. We\u2019re told it\u2019s Woodard\u2019s agent driving the plans to take official visits to other schools. <\/p>\n

There had been buzz about Miami coming hard at both Woodard and Quentin Hale<\/a>, but word before yesterday was that nothing was sticking.<\/p>\n

And while this decommitment doesn\u2019t necessarily mean Woodard was about to flip his pledge, he does want to visit other schools. USC was not willing to budge on its no-visit policy for committed players. <\/p>\n

Woodard had seen his stock rise considerably since his USC commitment, and that more than likely resulted in an NIL opportunity greater than USC\u2019s. <\/p>\n

Whether USC was willing to adjust financially, nobody seems entirely certain right now. We do know that Woodard\u2019s family did not expect this development heading into talks with Chad Bowden<\/a> and staff on Monday. <\/p>\n

But what USC clearly was not willing to do was allow a committed player to continue shopping visits around the country. That part appears non-negotiable. USC will not budge on this policy.<\/p>\n

And honestly, that policy has been a major reason USC\u2019s recruiting operation has looked dramatically different over the last 18 months. The Trojans have prioritized alignment, structure, and commitment clarity in ways they simply didn\u2019t previously.<\/p>\n

Most of the time, that approach absolutely works in USC\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n

WeAreSC has been told USC doesn\u2019t plan to pursue a replacement for Woodard at this time. That could change, but the reality is the commitment and reclassification of Roye Oliver<\/a> sort of changed the dynamics of the future USC wide receiver room pretty significantly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just when you thought nothing could go wrong with USC recruiting, because there have been very few setbacks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[223943,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-652799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-eli-woodard-27-chaparral","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}