Composite Two-Star Recruits: 5-star Xavier Griffin decommits; USC add local LBs Shaun Scott, Taylor Johnson for 2026

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 179 minutes

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The Composite Two-Star Recruits podcast returns to discuss USC adding not one but two local 2026 linebackers in Shaun Scott and Taylor Johnson. The Cilantro Boys also tackle the massive decommitment of 5-star LB Xavier Griffin. TIME STAMPS: 9:14: Cold Open (Hybrid Shaun Scott Commits) 21:40: LB Taylor Johnson Commits 46:53: Updated Top247 Rankings 1:07:16: Xavier Griffin, Kohen Brown Decommit 1:41::12: Recruiting Heat 2:06:04: New Offers, 2027 QB Offer 2:20:47: Listener Questions To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.2	Welcome to Composite 2-star recruits, a USC recruiting podcast with a couple of one-star hosts.
0:39.9	Chris 10K Trevino and Gerard Hurricane Martinez.
0:45.0	Part of the USCFootball.com podcast family.
0:48.7	The cilantro boys talk about everything from commitment breakdowns, game analysis, old recruiting
0:53.8	stories, and of course,
0:55.5	some unsubstantiated rumors. And now, here are your hosts, 18K, and Gerald.
1:14.4	Welcome back to Composite 2-star recruits.
1:20.6	I am your one-star host, Chris Trevino, and as always, joined by my podcasting partner in crime.
1:26.4	One, Gerald Martinez, aka Enter Sandman.
1:33.0	Today, Gerard, I just want to say, before we did this podcast, I had to go make an appearance on a Fresno State podcast around 6 o'clock, did about 45 minutes. I am all
1:40.0	talked out. So I'm going to need you to step up. And for the first time ever, you must carry
1:45.5	this podcast today. Are you ready? Now, the big question is, what were you doing on a Fresno
1:51.0	state podcast? They wanted to talk Matt Ents, Gerard. They wanted to talk about his recruiting
1:57.5	prowess or lack thereof. Lack thereof uh for the bulldogs so just talked a little
2:04.5	coaching little expectations a little recruiting little n il little stuff that matt entz is going to be
2:10.0	dealing with you have changed your name from enter sandman to matt ens thank you for joining the show
2:15.2	coach ens how about mad and ferriamo how's he doing well that's
2:20.5	interesting um yeah the dynamic and it's actually very timely that you bring up matt ins because
2:28.5	USC two linebacker commits this past week and both talking so much about the recruiting prowess
2:37.8	of one Rob Ryan, who we thought would be more like Matt Hintz.
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