For the first time in five years, USC will field a roster not decimated by sanctions in 2015. The fallout from the Reggie Bush-fueled NCAA witch hunt is all but gone, and the Trojans can finally get on with their collective football life. But as they move forward from sanctions, it's important not to forget their past. Otherwise they run the risk of repeating it, which is exactly what they've been doing for more than a century.
While 2010's NCAA penalties were easily the worst ever imposed upon the school, they were hardly the first. USC has been sanctioned five times since the NCAA began penalizing schools in 1953.