Long before he became a premier dual-threat quarterback at Harbor City Narbonne High and a two-time Los Angeles City Section Division I player of the year, long before Carson native Troy Williams began to draw attention from a dozen schools around the country, he had eyes only for USC.
As it turned out, the interest wasn’t mutual.
“Of course, growing up an L.A. kid, I was a huge SC fan. I watched them every weekend,” he said. “It was every kid’s dream in L.A. to go to SC or UCLA. It was a dream of mine, but I wasn’t recruited by them and it kind of puts a little extra fire in me.