well thats one stud RB down from their stable, forty eight more to go...

Now if only there had been a cover with Patrick Ramsey, Mark Brunell and Tim Hasselback all together.

Only a month until football and I'm already in despair.

More VHTs where that came from...

Pete Carroll is neither pumped nor jacked.

And forgo all the STDs Kim Kardashian has to offer?

More pussy for us!

-The other two guys.

as long as this guy refrains from committing a triple homicide, this move would still qualify for, at worst, the 2nd worse thing a USC running back has ever done.

We'd almost call this the second worst SI cover of the last three-plus years...

Hey man, everything is going to be different for Telfair now that he is a Minn....

Ahhh fuck it.

@pr0ff3ss0r_j3rkwh3at: Didn't you get the douchebag memo? We don't call people studs anymore.

Add it to the highlight reel

You know what's awesome? Those SI.com articles that say something like "Top 20 College football Players," but they only have 1 per "page" and you have to click 20 times and wast 10 minutes to see them all. That's awesome!

@ChucklingAtTheDead:

It's still pre-season and your a Redskins fan...and you don't have them winning the NFC?

459 rushing yards? Well, at least if he's leaving, he can't get very far.

It might have made a bit more sense to put Joe McKnight on the cover if they had to have a Southern Cal back -- he actually is one of the few to say he wasn't going to transfer.

Wow, I forgot that once upon a Jake Delhomme could get a mention on the cover of SI.

I can't wait to see other uses of the see ya suckers tag

@pr0ff3ss0r_j3rkwh3at: I think I read an article where they seriously said that USC is 10-deep at the RB position this year. A lot of other schools could do that too if they played in beautiful weather, had unbelievably gorgeous women on their campus and gave their recruits houses. Woops.

@BigTDog: Why only the NFC? Why not the Super Bowl?*

*Even I don't know if I'm kidding or not...

@Hustler of Culture: Perhaps during the "Great Deadspin Commenter Purge of Aught-Seven"?

@BigTDog: It's such a down year, Skins fans think that they'll only win two Super Bowls this year.

@Weed Against Speed: Wasn't that the Chris Benoit post?

He didn't transfer, he was drafted by Unsilent Majority.

To be fair when splitting time with 19 other backs, 459 yards is pretty good.

If you are a RB and USC is recruting you, you are probably really bad at math. Either that or Pete Carroll is a Jedi.

Or both.

If he feels forgotten-about now, I wonder how he'll feel after sitting out a season because of the transfer.

@BigTDog:

I've spent far too long as a suffering Skins fan and a Detroit Tigers fan to expect anything besides misery, despair and attempting to hang myself with a weight set by week 7 when they've scored a grand total of 26 points.

@preciousroy: If USC is recruiting you, it's likely you're really bad at anumber of high school subjects, not just math. Not that it really matters much to them.

@PenskeMaterial:
I didnt think USC was alone in that category.

We'd almost call this the second worst SI cover of the last three-plus years.

Wrong. I couldn't find a link, but there's one of MV#7, still at VT, with lightning bolts in the background. KSK has it somewhere.

@xhack: As a shirt-tail Trojan -- brother's an alum -- I resent that implication.

@Nationalcoholic: methinks a certain Sports Guy isn't comfortable with his own sexuality.

@PenskeMaterial: USC football recruits aren't that bad at math. They can count just fine: 1, 5, 10, 20, 100, M.....

I heard he would've transferred to BC, but for the rampant racism.

I don't get why Moody would want to sever ties with CFB's greatest humanitarian.

@Shoopmonster: Here ya go:

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@Disgruntled Goat: The "Mr. Electric" bit is definitely packed with irony.

@Disgruntled Goat: Thanks. My work computer has to be a circa 1998 model.

@Dave Ryan: Roman numerals at the end?

Wait, maybe it's the Big Ten homer in me, but wouldn't 7-5 get the Illini into the Champs Sports Bowl or at worst, the Motor City Bowl.

Oh, there's a USC issue here, carry on.

I thought the Global warming cover with Dontrelle standing in water knee deep was a little ridiculous. Actually, a lot ridiculous.

@GTB: Every Jake gets on the cover of SI, bad things happen. I'd prefer John Kasay kicking a winning FG in the superbowl.

I don't think Mr. Hardaway would be a big fan of that cover.

@Shoopmonster:
FYI Y2K is not even close to the last three years. I don't think it qualifies for 3+ either.

That said seeing Nebraska is #1 on that cover makes me smile. Good to see SI nailed another one.

Why so much hate for SI around here? They still provide the best, most in-depth sports reporting around. Must be because they're "old media"?

@LostinTheOffice: I thought of that, but it could be a very big +.

@Technicolor Jan Stenerud: Once you're past $100, it's $1M, $2M, $3M....

@jose reyes.the roof: Yes. Of course. After the Ray Allen thread this morning, I should have learned better than to make broad generalizations.

@Jen P: For some reason, that made me laught my ass off. I love it.

As for the whole "worst SI cover" thing, if we take it a few years further back we get THIS lovely cover...

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/shivers

@Shoopmonster:

The Jeff Franceour cover was pretty brutal too.

@Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee: This cover explored the shirtless theme first. Canadians are so proud of him...

@PenskeMaterial:

What about the Brady Anderson shirtless "no way I'm on steroids" cover?

@Christ Sabo: Sabo, I still really like SI and realized today that I am entering my 21st year as a subscriber.

Does his mom have to move out too?

Felipe Lopez says to Sebastian Telfair, "1994 called, it wants it's cover back."

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