USC gets commitment from 13-year-old QB
USC has received a verbal commitment for the Class of 2015, multiple outlets reported.
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L.A. Times: USC's first commitment ... for '15 Delaware News Journal: Sills commits to USC Feb. 13, 2009: Dodd: Sills' ascent under way |
Dennis DoddQuarterback David Sills, 13, has been highly touted since beginning training with renowned QB coach Steve Clarkson in California. Sills currently is a seventh-grader at Red Lion Christian Academy in Bear, Del.
"It's always been my dream to go to USC," Sills told the Los Angeles Times.
Coach Lane Kiffin reportedly offered the scholarship just before Sills pledged to be a Trojan.
The Times said the offer came about by way of Steve Clarkson, a private quarterbacks coach who tutors Sills and also has coached Matt Leinart, Jimmy Clausen and Matt Barkley, among others.
Clarkson said he phoned Kiffin on Thursday to inform him that one of his other pupils had received a scholarship offer from Florida.
"While we were talking, I said, 'I'm going to give you the scoop on a kid,'" Clarkson told the newspaper.
