Lamont Paris had been thinking about it for about a month. He even told the active players on the roster, somewhat as a threat due to their play, that if he had to do it, he was going to do it.

USC now has 13 active players on its roster.

Initially, Lamont Walker II was not a theater person. He comes from a family of athletes but when a friend of his father’s needed some boys to fill out a local stage production, Walker went along and ...