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Serious question, aren’t you usually a child of a former player to be considered a legacy? I thought Keyshawn was his uncle, but did his dad play at USC?
You’re right that legacy admissions are typically straight line familial relationships like parents/siblings/grandparents. In a family like the Matthews’s etc. uncles can count, and at a school like USC when the familial relationship is an SC hall of famer - Keyshawn Johnson - who is running your recruitment and pushing the school to take you, you’re a legacy (SC didn’t take Keyshawn Jr. either thankfully.)
Michael thomas grew up 20 miles from SC’s campus, asked SC to let him commit, and is cousins with DeAnthony Thomas. The fact we whiffed on both still makes me salty.