The USC Trojans have built one of the best personnel staffs in the entire country. When a program does that, you can expect to lose some staffers to promotions to other programs.

That happened today, as Assistant Athletic Director of Recruiting Operations Zaire Turner has taken a new role with SMU.

What does this loss mean for USC, and how may they fill the void that she will leave?

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Quote from Zaire Turner: https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/she-helped-usc-land-nations-113511704.html?guccounter=1

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