USC trolls Oregon, Dan Lanning's pool jump with 'Anchorman' commitment alert

Landing a large clip enlistee tends to marque waves successful the assemblage shot world. In the lawsuit of the USC Trojans' caller landing of four-star choky extremity Mark Bowman, those waves came successful a pool.

On Friday afternoon, Bowman announced his committedness to the Trojans. USC signaled the announcement was coming with a station of its ain -- and an evident troll of Oregon Ducks caput manager Dan Lanning.

Earlier successful May, Lanning went viral for his relation successful a committedness announcement for five-star antiaircraft extremity Richard Wesley. He jumped successful a pool with Wesley arsenic portion of the coveted prospect's commitment to the Ducks.

On Tuesday, Wesley announced he would beryllium decommitting from Oregon.

The Trojans enactment their rotation connected Lanning's excavation leap saga. They posted a clip from "Anchorman" successful which histrion Will Ferrell -- a USC alum -- cannonballs into a pool.

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The audio of the archetypal clip was replaced by USC's combat opus arsenic Ferrell took formation toward the pool, with the video segueing into a clip of the Trojans' two-fingered "fight on" motion and the text, "We got him."

Bowman, a 6-foot-5, 225-pound enlistee from Mater Dei High School successful Santa Ana, California, is rated arsenic the No. 24 wide subordinate in the 2026 ESPN 300 and ranks arsenic the No. 3 choky extremity imaginable successful the class.

He joins a USC recruiting people that currently checks successful as ESPN's top-ranked radical successful the state for 2026.