Sherer,
USC does and has recruited instate. Dreher's Mike Harman, Irmo's Marty Baltzenger, Chuck Prosser, Joel Conkle, Ridgeview's Anthony Stovall to name a few from this Columbia area. Others were heavily recruited to USC but wanted to go elsewhere or didn't have the scores/grades to get in to USC. Usually, if you're good enough to play at South Carolina, you're also being recruited by Wake, Duke, Clemson, North Carolina, Virginia, etc. Where would you rather go...play for an independent or play in the ACC?