not sure the point of the article in terms of recruiting as teams have been raiding so cal for recruits for well over a decade and ohio state, michigan, and notre dame to name a few have been active in california for a long time
heck, miami recruited so cal, ou has had big success the last 10 years, texas has had success, so have other sec schools such as florida and georgia
last year every recruit in the state's top 10 signed with a pac school was 2011 and over the last 4 years 17 of the top 40 kids from california signed east of the rockies
when i read comments about the impact of usc and ucla going to the big 10 on the so cal recruiting i wonder what the heck people who supposedly follow this have been watching. this is akin to people talking about how atm going to the sec opened the door for the sec when they and other conferences have been recruiting nationally for years