{"id":21308,"date":"2011-12-22T14:05:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T21:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=21308"},"modified":"2011-12-22T14:36:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T21:36:16","slug":"breaking-news-barkley-to-return-to-usc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=21308","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News! Barkley to Return to USC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21313\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21313\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21313\" title=\"MATT BARKLEY\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MATT-BARKLEY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Barkley will return for his senior season <\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Los Angeles) &#8211; USC Quarterback Matt Barkley announced Thursday at Heritage Hall that\u00a0he will return for his senior season at USC and forgo\u00a0the NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Barkley\u00a0threw for 39 touchdowns and 3528 yards In 2011 and has thrown\u00a0for 80 touchdowns in his three year college career.\u00a0The Trojans\u00a0finished 10-2\u00a0inlcuding a 50-0 rout of UCLA\u00a0in the final game of the season. Many had speculated that Barkley would declare for the draft and that he could possibly be a top 5 pick.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley\u00a0joins safety T.J. McDonald, who said yesterday\u00a0that he would also come back for his final season.\u00a0Earlier this month OT Matt Kalil and defensive end Nick Perry\u00a0declared for the 2012 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 2012\u00a0football team has some serious unfinished business to attend to. And I intend to\u00a0be part of that,&#8221; Barkley said in his announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Los Angeles) &#8211; USC Quarterback Matt Barkley announced Thursday at Heritage Hall that\u00a0he will return for his senior season at USC and forgo\u00a0the NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21308"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21318,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21308\/revisions\/21318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}