Carroll to conduct seminar for draft-eligible players in December. Possible early-entrants: Reggie Bush, LenDale White, Winston Justice, Steve Smith, Darnell Bing and Lawrence Jackson. “I’ve talked to all of the guys to let them know it’s OK to talk about it,” Carroll said.

Mike Williams: “I have all the money, I’m a pro athlete and I’m where I want to be on the big stage,” Williams said in a telephone interview. “Still, I was talking to [Lion quarterback] Joey Harrington and I was saying, ‘Man, we’re young, we’re rich and this and that and the other, but I still remember the days when I went to practice and went back home to the apartment with [defensive lineman] Frostee Rucker … getting ready for UCLA. I miss that.”

“I regret leaving school and I really didn’t understand that Coach Carroll and Coach [Lane Kiffin] and those guys had my best interest in mind. I was thinking, ‘They want me to stay because it helped them.’ “

The players will have till mid-January to decide whether or not to delcare for the April 2006 draft. Of couse there’s a chance to go in the supplemental draft too (a la Many Wright).

[LA Times via Alexis Jones]