Another day and another negative headline for the USC Trojans.

Former USC Trojans defensive quality control assistant Rick Courtright alleged in a lawsuit Monday that undergraduate students were paid to pose as graduate assistants from the team to take online classes and receive graduate degrees, according to a report by the LATimes.com.

Courtright alleges that he overheard graduate assistants Brett Arce and Austin Clark discuss with DC Clancy Pendergast to pay students to take online classes for them. The lawsuit says that Courtright later witnessed Penergast hand cash to Clark, who passed it to one of the students.

“Upon witnessing these events, Courtright believed that the actions of Pendergast and the Graduate Assistants violated state and federal laws and regulations including academic fraud and fraud with the NCAA,” the complaint said.

Courtright reported the allegations to USC’s compliance office, as well as filing an anonymous complaint with the school.

The lawsuit alleges that USC head coach Clay Helton later gave Courtright the option of resigning or being fired, which Courtright took the option to resign. The former USC assistant is now suing the school for at least $2 million in damages.

“Courtright is informed and believes that USC banned him from the football department so that he would no longer be privy to multiple illegal activities in the department and therefore would not be able to report these activities,” the lawsuit said.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens with these allegations, as USC is already somewhat of a mess under Helton.