You are all about making excuses for this staff and it doesn't even matter the subject. His roommate was being accused of sexual assault (twice) and his name was being brought through the mud on both local and national media. How quickly should they have acted?
As far as reported on a television in a national forum on ESPN, CBSSports, and at least the SEC Network (just a quick search). In the written national media USA Today, ESPN, CBS, Rivals, Yahoo, etc...
Now the story of him choosing Oregon and then switching to USC did get more time span of air, because of the time frame it took 2 months and how quickly Florida choose to release Jones and allowing Steele to leave his LOI without penalty. But if you were his parent, you name is being dragged through the mud by association of a roommate you didn't choose, how quickly would you want that change.