USC Athletic Director Mike Bohn, who hired Lincoln Riley, resigns

Bohn, who hired Riley and was part of #USC’s earth-shaking move to the #B1G, steps down in a seismic development.

This came out of nowhere, much as the Lincoln Riley hire came out of nowhere. Say this much for Mike Bohn: He doesn’t leak details and he keeps things quiet. No one saw this coming, much as no one saw the Lincoln Riley hire coming until the morning when it happened: Bohn, the director of athletics at USC who hired Riley and other elite coaches, resigned on Friday.

While USC, the Pac-12, and everyone else associated with college sports tries to digest this highly important and completely unanticipated development, we will start by simply noting what Bohn himself has said, followed by noting his central accomplishments at USC: