Purely in terms of on-field results — not internal office behavior or other administrative evaluations — Mike Bohn did improve USC athletics, particularly the football program. Hiring Lincoln Riley undeniably transformed the Trojans from irrelevant to relevant in a very short period of time.
As USC tries to adjust to the reality that Bohn is no longer the school’s athletic director after his resignation on Friday, one basic fact is impossible to ignore: Brandon Sosna, Bohn’s former associate at USC before he left for the NFL’s Detroit Lions, will be mentioned as a possible candidate for the job.
It might be premature to say he’s the favorite, if only because he has to want the job and USC has to want to give him the job. We don’t know yet if either part of that equation has any substance to it. We’ll have to wait and see. If, however, the interest in the job is mutual on both sides, Sosna would then become the favorite.
Let’s discuss this point a little more: