USC’s new GM doesn’t foresee power struggle with Lincoln Riley

When he lived in Los Angeles before, Chad Boden worked at one point as a distance marketer. He was eighteen years old at the time, when he made calls to Google Ad Services based in the Flynt Building in Beverly Hills. Every day, hundreds of times a day, people on the other line will find colored ways to share their dissatisfaction with his hearing.

It was a job of thanks. For a while, he wore it emotionally. But “it was the greatest experience.”

It turned out, as Bodin later turned out, was the ideal training for a major university football profession.

“Because I am accustomed to people telling me no, and trying to make them say yes,” says Budin.

This condemnation is part of the reason that Bodin has risen so quickly through the ranks of the front office and why USC made him one of the highest employees of the country’s employees in late January, when he brought it out for Nuradam with a salary of seven numbers.

But at the University of Southern California, he did not have to do a lot of persuasion in the first six weeks. Since his first conversations with coach Lincoln Riley and sports director Jennifer Cohen, it was clear to Bodin that they believed in his vision of what Usc could become – and will provide resources to achieve this.

These factors were not always in its full control in Notre Dame.

“I knew that I was coming to the University of Southern California, within an hour, I spoke to Jin and Lincolen and expressed my aspirations and what I think university football will be and how I would like to be in that new era,” Budin said. “They shared a lot of ideas themselves as I did.”

This is a great reason for choosing a great position. Because I felt this was better. “

Since then, his arrival at the University of Southern California has been built as one of the largest football movements in the college so far. But while Cohen and Riley have escaped from the new general manager, no one seems happier about these new circumstances than Budin.

He says every morning, he says, he looks at his wardrobe filled with cardinal and gold clothes and has to cook himself.

“I always felt that USC was the sleeper giant of university football, and I remember that I was thinking if I got this opportunity, deep, I want to take it because I know what this place could do.”

He was pleased with Cohen, who was called “Freen” and “Best [athletic director] In the country. “He felt overwhelmed with Riley, who says” he can do everything, “including a medium balsamic meat slice, he was still thinking after weeks.

Where there were fears in the past about the presence of sufficient resources in USC to compete with other blue blood, Budin says he has no concern.

USC “will not slow down” by the era of new revenue sharing, confirmed. His approach will be not “the most aggressive” in the country.

“Usc has everything,” he says. “There is not one thing that this place does not contain.”

What was lacking in is the vision-and the necessary infrastructure-to keep pace with the incoming age of revenue in university football. But since Boden arrived, USC has put a huge amount of confidence in the new general manager to fill these voids.

This leads naturally to questions about dynamics about the role of the new general manager. Technically, Bodin reports to both Riley and Cohen. But he ignored any proposal to the potential “power struggle”.

“We are all in this together,” Budin said. “I have always seen it in this way.”

Indeed, the plans that Bodin put in these calls began with Cohen and Riley began to bear fruit. Boden stores the front office with the staff employees of the rising stars who worked with them in both Nuddam and Sinnati, three of which – Duri Brown, Max Steanker, Weston Zinishle – said Budin from the general managers in itself.

The focus has almost since then on the recruitment path, as Riley has spent a lot of time in chasing large horizons outside the state, which many ended to local schools late in this process. But this approach has been canceled since Boden arrived, as USC is now planning to focus most of its efforts on hiring southern California.

“When the national championships were won here, when Rose Bulls was won here, as you know, you look back in the chapters of Beit Carroll – ’02, ’03, ’04 – more than 80 % of the employment classes were from California,” Budin said. “History repeats itself. It is always doing. If you look at the exact details of how the programs are built and how the place was built, and when success occurred, that was an essential part of the USC in the foreground. My plans and my vision is to restore it and take care of the state.”

It is an important time to start recruiting the state seriously, given the wealth of talents in the 2026 category. Boden said he believed it was “the best category in California in two decades.”

Time in mind, the best part of the past 30 days has died decreased by local secondary schools and met with local nail in sports. He prefers to say that he “strengthens” those local relationships, rather than “restoring” her; Nevertheless, it is clear in recent years that they have faded.

“We will take care of these people and they will know that we are here,” Budin said. “This is not a single call. This is not a text message every day. This is done through communication and consistent work.”

A new general manager and a new vision will not change the program overnight. But as you see Bodin, USC is “much closer to what people think.”

As for the remaining distance? Bodin looks satisfied with the USC pregnancy itself.

“I will give every ounce of me for everything necessary to earn USC,” said Budin. “Whatever this place, I will do it.”