Those who work at USC marvel at the efficiency of the football program. No sooner had more than 100 campers left the field this week and bulldozers came in and removed every inch of turf from Howard Jones Field.
The next day, the football offices started getting new paint and carpeting. Projects for other sports might take time, but football works at a different pace, usually by plowing through the universitys usual bureaucracy.
“If the new basketball arena were a football stadium, it would have been ready two weeks ago, a USC employee said.