Model Of Efficiency
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 university’s usual bureaucracy.
``If the new basketball arena were a football stadium, it would have been ready two weeks ago,’’ a USC employee said.
Hopefully, Tim Floyd can change the sense of urgency around here. As far as the football stadium is concerned, send those bulldozers over to University Village and start work on it right now.
Scott,
I know its slow. Your comment only supports the cliche that USC is a "football school".
How about some info on the reinstatememt of Dwayne Jarrett. Does the AD just think he can click his heels together three times and all will be fixed?
What about getting $35 million dropped on the basketball team for their sole use by an alumnus in one pop? USC ought to be grateful that "Spoiled Children" become adults that "spoil" their alma mater. Of course, I think simply getting to go to USC may be priviledge enough to be deemed spoiled, so I'm not going to fight the label.
If the new basketball arena was a football stadium it would have been ready 14 years ago. That is when they first started showing the architectural drawings to recruits.
The previous poster is wrong. Paul Westphal claimed that he saw plans from Jim Heffner before he committed in 1969 or 1970.
Okay, I somehow recall another building there at the Galen site just a couple of years ago. There is a big difference between having some plans and having someone give you $30 odd million to actually build it. I'm sure coaches have been blowing smoke up recruits asses. Obviously it was until now that we had something to show. Now take a look at the worn out Coliseum which 'SC has been staying in since 1926 as the ultimate charity case for urban renewal (God bless ol' USC and its profit losing ways.) And then tell me how USC takes such good care of its football program. In fact I wonder just how much "tradition" and community service costs USC and if it is worth it.