Galen Center's influence
``The facility changed us,'' Tim Floyd said. ``This staff has not had to go into home visits and start by apologizing or explaining because of what other recruiters had put in kids' heads.
``We are the beneficiaries of walking in with great timing, unlike my days of walking into the Chicago Bulls. My timing wasn't very good there.''
Matthew Kredell broke into the Daily News in 1998, working part time
at the paper while going to USC. The basketball team’s Elite Eight
run in 2000-01 was USC’s athletic highlight in his time at the
school, when the football team was stuck in the Paul Hackett-era.
After graduating in 2001, he started writing for the Daily News full
time. He’s in his second year covering USC, which coincides with the
rise of the program. He’ll take credit for the success, though Tim
Floyd may have more to do with it. A third-generation Los Angelean,
he grew up reading the Daily News while at El Camino Real High School
in Woodland Hills.