All earlier Notre Dame GM Chad Bowden said in USC -inro -press

Former Notre Dame General Manager Chad Bowdenwho traveled to USC for the same job less than two weeks ago, talked on his Initial press conference With the Trojans Wednesday. Here’s all he said.

Opening declaration

“Before we start opening it to question, I would like to thank the University of Notre Dame, Marcus Freeman and Pete Bevacqua for my time there. It was obviously a great experience there. I would also like to thank the USC, Jenn Cohen and Coach Riley. It’s a blessing to be here. I am grateful for this opportunity. I’m excited to get to work. ”

On how it has been like switching from Notre Dame so far

“It’s been great. As soon as I touched here, it was a little cool I have been able to live at Coach Riley’s house during the last week and a half. At Hans Casita it has been a really good experience. I’ve been able to have some of his steaks. His balsamic, Mickey Mantle steaks he makes, which has been a really cool experience. Spending time with him, his wife, his two daughters, the transition has been great. Me and my wife, I told her the other today, this is the happiest I have been for a very long time. I’m just excited to get to work here. ”

On what his job looks like

“I think everyone will take their take on what it should be. I am a collaborative guy. Everything we need to do here will be together as one. Roles and responsibilities I like to believe that we are all in this thing together. We are all to make the USC the best football program it can be. I hope to help the USC reach its full potential that brings the USC a national championship, the 12th national championship here. “

Why he left Notre Dame to USC and what the offer was

“Notre Dame did everything they could to keep me there. USC, for me it meant more to me. When I was a kid, I saw Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush. That was my team. Lendale White. (Dwayne) Jarrett. All of these guys. USC had kind of something in my heart. I think it’s the largest city in the US, Los Angeles. I think that’s the opportunity for the opportunity. I think the USC and the type of degree that young people can get as far as the connections, the network, can really put them up for the rest of their lives. And I thought about coming here, I could have the type of success I want and I can be able to maintain it, and that’s a big reason why I chose the USC. “

About how fast he moved from USC to Notre Dame

“I don’t really want to go into what the timeline looked like. All I know is, as soon as we started having the conversations, it was an aggressive, attacking mindset on behalf of Jenn and Lincoln. That was the place to be. I knew it was the place to be. And that’s why I chose the USC. “

On his program building philosophy

“Much of it is likely to be in this upcoming class. We go to the main subject in high school and minors in the portal. And we will be aggressive and we will attack. Our business has changed. Every single day something could change. We will be on insult every single day and we will attack it. And we will attack it through high school, we will attack it through the state of California – it is the best high school football in America is played in California. And we will do everything we can to get the best players in California to stay here and play for the USC. “

About his relationship with riley

“Me and Lincoln have a good relationship. We really hit it from bats. Many of the things he talked about with me about why he chose to get to the USC, they adapted to how I felt. All we want to do is win this thing. We will win that moment. We know what moment it is. We talked about how to do it. That’s not what you do, that’s how you do it. We both share – Coach Riley, Jenn – which is an adaptation. There is synergy in how we approach this thing and how we will attack it. All kinds of customized how we talked. Our relationship is great. Every time you have balsamic steaks and they are phenomenal and you are at Coach’s Riley’s house, staying in his guest house, you have a pretty good relationship. “

Why he believes in having a major in high school and minor in the portal

“It’s just the culture. It’s just the culture. It’s about culture and the things you can do in a recruitment process; The sooner you get them and make them commit, you are already building your culture. And when you have it and you can acquire it in high school, you have the years with the player and the family because you do not just recruit a child anymore, you are recruiting a family. Once you have them in your class and they sign here and you got three, four, five years with them, this is how you build a culture for a program and that’s why it will be our weight. ”

About how he got into this line with coaching

“I grew up, my father was the general manager of Cincinnati Reds and Washington Nationals. So I grew up in it. I saw him every day do it, interacting with coaches, interacting with players, interacting with ownership and everything that came with it. It was natural for me. It was something I really wanted to do. Now I learned a lot when I was younger. I remember I was in my father’s office and I hear him complain about Felipe Lopez who didn’t run out to the first base and I went down – I didn’t know better – I went down to the dressing room and said, ‘You are have to run to first base. ‘And he put me in a trash. So sometimes you have to see how to play things.

“But that’s always what I wanted to do. I didn’t know that college football would come to this. I didn’t know it was going to be this title. I never asked for the title. I just wanted to help a team win. If you’ve ever been around me, all I want to do is win and get it to a team. Not just me, but have it be a team effort and everyone who achieves, everyone reaches their full potential. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to do in my life. It has never been about trying to reach out to be a GM. I just want to win a national championship. ”

On the USC’s list

“It’s an incredibly talented watch list. I really like the guys. I think they have done a phenomenal job for recruiting. I really like the list that is here. All we try to do is improve it. And I really look forward to the future and I look forward to helping this list and helping the coaches and the administration of the USC get to the place it is going. “

On ‘out of the box’ recruiting strategies with Riley

“We’ve talked about him jumping out of a helicopter. I don’t know if he wants to do it yet. No, I’m just laughing. Look, we do what it takes when it comes to recruiting. If it makes sense we should do it. Coach Riley is ready for something. All the coaches are ready for something. You will soon meet Rob Ryan. We may have him to jump out on a parachute. I don’t know. We come up with some really creative ideas for recruiting. Whatever it takes for us to get the very best players in the country, we will do it. ”

About zero and revenue sharing

“I don’t really want to reveal what to do with regard to Nil and the schedule. All I know is that we have a plan. We will attack it. We want a mindset to attack. As I said earlier, this business changes every day. Some things are not in place yet. You never know what will happen. We could wake up tomorrow and – everything that could potentially happen is an uncertain future. All I love is what we can do today. When business changes we will be in attack mode. We will be on insult every time. ”

About how his gm -role will develop

“I think the role has so many different things in it. Recruitment, zero, staff working with coaches. I don’t know what the next step will be. I don’t know what the future has. I don’t know how it will develop. I know we will be prepared for it and have a plan for it. ”

On his ban to the administration of what he wants the USC to be

“It’s USC. That’s the place to be. That’s it really. We recruit that way. Everything the USC stands for and offers young people, from an educational point of view, the degree, the connections, the network, the marketability of the largest city in the country, this is the place to be. It will be our messages to every recruit. There is not one thing that LA and what the USC – it covers any base that a young person could wish for. It will be our great pitch and it is all of us. It is every coach, every player, everyone in the administration. We are all in it. And that’s the place to be. ”

About being aggressive with zero and having the resources needed to win at the USC

“Yes.”

On his staff at the USC

“You are the one you surround yourself with. I am a great belief in it. It’s my mother’s greatest motto; Who you are around every single day it’s the one you become. We hire the very best across the country. You will be around the very best. I want to be around the very best. I want to make sure this program is pushed in any avenue and there is not a day there is not a moment when you can be slack. I want to make sure we are pushing this program in any Avenue, which is why we continue to hire the very best in the country. And it’s not just in front office. Look at what Jenn and Coach Riley have done with regard to the coaching staff. We have freaking Rob Ryan on our staff. We have Coach (d’Angton) Lynn on our staff. We got the best staff in the country. We have the best front office in the country. We got really good freaking players. I’m just excited to get to work. The future of the USC is so incredible light. We need to make sure this place reaches its full potential. It will take every day, it will take to be around the right people and that is what we are doing. ”