After months of promising main modifications to its personnel operation, USC employed a normal supervisor for its soccer program.
Chad Bowden will likely be USC’s subsequent normal supervisor, an individual conversant in the choice not licensed to talk publicly instructed The Instances, after spending the earlier three years at Notre Dame.
Bowden, 30, was named normal supervisor and assistant athletic director at Notre Dame final March, after Michigan pursued him for its GM job. Notre Dame proceeded to make a run to the nationwide championship recreation, shedding to Ohio State.
At USC, Bowden is predicted to be one of many highest-paid personnel administrators in faculty soccer. He’ll have a big job forward of him, with landscape-altering modifications on the horizon in faculty soccer and at USC, the place the personnel operation has lagged behind different blueblood applications.
Plans to rent a brand new GM had been first put into movement final August, as athletic director Jen Cohen placed on a full-court press to lure Alabama’s Courtney Morgan to L.A. However a $1 million wage wasn’t sufficient to persuade Morgan, who took much less cash to proceed working alongside Crimson Tide coach Kalen DeBoer, each of whom labored underneath Cohen at Washington.
How Bowden and a revamped personnel operation will work with USC’s coach, Lincoln Riley, stays to be seen. Riley labored intently with Dave Emerick, USC’s present normal supervisor, on all personnel issues. It’s additionally unclear how Emerick’s position will change. An individual conversant in the state of affairs instructed The Instances that he was anticipated to stay with this system in a distinct position.
Earlier than coming to Notre Dame with coach Marcus Freeman, Bowden served as a recruiting staffer at Cincinnati. He’s made a fast ascent, getting into key personnel roles at two of faculty soccer’s proudest applications.
