USC Trojans GM Chad Bowden Details Lincoln Riley's Aggressive Mindset

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00:00I'm sorry, Ryan Abraham, USCFootball.com.

00:03Obviously, Notre Dame makes a run in the national championship.

00:05How quickly did this come together, and how did it all go?

00:08Jen Cohen and Lincoln Riley talking to you to bring you over to USC.

00:12Yeah, I don't want to get into what the timeline really looked like.

00:15You know, all I know is as soon as we started having the conversations,

00:18it was an aggressive, you know, attacking mindset on behalf of Jen and Lincoln.

00:24And, you know, it was the place to be.

00:28I knew it was the place to be, and that's why I chose USC.

00:32As I said, also with USCFootball.com,

00:35could you shed some light on your roster-building philosophies?

00:38How do you want to build USC's roster,

00:40and how big of an impact can your team have on next season?

00:43I know it's a pretty quick turnaround here.

00:45Yeah, I think, you know, a lot of it's probably going to be, you know,

00:48in this upcoming class.

00:50We're going to major in high school, and we're going to minor in the portal.

00:53And we're going to be aggressive, and we're going to attack.

00:56Our business has changed every single day.

00:59Something could change.

01:00We're going to be on offense every single day, and we're going to attack it.

01:04And we're going to attack it through high school.

01:06We're going to attack it through the state of California.

01:09It's the best high school football in America is played in California.

01:14And we're going to do everything that we can to get the very best players

01:18that are in California, you know, to stay here and to play for USC.

01:27Benjamin Royer with the LA Times.

01:29Chad, can you quickly tell us a little bit about how your relationship

01:32with Lincoln's developed?

01:33I know you were pretty close.

01:34I know you were pretty close.