But the quality of USC's football facilities were quickly eclipsed in the years that followed as the facilities arms race across college football boomed. USC's lacking football facilities were one of the major question marks facing the program — and a sore subject for frustrated fans — when Lincoln Riley took the reins as coach in November 2021. Eighteen months later, in a statement announcing the new performance center, the coach called the facility "an absolute game-changer." Just 18 months into his tenure, plans are already set for a performance center that Riley calls "an absolute game-changer". The looming question was where a baseball stadium might fit on an already densely packed campus — and how that might also affect plans for a new football stadium.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 16, 2023 01:55 UTC