“First of all, he inherited a staff [at USC],” Neinas said. “You can talk to anybody in the college athletic business, and they will tell you that Mike Bohn is one of the friendliest people in the business. In 1997, Neinas left the CFA and soon began to advise athletic departments on football coaching and athletic director hires. “Under his watch there, they redid the basketball facility, they hired Luke Fickell [as football coach], and he took Cincinnati to the [College Football Playoff]. That’s not bad.”———Neinas and Bohn first crossed paths in 1992, when Bohn was an associate athletic director at the Air Force Academy.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 26, 2023 13:16 UTC