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What Pastides’ retirement might mean for USC athletics

Something happened Wednesday that on some level has to trouble South Carolina head football coach Will Muschamp, and it had nothing to do with the health of starting quarterback Jake Bentley’s knee.

USC president Harris Pastides announced during his regular State of the University address that he will be stepping down effective July 31, 2019. Any time there is a change at the top of university leadership, it makes athletics directors and football coaches nervous. That’s especially true in the case of Pastides, who was as big a public supporter of his school’s athletics program as any president in the SEC.