Mike Bohn is choosing his words carefully. It’s a delicate dance these days, discussing the fate of his football coach, and Bohn, at the start of his second year as USC’s athletic director, understands the frustration surrounding his decision to keep Clay Helton for another season.
So when he’s asked about the circumstances that led to that decision, Bohn would prefer to turn the attention elsewhere. He’s happy to wax poetic about the Trojans’ rebuilt recruiting operation, which reeled in the No. 1 overall recruit this month, or the improvements on defense, where a new staff and a new mind-set made an immediate difference.