Lynn Swann took the opportunity to reintroduce himself to the USC Trojans Family.
Lynn Swann might have been just as surprised by this as we all were:
"There are a lot of things in my life that I think I planned for this was not necessarily one of them, but it is one of those great unexpected outcomes that I'm looking forward to and I think I've been building to for a long period of time."
There also appeared to be a groundswell of grassroots support for Swann to be the Athletic Director:
"There was several people that called and said 'you outta be the athletic director' [.