Dylan Hernandez: Forget incompetence, USC's athletic department is simply corrupt
LOS ANGELES_How innocent they appear in retrospect, those days when it felt as if athletic director Lynn Swann's refusal to fire football coach Clay Helton marked a new low point for USC's athletic department.
If only USC's humiliations could still be the result of simple incompetence, as was the case with the banishment of the Song Girls from home basketball games to the brief whatever-that-was with assistant football coach Kliff Kingsbury.
Trojan Nation learned Tuesday that USC's athletic department was something
