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Bill Plaschke: How did this happen again? USC and Carol Folt are responsible for the Mike Bohn mess.

When Mike Bohn barreled into USC as its latest athletic director in the winter of 2019, he was sold as a man of character by university President Carol Folt. "He has real integrity," Folt said at the time. "He has run class acts and done it really well in some difficult situations." As Bohn was backpedaling out of USC nearly 3½ years later, it once again appears the Trojans have only a casual ...
New USC athletic director Mike Bohn speaks, left, alongside USC President Carol L. Folt, right, during a news conference on the USC campus in Los Angeles on Nov. 7, 2019.

When Mike Bohn barreled into USC as its latest athletic director in the winter of 2019, he was sold as a man of character by university President Carol Folt.

"He has real integrity," Folt said at the time. "He has run class acts and done it really well in some difficult situations."

As Bohn was backpedaling out of USC nearly 3½ years later, it once again appears the Trojans have only a casual relationship with the word "integrity."

Bohn resigned suddenly Friday in a statement issued to The Times that never actually said why he was resigning. But it's not too hard to connect the dots,

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