Alexander: USC, as a football program and as a university, needs a new approach

If you want an idea of how USC football has gotten to where it is today, a good starting point may be the night Mike Garrett met with a Bay Area booster group, just as all hell was breaking loose within his program.
It was June 10, 2010. The NCAA had just dropped the hammer on USC’s football program in the aftermath of l’affaire Reggie Bush: Four years’ probation, a two-year bowl ban, loss of 30 scholarships, vacated victories and, ultimately, the losses of a BCS national