Chad Bowden worked odd jobs in L.A. after graduating from high school, searching for his purpose.

Bowden was reminded that football was his passion and he shifted his focus to the sport.

Bowden has been widely successful in eight months, helping USC land the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation.

A dozen years before he charted a bold, new path for the USC football program, Chad Bowden was living on the pull-out couch of a cramped studio apartment in Hollywood with no clue where his life was headed.

Bowden couldn’t have dreamed up the role he’d one day occupy a few miles down the street at USC, where as the Trojans football general manager , Bowden has infused the program with new energy while putting together the top recruiting class in America.

So how did Bowden rise from that

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