University of Southern California athletic director Lynn Swann was "blindsided" by the school's involvement in a college bribery scandal.
In an interview with Arash Markazi of the Los Angeles Times, Swann publicly commented on the situation for the first time:
"I think everybody was blindsided by this. The fact that it was a senior member of the staff and also our men's and women's head water polo coach. ...These are people that have been here a long time and people who had been here during difficult times and had seen bad things done and knew better.