USC athletic director Pat Haden to retire in June

USC has announced that athletic director Pat Haden intends to retire.

Haden will move away from his role effective June 30, 2016. He's also agreed to a one-year term to guide the renovations of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, running from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017.

University president C.L. Max Nikias pointed out that Haden's job in taking over the athletics program in 2010 while sanctions were imposed are a credit to the impact he had on USC.

"He took on this role at a time when the department faced unprecedented pressure, externally and internally, requiring nothing less than a Herculean effort to rebuild its foundation for the long term," he said. "USC Athletics had received NCAA penalties of unprecedented harshness only weeks earlier; and its physical and academic infrastructure urgently required improvement to bring it in line with the university's overall dramatic progress in recent years."

USC did not announce a successor, though it has enlisted the help of consulting firm Brill Neumann.