Senior Andrew Triggs will be on the mound tonight to get the 2012 USC baseball season underway. The accomplished right-hander is looking to add an MBA to his resume as he prepares for a career in hardball and beyond...
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You were selected by the San Francisco Giants but chose to come back to USC to pursue an MBA. Why books before baseball?
I got rid of all my furniture and drove my car back to Nashville. I was ready to move on. I didn't know where I was going to get drafted. In all seriousness, I thought it would possibly be a little higher, but even when it happened, I said this is going to be the next step. I'm definitely going to sign and move on with it. As things developed over the summer with the opportunity to start a graduate degree, I decided I wanted to pursue it immediately. I came back to play another year here at USC and possibly take care of some unfinished business from a baseball standpoint. We have a great core of guys and I think this is a group that could go on to regionals and possibly do something bigger. Once the MBA came into the picture, I really started to take more seriously the idea of coming back. It was really something I didn't even consider until midway through July.
Right now I don't know exactly where it's going to take me from a business standpoint. The broader stuff like consulting or banking seem interesting but at the end of the day the idea of building a company or building an organization and having something that is your own is really appealing to me.
Click here for the complete scholar-athlete profile.
You were selected by the San Francisco Giants but chose to come back to USC to pursue an MBA. Why books before baseball?I got rid of all my furniture and drove my car back to Nashville. I was ready to move on. I didn't know where I was going to get drafted. In all seriousness, I thought it would possibly be a little higher, but even when it happened, I said this is going to be the next step. I'm definitely going to sign and move on with it. As things developed over the summer with the opportunity to start a graduate degree, I decided I wanted to pursue it immediately. I came back to play another year here at USC and possibly take care of some unfinished business from a baseball standpoint. We have a great core of guys and I think this is a group that could go on to regionals and possibly do something bigger. Once the MBA came into the picture, I really started to take more seriously the idea of coming back. It was really something I didn't even consider until midway through July.
You hope to continue to play baseball for as long as possible but do
you have any plans or goals to put your graduate studies to use?
In a perfect world, it's just sort of a back pocket thing after many, many years in the big leagues.
Right now I don't know exactly where it's going to take me from a business standpoint. The broader stuff like consulting or banking seem interesting but at the end of the day the idea of building a company or building an organization and having something that is your own is really appealing to me.
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