LOS ANGELES — As a special guest for Southern California’s spring football game on April 13, Andy Enfield had a sideline pass. After taking care of his news media responsibilities, which have become part of his daily routine, he wanted to pay close attention to the game. Enfield considers himself a big football fan.

About midway through the game, a play developed in the vicinity of Enfield. A defensive back was chasing a wide receiver toward the sideline. After some quick calculations, Enfield realized he had a split-second to avoid being pulverized by 450 pounds of colliding muscle.

He somehow hurtled to safety, his instincts as a college athlete still apparent, and yet the entire episode was basically business as usual for Enfield, whose career trajectory over the past five weeks has been fast and furious, everything coming at him at once.

“If I could pick one word,” he said on a recent weekday morning, “it would be ‘nonstop.’ ”

Enfield was hired as the men’s basketball coach at U.S.C. on April 1, vaulting from relative anonymity to the realm of pseudocelebrity because of the job he did at Florida Gulf Coast. Remember the Eagles? They became the first No. 15 seed in the N.C.A.A. men’s tournament to advance to the Round of 16, employing Enfield’s whiz-bang brand of offensive pyrotechnics to maul Georgetown and San Diego State while captivating the basketball world.