Stained Trogan: Cheatey Petey Getting Clowned & Lampooned By The National Media

He insults the intelligence of his desired national audience with that garbage. Any kid growing up in a family with financial issues severe enough to be evicted from their home knows what is going on. Even with a stable living situation the kids know what the money situation is like. The only kids that aren’t absolutely conscious of it are the ones who are spoiled beyond belief with everything they ever wanted, except their parents’ attention. Maybe Chetey wasn’t loved?

In my area of Orange County, you not only need to have a book in your hand but you have to show the receipt to get his signature. Who wants the book or his signature? Cheat On, Petey! I’d like to go just to harass him but I know they would kick me out. What an arrogant jacka—. Chris 09 you are right – pompous ass + moron = Cheatey Petey.

I am in North Hollywood at a friend’s home. HBO Real Sports is on at 9 p.m.

Management ought to set up a thread. This could be a real classic.

The HBO piece starts of the 2 year old Lloyd Lake interview by Bernard Goldberg. Sort of a prelude to Pete’s song and dance.

According to Lake, the idea for the sports agency was Bush’s stepfather, an ex-security guard. The Bushes are grifters (as was Lake).

This is PRICELESS.

A: “We just didn’t have the awareness. I wish I had the awareness then that I have now.”

Q: “…But you saw the car. You knew about it.”

A: “They worked it out. there’s a process!”

Andrea Kremer: “But by you saying there was one person, that goes more to lack of institutional control.”

PC: “Of course you do. … Compliance is your whole life in college sports.”

A: None at all.

Q: But how can you say that?

A: Because I’d been living with it for 5 years. …

At one point Kraemer asked Peter if he was mad at Bush. Petet refuses to say he is mad at Bush.

Believable?

Not at all.

“They all happened,” Carroll said. “Every one of them happened. Every one of those games, every one of those runs, every one of those finishes to the season, every one of those championship matchups, all those kids did all that stuff.”

NO THEY DIDN’T A**HOLE!! You can pretend all you want, but they are not recognized as victories by the NCAA anymore. You need a psychiatrist to help you get over your delusions.

“Carroll can’t credibly pretend he didn’t barge his way out of the party in front of the women, the children, and Eric the Clown when it appeared that the NCAA was preparing to burn the place down.”

Best. Seinfeld Reference. Ever.

Love it!

The OCR (of all media entities) put up some transcribed excerpts (emphasis added):

Andrea Kremer: "Reggie drives a pickup truck. Now, all of a sudden, in his sophomore year, he’s driving this supped-up, bigger time–"

Pete Carroll: "Have you ever seen the car?"

Kremer: "Yeah. So, you saw — you saw him in the car."

Carroll: "It was a Chevy."

Kremer: "Did you ever ask him about it, though? Did you ever ask him where he got the money for it?"

Carroll: "I think I could recall kidding him about the kind of car he … chose to buy, at the time. … It was kind of an old-fashioned, ‘nice-looking’ car."

Kremer: "But the bottom line is still, how did he get it?"

Carroll: "That was all worked out. They took care of that. There’s a process that the school has to go through to meet compliance standards. And they did that. They did it."

And, it gets better:

Kremer: "Did you have any idea about how Reggie Bush’s parents were living?"

Carroll: "Of course not. When you are growing up, Andrea, did you have any idea of your parents’ mortgage situation? Think about it. None of us knew. We don’t know. I couldn’t tell you now how my mom and dad paid for their house."

Kremer: "But this is your best player with the most to lose."

Carroll: "It’s easy for you to ask these questions in this manner right now. Matt Leinart was our best player. He was the Heisman Trophy winner. This was Reggie just emerging. He started for the first time regularly his junior year. He was sharing time. He was another one of the guys."

Voice-over: But Bush wasn’t another one of the guys. Even in his sophomore year when the NCAA says he started receiving gifts from sports agents, USC’s own media guide called him "college football’s most exciting player." Bush’s success should’ve led USC to heighten its compliance efforts, and as far as the NCAA was concerned, that never happened.

Kremer: "Did you wanna know? Did you think you turned a blind eye to anything?"

Carroll: "No, you have to want to know because that’s what the world is all about. Compliance runs your life in college sports. You screw it up, you lose it. "

HT to Andrea Kremer for doing a very professional job in the interview. No snark, questions flawed logic, and sues quotes and facts to pose the questions. Bravo, Ms. Kremer.

M

This has been bugging me for the longest time. Can someone please tell me what the slang term “trogan” is referencing? Is it just funny because we’re misspelling trojan? Is it making fun of some lame USC alum? Like is Joe Rogan a former trojan? Or is it something completely random?

I don’t get it. I’m sure it’s something super simple and I’m just missing it for some reason. Please reply if you know. This has been bugging me for months?

I worked the night shift last night so I just watched the entire interview this morning. Why did HBO focus just on the Bush stuff? Why did they not ask Cheat Peril about:

1. illegally hiring the extra coach.

2. Joe McKnight (especially since he already knew the NCAA was watching.

3. the multitude of $C players that have been arrested during Cheat’s watch.

Overall, I don’t think HBO was particularly aggressive, although the preceding segment with Lloyd Lake was excellent.

We didn’t obey the rules. That’s different from cheating. Can someone please explain the difference?