Southern Cal Boots Scandal Tainted AD Mike Garrett, Hires Pat Haden

from/about this bumbling, corrupt, basketcase douchecanoe anymore.

Haden deserves a chance but all of us will keep close watch on his actions. He could start by limiting access to sidelines and practices. He should also take the steps to see that academics are of prime importance. While I will give it a passing grade for effort to clean up the cesspool only time will tell.

Is that the same Pat Haden who kissed Pete Carroll’s ass for several years, forced Garrett to hire NCAA violation-prone Lane Kiffen, and lived with Coach McKay back when he played for the trogans???!!! I am so glad he wants to run an “ethical” program.

I hate Troy as much as anyone…but forced Garrett to hire Kiffen…that sounds like BS to me….

I wish I could screw up royally at my job and get a golden parachute to retire.

He [Haden] said USC would return the Heisman won by Bush in 2005 to the Heisman Trophy Trust next month.

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I, for one, will miss Mike Garrett. We were finally getting to really enjoy the fruits of his incompetence in the past year or two. I hope Haden will continue to uphold the high ethical and intellectual standards that Garrett set. Only time will tell.

That must mean that their new AD really has his ethical compass set directly toward the truth. The absence of a trophy won by an ineligible player isn’t going to have a major impact on future misconduct, in my opinion, but maybe it really means something.

Let’s see if we can judge the likelihood of there being any real change in the mindset. It appears from Wikipedia that Ethical Pat was at just$c* from 1972 to 1974. If you look up Clarence Reece USC on the net, you get his long, rambling story, but there are some factual statements in it. He mentions that Ethical Pat was the quarterback at the time, and he lived rent free with the head coach, Mr. Ethics Himself John McKay. Logically, one would think that Ethical Pat has first hand knowledge that situation, but I never heard him comment on it. Maybe he has, but I have heard it. It was no secret, of course, and maybe it didn’t violate any rules. I know that Coach Neuheisel actually gives birthday and Christmas presents to a quarterback prospect, so maybe it’s OK.

Or it could mean that living arrangements have never been all that big a priority with trOJies, and that it’s not about to be one now.

Moving forward, we know that Ethical Pat was a model student and a good enough player to play pro football. We know that he knows football and just$c* well.

There is a comment I found from last January 11 in something called Sports By Brooks: "Sources familiar with the USC Board of Trustees and the Trojans coaching situation told me today that USC Board of Trustee members Pat Haden and Ed Roski are leading the search for USC’s next football coach." So who did Ethical Pat choose? Yeah, he sure got someone who is likely to really toe the line when it comes to NCAA violations. Well, that might have been an aberration. He might know something about Lame that no one else in the world knows, and which has never been publicly manifested by word or deed since Lame burst onto the coaching scene.

We also need to look at Ethical Pat’s statements about the conduct of the players and coaches over there. Here’s what I found.

Comments on OJ2: ________
Comments on bu$h: ___________
Comments on "White Nation": _____________
Comments on the Dog Fighter: _____________
Comments on any of the negatives surrounding the athletic program over there: _______
Comments to the effect that there is anything at all wrong on that campus: ___________

Ethical Pat was on the same Board of Trustees as the guy who said that the trogans weren’t cheating, they were just breaking the rules. Let me find all the statements from Ethical Pat in which he called out that guy for such a puerile statement. Oh, here they are: ____________

If you are prepared to assume that the new athletic director is going to stop the cheating, then I hope you are right. All it will take is for Ethical Pat to change the momentum that has been generated in his own life for the past four decades. He saw it all, but he said nothing, at least as far as I know. That sounds to me a lot more like someone who would continue business as usual than someone who is going to clean house. Maybe Ethical Pat will prove me wrong. I hope he does. It would be more fun to compete against just$c* on a level playing field, and that hasn’t happened since …, well since ever.

The appeal of the NCAA sanctions is baseless and embarasses anybody with a batchelor’s degree.

So let’s see if Haden is a real Rhode’s Scholar or he is just another trOJan rogue’s scholar.

The school is doing the right thing now, but let’s see what happens downs the road. And the right thing to do is to give up on this insulting appeal of the NCAA’s very nominal yet fair sanctions.

I thought they had to remove all of these due to the santions. Isn’t that part of disassociation with the sanctioned players?

They replaced one long time trOJie with another. Why should the mindset of this newest long time trOJie be any different from his predecessor? The new guy is more articulate, but no one ever said that Cheatie Petie was not articulate.

Let’s suppose that the new AD somehow learns that everyone on the first string offense and defense is, let’s say, compromised somehow. He finds out about the under-the-table payoff here, the ’baby’s mama’s boss’s" new car there, the star running back’s mom and dad living with in a million dollar house, his quarterback living with the coach. Thngs like that. What is the likelihood that the new AD will say to the kid, the school, the board of trustees and the entire world that each of those things is an NCAA violation, and each kid is suspended indefinitely. This is a real question. Would Haden have been proactive enough to find out what Cheatie Petie was blind to about bu$h? Would Haden have suspended bu$h on the spot? I know what I would have done if I had been the AD. I’m pretty sure what a Notre Dame grad would do. That’s because my allegiance is not to the school. But Haden’s is. He is tied forever to the school, because he is a “trOJan for life” (subject to parole with good behavior.) I can’t see him doing anything that would upset the applecart of trOJie-dom, and that is the football program. I just don’t see that in the character of any trogan.

Maybe I’m wrong. I’ll be happy to admit that I’m wrong when any trOJie admits that the emperor is stark naked.

if new President and AD want to get off to a flying start, notify NCAA they are immediately withdrawing their appeal and will accept the sanctions earned by the previous felons. Maqybe then some credibility could be established at a place where it has long been absent.

they’re retroactively awarding it to Vince Young, who deserved it that year anyways? Argh!!!

Didn’t the sanctions require Southern Cal to dissociate itself from the records/awards attained by the tainted athletes (Bush and Mayo)?
I recall this is required, so they’re just complying with the easier NCAA mandated sanctions while appealling the harder hitting scholie losses and 2nd year of bowl bans. See pg. 58 of the NCAA Report (pdf document of 67 pages). They have to “reconfigure” “all the institutions’s records” to reflect the vacated team and individual records, achievements, etc. of the tainted athletes/teams.
They also have to remove any reference to vacated results, including championships, from stationery, banners, etc. Well, to me that includes a Heisman Trophy in the display case at Heritage Hall, or murals, any other reference to the tainted individuals/teams.
Good job Southern Cal. For once, you’ve shown yourselves capable of following instructions.
Now watch them spin this into how hard they’re working to clean house, by even scrubbing over some murals of OJ2 and Bush [AS REQUIRED BY NCAA]. Then, watch Shelly Smith get all hot and bothered over the new, ethical USC.
Spare me.

“and let Hello Kiffin (run) lose.”

“For the most part, USC stayed out of trouble.” – AD-to-be Haden sets a high benchmark for a ‘university’ to aspire to!!!

Perhaps this high standard can be applied to other aspects of life:

“For the most part, USC students are qualified professionals.”

“For the most part, it isn’t that dangerous beyond the gates of the USC campus.”

“For the most part, size of bank accounts have little to do with admission to USC.”

“For the most part, OJ Simpson stayed out of trouble on the set of Naked Gun.”

“For the most part, heroin doesn’t kill all users.”

“For the most part, sharks only bite off part of one’s leg.”

“For the most part, Pol Pot didn’t kill that many countrymen.”

You get the point…

Everything at $c is tainted when it comes to athletics. Haden learned from McKay. Mc Kay and Petey are pretty much the same breed. The only thing was that Mc Kay could hide things better. Haden with his law background will be able to hide things better than Mikey. As far as I can see, Haden will carry the $c tradition forward – CHEAT ON.