Wetzel has already started the beatification process of Ethical Pat: “Haden is a mature and educated man whose focus is ethics and says his life has been guided by never wanting to do anything that would embarrass his now late mother.”

Look at the record, Wetzel. He lived with the head coach when he played there. He was there in the days of selling tickets for cash, and the most cash went to the star players. That’s not a debatable point. I guess according to Ethical Pat, his now late mother would have been OK with that.

St. Patrick was on the same board of trustees with the guy who said just$c* didn’t cheat, it just broke the rules, but Ethical Pat said nothing. Apparently that would have been acceptable to his late mom.

Wetzel thinks its a mark of merit for him to give a non-ringing endorsement of Lame. Hey, Dan, a non-ringing endorsement would have been to say that Lame was a horrible pick, and would be asked to tender his resignation. So I guess Ethical Pat’s late mother would be OK with that.

And how much more gutless can Ethical Pat get? No one would dare say anything about someone’s mom after she had died (although other parts of the trogan family had no qualms about insulting Coach before the news of his passing.) So now, if we question St. Patrick’s ethics, we’re insulting his late mother. Hey, Pat – I don’t mean to insult your mother, but how about a straight answer: What are you going to do about McKnight? There are more questions, but I can only insult someone’s late mother so many times before I just get too embarrassed.

Can we focus more on the excitement around UCLA? It seems like the majority of our fanposts are regarding those d-bags across town, not UCLA. I know this kind of stuff is big news everywhere, but I’m suffering from SUC overload. At this point it just makes us look obsessed with the failure of SUC, rather than the success of UCLA. We are playing right into their hands.

I know some UCLA fans will disagree with me by saying that we’ve been waiting for SUC to get theirs for quite a while. Frankly, I don’t care if they get busted. I just want to beat the ever living crap out of them. You know their “fans” are just going to claim conspiracy when we beat them in the upcoming years. It’s enough to make me sick.

Let the hate rain.

It’s all the more enjoyable because almost all of these rat-bastards during the five years of the Bush investigation were far beyond that river “denial;” they usually gloated sanctimoniously about how they were untouchable. Then when they were properly slapped hard by the NCAA, they exponentially made things worse by claiming it was all about penis envy and had nothing to do with obvious malfeasance and outright payola.

Since the mainstream sports outlets have fawned over SC’s lies for years, one can hardly get enough of articles like Wetzel’s that FINALLY tell what we knew all along. Pete Carroll is a complete, lying fraud who only “won” big because his was the only professional football team in town. He created and fostered the corruption his entire regime from beginning to end. And his boss, Mike Garrett, reveled in it.

As for their new AD, he has only been on the job about five working days. I have always admired his story from a distance, though I had to suffer plenty when he played QB for their team. A Rhodes scholar is a Rhodes scholar. There is an excellent piece on him in The Times today. His achievements are substantial. He is saying all the right things. His praise of rivals Stanford and Notre Dame must be killing some of his own alumni. So I am going to give SC’s new President kudos for his quick and good choice.

My only concern is that I read somewhere that Haden was one of the major movers behind the hiring of Lane Kiffen. I don’t know if that is true, but if so, his judgment was poor and he unwittingly made his own success as AD that much more difficult. It doesn’t mean he can’t do his job right as AD. We all learn from our mistakes. If he did play a role in Kiffin’s hire, it was before the sanctions, which is somewhat mitigating also.

As for Kiffen, he is the gift that keeps on giving. Now he has pissed off a huge Trojan alumnus, who turned down the SUC job, Jeff Fisher. My guess is he will continue to screw up on a regular basis, embarrassing his AD and setting himself up for the door unless he injects himself with a hugely successful first season, something he has no history of ever doing. I don’t know if his departure would be good or bad since I am counting on our Bruins pun king him every year just like we did last year at Tennessee.

Of course, like any true Bruin, all I really care about is our football team taking care of business with our nemesis like we did when Cade was under center. It’s about fricking time. With a level playing field we should be mighty fine for a looooong time.

GO BRUINS!

Pete Carroll always looked a little like Jeff Spicoli. Who knew they shared IQs? Fast Times at Heritage Hall.

LOL

“When you take cash, gifts, travel, a car, a house (a house!), you spit in the face of every one of those teammates.”

That, in a nutshell, is the most tragic truth of this whole mess.