Veto Seto mentioned on Yahoo Sports

A couple different issues…
First: Yahoo, ESPN, and the trogan times have all referenced the backlash against Seto as being key to the removal of his job offer. While some will say that blogging is simply an exercise in catharsis, this is also an example of the power, and therefore the responsibility. that comes with making comments on the internet. There were undoubtedly many avenues by which Bruin fans voiced their disapproval of the potential Seto hiring, but BN was certainly one of them. Our call to contact Dan Guerrero and Cancellor Block certainly added to that collective voice, and the end result was evident. We should keep in mind her, that what we feel and say does matter, and we need to direct it in a responsible and appropriate manner. Issues like Pauley renovation, ticket/attendance issues, baseball facilities, administrative apathy, and admission requirements for athletes are just a few of the critical avenues which need explanation and improvement at U.C.L.A., and where we may have an opportunity to affect those outcomes.

Second: As to our failure to protest the hiring of Chow based on his association with Cheaty and the Bu$h years, here is where I think there are gradations. If you look at Chow solely from the standpoint that he worked with Cheatey at *$c, then you can argue we should have disqualified him from the outset. However, Chow also had several things in his favor that separated him from Seto. Chow did not leave *$c and Carroll on the best of terms. Chow had been away form *$c in the NFL for several years before being hired by Neuheisel. Chow also had an outstanding resume and no one could question his experience. The fact that Seto had none of these things going for him made the case against him that much stronger. So I think the comparison between Chow and Seto is being oversimplified. There were valid reasons to support hiring Chow. However, if that oversimplification is enough in its own right, than I can’t argue against your conclusion that hiring Chow was wrong from the beginning.

Chow predates the Carroll era by a couple of decades and Heismans. Therefore he does not come from the ‘Carroll School of Cheating.’

Seto on the other hand got his intro to ‘coaching’ from Carroll and can be presumed to believe that the fruit falls not far from that tree.

As for the idea that Chow was a Trogan Horse, sabotaging us from within; I don’t buy it. Again, he did not spend the majority of his career at USC the way he did with BYU. I don’t see why he should be any more loyal to that school than any other he ever worked at.