USC AD Mike Garrett Is Out; Will Return Heisman
The squares won! The squares won!
First, USC AD Mike Garrett is gone. To be replaced by former SC QB and Rhodes Scholar Pat Haden.
Haden had been working for a private equity firm. A legitimate one - not the USC slush fund. This will be quite a culture change as Haden is reputed to be a rather straight-laced, no-nonsense guy. Consider him administrative Valtrex for the USC regime cheating outbreak and a program famous for it's institutional corruption.
This was a necessary concession by USC and Haden's clean cut gravitas may even win them an extra scholarship or two in their appeal process with the NCAA. If not some future good will.
Lane Kiffin is sweating right now. Transitioning from Anything Goes to I Just Audited Your Parking Receipt Claims will be a brutal slap of reality for our favorite opportunist.
Second, USC is giving back Bush's Heisman hardware now that it has been definitively proven that his professional career began when he signed a Trojan letter of intent.
Does Vince want it?
Doesn't want it.
Doesn't need it.
Every college football fan in America now knows who the best college football player on the planet was in 2005.
It's just that many of us knew it before the game.
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Based on what I’ve read thus far, USC will be giving back the Heisman trophy in Heritage Hall. No one knows at present if Reggie Bush will return his copy. The Heisman trust should send VY to pick it up for them.
by Burnt Orange Wookie on Jul 20, 2010 3:11 PM CDT reply actions
“Every college football fan in America now knows who the best college football player on the planet was in 2005. "
How does him accepting money make him a worse football player?
We now know (without question) who the best amateur football player was, though.
by pleaseplaykindle on Jul 20, 2010 4:24 PM CDT reply actions
As far as Reggie Bush’s Heisman statue, I’m sure Reggie will do the right thing.
by Woody Bombay on Jul 20, 2010 4:32 PM CDT reply actions
it’s vs. its
Haden wouldn’t have touched Kiffin. That hire pissed off the NCAA to no end.
by the clapper on Jul 20, 2010 5:18 PM CDT reply actions
Reggie doing the right thing (I know it was sarcasm)? Like when he welshed on the college scholarships he promised to fund? I think George Lopez stepped in and made it right.
http://www.10news.com/news/22552271/detail.html
He still claims the sanctions against U$C are unjust and that his side of the story would corraborate – yet he was extremely evasive when he did testify and settled out of court so he wouldn’t have to be deposed in the lawsuit against him.
by Kilgore Trout on Jul 20, 2010 5:48 PM CDT reply actions
Met Haden a few times in the course of business and once at the wedding of a mutual friend. He’s a complete dick, and he hates Texas. At least this should be entertaining to see when he finally offs Kiffin.
by blackscholes on Jul 20, 2010 6:34 PM CDT reply actions
Good hire. Thoroughly clean house and perhaps I can finally root for USC again without guilt. Love the uni’s, fight song, band, Tusk. College football is better when UT and USC are shutting the SEC out of the beauty pageant.
Now if they can just pull off that P16 thing. C’mon, you know you want your own channel. Open that door and we can make a deal.
Ban Snoop Thug from all univ. functions.
And keep getting a variance for the USC-UCLA game to allow both teams to wear their colors. That was awesome, made better by the ending of Carroll (bless his corrupt Clintonesque soul) shoving it right back in bratboy Neuheisel’s face.
Except that after canning Kiffin, do they pursue our coach in waiting?
by Slide slide slippity slide on Jul 20, 2010 6:59 PM CDT reply actions
Slide -
If Muschamp bolts (I don’t think he will) he will be Southeast bound. USC and LA seem like a horrible fit. From his perspective.
by ColoradoAg on Jul 20, 2010 7:24 PM CDT reply actions
I want to start a rumor. Super conferences could have been the death of the NCAA as we know it. Did UT, and perhaps the Big Ten, back away from forming the first super conference or two in exchange for the NCAA agreeing to crack down on the cheating schools?
by Slide slide slippity slide on Jul 20, 2010 7:47 PM CDT reply actions
Forgot to add, Beebe is a former NCAA investigator. 6 degrees of Beebe.
by Slide slide slippity slide on Jul 20, 2010 7:48 PM CDT reply actions
Now if SC would just apologize and send Vince the trophy he deserved, I might think about not hating their existence
by ransomstoddard on Jul 20, 2010 7:56 PM CDT reply actions
I hate absolutely everything about USC…except for their uni’s and women.
by Hand Gestures on Jul 20, 2010 11:29 PM CDT reply actions
I hate everything but their women. I may be the only one that hates those uni’s.
by Savage Henry on Jul 21, 2010 8:31 AM CDT reply actions
Haden was “instrumental in the hiring of Lane Kiffin”, so how virtuous could he be?
by j.r.69 on Jul 21, 2010 9:17 AM CDT reply actions
No way Vince wants that trophy now:
a. He already has the MNC trophy from that year.
It would just give Reggie the chance to say something like “He can have it, I’m busy polishing my Super Bowl ring.”by tdwalsh on Jul 21, 2010 10:44 AM CDT reply actions
To me, Haden never seemed to have much gravitas but he always seemed squeaky clean. Kiffen is going to need to be diligent in filling out his TPS forms.
Banning Snoop Dog from the USC sidelines would not improve this world.
Could Vince actually end up getting the Heisman that he clearly earned?
Bush’s lateral in the 2005 MNC game was comic gold.
by Kafka on Jul 21, 2010 11:22 AM CDT reply actions
Now one half of the worst broadcast team in television history is gone from NBC. Unfortunately he was the better half, and that is sad just saying that.
by Rocket89 on Jul 21, 2010 12:12 PM CDT reply actions
If offered, Vince needs to take the Heisman.
by Capt. Insano on Jul 21, 2010 1:25 PM CDT reply actions
Insano – agreed, first because he earned it, second so he can have the future Heisman voting rights, and possibly third to the extent that it’s a plus for marketing the program to recruits (“5 National Championships! 3 Heisman Trophy Winners” — that kind of thing).
by BEHorn on Jul 21, 2010 2:50 PM CDT reply actions
My guess: The trophy ultimately will be pulled, but it won’t be re-awarded. Reason is, the ballot specifies that the player must be eligible under NCAA rules.
I was somewhat surprised to hear Andre Ware say this afternoon that he “hoped” that Bush would be allowed to keep the trophy “because he earned it on the field.” As a voter, he would know that you have to be eligible in order to win.
by Bob in Houston on Jul 21, 2010 3:19 PM CDT reply actions
Loved the highlights of VY, but god damn, it makes me miss having a Tight End in our lineup. David Thomas…we miss ya’ Babe!
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