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You have no clue what you are talking about
The next three years will prove how wrong you are
Haden is Gangsta

Being Gansta is good or bad? I'm 50.

Ha ha. Pretty sure BlemBlam is even older than you.

Suppose it's used in reference to a different way of handling thangs...good, bad or indifferent--albeit very effective! Dare I say, deference!?!

BTW, I'm not 50.

I Kid..I Kid

I like Haden. And here's a few reasons why:

- Tennis National Championships, 2011, at stanford. 10 piece band is there. Playing (I think georgia?) in the semi-final match. One of the band members was... less than sober. We're playing at the break between doubles and singles. The ref comes out, tells us that the other team can't hear well and that we have to stop playing. As he's walking away, the less than sober one says "Yeah, well they suck." (He's usually a lot more creative than that; but he was quite incapacitated...) The ref spins around and says "WHAT did you say?" And starts complaining about it etc... Pat walks over and asks if there's a problem. The ref asks, "Are you the band director?" Pat says, "I'm the athletic director; leave them alone." Then takes the ref off to the side for a few minutes, comes back smirking, and that was the end of it.
- The general feeling of the coaches and other people I've talked to at Heritage is that the character of the athletic department is so much better with him in charge. More organized. More vibrant. Etc...
- I had more but I'm tired of typing.

I think it really comes down to this. He's an arrogant Trojan, but a smart one. He gives off the persona he does to make us look good. And then we win our battles on the field.

I think the way we're coming out of the sanctions was about as good as we could have hoped for. Dragging them out in court would have been a big deadweight on the school and the team.

I suspect the vast majority of the "hard asses" are not alumni. I think an SC degree gives one a broader perspective in terms of what a a protracted, no-win fight would do to the cachet of the university. The high road was the right road.

I don't necessarily agree
Some of the most hardcore militant, sue the NCAA, kill Paul Dee scorched earth people I know are USC Alumni, some with multiple degrees

I have no reason to doubt you, Blem. But, I have yet to run into one of those. I'm an old fart, a second generation Trojan, and my alumni peer group is pretty much okay with Haden. Maybe I'm out of touch with the younger, militant generation.

I gave you an up vote ... nicely said.