Garrett out, Haden in

USC just announced that effective Aug. 3 that West Covina native Pat Haden will replace Mike Garrett as the school's athletic director.
This is a move, sans the hiring of Haden, that most have speculated would come in the wake of the NCAA putting the football program on a two-year bowl ban and reducing the team's scholarship limit to 15 per year over the next three seasons, down from 25 a year.
Garrett, in my opinion, sealed his fate when his first and only response to the sanctions was that he believed they were the result of "jealousy and envy" by the other institutions in the NCAA.
The 1965 Heisman Trophy winner has always come across with a personality and attitude that acted like he would put up with the so-called cheating as long as winning was the end result.
Pat Haden is completely different. He, like anyone else who competes, wants to win, but he wants to do it within the rules. It was true when he was setting the San Gabriel Valley record for most touchdown passes in area history while at Bishop Amat, when he was quarterbacking USC to an 18-17 victory over Ohio State in the 1975 Rose Bowl and in recent years when he was lead analyst for Notre Dame football telecasts on NBC and as a member of USC's Board of Trustees.
USC couldn't have picked a better man for the job.
I can guarantee he would never fire a coach via voice mail.