USC Tweet Of The Day

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Petros Papadakis did not appreciate Reggie Bush’s unhappiness with the judges’ verdict on last weekend’s Manny Pacquiao fight and used it to reference Bush’s NCAA troubles at USC.

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  1. Good for Papadakis.

    Reggie, the original and only Heisman Forfeiture Boy, should be the last guy to ever address cheating or underhandedness of any sort. What a hypocrite.

    • Can’t disagree at all. I still blame Reggie’s parents for taking the $$. They should have known better. (Of course, I don’t hold Reggie blameless….)

  2. It would be, um, ironic if Petros became a spokesperson for propriety. By the way, nothing Reggie has done (or ever is likely to do), compares to the corrupt judging in boxing. The sport is officially a joke. Every other weekend a fighter is screwed over by dishonest scoring.

    • You mean besides Reggie’s greed and selfishness destroying the Pete Carroll Dynasty and setting USC football back a decade?

      • Here’s my take, for what it’s worth, gt. A youthful Reggie thought he could get away with accepting car and cash (the house went to corrupt daddy). A doubly corrupt NCAA, intent on taking USC down, devised penalties that were wildly out of proportion to USC’s involvement in the whole affair (or anything USC could possibly have exercised control over). I’m not proud of what Reggie did —-but, by God, compared to the NCAA or any of the governing or sanctioning bodies in professional boxing, he’s a fricking holy man.

        • Yeah where we’re the ‘dream police’ back in 1972?

          Just like politics – always a pass for the left

        • Amen. Who’s that deceased hypocrite tubby-ass from Miami? Reggie’s step-dad created the situation a teenager couldn’t handle. Also, Reggie’s no saint in all of this. And like it was said above, USC was set back a decade. They said it would be 10 years then and man was that true. It’s been a tough run.

          • …But we’re back, 04Trojan. And to quote Angela Lansbury from “The Manchurian Candidate”, “They’re gonna pay for what they did to us!”
            #StartingThisSeason

          • Teenager? Jack is 100% correct. Reggie was the same age as the troops that fought and died in wars to defend our country. Don’t diminish what that jerk did to USC. He was an adult and all 84 other players on the team somehow managed to follow the NCAA rules except him. He is dead to me.

          • You clearly didn’t read my post, clearly. Get it? Most of us who attended college were “adults” our freshman year. Did that mean we could handle the kinds of things thrown at a Reggie? You tell me.

          • Marv and gt are smart and sober commentators, 04. Their vehement disagreement with you and me on this issue is proof positive of how low Reggie has fallen in the eyes of a lot of Trojan fans. I really had no idea how angry my compatriots are with Reggie until today. They just ain’t ever changing their opinion. Time will not heal these wounds.

          • I’m healed. F the corrupt NCAA. Again, Reggie was no angel in this, but the NCAA waaaay overstepped their boundaries. That’s been well documented.

          • Agreed on all counts, 04. I think we could have dragged the NCAA into federal court and fixed their little wagon once and for all ——but that wasn’t Pat Haden’s thing.

          • Haden never made that call. He wanted to fight and litigate. The BOTs said no. They had no stomach for a long protracted, expensive NCAA fight. USC’s lawyers didn’t push for it hard either. In fact, the problems with the case they emphasized affected the BOTs. McNair was always sitting in a much prettier spot as far as taking on the NCAA went.

          • You know way more than I do about what was going on behind the scenes, Jack —I’m just reading between the lines of Haden’s beaten dog comments to the L. A. Times about how USC was “given a fair hearing” on appeal. He sure didn’t sound like a man itching for a knock down, drag out fight. I liked and admired Haden until I heard those comments —it’s hard to continue to admire a man who says “thank you” when he has his shorts handed to him. And the real bottom line —which I think 04Trojan is alluding to —-is that, in coming up with their ‘institutional control’ doctrine after the fact, the NCAA was acting without or in excess of their authority.

          • Haden naively thought he could get the NCAA to tamp down on the penalties when he appeared before them. He incorrectly thought reason and precedent might count and didn’t accept the fact the deck was loaded. Haden has always considered himself a very political animal and any statements he made publicly were what he considered to best serve those interests.

            When the BOTs refused to take the NCAA to court, Haden knew he’d be the fall guy in the eyes of many, if not most, Trojan fans. Why would he want that? Why would he allow himself to look so publicly weak? Nobody would. But he was forced to. That’s why. The BOTs never took any heat. They just decided in silence and closed the purse strings. Even reasonable guys like yourself give them a complete pass. Haden had to take the fall and in many ways, it was the end of Haden. That’s what happened.

          • Man, that is a minor tragedy. (I hope Haden appreciates your advocacy, Jack —-it seems nobody else wants to see or hear from him again…ever).

          • I’m not saying Pat was a good AD – though he did some terrific things for USC’s women’s sports. Men, not so much.

            He screwed himself forever with the charity thing and involving his family. I’m no advocate of his there.

            But I do know what happened as far as USC’s decision to not sue the NCAA and Haden wanted to take them down – for selfish reasons too. If you think Haden isn’t competitive, you don’t know him. But he was hamstrung by the in-complete-control BOTs – one of the hazards of an AD position and in Haden’s case, he was neutered

          • That;s helpful back story stuff, Jack.
            [I’d like to add that Manny Pacquiao WAS robbed…..].

          • I never watch him fight. Don’t like his style. Boxing is crooked though. No news there. Always been that way.

          • Nikias should also be flogged, not allowing us to take a more aggressive course once it was clear how the ncaa wanted to do us in.

          • Reggie stood back and allowed the NCAA to hammer USC, for months and months, tyhen years. I can’t say he had a grin on his face. But he never lifted one finger to help the fantastic school which helped him and he was no teenager when he decided on that course. Hope he’s never allowed on campus again. I like the campus ban as it stands.

          • Jack. Ease up. I’ve always respected what you’ve posted. I’ve also always said again and again that Reggie f’d up. But let’s be real about his contributions to USC while playing and to those who were recruited after. That whole scene was a mess. Pete didn’t help either. But name me as one who cannot deny seeing how awesome it is when current players post pictures with their “favorite USC player.” And add me as one who was attending school while Bush was, so that probably plays into my favoritism.

          • We’ll just agree to disagree 04. No biggee. I’m probably affected by my following USC since 1962 and seeing all the great USC players who never cheated, nor went out of their way to bring the school down big.

            I just wish Reggie had gone to STAN, ucla or ND and put one of those schools on the worst probation since SMU. He’s scum as far as I’m concerned and as I said, I’m glad he’s officially banned from campus. It takes real character to win that award.

            I think there’s a lot of people in both of our camps. He’ll always be a very divisive figure among USC people, and for good reason.

          • Hey 04 understand Jack B is a flamin’ a-hole – if you don’t curry his favor he’s all over you – blank him

          • That is true Michael. And I know many like myself.

            Reggie is dead to me. Many will use his age as the big excuse. Fine. He needs those who want to prop him up and blow off his dirtbag behavior.

            But when he decided to really sink USC, it was long, long after he cheated and accepted improper benefits. He brought USC down when he was no teenager. No class, co character, no guts.

            USC did amazingly well in spite of Reggie. Now, we’re back, with a real shot at #1 again so many painful years later, and Reggie’s still the hypocritical schmuck he always was. Poor baby. How old is he now?

          • Thirty-Two, Jack —generally considered past the age of majority.

          • How do we ever get that Lost Decade back, Michael? Sam Darnold leading us to a NC this year will certainly help but those of us who watched Pete leave under a cloud and be replaced by two goof balls while our recruiting was decimated will never forget those bad years and who was responsible for it happening..

          • The sad truth is we don’t get that decade back, gt —-but, at this point, I’d settle for the next best thing —proving ‘bad faith’ prosecution by the NCAA, collecting a record settlement, and putting an end to that corrupt organization once and for good.

          • McNair might get a record settlement. Heck, Rick Neuheisel beat the NCAA in court for a cool $2.5 million. But the time for SC to sue has come and gone.

          • Not necessarily, gt —–depends on whether “new facts” come out of McNair suit.
            #SomeRealNCAACrapMayGetDiscovered

        • Reggie’s final crime was hammering USC. He never lifted a finger to help the school. Didn’t do one thing. Just sat there mum and let USC burn. Just let the Trojans hang while he waltzed off with millionzzzzz.

          Sorry, but Reggie’s a schmuck. And he was plenty old enough to do the right thing by USC but he flopped all over the joint once he was exposed. In fact, he pretty much skated, while for many years the Trojans, both future and past, paid for all his crimes. He threw back his Heisman and proved he was only a mediocre NFL player. As I said, what a schmuck you are Reggie. He makes me ill.

          • Ray, I don’t take any pleasure in saying it, but it’s all true. Reggie’s entire position was, “I didn’t do anything wrong.” Period. As good as he was on the field, and he was incomparable much of the time, he was a moral and ethical dirtbag as he left the school in his rearview and single-handedly ruined USC for several years.

          • I don’t wanna go overboard agreeing with you, Jack —–but you just reminded me of how ‘short range smart’ Reggie handled the post graduation/ pre-sanction period. I hate to put it this way…but….if he had just paid Lloyd Lake the couple hundred thousand he wanted, he could’ve saved USC a crap load of trouble.

          • Not only that – all Reggie really had to do was go on record with the NCAA (and the entire world would have been even better) that the USC coaches and officials didn’t know, or have any reason to know, what his greedy parents were up to. He never even did that. He just denied doing anything wrong. We could have gotten slapped with some forfeitures for ineligibility and a public reprimand. Instead, Reggie allowed the NCAA to pummel USC to the ground for misdeeds less serious than 20 other programs have committed with only lightweight penalties. Too bad he turned out to be such a punk.

          • Call me perverse —but I still would’ve preferred Reggie paying off Lake (leaving the NCAA without their ex-felon star witness), and never lifting one finger to cooperate with anybody connected to the NCAA investigation.

          • Sure, that would have been great. But Reggie was greedy and selfish just like his parents. There was no chance he was ever gonna pay off Lake to help USC, so I didn’t even go there.

          • That’s why what Reggie did can never be forgiven. He could have prevented the whole scandal if he kept his word. Instead he double crossed the agents after taking the car, house, diamond ear rings and glamorous life. Then he refused to own up to it, so SC took the fall while he skated away to NFL riches.

          • I always wondered where PREVARICATE was on Cheatin’ Johnny’s pyramid. The big omission.

          • Also on top, it should read, “If you ain’t cheetin’ you aint’ tryin””.

          • Let Owns stay. Imagine his agony as the ruins sink to the bottom like the Titanic this season while USC heads to the NCAA playoffs!

  3. Devastating kick to Reggie’s nether regions!!

    Petros, you magnificent basterd, you did it again!!

    • He avoids USC Basketball with quick opinions on the team when PMS talks SC BBall.

      • I like ‘P’ but he was listening to his clownish father when he foolishly continued his full court press mocking: PC, Garrett, Leinart, Bush on and on.

        I still like him because he’s about the only one whose willing to say what no one else shall.

        • Pettis was always loud and annoying but he’s often funny and knows sports when he’s not in his right mind. He can blame Pete and Reggie and tweet all he wants but I really think he’s got a lot of jealousy for those men who are giants at USC. And just from the eyeball test he’ll never get past how Pete embraced everyone but him when he was covering SC.

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