Scott, I've also heard the same stories that Leinart has turned into a turd. Who do you think has his ear and is making him this way - is it his agent, or is it his Dad, whom I met and seemed to be a very un-likeable person. Very arrogant and disrespectful chap.

Is Matt just turning into his Dad?

USC gets another 4 star recruit to committ and this is the crap posted.

What is this US Weekly??

Get over Leinart, Scott. It will only help.

Seriously? Leave this shit to Perez Hilton, Bruins Nation, and all that other trash.

Cmon, Fighton, deal with it. I am a USC grad and Leinart is a discussion topic on this blog. If you don't like what we have to say, you don't have to read it. It's a free world. We are free to post. You are free to read, or not to read. But please don't tell us what to post, or not to post.

I love USC as much as anybody else out there. It is the school that molded me for the future. But this is not a PR machine that many people might want it to be.

If you think Leinart is Presidential material, then go ahead and post it in the blog. That's your prerogative.

Besides, you have to admit that Leinart really has turned into a turd. It hurts me to say that - I got tired of defending him the past couple of years - but I have to admit, I've met both Leinart and Reggie Bush, and Reggie is by far the more class act of the two. Somebody is telling Leinart what to do and to whom, and he is getting some awfully bad advice.

Bush is also by far the better player. If you dispute that, then there is no need for further discussion with you.

Sometimes the truth hurts.

Scott,
You're like porno...Everyone on all the boards says how terrible it is(in this case you) but, here we are...Reading and for the most part getting our daily bread of SC tidbits.

Of course, since I'm here, I'm your typical SC football info whore. However, unlike my ultra-sensitive SC board brethren I realize whatever problem or pleasure you get from your inflammatory Bush and Leinart coverage should be categorized under the: we've all got our problems and different ways of dealing with them. But as I laugh to myself when reading all the wonderful things said about you on the other boards, the fact for them and me, is that the other 90 percent of nuggets you uncover for us are worth your bi-weekly finger nails on the chalk board about Reggie and Matt.

Thanks again for the great coverage

P.S. I know you've been saving yourself for 08' so you can really let the vitriol fly when Sanchez beats out Mustain!

Reggie and Leinart are both turds. You guys just won't admit that desite the fact Reggie settled out of court with those con men (which is reported fact), he was up in it up to his eyeballs and we all know it. Why else refuse to clear your own name? What man among you WOULDNT try to clear their own name? Why settle it out of court with con men? Why claim you don't know where your parents live?

The truth is, Bush was a generational player that even as a Bruin I liked to watch. He really was/is that good. This is not sour grapes over Bush - it's reality. The NBA has already ruined college basketball, I hope college football is not headed the same way.

Ex-Sportswriter:

As an former USC grad myself I understand the need to talk about alumni, but who gives a crap about what is going on in Tabloids. I would bet must people on this site don't.

My point to Scott was he dropped the ball on USC Football by not reporting about things happening to the current or future team, but what is taking place in a past palyes personal affairs.

Let's stick to football and not whether Scott has a grudge against Leinart.

Fighton

I agree with Ex-Sportswriter this is a news worty story. The character of our current and former Athlete is important to know about. Kids look up to these guys. They are role models and important images weather they want to accept it or not.

A story like this is as relavant as Bush's recieving funds accusations or Micheal Vicks illegal Dog fighing operation. We cant just shut our eyes and close our ears on what these guys do off the field.

You go a little overboard ex-SW. See what comes out August 13. I have had a couple friends in similar positions in the course of my adulthood, and the situation is totally rigged against the male, especially when the male has money.

If anyone wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize, invent an effective contraceptive for men. The only thing #11 can do to make everyone happy is to marry her, and that's just a dumb plan if it's not what he wants to do.

Bosco, not going overboard at all. You wrote what you feel. I wrote what I feel. It's a free country. It's a free blog. Let's keep it that way.

You make the point yourself. He has the money. The kid doesn't. Give some more money to the kid. What the girl wants, in reality, is for Leinart to pay more than he is now. Think about it. Just settle out of court and he's done with it. Then it would never make it in the newspapers or blogs or whatever. But by fighting it, it becomes a big deal, instead of just letting it go away - quickly.

Instead, Leinart again makes a turd out of himself. He has been getting some very bad advice - probably from an agent who does not want to forfeit up any of Matt's money instead of sticking it in his own wallet.

I respect your opinion. You should respect mine, too. Remember, it's a free country. Write what you want. I plan to do the same.

Hey, I respect it, I just disagree. I had a buddy who had some money, and I was in the room with him when he found out via a phone call from a lawyer that he had an 8 year old daughter. Funny thing was, he had had money for those 8 years, had since married, and had the first child he knew about on the way. The old girlfriend was batsh*t crazy -- it was clear she never got over him, and she was just out to wreck him if she couldn't have him. She never told him she was pregnant! How silly is that? He wanted to be responsible and had no ill feelings about her, but she made every step of setting up custody and support arrangements beyond difficult.

What I'm saying is that if Leinart bought her a car and has been giving her that kind of cash and has been coming to LA every week to spend time with his kid, and has asked for them to visit Phoenix on some schedule, I just don't know what else he's supposed to do. Why make that effort if he doesn't genuinely like the kid? That's got to cut into his turd coefficient a little, no?

You go a little overboard by comparing this to Mike Vick's idiocy. None of us could find ourselves in Vick's situation by "bad luck". You have to want to be cruel to animals that way to do it. I bet every one of us guys here could have found ourselves in Leinart's situation if we were unmarried when we were 24 and had a little bad luck over the course of a few minutes.

But no hard feelings... Respect even... Fight On.

Turds, turds, turds--gee, I haven't seen that word so often since the All-American SC lineman was showing his dog on TV, and the announcer asked the name of the dog, and the guy replied TURD! Remember that anyone?

Also reminds me of the TV announcer on a quiz show. The contestant was in the Navy. The announcer said, "Seamen 1st class?" the contestant replied, Of course it is!"

Hey, free posting and great jokes here!!!!!!!!

There's an even worse horror story out there. Guy is married for X years, has a son, gets divorced later, is paying alimony & child support. Later through DNA/paternity tests it's shown that the wife was having an affair and the kid is the other guy's, who the ex-wife has now married and is living with. The ex-husband sues to not have to pay child support anymore (hey, it's not even his), and THE COURT orders him to keep paying it. The family courts are totally stacked against the dads, no doubt about it.

Leinart needs to perform on the field. If he gets to the playoffs, the endorsements will come. He also needs to surgically remove himself from Paris Hilton and improve his image. Right now everyone thinks of him as Hollywood playboy/partyboy. Only athletes with squeaky clean images get the big endorsement $$$$.

Let's do some math...

Leinart has given her a car and $6,000 a month for Cole voluntarily. That rounds out to about $72,000 a year from Leinart. Add to the fact that it's probably after-tax money (do they tax child support payments?), it's like she's getting a salary of $85,000 a year for getting pregnant.

If she gets her request of $30,000 a month, it turns into $360,000 a year.

I didn't realize that $72,000 wasn't enough to raise a child - it's a helluva lot more than most Dads pay. If Matt does give more money, he should consider putting it all in a trust fund that she can't touch. I think it's plain as day that she's a gold digger and thinks she shouldn't have to work for the rest of her life because she got pregnant.

It may be unsavory, but at least this crap with Leinart is fact/reality based (though totally personal and none of our business) compared to the delusional stuff posted about Mustain, a guy not even eligible to take a snap for another 13 months. Where's the ball in football?

So now it's turned into a he-said/she-said arguement.

Maybe he's the bastard that some internet gossip sites seem to want him to be and never flies out to see his son during the season.

Mabye she's not exactly up for sainthood and/or just a bitter ex-girlfiend that all his defenders want her to be

I'm not sure any of us know them both well enough to judge.

Scott, if you want to report this kind of gossip, that's fine. I guess one could make the argument that it's USC-related, at least tangentially.

However, do you really need to make up cute little filler stories? A 9 month old baby gave you a hug? Really?

The story from Brynn's brother, Jordan, is that Leinart kept pushing and pushing to sleep with her and they had even broken up over this before, but he came back apologetic and they got back together and then she got pregnant the next month. He finally got what he was looking for, and then she got pregnant and he was with Paris Hilton in a heartbeat. He didn't seem to have much respect for her, so she probably has no problem making him pay.

It would help if people who criticize the mother understood how child support is calculated in California. it's all based on theparents' ability to pay and how each can support the child or children in the manner they're accustomed. For example, the idea is that if Cameron and Leinart had remained a couple, the presumption is Leinart's income would be enjoyed by all members of the family. Therefore, while others not similarly economically situated would pay much less, the formula as put forth by the state of California mandates that someone in Leinart's economic bracket can support the child to the tune of $30K a month. The mother didn't pull that figur eout of the air. He's giving the child a fraction of what the kid's entitled. As they all age, Leinart's income will presumably increase, and so will the payments. As Leinart's income decreases, if it does, while the child is under 18, so will his payments.

Of course, the mother can always agree to take less, but some courts make it hard for any mother to waive what they're legally entitled to receive. She cannot get more than what the guideline support formula call for, however. And before people complain the system is stacked against Dads, the same would hold true if he was the custodial parent and a low wage earner and she was the high paid non-custodial parent.

So Dawson,
Just to clarify, are you inferring that he physically forced himelf on her or that a college aged girl made the decision to have consensual, unprotected sex with with a guy who she had a break-up/make-up history with?

Because there's a huge difference between a horrible crime and a stupid decision.

No, he didn't physically force her to have sex. They broke up initially because he wanted to and she wasn't going to provide it. They got back together because he said the sex wasn't as important as the relationship. Well, she eventually gave into him and got pregnant (she was unprepared for sex), and he immediately moved on to Paris.

I think we can all agree that the worst resolution to this would be if 21 years from now, there is a TV show called "Matt Leinart is 45 and Single" on VH1 and Matt's life coach makes him wade through Scott's posts and our comments.

No kidding RAB, Dawson that is very close to slander my man. It also implies criminal activity. I do not think that anyone has ever clamed that they had un consensual sex. Fine line to walk there my friend.

Scott:

One thing is to read time and again your personal vendetta against Leinart, to hear you on the radio, and to see you continue your unrepentant assault on him in all forms of media.

It is quite another, and EXTREMELY CREEPY, to read that you exchanged a hug with his son!!! Frankly, that is really disgusting to read and makes one wonder how far into this "story" you are going on a personal level.

You rip on the father, and then you feel the need to exchange affection with his son. Sick.

Just one question, Jackjr. How do you know what porno is like?

Bush may be a better football player than Leinart, but I believe that USC owes more of its recent success to Leinart, than to Bush. I just don't see USC having the same kind of success with someone else under center, even with Bush in the backfield. Take away Bush, and I still think USC enjoys great success. Plus, there would be no Rentgate fiasco to worry about.

FYI, child support payments are not income to the recipient (and are not tax-deductible by the payor). In CA, 72K 'tax free' amounts to about 106K 'pre-tax.' 360K 'tax free' is about 529K 'pre-tax.' That is a lot of money a year, even for millionaires.

she wants 30 g's a month can't they come somewhere in the middle. Give her 15 g's a moth. Thats 8 more g's than she is getting now. There thats settled. Some people like to make things harder in life than they have to be.

It isn't that she WANTS 30K, it's what the guideline child support formula says she's entitled to receive based upon their incomes, visitation percentage, and other factors. They can certainly settle for something less than that, but if they can't reach a court approved agreement, that would be the number.

If she manages to hook on with the WNBA (I have no idea if she's good enough) and Leinart has regular visitation, then the number would drop, likely more than a little bit.

If one really wants to get down to it here, regardless of the path they took to eventually having sex, Leinart could have invested a few dollars in some condoms. It's old pay a little now or a lot later idea. Considering Leinart knew he was bound for a huge contract, a little foresight before foreplay would have saved him all this grief.