Previously... The Trojan's game was going exactly how Mike Garrett hoped it would. Sure, it looked like something resembling a game in the first half, but this second half was a disaster. He could trigger Pat Haden to fire Lane Kiffin and no one would be the wiser. An angry AD after an embarrassing blowout would serve as the perfect cover. Garrett was anxious. He wanted to launch his plan now, but he knew Haden was surrounded by far too many people associated with USC, people that would be ...
Mike Garrett
Friday Roundup: The “Manchurian AD” Edition
Lack of institutional control...Lane Kiffin...You can't fire him no matter how bad it gets... Mike Garrett shot out of bed in a cold sweat from the same recurring nightmare. It started ever since he lost his job as athletic director at USC, but it turned into a nightly visitor for the past two months. Actually, nightmare isn't the right word -- it's a memory, a memory that he wasn't supposed to retain. Somehow it managed to flood back in pieces, but there will some were still ...