[Rally]

Crass vs Class:  Tweeting the donation request for all the world to see = super crass.  Making such a request privately = slightly less crass.  Just a simple "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done it, I'm paying the fine out of my own pocket" and move on = class.

Is he thinking now it's about him and his autistic grandson?  Are we to feel sorry for them?  Just a classless way to deflect criticism?  Can't believe he's turning it in to a fundraiser for autism...

Classic U.S.C. Arrogance. (The autocorrect is so foolish in a case like this, isn't it?)

[Rally]

Crass vs Class:  Tweeting the donation request for all the world to see = super crass.  Making such a request privately = slightly less crass.  Just a simple "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done it, I'm paying the fine out of my own pocket" and move on = class.

Is he thinking now it's about him and his autistic grandson?  Are we to feel sorry for them?  Just a classless way to deflect criticism?  Can't believe he's turning it in to a fundraiser for autism...

Classic U.S.C. Arrogance. (The autocorrect is so foolish in a case like this, isn't it?)

[dabigv13]

More from Twitter:
Pat Haden ‏@ADHadenUSC

        I accept the @pac12 reprimand. I plan to pay the fine personally. To honor my 5-yr-old grandson who has autism, I have a special request...
        ...I will request the @pac12 forward the fine to Children's Hospital Los Angeles for autism research.

        https://twitter.com/ADHadenUSC/status/50...3251231744


Is there any precedent for a request like this?  What does this have to do with an athletic director's emotional outburst?  Unless he also has autistic spectrum traits causing the outburst?

What a turd!

[dabigv13]

More from Twitter:
Pat Haden ‏@ADHadenUSC

        I accept the @pac12 reprimand. I plan to pay the fine personally. To honor my 5-yr-old grandson who has autism, I have a special request...
        ...I will request the @pac12 forward the fine to Children's Hospital Los Angeles for autism research.

        https://twitter.com/ADHadenUSC/status/50...3251231744


Is there any precedent for a request like this?  What does this have to do with an athletic director's emotional outburst?  Unless he also has autistic spectrum traits causing the outburst?

What a turd!

[Mick]

[quote author=Brannerite link=topic=10563.msg97515#msg97515 date=1410226148]
More from Twitter:
Pat Haden ‏@ADHadenUSC

        I accept the @pac12 reprimand. I plan to pay the fine personally. To honor my 5-yr-old grandson who has autism, I have a special request...
        ...I will request the @pac12 forward the fine to Children's Hospital Los Angeles for autism research.

        https://twitter.com/ADHadenUSC/status/50...3251231744


Is there any precedent for a request like this?  What does this have to do with an athletic director's emotional outburst?  Unless he also has autistic spectrum traits causing the outburst?

Amazing arrogance.  Just amazing.  Say you're sorry, fool, and move on.  If I ever get a traffic ticket I guess I should request my fine be given to the charity of my choice.  What the F does his grandson have to do with this?  How to embarrass yourself and then humiliate yourself.  I used to have a lot of respect for that man but never again.
[/quote]


"He's 10 pounds of cr@p in a 5 pound bag."

[Mick]

[quote author=Brannerite link=topic=10563.msg97515#msg97515 date=1410226148]
More from Twitter:
Pat Haden ‏@ADHadenUSC

        I accept the @pac12 reprimand. I plan to pay the fine personally. To honor my 5-yr-old grandson who has autism, I have a special request...
        ...I will request the @pac12 forward the fine to Children's Hospital Los Angeles for autism research.

        https://twitter.com/ADHadenUSC/status/50...3251231744


Is there any precedent for a request like this?  What does this have to do with an athletic director's emotional outburst?  Unless he also has autistic spectrum traits causing the outburst?

Amazing arrogance.  Just amazing.  Say you're sorry, fool, and move on.  If I ever get a traffic ticket I guess I should request my fine be given to the charity of my choice.  What the F does his grandson have to do with this?  How to embarrass yourself and then humiliate yourself.  I used to have a lot of respect for that man but never again.
[/quote]


"He's 10 pounds of cr@p in a 5 pound bag."

[Mick]

More from Twitter:
Pat Haden ‏@ADHadenUSC

        I accept the @pac12 reprimand. I plan to pay the fine personally. To honor my 5-yr-old grandson who has autism, I have a special request...
        ...I will request the @pac12 forward the fine to Children's Hospital Los Angeles for autism research.

        https://twitter.com/ADHadenUSC/status/50...3251231744


Why don't you donate it here:








Is there any precedent for a request like this?  What does this have to do with an athletic director's emotional outburst?  Unless he also has autistic spectrum traits causing the outburst?

[Mick]

More from Twitter:
Pat Haden ‏@ADHadenUSC

        I accept the @pac12 reprimand. I plan to pay the fine personally. To honor my 5-yr-old grandson who has autism, I have a special request...
        ...I will request the @pac12 forward the fine to Children's Hospital Los Angeles for autism research.

        https://twitter.com/ADHadenUSC/status/50...3251231744


Why don't you donate it here:








Is there any precedent for a request like this?  What does this have to do with an athletic director's emotional outburst?  Unless he also has autistic spectrum traits causing the outburst?

[Rally]

More from Twitter:
Pat Haden ‏@ADHadenUSC

        I accept the @pac12 reprimand. I plan to pay the fine personally. To honor my 5-yr-old grandson who has autism, I have a special request...
        ...I will request the @pac12 forward the fine to Children's Hospital Los Angeles for autism research.

        https://twitter.com/ADHadenUSC/status/50...3251231744


Is there any precedent for a request like this?  What does this have to do with an athletic director's emotional outburst?  Unless he also has autistic spectrum traits causing the outburst?

What the F does he mean, "I accept the Pac12 reprimand?"  What other choice is there?  Take his bsll and go home?  That comment alone ought to be worth another 25k, and keep piling on until the arrogant trojan gets it.  The only thing that surprises me is that he hasn't, yet, taken to refering to himself in the first person plural, like the Pope and the Queen. Well maybe no surprise since he probably considers himself above both.

[Rally]

More from Twitter:
Pat Haden ‏@ADHadenUSC

        I accept the @pac12 reprimand. I plan to pay the fine personally. To honor my 5-yr-old grandson who has autism, I have a special request...
        ...I will request the @pac12 forward the fine to Children's Hospital Los Angeles for autism research.

        https://twitter.com/ADHadenUSC/status/50...3251231744


Is there any precedent for a request like this?  What does this have to do with an athletic director's emotional outburst?  Unless he also has autistic spectrum traits causing the outburst?

What the F does he mean, "I accept the Pac12 reprimand?"  What other choice is there?  Take his bsll and go home?  That comment alone ought to be worth another 25k, and keep piling on until the arrogant trojan gets it.  The only thing that surprises me is that he hasn't, yet, taken to refering to himself in the first person plural, like the Pope and the Queen. Well maybe no surprise since he probably considers himself above both.

[Rally]

[quote author=thunder_chik link=topic=10563.msg97520#msg97520 date=1410231335]
Crass vs Class:  Tweeting the donation request for all the world to see = super crass.  Making such a request privately = slightly less crass.  Just a simple "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done it, I'm paying the fine out of my own pocket" and move on = class.

Is he thinking now it's about him and his autistic grandson?  Are we to feel sorry for them?  Just a classless way to deflect criticism?  Can't believe he's turning it in to a fundraiser for autism...

Classic U$€. Arrogance. (The autocorrect is so foolish in a case like this, isn't it?)
[/quote]

Somebody down votes me for this?  Some strange people here.

[Rally]

[quote author=thunder_chik link=topic=10563.msg97520#msg97520 date=1410231335]
Crass vs Class:  Tweeting the donation request for all the world to see = super crass.  Making such a request privately = slightly less crass.  Just a simple "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done it, I'm paying the fine out of my own pocket" and move on = class.

Is he thinking now it's about him and his autistic grandson?  Are we to feel sorry for them?  Just a classless way to deflect criticism?  Can't believe he's turning it in to a fundraiser for autism...

Classic U$€. Arrogance. (The autocorrect is so foolish in a case like this, isn't it?)
[/quote]

Somebody down votes me for this?  Some strange people here.

[CornFed]

[quote author=ferrari link=topic=10563.msg97521#msg97521 date=1410231921]
[quote author=thunder_chik link=topic=10563.msg97520#msg97520 date=1410231335]
Crass vs Class:  Tweeting the donation request for all the world to see = super crass.  Making such a request privately = slightly less crass.  Just a simple "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done it, I'm paying the fine out of my own pocket" and move on = class.

Is he thinking now it's about him and his autistic grandson?  Are we to feel sorry for them?  Just a classless way to deflect criticism?  Can't believe he's turning it in to a fundraiser for autism...

Classic U$€. Arrogance. (The autocorrect is so foolish in a case like this, isn't it?)
[/quote]

Somebody down votes me for this?  Some strange people here.
[/quote]

$( lurker maybe?

[CornFed]

[quote author=ferrari link=topic=10563.msg97521#msg97521 date=1410231921]
[quote author=thunder_chik link=topic=10563.msg97520#msg97520 date=1410231335]
Crass vs Class:  Tweeting the donation request for all the world to see = super crass.  Making such a request privately = slightly less crass.  Just a simple "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done it, I'm paying the fine out of my own pocket" and move on = class.

Is he thinking now it's about him and his autistic grandson?  Are we to feel sorry for them?  Just a classless way to deflect criticism?  Can't believe he's turning it in to a fundraiser for autism...

Classic U$€. Arrogance. (The autocorrect is so foolish in a case like this, isn't it?)
[/quote]

Somebody down votes me for this?  Some strange people here.
[/quote]

$( lurker maybe?

[Brannerite]

He's still at it:

@ADHadenUSC: Sent my check for $25,000 today to Larry Scott.  Made out to Children's Hospital LA for autism Reseach Have helped save my grandson from it

[Brannerite]

He's still at it:

@ADHadenUSC: Sent my check for $25,000 today to Larry Scott.  Made out to Children's Hospital LA for autism Reseach Have helped save my grandson from it

[Rally]

He's still at it:

@ADHadenUSC: Sent my check for $25,000 today to Larry Scott.  Made out to Children's Hospital LA for autism Reseach Have helped save my grandson from it

Hope Scott rejects it.  I doubt it, but it would be the right thing to do. 

[Rally]

He's still at it:

@ADHadenUSC: Sent my check for $25,000 today to Larry Scott.  Made out to Children's Hospital LA for autism Reseach Have helped save my grandson from it

Hope Scott rejects it.  I doubt it, but it would be the right thing to do. 

[BostonCard]

Pac-12 should send the check to the Children's Hospital LA and then ask that Haden write a check made out to the Pac-12 Conference.

By the way, when I first saw that, I wondered (perhaps cynically) if Haden was just doing this to try to draw a tax deduction from "donating the money to charity".  I figured if he wrote the check to the Pac-12, and asked that they donate it to charity, though, that he wouldn't be able to get away with that.  But if he wrote the check directly to the charity, maybe my cynicism was not misplaced.

BC

[BostonCard]

Pac-12 should send the check to the Children's Hospital LA and then ask that Haden write a check made out to the Pac-12 Conference.

By the way, when I first saw that, I wondered (perhaps cynically) if Haden was just doing this to try to draw a tax deduction from "donating the money to charity".  I figured if he wrote the check to the Pac-12, and asked that they donate it to charity, though, that he wouldn't be able to get away with that.  But if he wrote the check directly to the charity, maybe my cynicism was not misplaced.

BC

[dabigv13]

Again, what a turd. I remember (SC) people saying that Haden was a good choice to rescue them from the moral depths of Mike Garrett.

I bet the turd deducts it from his taxes.

[dabigv13]

Again, what a turd. I remember (SC) people saying that Haden was a good choice to rescue them from the moral depths of Mike Garrett.

I bet the turd deducts it from his taxes.

[BostonCard]

Guess I wasn't the only one to cynically believe that.

BC

[BostonCard]

Guess I wasn't the only one to cynically believe that.

BC

[jayasena]

Unbelievable arrogance. Running to the sideline and engaging the ref is merely violating the spirit of a game (not that I'm condoning it). But this public "charity" flaunting of what was meant to be a fine is an affront to general ethics and decency.

As an SC alum, I'm ashamed of his behavior. Not only does this reflect extremely poorly on Haden but also on his bosses at the highest levels of the university for condoning it (or worse).

[jayasena]

Unbelievable arrogance. Running to the sideline and engaging the ref is merely violating the spirit of a game (not that I'm condoning it). But this public "charity" flaunting of what was meant to be a fine is an affront to general ethics and decency.

As an SC alum, I'm ashamed of his behavior. Not only does this reflect extremely poorly on Haden but also on his bosses at the highest levels of the university for condoning it (or worse).

[dabigv13]

Yeah, makes me a little more ashamed of my USC med degree. To clarify though, while CHLA is affiliated with USC, they are independent entities.

[dabigv13]

Yeah, makes me a little more ashamed of my USC med degree. To clarify though, while CHLA is affiliated with USC, they are independent entities.

[82 Card]

I bet the ---- deducts it from his taxes.

That was my initial reaction. On reflection, I don't think he can deduct it as a charitable contribution nor does he need to. If the fine is a binding obligation that gets forgiven as a result of the contribution, he would have received benefits equal to the contribution, thus disqualifying the entire contribution. However, I suspect he can write it off as an employee business expense.

[82 Card]

I bet the ---- deducts it from his taxes.

That was my initial reaction. On reflection, I don't think he can deduct it as a charitable contribution nor does he need to. If the fine is a binding obligation that gets forgiven as a result of the contribution, he would have received benefits equal to the contribution, thus disqualifying the entire contribution. However, I suspect he can write it off as an employee business expense.

[Roberton3]

Haden is trying to start a new viral trend: the "nut bucket challenge".  It's simple.  You embarrass yourself on national TV, donate the fine to your favorite charity, and then challenge three of your friends to do the same.

[Roberton3]

Haden is trying to start a new viral trend: the "nut bucket challenge".  It's simple.  You embarrass yourself on national TV, donate the fine to your favorite charity, and then challenge three of your friends to do the same.

[jaymon]

Haden is trying to start a new viral trend: the "nut bucket challenge".  It's simple.  You embarrass yourself on national TV, donate the fine to your favorite charity, and then challenge three of your friends to do the same.

Long time lurker here. I had to register just to compliment you for this hilarious comment! I will be repeating this.

[jaymon]

Haden is trying to start a new viral trend: the "nut bucket challenge".  It's simple.  You embarrass yourself on national TV, donate the fine to your favorite charity, and then challenge three of your friends to do the same.

Long time lurker here. I had to register just to compliment you for this hilarious comment! I will be repeating this.

[OutsiderFan]

I know this sounds crazy, but maybe Larry Scott should decide where Haden's money is spent?  Picking your own punishment is one of the most arrogant acts of hubris one can make, other than an AD running down to the field to argue with game officials, and essentially playing the "do you know who I am" card.

[OutsiderFan]

I know this sounds crazy, but maybe Larry Scott should decide where Haden's money is spent?  Picking your own punishment is one of the most arrogant acts of hubris one can make, other than an AD running down to the field to argue with game officials, and essentially playing the "do you know who I am" card.

[GoodGrief]

I hope Larry Scott tweets that the fine doubles for every day that a proper check made out to the Pac-12 is not received. And then tweets Pat asking what he would like them to do with the one made to Autism. Naturally, Pat at that point would have to tell them to give it to the Autism group (this turns the table on Pat and puts him in the position of possibly denying the donation to the foundation).

[GoodGrief]

I hope Larry Scott tweets that the fine doubles for every day that a proper check made out to the Pac-12 is not received. And then tweets Pat asking what he would like them to do with the one made to Autism. Naturally, Pat at that point would have to tell them to give it to the Autism group (this turns the table on Pat and puts him in the position of possibly denying the donation to the foundation).

[martyup]

This whole topic would be a lot more amusing if we had just scored 14 or more points and won that game.  I still have that dull ache in my chest over this loss.

[martyup]

This whole topic would be a lot more amusing if we had just scored 14 or more points and won that game.  I still have that dull ache in my chest over this loss.