Pat Haden
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"Patrick Capper "Pat" Haden" is the athletic director at the University of Southern California. He played quarterback for the USC Trojans before playing professionally in the National Football League/NFL for the St. Louis Rams/Los Angeles Rams from 1976 to 1981. He is a Rhodes Scholar, was a practicing attorney from 1982 to 1987, and was a partner at Riordan, Lewis & Haden, a private equity firm, from 1987 to 2010. He is also known for his work as a former sportscaster, beginning with CBS Sports in 1982, and ending his career in that field as a color commentator for NBC Sports Notre Dame football coverage.

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Having two weeks to prepare and pore over every frame of game film is a great advantage. I am very interested to see what Coach Weis has planned, particularly the first 15 offensive plays which Weis scripts. Weis has done a great job of putting points on the board against highly ranked opponents.

He is so efficient. He seems to be playing smarter, more confidently. I think they have given him more responsibility. He's very, very accurate and doesn't make many mistakes. The statistics show he has three interceptions, but in reality it's only one. The others were deflected passes by receivers who should have caught balls.

So we kind of laid an egg in our very first game.

They are a good football team and they have managed to put up a lot of points on most everybody they have played. This is a team that doesn't make a lot of mistakes.

Where some people were bemoaning some of these things that surround the program, I think he has embraced them and turned them into positives.

I don't know how to answer that question.

Somebody told me USC had dropped and I didn't believe them, ... How can you be the No. 1 team in the country, win five road games, three against ranked opponents, and lose ground? How does that happen?

Having two weeks to prepare is a great advantage. I'm interested to see what Coach Weis has planned, particularly the first 15 offensive plays, which he scripts.

He's a tough New Jersey guy. Those words mean something to him and people around him. By his force of will he has these guys playing much smarter. They are making fewer mistakes. And the offense has been completely different from a year ago with basically the same personnel. All of a sudden, guys who were invisible a year ago are making incredible plays.