Patrick Capper Haden (born January 23, 1953) is the former
athletic director
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at the
University of Southern California
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(USC) in
Los Angeles
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from August 2010 to June 2016. He played
quarterback
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for the
USC Trojans
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before playing professionally in the
National Football League
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(NFL) for the
Los Angeles Rams
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from
1976
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* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
through
1981
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* January 1
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. He also played in the
World Football League
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(WFL) for the
Southern California Sun
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in
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
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.
Haden is a
Rhodes Scholar
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Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...
, was a practicing attorney from 1982 to 1987, and was a partner at
Riordan, Lewis & Haden
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, a
private equity firm
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, from 1987 to 2010. He is also known for his work as a former sportscaster, beginning with
CBS Sports
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in 1982, and ending his career in that field as a color commentator for
NBC Sports
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' Notre Dame football coverage.
Biography
Early years
Born in
Westbury, New York
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, to working-class
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parents, Haden is the fourth of five children. He had a close relationship with his mother, Helen Haden, who told her children to "Live your life so that you have standing room only at your funeral."
[David Wharton]
Pat Haden is still a dashing figure
''Los Angeles Times'', July 24, 2010, Accessed July 25, 2010.
As a boy, Haden had a boyhood paper route, then worked at a shoe store where he also pushed accessories in order to earn an extra commission. He had the same mentality in sports, where he used smarts and toughness he gained from keeping up with his older brothers to compensate for physical shortcomings. By high school, his parents had moved to Southern California.
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Playing career
High school career
Haden played high school football at Bishop Amat Memorial High School
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in La Puente, California
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History
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, where he became starting quarterback.[ He became close friends with teammate ]J.K. McKay
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, son of then-USC football coach John McKay; the two were opposites: J.K. was quick-witted and easygoing, while Haden was not. Haden and McKay shared the CIF Southern Section
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Player of the Year award in 1970. When Haden's parents had to move again, he stayed with the McKays for his senior year of high school.[ He was highly sought after and was recruited by many schools, including Notre Dame. Haden was inducted into the ]National High School Hall of Fame
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in 1995.
College career
Prior to College Football Haden and McKay won the CIF championship game in overtime against Lakewood High School. The game was played at the LA Coliseum, where Haden would go on to lead the Trojans to many victories.
Haden and J.K. McKay joined the highly regarded USC Trojans under head coach John McKay; they joined a group of friends in living at an apartment building just off campus.[ At USC, he made it to three Rose Bowl appearances and won two national championships. In the final game of his college career, the ]1975 Rose Bowl
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, he was named co-Most Valuable Player
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. Haden also was a recipient of the Today's Top V Award in 1975, which at the time honored five (now ten) senior student-athletes. He was put into the GTE Academic All-American Hall of Fame in 1988. He was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1995. An athletic and academic stand-out, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship
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Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...
.[
In ]1973
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* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
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, he threw for 1,832 yards with 13 TD vs 11 INT. In 1974
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, he threw for just 988 yards (in part due to 98 fewer pass attempts) but still threw 13 TD vs 11 INT.
Professional career
Haden played one season in the World Football League
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, its last, for the Southern California Sun
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, which allowed him to attend school in England
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at Oxford University
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under his Rhodes Scholarship. His decision to go to the United Kingdom
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for schooling hurt his NFL possibilities, as did a lack of height () and arm strength, and he dropped to the seventh round of the NFL Draft
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.
Haden made the Los Angeles Rams
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' roster in 1976
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* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
as the third quarterback, behind James Harris and Ron Jaworski
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. When both Harris and Jaworski were injured, Haden was pressed into duty in the second game of the season. Haden responded by playing mostly mistake-free football, letting running backs Lawrence McCutcheon
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and John Cappelletti
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Prior to his professional career, he att ...
shoulder the offensive load and passing only occasionally. Harris returned to the lineup as starting quarterback and Haden went back to a backup role. In a Monday night game against the Cincinnati Bengals
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, Harris played poorly in a 20-12 loss, and Rams head coach Chuck Knox was ordered by team owner Carroll Rosenbloom
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to bench Harris in favor of Haden. This is documented in Knox's autobiography ''Hard Knox: The Life of an NFL Coach'' and William Rhoden's ''Third and a Mile: The Trials and Triumph of the Black Quarterback''. At the time of the quarterback change, Harris was the top-rated passer of the National Football Conference. The NFL records show that Harris finished as the NFC's top-rated passer of 1976. Despite the change, the Rams went on to win the NFC Western Division title and a 14–12 upset of the defending NFC champion Dallas Cowboys
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in the opening round of the NFC playoffs, but the Rams fell to the Minnesota Vikings
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in the NFC championship game
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.
The Rams revamped their quarterback position for the 1977
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* January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...
season. Harris and Jaworski were traded, and the Rams acquired veteran QB Joe Namath
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from the New York Jets
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. Namath started the first four games, but it was evident his knees couldn't take it anymore, so the Rams went back to Haden. The Rams took eight victories in the last 10 games, won the NFC West and made the playoffs again. Their first-round opponent was the Vikings
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who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...
at home in the rain, but the Rams lost 14–7 in the Mud Bowl. Haden's small hands impaired his ability to grip the wet muddy ball. Haden completed 14 of 32 passes for 130 yards and one touchdown with 3 interceptions while Viking QB Bob Lee was only able to complete 5 of 10 passes for 57 yards and no touchdowns or interceptions.
Haden was rewarded with the starting position from day one in 1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
. The Rams started fast, winning their first eight games, but tailed off to 12-4, and won their third straight NFC West Division title. Haden threw a pair of touchdown passes and led the Rams to a 34-10 victory against the Vikings
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who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...
in the first round of the playoffs. The defending champion Dallas Cowboys
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walloped the Rams 28-0 in the 1978 NFC Championship Game on their way to Super Bowl XIII. Haden was voted the Washington D.C. Touchdown Club The DC Touchdown Club, earlier known as The Touchdown Club of Washington, D.C., was started in 1935 with a passion for charity and sports. In the ensuing years the Club has benefited many local charities as well as providing scholarships to deservin ...
NFC Player of the Year of the 1978 season.
Haden began the 1979
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season as the starter, but a broken finger midway through the season sidelined him in favor of Vince Ferragamo
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, who led the Rams to Super Bowl XIV.
Because of Rams' coach Ray Malavasi
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's policy of giving an injured starter his job back, Haden began the 1980
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* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
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season as the starter with Ferragamo as the backup. Haden was injured in the Rams season opener against the Detroit Lions. Ferragamo took over as the starter and didn't relinquish the job (despite Haden returning mid-season), passing for a then Rams-record 30 touchdown passes.
Ferragamo, however, bolted the Rams for the Canadian Football League
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. Haden went into the 1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
season as starter, but was injured midway through the season. After the season, while recovering from knee surgery and contemplating retirement, he got a call from CBS
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about a broadcast job and decided to take it.[
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Broadcasting career
After spending a few years at CBS, Haden was hired as the color commentator
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for NBC Sports
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' coverage of Notre Dame college football
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Unlike most ...
, and held similar duties for their Arena Football
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coverage from 2003 through 2006 and Fox Sports
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' Bowl Championship Series
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coverage in 2008. His position as the Notre Dame color commentator is ironic in that he, as USC's quarterback in 1974, helped orchestrate one of Notre Dame's greatest losses (and, conversely, one of USC's greatest wins, known as "The Comeback"). The Trojans won 55–24 despite trailing 24–0 at one point and 24–6 at halftime. Haden admits that his mother wanted him to go to Notre Dame and always lights a candle in her memory at the grotto whenever he is on campus.
Haden also was a color man for CBS Sports
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' college football coverage (being one of a three-man booth with former Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian
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and play-by-play man Brent Musburger, and later working with Jim Nantz
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), and provided color commentary for TNT
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's Sunday night football coverage and Westwood One
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's radiocasts, primarily working the Sunday night schedule which immediately followed his TV commitments (at the time, TNT and ESPN
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split the Sunday night games between them, with TNT broadcasting the first half of the season and ESPN the second half).
Haden also called one NFL on CBS
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game in 1988 and some NFL on CBS
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games in 1989 during the busier weeks of the 1988 NFL Season
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and 1989 NFL Season
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Due to ...
, when the network's seven announcing teams weren't enough to cover the network games.
Private equity career
In 1987, he joined Riordan, Lewis & Haden
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H ...
, a private equity
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firm based in Los Angeles that focuses on making investments in growing, profitable businesses with $20 – 200 million in revenue. He has served as a director of a number of RLH portfolio companies including TetraTech, Systems Management Specialists, Data Processing Resources Corporation (formerly NASDAQ: DPRC), The Apothecary Shops, and Adohr Farms. Haden remained a partner at RLH until assuming the position of Athletic Director for the University of Southern California.
Athletic director
Haden replaced Mike Garrett
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as the USC Trojans athletic director on August 3, 2010. On September 8, 2014, he and USC football coach Steve Sarkisian
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were reprimanded by Pac-12 Conference commissioner Larry Scott for attempting "to influence the officiating, and ultimately the outcome of a contest" during the September 6 game with Stanford. Haden was fined $25,000. On October 11, 2015, Haden placed Sarkisian on leave after a series of incidents culminating in the coach missing a practice during the season. The next day, Haden announced that Sarkisian had been fired.
On February 5, 2016, Haden announced that he would be stepping down as USC's athletic director effective June 30.
College Football Playoff Selection Committee
Haden was one of 13 members of the inaugural College Football Playoff
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selection committee. In September 2014 Haden received criticism and calls to resign from the selection committee by charging onto the field in order to argue with officials regarding a series of penalties during the third quarter of USC's 13-10 victory against Stanford.
Education
Haden received a B.A.
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, magna cum laude
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, Phi Beta Kappa
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from the University of Southern California
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, a J.D. from Loyola Law School
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Academics
Degrees offered include the Juris Doctor (JD); Master of Science in Legal ...
and a B.A. in economics from the University of Oxford
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as a Rhodes Scholar
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Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...
.
Community activities
Haden has served on numerous nonprofit boards. He sits on the boards of the Rose Hills Foundation and the Fletcher Jones Foundation, and has also served on the boards of non-profit organizations including the University of Southern California, the Good Samaritan Hospital, Boys Town of Southern California, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Los Angeles, and the Crippled Children's Society of Los Angeles. He is former chair of the March of Dimes Reading Olympics in Los Angeles and the Boys Life National Illiteracy Campaign.
Haden is a board member for the Lott IMPACT Trophy
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, which is named after Ronnie Lott
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Lott played college football for the Univ ...
and is awarded annually to college football's Defensive IMPACT Player of the Year.
Haden was awarded the Ambassador Award of Excellence by the LA Sports & Entertainment Commission in 2003 for his community involvement.
References
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