USC Can Ask Lakers About Bad Breakups

USC endured three years of Paul Hackett and fired him. Then Hackett was offensive coordinator for the Jets and quit after this season, opening the door for Tennessee’s Mike Heimerdinger to quit the coordinator’s job at Tennessee to take Hackett’s old job with the Jets.

Now Norm Chow is leaving USC to take Heimerdinger’s spot at Tennessee.

Even after Hackett is gone, he still finds a way to negatively impact the Trojans.

John Tedford

Los Angeles

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I’m not sure I understand why the media (in particular the L.A. Times) want to make a soap opera out of Norm Chow’s departure to the NFL. Why is Pete Carroll being portrayed as the bad guy? Pete has known all along that Norm was going to leave. Didn’t we all know it? What do you want him to do, write weepy “Don’t leave me, Norm” letters to Chow? Then you guys could print them and we could all take Carroll to task for being some kind of sissy boy?

Leave it alone already. Anyone who follows the Trojans saw this coming. Pete’s handling this in a classy manner. What do you want? Pete and Norm dressed like the Miller Lite girls wrestling in a fountain?

Rick Simpson

Murrieta

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Bill Plaschke’s Feb. 11 column about poor Matt Leinart was laughable. Leinart is an adult, and with his USC education should be able to take care of himself ... on and off the field. If he had decided to turn pro before the Norm Chow decision, was he going to ask the team that selected him that he wanted Chow included as part of his contract negotiation package?

Richard Whorton

Valley Village