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BRENNAN

Brennan is a word derived from Latin.  The modern meaning and form dates to the 1970s.

History

"Brennan" is derived from a combination of the Latin words "bravant" (to be crooked, bad, vicious, evil, corrupt) and "blennus" (blockhead, dolt, simpleton, imbecile, driveling idiot).  It was originally created to refer to a person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning.  Over time, the term "Brennan" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgment-individuals who are "stupid".  In modern English usage, it describes someone who has no talent but is handed a desirable position due to family connections or personal relationships. Also refers to one who achieves nothing; a spendthrift; one who rests on his father's accomplishments.  The term has more recently been used to describe offspring who do not quite measure up to their fathers.  Sons who are best described as "slow" or "dimwitted."  In psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called profound mental retardation.

See also

Tool
Jackass
Moron
Daddy's boy
Idiot
No Talent Douchebag
Cheatie Jr.

Physical Attributes of a Brennan

A Brennan can be identified by loud and seemingly pointless yelling. Spit flys from the Brennan's mouth freely and recklessly.  A Brennan thinks he is funny (he is not) and interprets people looking at him with blank looks or facial expressions indicating embarrassment for the speaker as indicators that others want him to continue with his idiotic behavior (they do not).  A Brennan views manic behavior and intense screaming as analagous to virtue and intelligence.

External Links

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The continuing saga of BoBo (the basketball player, not the clown) is getting slightly more interesting.  As everyone knows, Trent Johnson is making a push to keep BoBo at LSU by dragging his feet on processing the release request.  Not much more to add here, except this quote from Johnson in The Shreveport Times (link):

"He's a very good young man, but is he by any means Shaquille O'Neal? No, he's not," Johnson said. "It's going to take it's time. I've never been in a situation where I'm going to beg."

Jill Painter also linked to it.

I am no genius when it comes to recruiting or dealing on a day-to-day basis with the psyche of "student" athletes, but it seems more than a little damaging to LSU's chances with der BoBo to come out with quotes like this one, no?

By the way, awesome new format for the site. When an old guy like me can block quote and insert links, you know it is easy.  Reminds of the old days with word processing apps going from inserting formatting in the text to WYSIWYG.

WHISTLE! (as Cheatie Peetie, Jr. likes to say)

I just watched College Gameday on ESPN and came away pissed off.  There was barely a mention of UCLA-USC (maybe 20 seconds near the end), and there was no discussion of any other Pac 10 game.  The more I watched, the more angry I became. Not at ESPN for not covering the Pac 10, but at Hansen and the rest of the Pac 10 brain trust for continuing to renew the Pac 10 TV contract with Fox instead of ESPN.  

Even though Fox may have offered more cash, we all know that over time an ESPN deal would pay higher dividends in the form of more national exposure for our conference. With the time difference and the natural east coast bias, we are already behind the ball. But the TV contract is something within our control. The Fox contract only serves to place our conference, which at the end of the day will probably be THE premiere conference in the country this year (and definitely in the top 3), in a dark spot on the spectrum where virtually no one East of the Rockies will see us.

Now the intangible penalties are hurting.  It's hard to blame ESPN, though.  What incentive does ESPN have to hype any team in our conference when they do not broadcast any (or very few) of our conference games?  We get the shaft all over that network; not because we are not good, but because ESPN receives no financial benefit for advertising a team or a conference that it does not have the broadcast rights to.  At least in football, ABC broadcasts a good number of games which is one reason why ESPN is also referred to as the Trojan Broadcast Network.

I know this is a frequent topic on this board, and I am not the first person to bring this up (not by a long shot), but watching Gameday this morning really brought it home for me and I found myself stewing, looking for an outlet to vent.

I hope we stuff Killa2 and beat the crap out of Timmeh and his traveling band of diploma mill grads today.  No mercy.  I want every Trojan bandwagoner talking about their football team after the game.  As we all know, their first knee-jerk reaction after getting dominated on the basketball court is to talk about Cheatie Peatey. "Eeerrrrrrr, we will kill you guys in football next year!!"

Everybody's favorite program of degenerates and criminals is off to an auspicious start.  The USC basketball team, with Juice Deuce, lost on the road to the powerhouse that is Mercer.  In what looks to be a pattern this year, OJ Mayo had 32 points (game high) but his team lost 96-81.  

There is no "I" in team; and there ain't no "OJ" either.  Mayo will likely be the leading scorer every night for Southern Cal as he focuses on being a high draft pick in next year's draft.  Who cares about how the team does if you average over 30 a night?  All that matters is that Killer 2 got his!

Well, just goes to show Timmeh that if you recruit players from diploma mills and players who care more about personal stats than wins, this is what you get.

Nice work Timmeh!  Nice work Killa!

Fight on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks USC sucks

Merciful, angel-among-us, Uncle Peetie truly is doing God's work on earth.  His goal in life is to mold young men into mature adults who contribute to society.  If a young man is in need, Saint Peetie will go out of his way to help him.

Unless, of course, that young man is a top flight recruit who wants to transfer to another PAC 10 school.  Or anywhere else.  Jamere Holland wants to transfer out of "Heaven", aka South Central (a shocker!), but His Hollyness will not release him.  Peetie won't let him go to Oregon, and he won't let him go to Florida. Peetie's golden rule appears to be: transfer to a second or third tier school that is not a threat to SC.  If you don't Peetie the Angel will do everything in his other-worldly power to stop you.  Just ask Rocky Hinds about being forced to go to UNLV.  How gracious of him.  Did he learn that from that freaky pseudo-religion he subscribes to?

Why should Saint Peetie do what's best for a young player when there is the slightest, sliver of a chance that it could come back to haunt him?  After all, just because he has accumulated the biggest pool of talent in college football existence, doesn't mean he shouldn't do whatever it takes to win.  Just win.  That's all that matters.  Even if it means gutting the budding career of a young man just starting out.

To sum up: dog fighting is okay in Saint Peetie's book, but transferring is not.  Lesson learned, oh mighty one.

all the way to number 8 on the Hot Seat list over at the Coaches on the Hotseat website.

I found this little gem while cruising EDSBS, as I am sure many of you have.  Lots of good stuff here, including their thoughts on our Clueless Leader, compensation terms, possible replacements, and prediction for '07 (7-5, by the way).

Perhaps the best thing, however, is these guys got a hold of Karl's agreement with UCLA and posted it.  It is interesting for several reasons.

Karl shows as much creativity in naming his corporate entities as he does in coming up with his offense: none.  His company is called "KJD8 Enterprises, Inc."  By the way, a quick check of the California Secretary of State's website shows the company is not in good standing.  Nice attention to detail, Coach.  

Also, you have to wonder why Karl set it up as a services agreement through a C corp instead of a straight forward employment agreement. Presumably there is some tax advantage to this set up or else it would be a giant waste of time (admittedly, we can't rule that out).  He may be paying more taxes than he needs to, though (I will leave it to the CPAs and JDs, but wouldn't he be better served with an LLC?).  

That raises another question: are proper taxes being paid?  I am sure he is following all the rules, right?  As we all know, integrity is his strong suit.

I will let you guys comb through it on your own for early termination rights, severance and oddball provisions.  Needless to say, it is worth the read.

Our fearless leader is clearly at the top of his game.  He just landed the best recruiting class of his 5 year "tenure" (akin to jumping over the Sunday paper) and now he is hitting the press with confident assertions, boldly showing off his intellectual prowess.  

Everyone stands in awe of Dorrell's intellect, as evidenced by the following quotes:

"I'm a little bit confused with how they do the rankings," Dorrell said. "It's hard for us to be a highly ranked recruiting class because our numbers were so small. But if you go by in terms of quality that is in the class, I would say it's probably top-10, or inside the top 10." Two things jump out.  First, we all have to admit that we sometimes get "confused" by the seemingly complex rating systems employed by recruiting services.  Sure, on its face, it looks like a simple system of stars numbered 1 through 5 that is similar to a variety of rating systems used elsewhere.  But in reality, it is really a simple system of stars numbered 1 through 5 that is similar to a variety of rating systems used elsewhere.  

Second, the difference between a "top 10" class and a class that is "inside the top 10" is so painfully obvious to someone of Karl's intellect that I don't need to explain it here.

This quote from the LAT article on Cheatie Peety's in-the-gutter recruiting tactics shows how Karl's detailed use of espionage and counter-intelligence in the recruiting wars is helping him to come out with classes that are ranked lower and lower each year:

"Through an athletic department spokesman, UCLA Coach Karl Dorrell said that neither he nor his assistants would comment for this story because they did not want opposing coaches to know their philosophy." Atta-boy Karl!  Don't fall into that trap.  Keep those Trojans guessing about your philosophy on recruiting players who have committed orally to another school.  Your fiendishly clever ploy to cause USC to waste precious time during recruiting periods brainstorming on figuring out what YOUR recruiting philosophy is will free you up to contact recruits without interference.  BRILLIANT!

By the way, will someone please ask Koach if this is his "best class" like last year's team was his "best team"? Let's hope the results with this class are different that last year's record.

Can't we just fire him and move on?

All three "analysts" on ESPN college game day (Hubert, Phelps and none other than Jay Bias) just took USC to beat UCLA today.  These guys were all over USC this morning, saying how improved they are.  Especially Jay Bias.  That guy, for whatever reason, consistently disrespects UCLA and Ben Howland.

I truly hope that Coach Howland hears about all of the disrespect and uses it to motivate our guys today.  With Shipp and Wright hurt, we will need to play a solid game. Focus like a laser on defense, force turnovers and RUN, RUN, RUN. Don't get caught up in trying to use a half court offense.  We have team speed and we need to use it to our advantage.

We have to beat these overrated assholes.

Can you guys disable the two hundred word minimum?  It really does kind of suck.   Sometimes you need to get a quick jab post up that is not related to an existing post and you can't hit the minimum, so you have to start talking about the Weasel . . .

The Weasel will be slithering around the sidelines at the Galen Center looking for AAU coaches who he can pay off to bring kids with bad character to Southern Cal who need "help" academically to qualify.

Okay Dan Guerrero, now is the time to grow some balls, admit the experiment is over and make a run at talented football coach who actually has a record of building up a powerhouse football program from scratch.  Greg Doyel at CBS Sportsline posted an article on Louisville (http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/9904129)
that suggests that Bobby Petrino may be available this off-season if all of his great junior players bolt.  

If we have any chance of getting Petrino (which I freely admit is a HUGE long shot), we have to be proactive and get aggressive.  It starts by pulling the trigger and putting Old Yellow out of his misery.  The next step would be to go to the Wassermans of the world to fund the way-overpriced buyout of Dorrell's contract and put together a financial package to attract someone of Petrino's caliber.  Next, send the private plane (just like you did for Howland) for Petrino and let him know how much you want him.  In reality, we can't offer him $3 million a year, but we can offer him a job in the best part of the best city in the world.  He should be able to effectively recruit and having a shot at beating Cheatie Peetie in his own town should get a coach like Petrino ready to sign.

The time is now.  No more, "Let's give him one more year and see how he does!"  I am sick of that.  We have said that every year for the last 3 years.  Seize the moment, Mr. Guerrero, and make everyone in the UCLA community proud of you again.  You found the right basketball coach; now let's go out and find the right football coach.