Pat Haden announced his retirement Friday as USC's athletic director, and at this moment -- right now -- his tenure can be judged a disappointment.
He was hired in 2010 to shepherd the football program back to glory. That didn't happen. Despite NCAA sanctions being substantially in the rearview mirror, the Trojans remain in flux with a new and unproven head coach and no Pac-10/12 championships since 2008.
Haden couldn't rein in Lane Kiffin's ego and force-feed him coaching maturity, and his hiring of Steve Sarkisian to replace Kiffin became a massive failure when Sarkisian was fired midway through the 2015 season after substance-abuse issues came to light.