Pete Carroll History
Here’s a GREAT summary of Pete Carroll’s career within football.
http://usctrojans.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/carroll_pete00.html
Make sure to check out the chart at the bottom to see a good breakdown of his history. This is a guy who’s been much maligned as being a failure in the NFL, but if you take a closer look at his profile, you can see that he spent a long career building up experience as an effective defensive coordinator. It’s no wonder his tenure with Norm Chow at the offense has led to such great seasons as of late.
What I find amazing is that Steve Sample et. al somehow had the foresight to take the head coach of the New York Jets from a 6-10 season and hand him the keys to a football team of Time’s University of the Year in 2000. USC was up-and-coming, but our football team was an embarrasment, losing to UCLA for 8 years in a row. The reputation of the university was booming, but the football needed a serious revitalization.
I still remember being served daily humiliation from all walks of Bruin life! Then, getting last-minute tickets to the rivalry game meant seeing a matchup that we were only likely to win because USC wasn’t as bad as UCLA in late 1999. When we finally broke the losing streak, all of a sudden, the Bruins I knew were no longer interested in the rivalry!
All of this leads up to why tomorrow’s game is going to be such a fun display of absolute crushing defeat for the Bruins. USC is on the peak of its game, and the only team that comes close in the PAC-10 are the Bears, who came fairly close to repeating an excuse for the BCS not to place the Trojans in 1st place where they belong. Not this year, however, as the Trojans are sure to be #1 in whatever poll or calculator you pick this season.
Fight on!!!