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The Obligatory Pete Carroll Practical Joke Post

Brian GrummellPosted Aug 19th 2008 11:01PM by Brian Grummell (author feed)
Filed under: USC, Pac 10, NCAA FB Video

It's more than a little hard to hear, but we get a rare glimpse at Pete Carroll's serious voice. The end reward isn't the most exciting thing around, but the players get to skip practice and Carroll's plenty fired up.

It's not exactly Carroll jumping around in a Wonderbread racing suit, but that's ok.

Buckeyes Have a Bargain in Tressel; Hawkeyes Hoping Magic Beans Sprout Soon

Mark HastyPosted Aug 14th 2008 1:17PM by Mark Hasty (author feed)
Filed under: Iowa, Ohio State, USC, NCAA FB Coaching, General CFB Insanity



Attention KMart shoppers: We have a blue light special in Columbus, where right now we're offering 22% off of national championship winning coaches. So says Forbes, which is out with a list it calls The Best (And Worst) College Football Coaches For The Buck (slideshow warning). According to their algorithm, Jim Tressel's $2.6 million annual salary is under the market rate for coaches with similar achievements. The Buckeye boss should be making just under $3.2 million a year.

That sounds like a lot of money, mostly because it is. Yet Forbes says that even Pete Carroll (2007 compensation estimated at $4.4 million) is underpaid. They say Southern Cal's coach should be making about a Chevy Cobalt more than $5 million a year, based on his two national titles. (No word on how the Stanford loss affected his overall value, alas.)

So cheer up, Buckeye fans; you may have lost two straight BCS Title Games, but (a) you actually made it to two straight BCS Title Games, and (b) you didn't overpay for the privilege.

Of course, if somebody's underpaid, somebody's overpaid too. Who's the most overpaid coach in college football, according to Forbes? Hint: his name rhymes with "irk parents."
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Pac 10 Preview: East Coast Bias Strikes Again

John RadcliffPosted Aug 14th 2008 10:29AM by John Radcliff (author feed)
Filed under: Arizona State, California, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State, Pac 10, FanHouse TV

As FanHouse previews each BCS conference, the college football songbook will cast an unflattering light on each conference in the only way we know how. We're looking at you Pac 10.



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Pete Carroll Faxes in His Anger (!!)

Brian GrummellPosted Aug 10th 2008 6:52PM by Brian Grummell (author feed)
Filed under: USC, NCAA FB Recruiting, General CFB Insanity

An early signing period may be coming to college football. In fact, in a recent American Football Coaches Association poll, 73% of coaches favored an AFCA recommendation for an early signing period. Signing Day would then shift from February to December. The AFCA sent those findings to coaches, and Pete Carroll flipped.
Carroll is especially upset - he faxed back his response with "this is a terrible change!!" scrawled across the bottom
Exclamation point exclamation point (!!). Nice.

I'm with Carroll on this one, the proposal would be ridiculously unfair to the athletes. It also likely furthers Carroll's opinion that other coaches are "lazy". Coaches are still being hired and fired after December, the season's not over, and not all players have been able to make recruiting visits or would rather make them once the high school and college football seasons have ended.

There's no reason to lock players into commitments especially when recruiting is a two-way, usually lengthy information gathering process. The greater amount of time given to it, the more all parties are able to gather about the other and make the best possible decision.

This is bad policy.

I've got a forum here at FanHouse to make my opinion known, but I admire Carroll's less nuanced Fax Machine Diplomacy. Maybe he's onto something.

Southern Cal Loses Starting Quarterback to Non-Contact Knee Injury

Adam JacobiPosted Aug 8th 2008 11:25PM by Adam Jacobi (author feed)
Filed under: USC, Pac 10, NCAA FB Injuries


For all the worrying coaches do about protecting quarterbacks in the offseason and in practices, the fact remains that collision- contact-related injuries aren't nearly as catastrophic as non-contact, plant-grimace-and-collapse injuries.* Sure, you don't want your QB's ribcage caved in, but bones heal quickly and correctly. Torn ligaments, on the other hand, end seasons before they begin.

Pete Carroll was reminded of this duality today, as head QB in charge Mark Sanchez crumpled in a heap during stretching drills and was carted off the field. The AP is using non-specific, CYA terms like "apparent knee injury," but this certainly has all the symptoms of a torn ligament or patellar dislocation.

If it's a dislocated kneecap, that's not so bad; last year, their center Kristoffer O'Dowd suffered the same injury, and he "only" missed four games. ACL tears, of course, are a bit more severe.

For now, USC will turn to Arkansas transfer and former super-recruit Mitch Mustain, who never should have left Metallica. Mustain left Arkansas in the wake of some vague scandal, and did so in such a negative light that programs like Louisville and Oklahoma actually publicly balked on his transfer. But kid can throw, and while USC awaits Sanchez's fate, it's Mitch's game.

And yes, that's right, stretching drills. SbB expresses amazement that there's such a thing as a "carioca" drill in football and links to some Fred Astaire video, but surely I can't be the only one who remembers this drill from high school. It's not that obscure. As stretches go, it's actually kind of fun.

*Giant honking ruin-my-argument exception: Concussions.

The Nick Saban-Pete Carroll Recruiting Axis

Brian GrummellPosted Jul 28th 2008 10:45AM by Brian Grummell (author feed)
Filed under: Alabama, USC, SEC, NCAA FB Coaching

Imagine, hyper aggressive football coaches getting bent about being hemmed in from the honey and wine seduction of high school boys. The NCAA recently mandated that head coaches stay out of the recruiting game for a full month in the middle of the long, boring offseason. It's some bitter medicine for Alabama coach Nick Saban, judging by his comments at SEC Media Day.
"That rule, I don't care what anybody thinks, was made out of paranoia ... that somebody else was doing something that they weren't doing."
Rrrraawwwwrrrrrr!

Recall, Carroll said the following in March about the rule change:
"I don't want to sound like a jerk," [USC coach Pete] Carroll says, "But other coaches ... they're just lazy."
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to an uncomfortable football alliance that just so happens to be between two of the game's biggest powers. Where have we seen this before? We speculate Carroll still wants to carve up pieces of Alabama recruiting territory and Saban wants the Pac-10 schedule, but for now they share common ground.

Of course this means their tanks now dangerously point towards two fronts -- Poland, I mean Indianapolis (NCAA headquarters, natch) and Baton Rouge (common enemy). Awesome.

Pete Carroll Powers Nuclear Aircraft Carrier With Good Vibes, Positivity

Adam JacobiPosted Jul 11th 2008 1:25AM by Adam Jacobi (author feed)
Filed under: USC, Pac 10, NCAA FB Coaching

Admit it: Pete Carroll and awesomeness go together better than chimps and firearms. He doesn't even really exist in your and my universe. Oh, we may see him from time to time, but it's only a mild courtesy so that he may demonstrate his ultragalactic superiority. Sort of like Alanis Morrisette as God in Dogma, except... well, there are obvious differences.

Carroll's latest trip from the cosmos took him, several former Trojans, and a host of other USC alumni to an aircraft carrier off the California coast (it was one of ours, don't worry). The Trojan posse, which included Arizona Cardinals QB Matt Leinart (pictured at left with Carroll) and NFL HOF lineman Ron Yary, treated crew members of the USS Stennis to autographs, picture sessions, and a game of catch. Oh, and Carroll drove the aircraft carrier. Said former center Jeremy Hogue, who organized and documented the whole trip:
They never tired of the autographs or photos... going strong for 27+ hours with little to no sleep walking from corner to corner throughout the floating city that is the USS Stennis, which has no elevators! [...] And this wasn't done for press or PR or photo opportunities. I invited them and they came. All Trojans should be proud.
Hogue is right; this wasn't done for PR, which is precisely why you'll have to click through for pictures. It's still an incredibly cool gesture as well as one more reminder that you cannot, in your wildest imagination, one-up Pete Carroll. Think of the awesomest thing he could do, then just wait. He'll be riding dinosaurs with afros and shooting lasers at pirate zombies by 2011. And he'll be positively jacked about that, man.

Chris Galippo Goes in for Surgery

Scott Olin SchmidtPosted Jul 10th 2008 11:33AM by Scott Olin Schmidt (author feed)
Filed under: USC, Pac 10, NCAA FB Injuries

Rey-Rey Maualuga is going to have to find a new backup, as the USC linebacking corps has suffered its first major setback of the 2008 season.

USC redshirt freshman linebacker Chris Galippo has played nary a snap for the Men of Troy but he is going under the knife for the second time since joining the team.

The Los Angeles Daily News reports that the high school All-American underwent back surgery for the second time in nine months yesterday and will miss part of the 2008 season.

According to head coach Pete Carroll, "It's very similar to the surgery he had before but on a different disc."

Galippo was slated to back up Rey Maualuga at middle linebacker, but will relenquich those duties for at least the start of the season.

All Hail Your New Rutgers Recruiting Overlords

Adam JacobiPosted Jun 30th 2008 11:55PM by Adam Jacobi (author feed)
Filed under: Big East, NCAA FB Recruiting, Rutgers Football

Not pictured: Schiano crashing the trophy down on losing coach Brady Hoke's head. Hoke was 49.

How many high school commitments does your favorite football team have for 2009? Odds are not many, especially if you're a Niners fan. Sure, there's USC with 15 future All-Americans, about whom Pete Carroll is feeling jacked. And there's Texas, loaded as ever, here at the dusk of June. Oh, and also with 19 commitments, of course, is Greg Schiano and Rutgers.

That's right, Rutgers.

No, this story didn't take a sharp detour into Crazyland, where the marching band plays kazoos and the yards are marked with cake frosting; this is actually happening. Rutgers, out there in the Big East and with negative infinity football tradition, is absolutely cleaning up. Their latest success is wideout Shawney Kersey, a lanky, three-star prospect with a four-and-a-half-star name (it's not Barkevious Mingo, but that's all right) who was destined for West Virginia last week.

Kersey's commitment will make it 13 such in June alone, which is more than most teams have, um, at all so far. Most of them hail from New Jersey, which means that recruiting goldmine (see Moreno, Knowshon) may well be drying up for outside teams.

If Rutgers continues to lock up their home state, Big East teams will probably wish--if they don't already--that Schiano had actually accepted one of his rumored offers. For now, though, all your Big East are belong to Greg Schiano.

LA Sheriff Collides With Pete Carroll

Sean HawkinsPosted Jun 26th 2008 8:40AM by Sean Hawkins (author feed)
Filed under: USC Football, Pac 10

That traffic in southern California can be absolutely brutal. It's not just that you have to be careful, but you have to always be wary of the other unpredictable drivers that roam the highways and byways. You never know when someone will cut you off. Just ask Pete Carroll.

According to Scott Wolf in the LA Daily News, the rock-star coach was simply minding his own business, cruising through Malibu on the Pacific Coast Highway Tuesday evening, when suddenly:

"I was in the fast lane and the cop came from the slow lane and pulled right in front of me to make a U-turn," Carroll said. "(My car) got hammered."

That's right, a cop. Apparently it was an LA County Sheriff who ruined Carroll's evening. Luckily there were no injuries, and everyone is OK. Carroll even attended a high school football camp the following day. The worst thing to come out of it was Carroll having to remain at the scene for a few hours while everything was wrapped up.

What's a little odd here isn't just a police car ramming Carroll, but according to the article, the Malibu sheriff station was completely unaware of the incident. Wouldn't you think the sheriff station would know if one of their own was involved in totaling Pete Carroll's car?
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