[30][180][181] In explaining his enthusiasm, Carroll has stated, "I always think something good's just about to happen. February 28, 2023 5:58 pm ET. [175] As a fan of the Grateful Dead, Carroll then tied Wooden's thoughts into those by Jerry Garcia, and decided that he wanted his football program to not be the best, but the only program following his competitive philosophy.[175]. [26] Meanwhile, Carroll, who had not coached in over a year and not coached in the college ranks since 1983, drew unfavorable comparisons to the outgoing Hackett. Pete Carroll (football coach) Jack Del Rio (football/baseball), John Hamilton (contributor) Isabelle Harvey (soccer) Joe Jares (media) Jimmy Jones (football) Dave Levy (football coach) Harold Miner (basketball) Aniko Pelle (water polo) Mark Prior (baseball) Kristine Quance-Julian (swimming) Don Quarrie (track and field) Jennifer Rosales (golf) Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is looking to join exclusive company in the NFL by winning back-to-back Super Bowls. LSU went 15-0 and won the national championship. With 25 seconds to go on second down and goal at the Patriots' 1-yard line, and the Seahawks trailing by four points, Carroll called for a pass play. Carroll's primary background as an assistant was coaching secondaries his first real NFL claim to fame was as the secondary coach with the Vikings from 1985-89 when Minnesota annually had. [4], He was a multi-sport star in football (playing quarterback, wide receiver, and defensive back), basketball, and baseball, earning the school's Athlete of the Year honors as a senior in 1969. The punishment: Five months after Carroll left USC for the Seattle Seahawks in January 2010, the NCAA ruled USC lacked institutional control and placed the program on probation for four years. Carroll says he didn't know about the Bush violations. The Trojans went 1-9 in 1957, the worst record in school history. Now 55, Bradley was Carroll's first Seahawks defensive coordinator from 2010-12, the top assistant Carroll retained from the staff of fired Jim Mora's one Seattle season in 2009. USC interim football coach Ed Orgeron celebrates with his team after a win over Oregon State on Nov. 1, 2013, in Corvallis, Ore. USC coach Steve Sarkisian watches the Trojans warm up before a game against Idaho on Sept. 12, 2015, at the Coliseum. In two seasons as Oklahomas coach, Lincoln Riley has had two quarterbacks win the Heisman Trophy. "[194] The site, which can be accessed by creating a virtual avatar, includes arcade-style games, motivational messages from Coach Carroll and a sports trivia section as well as a collection of virtual football skills workshops for kids. 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"[30] He also cites influences from psychologists Abraham Maslow and Carl Jung, Buddhist meditation master Chgyam Trungpa, and Zen master D. T. But how should we. The PAC 12 is further distancing itself from Los Angeles after the recent departures of UCLA and USC. 4 takeaways from Pete Carroll's end-of-season press conference He was previously the head football coach at USC from 2000 to 2009, where he won six bowl games and back to back National Championships in 2003 and 2004. [52], On January 11, 2010, it was reported that Carroll would be leaving USC to coach the Seattle Seahawks. He really tried to keep his job and I respect him for that.. I listened to the people talk. Pete Carroll, Executive VP, Head Coach After they lost to the Tulane Green Wave in the Cotton Bowl, the one with the biggest. [29][35] In 2008, ESPN.com named Carroll's hiring number 1 in a list of the Pac-10's top ten moments of the BCS era. [90][91] When the NFL referee lockout ended several days later, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged that public furor over the call accelerated the eventual resolution of the labor dispute. Tom Coughlin was 65 when his Giants won Super Bowl XLVI and Dick Vermeil was 63 when the St. Louis Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV. Seahawks' Pete Carroll, John Schneider address report that Russell [7] When Bruce moved on to Ohio State University, he again hired Carroll to coach the secondary. Seahawks coach Sean Desai expected to be Eagles defensive coordinator "An Exciting Opportunity" & Other Things We Learned From John Schneider When Caddas found out Carroll was interested in coaching, he offered him a job as a graduate assistant on his staff at Pacific. There has never been a finer man than Don Clark in all aspects.. Heres a recap of what former college football coaches Rick Neuheisel, Jim Mora, Dave Wannstedt and Mike Stoops think about USCs coaching job. The letter: Henderson wrote a letter to Rockne during Notre Dames famed unbeaten 1924 season stating the Trojans would welcome a chance to play the Irish. The Eagles since have confirmed it. He really cared about us and the program. "[114], The 2015 offseason was one full of criticism for Carroll, Wilson, and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell after the ending of Super Bowl XLIX. The brave: Shortly after the 1941 season the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and Barry enlisted in the Navy, ending his short tenure as USC football coach. After a team meeting following a Week 11 loss, the Seahawks finished the regular season 60 to finish with a 124 record. Seahawks Pete Carroll hired new Bucs offensive coordinator Dave Canales as an assistant strength coach and video assistant while still at USC in 2009. "[39] In a 2005 interview, Carroll explained his motivation: I feel like I should be playing now. He also mentored Al Davis, the longtime owner of the Raiders, who was an assistant under Clark. He was a great innovator, ball coach, and man of the world. The yarn: The colorful McKay held court several times a week in booth No. [159] Carroll later named Geno Smith the starter for the regular season opener, which would be against Wilson and the Broncos. The official Football Coach List for the University of Southern California Trojans . I sat in the meetings. [100] Their regular-season finale, against the St. Louis Rams, established a new at-home streak of one, and Carroll concluded the regular season at 133. 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Carl Smith, Associate Head Coach [14], When Monte Kiffin was named head coach of North Carolina State University in 1980, he brought Carroll in as his defensive coordinator and secondary coach. That would change the course of his career. What really pissed me off was going to the WFL (World Football League) and getting cut and having the NFL go on strike and not being able to get a connection with the scabs (replacement players). Im not mad at Pete Carroll. Pete Carroll - Seattle Seahawks [7] Carroll was inducted into the Pacific Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995. The bad: Sarkisian was fired five games into the 2015 season after repeated incidents of him appearing intoxicated on the job that included a preseason booster event and odd behavior during a game. "[179] He wrote a foreword for a later edition, noting that athletes "must clear their minds of all confusion and earn the ability to let themselves play freely. . [145] They ended the season with a 124 record and won their first division title since 2016, but lost to the Los Angeles Rams in the Wild Card Round. [84] Carroll made even more history as the Seahawks later upset the then-Super Bowl Champions New Orleans Saints by a score of 41-36 during the Wild Card Round of the playoffs, behind running back Marshawn Lynch and the famed Beast Quake run. [150] In Week 5 against the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday Night Football, quarterback Russell Wilson broke his finger on a sack by Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald, and he was ruled out as backup Geno Smith relieved him in the 1726 loss. Carroll rebuilt his staff by elevating Ken Norton, Jr. from graduate assistant to full-time assistant coaching the linebackers, and hiring Steve Sarkisian, who was with the Oakland Raiders in 2004 and was formerly with the Trojans, as quarterbacks coach. [20][21], Even though several NFL teams approached him with defensive coordinator positions, Carroll instead spent the 2000 season as a consultant for pro and college teams, doing charitable work for the NFL, and writing a column about pro football for CNNSI.com. As the #1 seed in the playoffs, the Seahawks beat the Carolina Panthers in the Divisional Round, 3117, to get to their second straight NFC Championship. [99] The penultimate game, against the Arizona Cardinals, was Seattle's attempt to continue their at-home winning streak to 15 games (record started in Week 2 of the 2012 season). He was an All-American kind of individual. The Trojans were 27-9-1 during that stretch and won a record 19 consecutive Pac-10 games. 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The main lesson Steve Sarkisian took from Pete Carroll - Footballscoop The Cardinals won, and Seattle suffered its third loss of the year. Wilson last year completed 64.8% of his passes for the Hawks, and . [45] His total compensation, including pay and benefits, for the 2007 fiscal year was $4,415,714. (AP Photo). Not only that, but the QB position has actually improved since Wilson left former USC Football Head Coach Pete Carroll's NFL team. Carroll was generally regarded as one of the top college football coaches in the country,[40][54][55] and has been compared to College Football Hall of Fame coach Knute Rockne. He was named Pac-10 coach of the year. In his third season with the Seahawks in 2012, Carroll, along with rookie quarterback Russell Wilson, led the team to an 115 record, including going undefeated at home. The consultation: At age 84, Robinson became a consultant to Louisiana State coach and former USC coach Ed Orgeron in 2019. 3. Legendary NFL coach and alumnus Pete Carroll to receive honorary The league will now hold their annual college football media day event in Las Vegas instead. He was on the hot seat in 2014, but not until USC was humiliated by Arizona State 62-41 the Trojans seventh loss in their last 11 games Sept. 28, 2015, did athletic director Pat Haden wield the axe. [10] In 1989, he was a candidate for the head coaching position at Stanford University; the position went to Dennis Green. The Seahawks were able to start the season with a 41 record,[124] despite Russell Wilson playing with a hurt ankle sustained in the season opener against the Miami Dolphins. Pete Carroll confirmed in off podium session with Seattle reporters that Sean Desai is leaving for Philadelphia. Andy Dickerson, Offensive Line If we win our games and we're out there and they want us to go somewhere else, then we'll go. There was such a bitterness. I use em every day. 10 names to watch for USC job after Clay Helton's firing - Yahoo! [9][10], Carroll's energetic and positive personality made a good impression on his head coach, Chester Caddas. Carroll himself got his first two assistant jobs (at Pacific and Arkansas) through a U of P mentor. Peter Clay Carroll (born September 15, 1951) is an American football coach who is the head coach and executive vice president for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). 2022 Football Coaching Staff. One day the curator of the nearby Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County dropped in and mentioned to McKay that the museum had an exhibit of moon rocks quarantined because of a concern about introducing the unknown objects from outer space. Pete Carroll to Coach Seattle Seahawks - USC News The exit: The perceived need to replace Helton with a big-name coach worked against any chance Williams had of keeping the job beyond this season. Now, whether it is or not, I don't know. We will always appreciate and respect our association with USC, Coach Carroll said. [4] Carroll attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California. [15] His success with the Vikings led to his hiring by the New York Jets, where he served as defensive coordinator under Bruce Coslet for four seasons (199093). Pete Carroll Interview - Bio of USC Coach Pete Carroll The news was broken earlier this week, causing many online to post their reactions. The good: McKay led USC to four national championships, equaling the total of Howard Jones. Carroll acknowledged that he might not have lasted long in Seattle without Wilson, and that the Seahawks' current three-game losing streak is due in large part to Wilson's injury. In his time at USC, the Trojans went to two BCS Bowl games, winning the National Championship in 2004 and winning the . Seahawks coach Pete Carroll will be addressing the media in a few minutes at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. USC Hires Carroll. His 97 on-field wins would put him ahead of Robinson for third in Trojan history. Peter Clay Carroll (born September 15, 1951, in San Francisco, California) is the head coach and of the Seattle Seahawks, a National Football League team. They tried to make it out like it was something else. The assistants at Pacific during this time included a number of other future successful coaches, including Greg Robinson, Jim Colletto, Walt Harris, Ted Leland, and Bob Cope. Dubbed the Thundering Herd, the Trojans outscored UCLA by a combined score of 128-0 in their first two meetings under the stone-faced Jones. Two of his paternal great-grandparents were Irish immigrants, and his Croatian maternal grandparents emigrated from around the region of ibenik. Speaking with the Los Angeles Times in a Q&A session, Carroll praised USC as a great place to play and coach but said it was always going to be tough to follow his staff's success at the school. The revenge: Orgeron got a second chance as an interim coach, succeeding Les Miles at LSU early in the 2016 season, and the results mirrored his interim stint at USC. Damione Lewis, Assistant DL/DT Pete Carroll: I've been here a long time, I probably wouldn't have 100, how long until his next 100 wins? While Pete Carroll's playing career ended after that WFL try-out, he couldn't leave the game behind. [85] However, the following week at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, they then fell to the Chicago Bears, whom they had defeated earlier in the season, in the Divisional Round by a score of 3524.[86]. The Santa Ana High product played center at USC and was the first Trojans alum to serve as coach. There are 750 million people in China who dont even know this game was played. I've been so lucky and fortunate. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for guiding the Trojans to a record of 260-138 in 17 seasons, including eight conference titles and 32 consecutive wins over UCLA. The Seahawks were eliminated in the Divisional Round for the second straight year in 2016, losing 3620 to the Atlanta Falcons. 62. [36], The criticism of Carroll became louder when Carroll's first USC team opened the 2001 season going 25, with some sportswriters writing off the once-dominant Trojans, who were the only Pac-10 football team to never finish in the national top 10 during the previous decade, as a dying program. At USC home games, when Carroll decided to go for it on 4th down, the USC band would start a chant of "Big Balls Pete" that carried over to the students section and the alumni. USC coaching candidates: Luke Fickell, Bob Stoops, Chris Petersen among Pete Carroll was hired December 15, 2000 and was USC's third choice to be their new head coach after Dennis Erickson and Mike Riley. An Inside View of Pete Carroll's Leadership at USC Football - LinkedIn You didnt have to turn around and look, you knew he was there., Jones: Football to me is power-massed power, functioning smoothly, driving forward relentlessly.. College: Azusa Pacific. Pete Carroll is leaving USC; will coach Seattle Seahawks Pete Carroll confirms that Sean Desai will be hired as DC for Eagles Pete Carroll, who guided the USC football program to the winningest era in its history during . The bizarre: The Trojans fired Robinson after the 82 season without speaking to him, hired Paul Hackett without producing him at a news conference, then wondered why Robinson hadnt accepted an invitation to attend the announcement. 24. USC coach John Robinson, center, looks on as the Trojans score a touchdown against UNLV on Oct. 4, 1997. Now, I did change some things, but I didnt talk about them. No successor champion was designated, and there is no BCS champion for the 20042005 college football season. In 2010, Pete Carroll was leaving USC to become the head coach of the Seahawks. Lincoln Riley could bring a former Pete Carroll assistant to USC The 'treasure' on Pete Carroll's staff: His 27-year-old son The good: Hackett seemed right for the job. [121] Seattle entered the postseason as the #6 seed, winning its Wild Card Round against the Minnesota Vikings after Vikings kicker Blair Walsh missed a 27-yard field goal for a final score of 109. In the COVID-shortened 2020 season, USC started 5-0 before losing its last game. [25][27][28], USC first pursued then-Oregon State coach Dennis Erickson, who instead signed a contract extension with the Beavers; then Oregon coach Mike Bellotti, who similarly signed an extension. In nine seasons Cravath led USC to the Rose Bowl four times, shutting out Washington in 1944 and Tennessee in 1945. Said Tollner: We got up about 100 feet or so and it was the left engine that sputtered and went out. [7] Carroll spent the 1977 season as a graduate assistant working with the secondary under Cope. [119] After losing at home on Sunday Night Football to the division leading Cardinals, Seattle sat at 45. [50] When asked if he would retire at USC, Carroll responded: I am prepared to do that. I felt things were headed in the right direction. . Pete Carroll Caught Misleading About NCAA Violations, Hurting Trogans He decided his philosophy was best summarized as "I'm a competitor". However, he still has difficulty gaining respect. As head coach, Pete Carroll led a resurgence of football at the University of Southern California. Dec. 28, 2003. Analysis: Five reasons why Pete Carroll is the most successful coach in The team's Legion of Boom defense also led the league in scoring for four consecutive seasons during his tenure. Patience and a well-timed recruiting pitch helped USC lure Lincoln Riley away from Oklahoma, sending shockwaves through the college football world. The nickname: It wasnt as catchy as Gloomy Gus, but Cravath was called Little Jeffries when he was young because he enjoyed fisticuffs like legendary heavyweight boxer Jim Jeffries. Lincoln Riley's confidence in USC coaching staff has to be more than Clint Hurtt, Defensive Coordinator Orgeron had been a popular assistant under Hackett and Carroll going back to 1998. [81] According to the Los Angeles Times, Carroll was "close to reaching an agreement with the Seattle Seahawks on Friday evening. Haden immediately put him on indefinite leave, then fired him the next day. You could sense the electricity when he walked onto the field. Carroll brought in Canales as an assistant strength and conditioning coach in his final year at USC in 2009. McKay, Robinson and Carroll won national titles; Tollner, Hackett and Kiffin sagged. I approach it that way. Now, Riley might be on the verge of tapping into Carroll's deep pool of assistants to enhance the 2022 Trojans and their most high-profile . The streak began on October 13, 2001, with a 48-17 win over the Arizona State Sun Devils and the final victory was a 47-14 win over the Washington State Cougars on September 22, 2007.