Pete Carroll Not only did the revered
USC coach learn he'd be losing quarterback Mark Sanchez to the NFL draft a year early, but he also lost some respect after his dissing of Sanchez's decision.
A few hours later, during the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden, Calipari experienced a mini nightmare: a junked - up, triangle - and - two defense concocted by
USC coach Tim Floyd.
«No one can ever beat them on speed alone,» said Vern Wolfe,
the USC coach, before Friday's meet.
Three years later
USC coach Lane Kiffin called.
The most successful
USC coach in the last 30 years was perhaps its least popular hire.
New
USC coach Pete Carroll had made his defense faster by moving safeties Frank Strong and Matt Grootegood to linebacker and turning 250 - pound senior Lonnie Ford into a hybrid of a defensive end and a linebacker.
Ron Burgundy was on the Dan Patrick Show Thursday morning helping Dan interview Rich Eisen and new
USC coach Steve Sarkisian.
Now the responsibility will fall to former Washington and
USC coach Steve Sarkisian.
Former
USC coach Steve Sarkisian has filed a lawsuit against the university, alleging that the school broke the law for firing him without allowing him to seek treatment for alcoholism, which is defined as a disability under the Americans With Disabilities Act.
«I don't think we'll be able to score a lot of points this year,» said
USC Coach John McKay before taking on Washington State.
«He's a resourceful quarterback, able to take off and move [in the pocket] and make some plays with his legs,» says
USC coach Pete Carroll.
Oklahoma was wonderfully prepared for
USC Coach John McKay's revolutionary shifting T that caught so many teams unaware a year ago.
2 Attention NFL owners: You can have
USC coach Pete Carroll, but it'll cost you.
You'd have to believe that the recent developments with
USC coach Steve Sarkisian (asked by school to take a leave of absence because he may have been drunk during the Arizona State game), was the reason for Hayes, an Ann Arbor Skyline product, to re-open his recruitment.
Orgeron's connection to
the USC coaching tree is strong.
The second - year surge for new
USC coaches is great, but Mora and the Bruins might have a say in just how much of a surge Random New USC Coach pulls off.
Not exact matches
The
USC Trojans are currently being led by interim head
coach Clay Helton, who has delivered a 5 - 2 record since taking over from Steve Sarkisian on October 11, 2015.
According to Dan Patrick of «The Dan Patrick Show,» two sources «behind the scenes» at
USC told him Seattle Seahawks head
coach Pete Carroll was on the program's «short list» of
coaching candidates and they thought he could be talked into returning to
USC, where he
coached for nine seasons and won two national championships.
Other
USC HC rumors have included St. Louis Rams head
coach Jeff Fisher and Seahawks head
coach Pete Carroll.
Patrick had previously reported that Baltimore Ravens head
coach John Harbaugh was also on
USC's list of candidates.
USC's never had an African - American football
coach.
Foy Draper and Frank Wykoff, whom Cromwell had
coached at
USC, would remain on the revised squad.
Following the firing of head
coach Steve Sarkisian,
USC lost their second big - time 2016 commit in linebacker Mique Juarez (four - star Daelin Hayes decommitted from the Trojans earlier this week).
Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh renew a testy rivalry that began when the two were
coaching USC and Stanford, respectively.
You're right that
USC looked less than impressive last week, and David Shaw is a good enough
coach to overcome whatever talent deficit Stanford has (which isn't much).
Trojan Force Led by zealous
coach Pete Carroll,
USC is summoning up memories of Pac - 10 glory and making an impassioned run at its first outright national title in three decades
In the 2003 season, the BCS title game,
Coaches Poll, and National Football Foundation decided LSU was the champion, while the Associated Press and Football Writers Association of America decided it was
USC.
The program seemed to be on that short list alongside Alabama, Ohio State,
USC, Oklahoma and a select few others that a
coach would never willingly leave unless he was retiring or chasing an NFL dream.
The area's top football talent recently joined
USC's impressive recruiting class with a verbal commitment to head
coach Lane Kiffin.
In 2015,
USC Rugby introduced Dominic Riebli as Director of Rugby and Laloa Milford as the new head
coach.
«Our
coaches stress all the time not to worry about those things,» said senior shortstop Jamal O'Guinn, who has signed with
USC.
Ed Orgeron never becomes
USC interim head
coach, meaning no pre-audition before becoming LSU's interim and head
coach.
Following the firing of head
coach Steve Sarkisian,
USC lost their second big - time 2016 commit in linebacker Mique Juarez (four - star Daelin...
Only a slip - up by UCLA at home to Washington State (
coached by Dennis Erickson, who would take the Miami job) kept
USC - UCLA from being a battle of unbeatens.
But if someone can wake them up, it's rookie Robert Pack of
USC, who has found his way into
coach Rick Adelman's four - man backcourt rotation.
Winless a year ago, Washington bought into the message of its new
coach, a former
USC aide, and stunned the Trojans
Arthur and Stan watched him only five minutes before they both took his address so that their
coaches at UCLA and
USC — the best two tennis schools in the country — could offer him a scholarship.
Pete Carroll, most recently the head
coach at
USC and for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, spent five years as a graduate assistant: four at the University of the Pacific and one at Arkansas.
The man most despised by Notre Dame football fans used to be an opposing
coach: John McKay of
USC a generation ago, Jimmy Johnson of Miami a decade ago.
Last week in the hours preceding the
USC game, Wilkinson, 47 and white - haired, was still smiling, still a diplomat and, as he would later prove, still quite a football
coach.
USC's Cody Kessler passed 10,000 career passing yards in the Pac - 12 title game against Stanford, and he put together a solid career despite NCAA sanctions (and
coaching issues) lingering around the Trojans program like a bad cough.
USC had reportedly reached out to Eagles head
coach Chip Kelly, and it was the unquestioned No. 1 job available (at least, unquestioned until Georgia fired Mark Richt).
This was Helton's second stint as
USC's interim, previously replacing interim
coach Ed Orgeron in the 2013 Las Vegas Bowl.
USC head football
coach Steve Sarkisian spoke publicly on Tuesday for the first time since apparently being drunk at a donor event on Saturday night.
The NCAA just burned
USC for violations on his watch, but Seahawks
coach Pete Carroll is still full of cheer.
It should be noted that the Student Manager said that «he had, without the knowledge of, or instruction from, any
USC student - athlete,
coach, staff member or administrator, deflated those game balls after they had been tested and approved by officials prior to the game.»
Jan 04,2016... The NCAA just burned
USC for violations on his watch, but Seahawks
coach Pete Carroll is still full...
The
USC Trojans interim head
coach Ed Orgeron has changed the culture around the
USC program and the players certainly like him more.
Clay Helton announces the return of
USC's special teams
coach: https://t.co/bOcv6adfLi pic.twitter.com/6z 7wLfiHlh
Keeping Faoliu in the signing class through the
coaching transition was a big get for Taggart's staff —
USC made a late push to keep him, and he grew up just down the street from the Coliseum.