Pete Carroll to Seahawks!!!

[mick2]

i guess thats the tradeoff.

i hope sc enjoyed their 8 years of dominance because now the chickens are coming home to roost.

 

[BGIF]

LA Times Carroll Interview

LA Times Carroll Interview

USC Coach Pete Carroll eager to move to 'a whole different level' with Seahawks - latimes.com

By Gary Klein
January 11, 2010

In an interview this morning, Carroll says 'leaving the young guys' is tough, but he was thrilled when Seattle came knocking. And, no, he says, his exit has nothing to do with the Reggie Bush scandal

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Carroll said his decision to leave was not influenced by the specter of possible NCAA sanctions that could result from an investigation of allegations that Reggie Bush and his family accepted improper benefits while the Heisman Trophy winner was playing for the Trojans in 2004 and 2005.

"Not in any way," Carroll said. "Because I know where we stand. It's just a process we have to go through. We know we've fought hard to do right."

Interesting choice of words. Reminds me of "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."

 

[mick2]

USC Coach Pete Carroll eager to move to 'a whole different level' with Seahawks - latimes.com

By Gary Klein
January 11, 2010



Interesting choice of words. Reminds me of "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."

yeah why not just say we know we've done things right? rather than "we fought hard to do things right?"

 

[BGIF]

yeah why not just say we know we've done things right? rather than "we fought hard to do things right?"

Exactly

 

[BGIF]

Southern Cal coaches supposedly moving to Seattle

Brennan Carroll TE/Recruiting Coordinator
Jeff Bates OC
Ken Norton LB

 

[kmoose]

If Oregon doesn't get over the hump, and soon, this is going to kill the PAC-10. For the last half dozen or more years, they have been the PAC-1(USC), and a bunch of decent, but nothing special, teams. Personally, living in PAC-10 country, I think I would enjoy watching them crumble.

 

[BGIF]

FootballCoachScoop

Athletic Director Mike Garrett is now moving his focus to Jacksonville Jaguars Head Coach Jack Del Rio and Stanford Head Coach Jim Harbaugh.

Harbaugh also appears to be on the Raiders list:

Raiders owner Al Davis will meet with coach Tom Cable today and will be fired. According to our sources, we have been told he will be fired for cause. ... According to our source, two names are at the top of the list: Marc Trestman (Former Offensive Coordinator/Montreal Head Coach) and Jim Harbaugh (Stanford Head Coach).

Meanwhile Harbaugh is at the Coaches Convention and has interviewed former ND DLine Coach Randy Hart.

Recruits at Southern Cal and Stanford both twist in the wind.

 

[BGIF]

Dam's Breakin'!

Dam's Breakin'!

USC coach Pete Carroll knew about former coach's drug addiction* - NCAA Football - SI.com

Eight months after the accident, following which Watson was charged with DUI and pleaded no contest in exchange for three years' probation, Watson was fired by USC coach Pete Carroll. The reason cited by Carroll: Watson was too hard on his players. Neither the accident nor the fact that Watson had been addicted to pain medication was mentioned. At a deposition for the civil suit in November, Watson indicated that he didn't accept the explanation Carroll had given him as the truth.

Watson also confirmed under oath what those closest to him already knew: that he had developed a significant addiction to painkillers since his college playing career in the 1990s. When asked where he had received his prescriptions while coaching at USC, Watson gave the names of 12 doctors associated with the university, six of whom were team doctors for USC football. Watson had already provided the court extensive documentation of these prescriptions, including dates, drug names and pill amounts.
When asked separately if he had ever notified a supervisor of his addiction, Watson said yes, he had told his boss and mentor, Carroll, in February 2008, three months before the car accident.​

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The list of drugs prescribed to Watson by his various doctors during his four-year employment at USC includes often-abused, potentially addictive medications such as Vicodin, Xanax, Valium, Darvocet, Percocet, Lorazepam (known by its trade name, Ativan) and Dilaudid, in addition to the Norco and Soma found in Watson's Jeep after the collision. Watson was also prescribed potent but lesser-known medications such as Oxymorphone hydrochloride (trade name Opana, a powerful opioid painkiller), Clonazepam (trade name Klonopin, which Watson said he took for "anxiety due to pain"), and the painkiller Tramadol.

Pain management is an inexact, evolving branch of medicine that tries to address a difficult challenge: qualifying someone's pain and prescribing the correct type, potency and quantity of any number of volatile medications to ease suffering. Among the complications in Watson's case is that his medications were prescribed by at least 31 doctors during his employment at USC. According to a panel of pharmacists and pain management specialists consulted for this story, that's an egregiously high number. "It certainly appears the team doctors weren't communicating with one another as to what he was taking," said the director of a pharmaceutical company that supplies drugs to numerous college teams.​

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The quantities of medications prescribed to Watson by his doctors are stunning. Watson was prescribed 3,950 pills of Soma between March 2005 and May 2008, which, if he consumed the contents of each bottle, means he took an average of 3.5 Soma pills per day for more than three years. (The recommended maximum duration of Soma use, according to its manufacturer, is two to three weeks.)

Hydrocodone-based painkillers like Vicodin and Norco were also prescribed freely. At one point Watson received such prescriptions from two USC team doctors concurrently. During the period between May and October 2007, USC team doctors wrote him prescriptions for more than 400 hydrocodone-based pills, or roughly 2.3 pills per day. While this falls within the recommended daily dosage, the drug use should have been rigidly monitored. The available evidence suggests that this did not happen, or that attempts at such monitoring were ignored by Watson. (USC's head team doctor, James Tibone, did not return a call seeking comment.)
The prescriptions Watson received from one team doctor in particular,Dr. Francis Te, tell the story of a physician giving medications of increasing potency to a patient who claimed to be feeling less and less relief. Te, who did not a call seeking comment, began by prescribing painkillers and anti-anxiety medications like Clonazepam and Lexapro to Watson, and then introduced higher quantities of Soma. In May 2007, Te began prescribing a hydrocodone-based painkiller called Anexsia, and in October of that year increased the hydrocodone content of this medication by 33 percent. Finally, and most important with regard to Watson's car wreck, Te prescribed 90 Soma pills to Watson the week before the collision, then eight days later -- the day before the crash -- prescribed 90 more.
"I'm surprised Watson is not dead" ​

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lots more at the link​

 

[phork]

If anyone has any NFL aspirations the best move to get dropped off many lists is to take the Raiders job. Its become such a joke anymore. Why coach there when your ass is going to get trucked after a year. No one is suited to take that job as long as Davis is still around.

 

[fitz_bu47]

My thoughts exactly Phork, if Harbaugh goes there he is crazy!

 

[WabashFalcon]

My thoughts exactly Phork, if Harbaugh goes there he is crazy!

No! Harbaugh can do it! He can work with Al Davis! Everything will be different!



Until you hear the following:

"With their first pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, the Oakland Raiders select Projected 5th Rounder that had a rediclious 40 Time on His Combine Day and is Going to Be Paid Darris Hayward-Bay Money and then not Play for the Next Four Seasons."

Then Harbaugh will kill the sea monster...

 

[IrishAddiction]

I love this, i absolutely do. The fall of Troy, only this time, the Trojans arent just and honorable like in the movie "Troy".

They are just lying cheating pricks. We could have paid players to come to ND. We didnt. Our coaches could have cheated on their wifes. They didnt. We could have put our players in classes they were guarenteed to pass..... oh wait, ND actually cant do that, we have good education standards. You get the point.

 

[irishtrain]

I love this, i absolutely do. The fall of Troy, only this time, the Trojans arent just and honorable like in the movie "Troy".

They are just lying cheating pricks. We could have paid players to come to ND. We didnt. Our coaches could have cheated on their wifes. They didnt. We could have put our players in classes they were guarenteed to pass..... oh wait, ND actually cant do that, we have good education standards. You get the point.

I read an article about the Emerald Bowl and how he was getting grilled for "team problems". His answer was- if you had 85 teenage sons you'd know how hard it was to keep track of them, what a crock of $#@^. Now you know why Notre Dame tries to do this right. So you dont have these issues which will happen eventually when you play it like USC. This is good for college football. And by the way 'petey' if you bring in college students/football players instead of first round draft choices with no goals other than the NFL and having a good time in LA ( by your very words ) you dont have this problem. I hope the NCAA kills them.