Samuel McKewon of the Nebraska StatePaper compares the USC Football program to a business, a paradigm shift from the old military references in football.  He simultaneously diminishes Pete Carroll’s skill as strategic thinker in game-planning and coaching on the field and builds him up as a manager of a program, an administrator - as if the program were a higher-functioning corporation.  McKewon also seems to give the lion’s share of credit for the program’s recent success to former coordinators Norm Chow and Lane Kiffin (??), coupled with the wealth of talent that USC has brought in during the Carroll era. Backhanded compliments about Carroll’s managerial skills aside, I suppose any coach would likely pale in comparison to Nebraska’s own Tom Osbourne in this reporter’s mind:

Were Nebraska’s teams in the 1990s better than these recent Trojans squads? Sure. Yes. Absolutely. Put whatever superlative you want on it. Doesn’t matter. Nobody ever really wanted to be Nebraska. Who wanted to emulate a model so singular, so clearly the result of one brilliant mind.

Nebraska’s Business Plan To Keep Up With The Trojans (Nebraska StatePaper)