Updates: Coaching

Audio: Carroll calls pre-season campaigning and Pac-10 bashing “lame”

Monday, July 9th, 2007

In an interview with Petros Papadakis & Matt “Money” Smith tonight on 570 AM (full audio below), Pete Carroll used the word “lame” in responding to recent criticisms of the Pac-10 and early campaigning by people such as LSU coach Les Miles: “I don’t care what he thinks or what anyone thinks.” Carroll stressed that […]

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Miles’ comments just an excuse in the making?

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Stewart Mandell of Sports Illustrated reflects on what has turned out to be the most talked-about story of the college football season (two months before the season actually begins) - LSU Coach Les Miles‘ calling out USC for what he considers to be a suspect schedule.  Mandell explains that the coach’s ”idiotic statement” not only provides red meat for LSU fans still […]

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Carroll: the best Pac-10 coach in the last 20 years

Friday, July 6th, 2007

John Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News has compiled a list of the best Pac-10 coaches of the past 20 years, and he puts Pete Carroll at the top of his list:
Carroll runs a loose ship that has resulted in NCAA/Pac-10 investigations, arrests, assaults, suspensions, academic woes and dismissals. But how can you not […]

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Pros can’t handle Trojan-style practices

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Scott Wolf reports that the NFL players’ union has a response to new Head Coach Lane Kiffin’s summer Raider practices, modeled after USC’s practices under Pete Carroll: It’s too much. Wolf quotes Coach Kiffin:
“The union has complained about the high level of intensity, player aggressiveness and fast pace of our practice.”
So it turns out that […]

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