Always Compete: An Inside Look at Pete Carroll and the USC Football Juggernaut
The Jet Stream (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some quickie thoughts on the Jets' sixth loss in their last seven games: 1. I get the whole rookie thing with Mark Sanchez, how he's learning on the job, but he seems to make the same mistakes over and over. His footwork is sloppy. He forces balls when he should just throw them away. His accuracy isn't nearly as good as scouts said when he came out of USC. Maybe Pete Carroll was right. 2. The Jets...
Conquest Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I do not do this often, but I found this email interesting for a few reasons... A "reader" writes... Your article is way to harsh on the program and Pete etc. Did you forget that last year we were 12 – 1, Pac 10 Camps and Rose Bowl Champs and finished the year ranked number 2 in the coaches. This team lacks the players due to huge numbers of injuries, is very young and has had to face...
ORACULATIONS (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh who has created a miracle at the high grade requirement at Stanford has one year left on his contract and Notre Dame has the billions to pay him out. Stanford has one of the most virulent of the left wing faculties on the West Coast and they hate football, athletes, over paid coaches as well as most everything else and they will raise holy hell if Stanford offers Harbaugh...
Conquest Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
More photos » by Matt Sayles - AP Browse more photos » Short answer...Well, yeah of course he did and no, I don't care. I am not in charge of any coaches ethics on the field or on the court. That is their baggage to carry. No team is completely immune to running it up. Don't be fooled, somewhere in any teams history there is evidence of running it up. Do you care? Does it really matter?...
The Sporting Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Today's Calls: John Wall vs. the Buzzer, UCLA vs. Oblivion, Brady Quinn vs. Ray Lewis, Brandon Jennings vs. Dirk Nowitzki, Stephen Jackson vs. Rashard Lewis, AI vs. Anywhere, Bud Adams vs. Roger Goodell, Pete Carroll vs. Rich Rodriguez, Andrew Bailey vs. Chris Coghlan and More. The Opening Pitch: Why did Bill Belichick's decision to go for it trigger such an allergic reaction? Because it was in the...
SoCal Sports Hub (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Despite the fact that the USC Trojans have been throughly embarrassed twice in the past three games by Oregon and Stanford alike, the Rose Bowl and Pac-10 championship are still not out of the question for Pete Carroll’s bunch according to Brendan Loy. While it is still hard to imagine this scenario playing out, it [...]
Conquest Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Just throwing a few things out there this morning. I have no particular opinion on these...yet. But I am curious on what you guys are seeing. I may have more later... Where is the high flying passing attack that John Morton supposedly brought from New Orleans? Is Pete Carroll's shepherding Bates into the college game taking time away from the defense? Many think Rocky Seto is a yes man. If true then...
Conquest Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The Stable The obvious struggles of this years team has made a few people take a closer look at the make up of this team. It is easy to point to the loss of all the talent on defense as well as the loss of Mark Sanchez last season but does that tell the whole story? There is a lot of talent on this team and many of those players are from the recruiting class of 2006. The overall expectations and production...
Dan Shanoff (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
So I was inspired this morning by two bits of wishful thinking: First, that LeBron might -- just might -- play for your contender, even if you don't have Knicks-like money to throw at him. If winning -- not just winning, but winning epically -- matters so much to LeBron, then the obvious answer is for him to play a series of one-year, league-minimum deals with a new contender each year, racking up...
The Sporting Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Today's Calls: Ben Roethlisberger vs. Kyle Orton, Larry Johnson vs. LeGarrette Blount, LeBron vs. 2010, Charlie Weis vs. Urban Meyer, Deonte Thompson vs. Ed Davis, Jim Boeheim vs. Isiah Thomas and More. The Opening Pitch: Maybe it was just wishful thinking by Broncos fans that their team was a bona fide NFL contender. After last night, they sure don't look like it. There's a lot of wishful thinking...
The FanHouse - Atlanta Hawks (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
by John Walters Filed under: Arizona State , Cincinnati , Florida , Louisville , New Mexico State , Ohio State , Oregon , Temple , Texas Halloween in Eugene began with Oregon coach Chip Kelly disguised as the Duck mascot and ended with USC masquerading as Cal. Pete Carroll's Trojans are not exactly immune from defeat in the Beaver State (0-4 since 2006) but they never lose to a fellow highly ranked...
TrojanWire (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
While watching the Trojans lose control of a football game for the first time in the Pete Carroll era and reflecting on the last 9 quarters of football USC has played, the beginning of Buffalo Springfield’s song “For What It’s Worth” started playing in my head “There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear, there’s a man with a gun...
View From North America (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
We at the VFA have seen a lot of lists. In fact, we enjoy doing them. After watching College Football's Final (finally- we had an 'ahem' party to get to on Hallowe'en which disrupted our CFB viewing), we can now make a couple of decisions: Wardrobe Malfunction Of The Day 1. Tennessee Black/Orange - Mmmmm..... 2. Georgia black helmets - Worked out nicely, didn't it? 3. Lee Corso with the Oregon Duck's...
Conquest Chronicles (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Or maybe he was forced to sleep on the couch.... I think Gary Klein is a pretty Beat writer. I can't think of many pieces that he writes that are unfair or lack facts. For the most part I could say the same here except that he wants to beat a dead horse in a way that only Scott Wolf can. I don't think Klein is off the mark with some of his observations. USC has lost in Oregon the last three times it...
Conquest Chronicles (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Bumped...Full disclosure, I asked Pete to write this up. Pete and I went through Grade school, Intermediate school and part of High School at PV High before I moved to Torrance. We lost touch after I moved and thanks to FaceBook we got back in touch and I found out he is a rabid college football fan. This is a great take and I appreciate his willingness to offer up his perspective. Thanks Pete!!! Let...
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