pete carroll to dolphins???

Weis is a terrible game coach. A great recruiter and better bullshit artist who has been exposed as completely overmatched in every big game ND has played the last two years.

The family shit works in college. It's not going to work in the pros. Carroll should stick in college, win a buncha titles and retire a king in LA.

 

Carroll would get a pay raise if he went to Miami. Isn't he only making like $3 mil per year at USC? He'll get at least $4 mil from the Fins.

 

Is it worth leaving USC for $1-$2 million more per season? Recruiting is easy because the program and campus sell themselves, which leaves you to coach. Great weather in a great American city. Wouldn't have to work bizarre hours like he would in the NFL. There are so many reasons to stay put.

That is, unless he feels compelled to prove that he can coach in the NFL.

 

Point is, he'd get a raise, contrary to an earlier post.

 

Um, the reason ND has lost every big game the last two years is that their players are not nearly as good as those on the FEW top teams they play. Weis' skills as a game coach are not close to being as big a factor as the paucity of top tier athletes at ND.

They (ND and NBC) make sure they have a schedule that gets them a 10-2 record every year which gets them a good bowl game, sometimes a BCS game. But they do not have top tier talent on the field and are not a top tier team.

 

Latest word (for now, post-news conference) is that Carroll is staying at USC.

 

Carroll won't go back to the NFL. It is interesting, however, that when he'd be on the radio station carrying USC games in L.A. that whenever one of his USC players now in the NFL did something, he'd always be in tune with what happened. Carroll might not be bolting for the NFL, but he's certainly tuning into NFL games.

 

Definitely shouldn't be a surprise. If you're talking about building a family atmosphere for your program, you need to keep track of how players who went through your system are doing once they left campus. If you don't do that, then you're not doing your job.

 

He'd always give more than a fluff answer. He'd talk it up a bit like a coach watching film. That's all I meant by that. It was almost like he was studying the NFL very, very closely.

 

I am not going to say that Pete would not leave USC for a job in the NFL for a few million more in compensation, But like you all said its not worth it in the long run.

He is already a star in the city of LA and he has a nice job at USC. But someone also mentioned something about a challenge. He may need it now that USC is considered the NFL team of LA.

But do anyone actully know who will stay and who will go anymore??? We saw what happend to Saban.

 

I think USC football might be the best big-time job in sports. You have great weather, a great campus to recruit to (show most players the weather and the girls and they are sold), the fans are interested without being insane, you have a natural recruiting base of California and can pluck some really good players nationally. You are set up for success without the fans burdening you with unrealistic expectations. The only possible reason to leave is boredom. Anything else is insanity.

And success in the NFL is almost entirely based on X's and O's -- not exactly Pete's forte. Success in college is based on recruiting superior talent -- which Pete does better than almost any coach in the game.