This has legs. Can Pete Carroll possibly pass up an opportunity to coach a San Diego team that could make Super Bowl runs well into the next 5 years? With all the top recruits and success Pete Carroll has had at USC he only has one BCS National Champtionship to show for it. With no college playoff system and a chance to win multiple Super Bowls in a playoff system in SC, this could be too good to pass up. Not to mention all the NCAA investigations beginning to pile up. I say he goes unless SD screws it up somehow.
Re: Pete Carroll to San Diego The Chargers are in a lot better shape than the Dolphins. Not many coaches get the chance to take over a Super Bowl contender. Most HS jobs are rebuilding jobs. The Chargers are set to make a serious run at the Super Bowl next year.
Re: Pete Carroll to San Diego maybe i'm in a minority here, but i don't see pete caroll leaving USC unless there is something internal going on that i'm not aware of. why leave a school where there's no competition in conference, you get top 3 recruit classses every year, and you're pretty much guaranteed the rose bowl or NC every year??!! the nfl has too many x factors. the chargers are a LDT knee injury away from being 8-8. but then again, i never thought saban would go to bama...:hihi:
Re: Pete Carroll to San Diego It's the personnel control issue. Pete Carroll has said the only way he returns to the NFL is if he gets control. AJ Smith just won a power struggle with Marty Schottenheimer so he isn't going anywhere any time soon. Nor should he; he is one of the best GMs in the NFL. However, Carroll may rethink his stance on this since SD is a ready made Superbowl contender. Who's to say if SD even wants a retread NFL HC because that is what PC is.
Re: Pete Carroll to San Diego Come on. You can't tell me you didn't nearly tiddle your pants from excitement.
Re: Pete Carroll to San Diego This has no legs at all, it's merely your attempt at wishful thinking. Every knowledgeable pro fan recognizes the Spanos family as being in the camp of owners that will not relinquish control to the head coach. There's simply no chance that Pete Carroll will magically forget his previous experience as a professional HC in that very same type of environment. He has previously sworn that he would avoid that type of situation again. Furthermore, PC has it made in LA. He's the mac daddy of CFB coaches right now, and he's in a conference where he can utilize a perrenially soft schedule to re-write the USC record books. PC owns recruiting in the West, and particularly so in the best single state for recruiting ...... it's a self-fulfilling pipeline with no repercussions from the NCAA. The NCAA needs a strong brand in SoCal if it wants to expand it's product revenues, and Petey Carroll is the league poster-boy ..... a protected-species in a state where they invented the term. No, I'm afraid you're a wee bit off the mark on this one, IMHO.
