Thoughts from the underground

Although it is not official yet all signs point to Coach Carroll leaving my Trojans for the Seattle Seahawks. Alot of trojan fans and alumni are upset and disappointed. I for one… am not.  Pete Carroll will go down as the greatest USC coach in history. He had an amazing run and it was awesome to be a trojan during the Pete Carroll era. However, I felt that Pete got bored and started to look for challenges and many times to the demise of the team. After USC dominated 2004 he cleaned house in the coaching staff and wanted to prove he could do it with rookies coaches. After that successful run he decided he wanted to do it with even a weaker staff and an 18 year old at quarterback. For the first half of the season it looked like he was going to pull it off. Does Barkley start given an open competition for the QB position? Does anyone from the current staff stay with a new coach? The answer to both is most likely no. Yet it looked like Pete was not going to change anything for next year. So other than the timing in regards to recruiting I think the parting is good for both parties. USC was beginning to slide and Pete was too bored to do anything to prevent it. USC got everything out of Pete and Pete got everything out of USC. I just hope he never coaches at another college and I really hope he NEVER coaches against USC. Thanks for the memories Pete. The Trojan family wishes you the best of luck.

As for the next coach…. USC has NEVER been in a better position to attract an Elite coach….NEVER…..I HOPE Fisher and Del Rio are not serious candidates. I doubt that they are. The Titans were the hottest team down the stretch and Del Rio has a 15 million buyout if he is fired. Riley is a great coach no doubt but I hope Mike G remembers what made Pete so great at the beginning. It was his burning desire to succeeded. He wanted it bad. Now….obliviously Pete wanted to prove he was a good coach and exercise some demons but surely Mike can find a young hungry coach….an Urban Meyer before he got to Florida. I kind of like Harbaugh…a young hungry badass coach…who is not afraid to kick your ass and will not apologize for it later….I dig that kind of coach….