Pete Carroll

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Pete Carroll

Date of birth	September 15, 1951 (age 55)
Place of birth	San Francisco, California
Sport	American football
College	Southern California
Title	Head coach
Record with Team	65-12 (With USC)
Overall Record	NCAA: 65-12 Bowl Games: 4-2 BCS Games 4-1 NFL Regular Season 33-31 NFL Postseason 1-2
Awards	See Below
Championships   won	2 AP National College Football Champion (2003,2004) 1 Bowl Championship Series Championship (2004) 5 PAC-10 Conference Championships (2002-2006) AFC East Division Champions (1997)
Coaching Stats	College Football DataWarehouse
School as a player
1971-1972	Pacific
Position	Free Safety
Coaching positions
1994 1997-1999 2001-present	New York Jets New England Patriots University of Southern California

Peter C. Carroll (born September 15, 1951, in San Francisco, California) is the current head coach of the University of Southern California football team, having held that position since 2001. In his time at USC, the Trojans have made it to multiple national championship games (winning the National Championship in 2004 and splitting the National Championship in 2003 with LSU) and have consistently emerged as PAC-10 conference champions.

Contents 1 Early life and college 2 Coaching career 2.1 Collegiate assistant (1973–1983) 2.2 National Football League (1984–1999) 2.3 NCAA Div 1-A Football (2000–present) 2.3.1 Accomplishments 2.4 Team records 2.4.1 National Football League 2.4.2 College Coaching Record 2.5 Personal awards 2.5.1 2003 2.5.2 2004 2.5.3 2005 2.5.4 2006 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Early life and college

Pete Carroll was born in San Francisco and raised in nearby Marin County. He attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, where he was a three-sport standout in football, basketball and baseball, earning the school's Athlete of the Year award as a senior in 1969. After high school, he attended junior college at the nearby College of Marin, where he played football for two years (lettering in his second year), before transferring to the University of the Pacific. At Pacific, Carroll played free safety for two years, earning All-Pacific Coast Conference honors both years (1971-72) and earning his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1973. After graduation, Carroll tried out for the Honolulu Hawaiians of the World Football League but did not make the team. To make ends meet, he found a job selling roofing materials in the Bay Area.

[edit] Coaching career

[edit] Collegiate assistant (1973–1983)

Carroll's energetic and positive personality made a good impression on his head coach at Pacific, Chester Caddas. When Caddas found out Carroll was interested in coaching, he offered him a job as a graduate assistant on his staff at Pacific. Carroll agreed and enrolled as a graduate student, earning a secondary teaching credential and Master's degree in physical education in 1976, while serving as a graduate assistant for three years and working with the wide receivers and secondary defenders. The assistants at Pacific during this time included a number of other future successful coaches, including Greg Robinson, Jim Colletto, Walt Harris, Ted Leland and the late Bob Cope. He was inducted into the Pacific Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995.

After graduating from Pacific, Carroll's colleague Bob Cope was hired by the University of Arkansas and he convinced Lou Holtz, then the head coach of the Razorbacks, to also hire Carroll. Carroll spent the 1977 season as a graduate assistant working with the secondary. The Razorbacks won the 1978 Orange Bowl that season.

The following season, Carroll moved to Iowa State University, where he was again an assistant working on the secondary under Earle Bruce. When Bruce moved onto the Ohio State University, he brought Carroll, who acted as an assistant coach in charge of the secondary. The Ohio State squad made it to the 1980 Rose Bowl where they lost to USC.

Carroll next spent three seasons as the defensive coordinator and secondary coach at North Carolina State University. In 1983, Cope became head coach of Pacific and brought Carroll on as assistant head coach and offensive coordinator.

[edit] National Football League (1984–1999)

Carroll left Pacific after a year and entered the NFL in 1984 as the defensive backs coach of the Buffalo Bills. The next year he moved onto the Minnesota Vikings where he held a similar position for five seasons (1985-89). His success with the Vikings led to his hiring by the New York Jets, where he served as defensive coordinator under Bruce Coslet for four seasons (1990-93). In 1994, Carroll was elevated to head coach of the Jets, but he was fired after one season, finishing with a record of 6-10.

Carroll was hired for the next season by the San Francisco 49ers, where he served as defensive coordinator for the following two seasons (1995-96). His return to success as the defensive coordinator led to his hiring as the head coach of the New England Patriots in 1997. His 1997 Patriots team won the AFC East division title, but his subsequent two teams did not fare as well—losing in the wild card playoff round in 1998, and missing the playoffs after a late-season slide in 1999—and he was fired after the 1999 season. His combined NFL record as head coach was 33-31.

Even though many NFL teams approached with defensive coordinator positions, Carroll instead spent the 2000 season as a consultant for pro and college teams, doing charitable work for the NFL and writing a column about pro football for CNNSI.com.

[edit] NCAA Div 1-A Football (2000–present)

Carroll was named the Trojans' head football coach on December 15, 2000, signing a five-year contract. He was not the Trojans' first choice, as the USC Athletic Department under Director Mike Garrett tried to initially hire more high-profile college coaches to replace fired coach Paul Hackett, including Dennis Erickson, Mike Bellotti, and Mike Riley. Carroll actively pursued the position, as his daughter, Jaime, was then a player on the Women of Troy's successful volleyball team. After the other three primary candidates turned down the position, USC hired Carroll.

The choice of Carroll for USC's head coaching position was scrutinized by the media and vocally criticised by many USC fans, primarily because of USC's stagnation under the outgoing Hackett and Carroll's record as a head coach in the NFL and being nearly two decades removed from the college level. The USC Athletic Department received 2,500 e-mails, faxes and phone calls from alumni—mostly critical—and a number of donors asking for Carroll's removal before they would donate again. Their criticism became louder when Carroll's first USC team opened the 2001 season going 2-5. However, after the slow start, Carroll's teams proceeded to go 52-5 over the next 57 games, winning two national championships and bringing USC back to college football prominence.

As of January 6, 2007, Carroll is 65-12 (84.4%) as a head coach at USC. His team won a school-record 34 straight games from 2003-2005, a streak that started after a triple-overtime loss to California and ended with the national championship game in the 2006 Rose Bowl, against Vince Young's Texas Longhorns. During his tenure, USC has broken its average home attendance record four times in a row, without any stadium expansions (they play at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum); the USC home attendance average in 2001, his first season, was 57,744; by 2006 it was over 91,000.

[edit] Accomplishments

Since becoming USC head coach Pete Carroll has led a resurgence of football at the University of Southern California. Here is a summary of program highlights:

• Two BCS Championship Game appearances (win over Oklahoma, loss to Texas)
• Five Associated Press Top-4 finishes, including the split 2003 national championship and the undisputed 2004 national championship.
• A record five consecutive BCS bowl appearances
• A record five consecutive years as PAC-10 Champions or Co-Champions
• A national-record 33 consecutive weeks as AP's No. 1-ranked team
• A winning record of 65-12 (84.4%), including 10-2 against traditional rivals Notre Dame and UCLA
• A NCAA-record of 63 straight 20-point games
• Nineteen All-American first teamers
• Three Heisman Trophy winners (Carson Palmer, 2002; Matt Leinart, 2004; Reggie Bush, 2005)
• Four Top-5 recruiting classes
• Still-active win streaks for home games (32) and Pac-10 home games (21).

[edit] Team records

[edit] National Football League

Year	Team	Record	Playoffs	Other Notes
1994	New York Jets	6-10	none	Lost final 6 games; Carroll was fired
1997	New England Patriots	10-6	1-1	Division champions
1998	New England Patriots	9-7	0-1
1999	New England Patriots	8-8	none	Carroll was fired

[edit] College Coaching Record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl	Coaches#	AP°
University of Southern California (Pacific Ten Conference) (2001 — present)
2001	USC	6-6	5-3	5	L 10-6 Las Vegas Bowl
2002	USC	11-2	7-1	1	W 38-17 Orange Bowl †	4	4
2003	USC	12-1	7-1	1	W 28-14 Rose Bowl †	2	1
2004	USC	13-0	8-0	1	W 55-19 Orange Bowl †	1	1
2005	USC	12-1	8-0	1	L 41-38 Rose Bowl †	2	2
2006	USC	11-2	7-2	1 - T	W 32-18 Rose Bowl †	4	4
USC:		65-12	42-7
Total:		65-12
National Championship         Conference Title
†Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season.

[edit] Personal awards

[edit] 2003

• 2003 American Football Coaches Association Division I-A Coach of the Year
• Home Depot National Coach of the Year
• Maxwell Club College Coach of the Year
• ESPN.com National Coach of the Year
• Pigskin Club of Washington D.C. Coach of the Year
• All-American Football Foundation Frank Leahy Co-Coach of the Year
• Pac-10 Co-Coach of the Year

[edit] 2004

• 2004 National Quarterback Club College Coach of the Year
• 2004 ESPN.com Pac-10 Coach of the Year

[edit] 2005

• Pac-10 Co-Coach of the Year

[edit] 2006

• Pac-10 Coach of the Year^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• USC Trojans website
• Official Pete Carroll Website
• Pete Carroll's coaching record at the College Football Data Warehouse

See also: USC Trojans football

Preceded by Bruce Coslet	New York Jets Head Coach 1994	Succeeded by Rich Kotite
Preceded by Bill Parcells	New England Patriots Head Coach 1996–1999	Succeeded by Bill Belichick
Preceded by Paul Hackett	University of Southern California Head Football Coach 2001–	Succeeded by incumbent

Boston/New England Patriots Head Coaches
Saban • Holovak • Rush • Mazur • Bengtson • Fairbanks • Erhardt • Meyer • Berry • Rust • MacPherson • Parcells • Carroll • Belichick

New York Titans/Jets Head Coaches
Baugh • Turner • Ewbank • Winner • Shipp • Holtz • Michaels • Walton • Coslet • Carroll • Kotite • Parcells • Groh • Edwards • Mangini

Persondata
NAME	Carroll, Pete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Carroll, Peter C.
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Francisco, California
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH