Pete Carroll
It didn’t take energetic and charismatic fifth-year USC head football coach Pete Carroll long to restore the glory of the Trojan football program and return Troy to national prominence.
He is 42-9 (82.4%) as a college head coach (all at USC). His losses were by a total of 42 points (4.7 average) and only 1 was by more than a touchdown (it was by 11 points). After starting off his Trojan career 2-5, he has gone 40-4 (90.9%). He is 28-5 in Pac-10 games, giving him an 84.8% winning mark (a league record). He is 13-0 in November. His teams have posted 6 shutouts and have scored at least 20 points in the last 39 games (a school record). USC’s 13, 25 and 36 wins over the past 1, 2 and 3 years represent the winningest 1-, 2- and 3-year periods in Trojan history. USC is riding a 22-game winning streak (as well as 21 straight home games, a Pac-10 record 15 consecutive league home games, 15 straight Pac-10 games and 9 road games in a row). USC has been AP’s No. 1 team for a school-record 18 straight polls. He also serves as USC’s defensive coordinator. He was the 2005 Playboy Pre-Season All-American team Coach of the Year.
In 2004, he guided No. 1-ranked USC to its second consecutive national championship with a convincing win over Oklahoma in the BCS Championship Game in the Orange Bowl. USC became only the second team ever to hold its AP pre-season No. 1 ranking all the way through a season. It was only the 10th time that a team won back-to-back AP crowns. His team was 13-0 (a school record for wins) and went 8-0 in the Pac-10. He also led the Trojans to their third consecutive Pac-10 title and their third straight season sweep of traditional rivals UCLA and Notre Dame (a first at Troy).
Troy was in the national Top 10 in every defensive statistical category (its total defense average was USC’s lowest in 15 years), including first in rushing defense and turnover margin and third in scoring defense.
USC outscored opponents by 25.2 points (including a school-record 8 games with a margin of at least 30 points). USC played before 3 home sellouts, 7 regular-season sellouts and 8 season sellouts, all school marks. And Troy set a USC and Pac-10 record for home attendance average, as well as school records for total home attendance, overall attendance average and total overall attendance. A school-record 6 Trojans (Heisman Trophy quarterback Matt Leinart, tailback Reggie Bush, defensive linemen Shaun Cody and Mike Patterson, and linebackers Matt Grootegoed and Lofa Tatupu) were named All-American first teamers. He was the 2004 National Quarterback Club College Coach of the Year and a finalist for the 2004 Bear Bryant Coach of the Year Award and the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award and a semifinalist for the George Munger Coach of the Year Award. He was the 2004 ESPN.com Pac-10 Coach of the Year.
Carroll began his coaching career at the college level, serving as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Pacific, for 3 years (1974-76), working with the wide receivers and secondary. He then spent a season as a graduate assistant working with the secondary at Arkansas (1977) under Lou Holtz as the Razorbacks won the 1978 Orange Bowl, and then a season each as an assistant in charge of the secondary at Iowa State (1978) under Earle Bruce (the Cyclones played in the 1978 Hall of Fame Bowl) and at Ohio State (1979) under Bruce. That Buckeye squad lost to USC in the 1980 Rose Bowl. He next spent 3 seasons (1980-82) as the defensive coordinator and secondary coach at North Carolina State, then returned to Pacific in 1983 as the assistant head coach and offensive coordinator.
Carroll 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.
He was born on Sept. 15, 1951 in San Francisco. He and his wife, Glena, who played volleyball at Pacific, have 3 children: sons Brennan, 26, who played tight end at Pittsburgh (he previously played at Delaware) and is now an assistant at USC, and Nathan, 17, and daughter Jaime, 22, who played on the Women of Troy’s highly-ranked volleyball team which competed in the 2000 NCAA Final Four.
In 2003, he helped develop “A Better L.A.,” a non-profit group consisting of a consortium of local agencies and organizations working to reduce gang violence by empowering change in individuals and communities. He received the Courageous Leadership Award from Women Against Gun Violence in 2005, as well as being named a Cedars-Sinai Sports Spectacular Honoree.
It didn’t take energetic and charismatic fifth-year USC head football coach Pete Carroll long to restore the glory of the Trojan football program and return Troy to national prominence.
He is 42-9 (82.4%) as a college head coach (all at USC). His losses were by a total of 42 points (4.7 average) and only 1 was by more than a touchdown (it was by 11 points). After starting off his Trojan career 2-5, he has gone 40-4 (90.9%). He is 28-5 in Pac-10 games, giving him an 84.8% winning mark (a league record). He is 13-0 in November. His teams have posted 6 shutouts and have scored at least 20 points in the last 39 games (a school record). USC’s 13, 25 and 36 wins over the past 1, 2 and 3 years represent the winningest 1-, 2- and 3-year periods in Trojan history. USC is riding a 22-game winning streak (as well as 21 straight home games, a Pac-10 record 15 consecutive league home games, 15 straight Pac-10 games and 9 road games in a row). USC has been AP’s No. 1 team for a school-record 18 straight polls. He also serves as USC’s defensive coordinator. He was the 2005 Playboy Pre-Season All-American team Coach of the Year.
In 2004, he guided No. 1-ranked USC to its second consecutive national championship with a convincing win over Oklahoma in the BCS Championship Game in the Orange Bowl. USC became only the second team ever to hold its AP pre-season No. 1 ranking all the way through a season. It was only the 10th time that a team won back-to-back AP crowns. His team was 13-0 (a school record for wins) and went 8-0 in the Pac-10. He also led the Trojans to their third consecutive Pac-10 title and their third straight season sweep of traditional rivals UCLA and Notre Dame (a first at Troy).
Troy was in the national Top 10 in every defensive statistical category (its total defense average was USC’s lowest in 15 years), including first in rushing defense and turnover margin and third in scoring defense.
USC outscored opponents by 25.2 points (including a school-record 8 games with a margin of at least 30 points). USC played before 3 home sellouts, 7 regular-season sellouts and 8 season sellouts, all school marks. And Troy set a USC and Pac-10 record for home attendance average, as well as school records for total home attendance, overall attendance average and total overall attendance. A school-record 6 Trojans (Heisman Trophy quarterback Matt Leinart, tailback Reggie Bush, defensive linemen Shaun Cody and Mike Patterson, and linebackers Matt Grootegoed and Lofa Tatupu) were named All-American first teamers. He was the 2004 National Quarterback Club College Coach of the Year and a finalist for the 2004 Bear Bryant Coach of the Year Award and the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award and a semifinalist for the George Munger Coach of the Year Award. He was the 2004 ESPN.com Pac-10 Coach of the Year.
Carroll began his coaching career at the college level, serving as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Pacific, for 3 years (1974-76), working with the wide receivers and secondary. He then spent a season as a graduate assistant working with the secondary at Arkansas (1977) under Lou Holtz as the Razorbacks won the 1978 Orange Bowl, and then a season each as an assistant in charge of the secondary at Iowa State (1978) under Earle Bruce (the Cyclones played in the 1978 Hall of Fame Bowl) and at Ohio State (1979) under Bruce. That Buckeye squad lost to USC in the 1980 Rose Bowl. He next spent 3 seasons (1980-82) as the defensive coordinator and secondary coach at North Carolina State, then returned to Pacific in 1983 as the assistant head coach and offensive coordinator.
Carroll 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.
He was born on Sept. 15, 1951 in San Francisco. He and his wife, Glena, who played volleyball at Pacific, have 3 children: sons Brennan, 26, who played tight end at Pittsburgh (he previously played at Delaware) and is now an assistant at USC, and Nathan, 17, and daughter Jaime, 22, who played on the Women of Troy’s highly-ranked volleyball team which competed in the 2000 NCAA Final Four.
In 2003, he helped develop “A Better L.A.,” a non-profit group consisting of a consortium of local agencies and organizations working to reduce gang violence by empowering change in individuals and communities. He received the Courageous Leadership Award from Women Against Gun Violence in 2005, as well as being named a Cedars-Sinai Sports Spectacular Honoree.
