PETE CARROLL WANTS TO GROOVE WITH YOU
Pete Carroll’s Facebook status as of 8:22 a.m. EST was:
Pete doesn’t strike me as a “Who’s That Lady” guy; that guy was my dad, who’d roll the windows down, light up a Vantage cigarette, and put down the Ray-Bans and let the Izod and the newly-washed Chevy Caprice do the talking for him. Nor does he seem like an “It’s Your Thing” guy, either, since that’s too East Coast-sounding and a bit too close to Motown for his tastes.
Let’s see: West Coast smooth production values, just enough funk, redeeming message of social justice, hand claps (you know a Pete Carroll song has to have hand claps)…ah, there it is.
It has to be “Harvest for the World.”
OOOOOOOhhhhh Pete’s TALKING ‘BOUT THE CHIL-REN! Attempting to watch USC football ever again without seeing Pete Carroll clapping along with Ronald Isley talking about the children will be difficult to do, especially since you know he’s probably got a game of Wii tennis going while simultaneously calling a particularly promising 11 year old linebacker out in a middle school in Glenwood.
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Diallo says:
Nah, Pete’s probably a “Footsteps In The Dark” guy, cause for him everyday is a good day.
April 17th, 2008 at 8:44 am
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GatorAM says:
We mortals (and Pete Carroll, apparently) cannot resist the hand-clap. Don’t fight it, just embrace it, and then notice the songs you like with hand-clapping and you’ll be shocked… Golden Years (Bowie), More Than a Feeling (Boston), Here Comes the Sun (Beatles), Get Busy (Sean Paul), Private Eyes (Hall & Oates), Close to Me (Cure) – the list goes on and on. Love me some hand-claps. I’ll rock out with Pete Carroll to some Isley Brothers anytime.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:17 am
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Bottagetta says:
I can see him and Norton Jr. doing a “For the Love of You” ditty while in a recruit’s living room.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:20 am
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Dave says:
And you know Pete only wears all white and a headband when he plays Wii tennis.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:28 am
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haybeav says:
I added him as a friend the other day and just randomly checked his page yesterday and saw that same thing…I nearly died
April 17th, 2008 at 9:28 am
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Bunkie Perkins says:
I would have pegged Pete as a Zac Efron guy
April 17th, 2008 at 9:29 am
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Brian says:
Pete Carroll Recruits over Xbox Live. “Soo, you ever play any football son…oh really, that’s interesting, Ive got this friend, Pete C who might give you a call later.”
April 17th, 2008 at 9:37 am
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Brian says:
I can see it right now…Pete Carroll dancing around his office to Shout Parts 1 & 2.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:45 am
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woooooohooooooooo says:
my money is on “Summer Breeze”
April 17th, 2008 at 10:03 am
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Rob says:
I live for updates like these.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:05 am
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IM A MAN IM FORTY says:
Sly and the Family Stone from Northern Cal. Just enough funk, just enough sunshine. “Hot fun in the Summertime”
The UCLA seniors skipped practice to participate in Pete Carrol’s extreme field games last week. Tag, three-leg racing, egg toss… Totally Rocked. Pete was Pumped, Stoked, and Jacked about the participation and good vibrations.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am
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Johnnie Cochring says:
Maybe I’m just an evil pervert, but I think Pete Carroll is doing a terrible thing. A huge part of football is, and has always been, about discipline and toughness. I’m not going to argue that Carroll’s teams aren’t tough, but living in Los Scandalous (as the ghetto people say) I see his approach and it turns my stomach. He has that, “Hey, it’s cool…no, don’t bring any of your negativity and pessimism around me, man. We’re having a good time.”
Pete, the only reason you’re successful doing what you do, is because you’re average player’s star rating is over four. If players realized that USC is located in a crime-ridden cesspool between East LA, Pico-Union, and South Central, and that the only thing prevented you, your staff, and your team from getting gunned is USC’s extremely large (the largest in the country, when I went there) private security force, maybe you wouldn’t be so happy go-lucky, and maybe people would go to UCLA because it’s in a nice area.
I don’t know if there are really coaches who can take yours and beat theirs, but I sure as hell know Pete Carroll couldn’t do it. Leinart, Booty, etc. throw into triple coverage and the receiver makes a catch and Paul Maguire starts ranting about how brilliant Steve Sarkisian and Pete Carroll are.
He’s not that good of a coach. He has superior talent. His strategy is crap. It wouldn’t work with lesser talent. He’d fall flat on his face. His whole, “no negative energy…let’s have a good time, it’s cool” attitude sets a horrible example for everyone because it tells a lie. It foists the idea that we, as people, don’t have to be cynical even though we do, that we don’t have to be conservative in many situations, when we clearly do, that we can go against the grain and do it our way because doing things the normal way is uncool. Pete Carroll is probably a bleeding heart liberal who’s too lost in his own dreamworld to realize how dangerous and talentless society is. He thinks because he can recruit the best and flourish, that all of Los Angeles can flourish. He thinks handing jobs to gangbangers (who have never been made accountable, nor disciplined; who have rejected society’s laws and disrespected their teachers, social workers, and probation officers) will fix the problem. It doesn’t work like that, Pete. You’ve given a criminal a job but you haven’t taught the criminal how to work, how to get up on time; how to stand up straight and politely say, “Good morning, sir” to his employer, because you, Pete Carroll, don’t talk like this, because you think it’s silly. In your world, it might be silly; but your world is not real. You’re surrounded by premium football players, so you don’t take it in the ass like you should when you go for it on fourth and two from your own thirty-one.
I got news for you, surfer boy, you might get away with bucking tradition and trends is because of the superior talent you have, but your mentality is disgusting. Socially it’s devastating, like the typical white liberal who lives in a safe, secure (and impenetrable area) who complains that inner-city police are unfair because they beat down known felons.
Go smoke some Thai Sticks, listen to Seals and Croft or whatever the hell it is, and imagine what would happen if you went to Miami of Ohio. It might be sort of like it was before when you coached the Jets.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:37 am
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George says:
Whoa Johnnie,
I’m an ND fan born and raised in LA, so you know how much I hate Pete Carroll, but whoooaaaa there.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:45 am
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Johnnie Cochring says:
Yeah, I’m having a particularly rough day on the set of my new legal drama. I’m playing the attorney to a woman who murdered her philandering husband. We have a “sit-down” with Judge Booty in twenty minutes and I’m suffering from E.D.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:49 am
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Orson Swindle says:
Pete Carroll forgives you, Johnnie.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:50 am
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Allahver Fist says:
Yeah, definitely will never be moving to L.A.. Ever.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:15 am
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Jason says:
I love all the LA-hatin. It cracks me up.
Usually, this comes from the people from Ohio or Indiana or wherever who somehow, have managed to make their way out here, and all they do is complain, complain, complain.
This raises two interesting points:
1) Why are you here in the first place? Good lord, if you don’t like it that much, move. LA’s not for everyone – I think that’s an established fact. Those of us who were born here would very much like all of you transplants to leave so that housing prices can go down ever further, thank you very much. And hell, traffic may even improve. However, if you come here with the right attitude – we’ll embrace you. Yeah, you’re right – LA is culturally different. I also wouldn’t be so stupid to assume that if I moved to Cleveland or wherever in the Midwest, that I wouldn’t be looked at funny if I acted all LA. It’s a two-way street, son.
2) Youngstown, Gary and Cleveland aren’t exactly beaming bastions of safety and social progress, from my recollection.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:57 am
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USC Athletic Department (Vote for Hillary) says:
Johnnie – thanks for clearing that up, buddy. Our Legal Department will be contacting you shortly re: incitement of violence and racial intolerance. For now, have a good day, chump!
April 17th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
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Brian says:
Makes it sound like you’re talking about Dahrhan, Saudi Arabia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco_Residential_Camp_in_Dhahran
April 17th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
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babaoje says:
Pete Carroll Facebook updates are possibly the best thing that has happened to me. Previous musical related entires include: “blasting Dire Straits’ “Brothers in Arms”…great song.”, “rocking out to Foo Fighters”, and the always classic “Pete has a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.”. iTunes playlist, here I come.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
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Johnnie Cochring says:
Jason:
The argument is against Pete Carroll, not Los Angeles. Like it or not, LA has some shitty parts, and USC is right in the middle of several. Speaking of LA, it might be culturally different, but assuming Pete Carroll is the representative of this culture is tantamount to assuming that everyone in LA is living in dreamland. There are plenty of people in LA who are real people, who don’t have Pete Carroll’s mindset. You might. But a lot of us don’t. There are people here with a different perspective on things like discipline, law and order, education, etc. and they’re not just Midwestern transplants who’ve been soured by their failures in the movie business. There are plenty of LA people who work in the community, who try to improve the inner-city, who are frustrated because policy-makers take horrible approaches and then point out alternative techniques, such as those used by Pete Carroll, as a realistic solution to the problems our welfare system created.
SC Athletic Department:
At what point did I ever incite violence and racial intolerance? Was it because I, instead of living in fantasy land (or staying in my dorm room on your campus), acknowledged that LA (home to some of the most dangerous gangs in the world) is a dangerous city? Because I have seen how many criminals manipulate the system? Because I have sympathy for the teachers, social workers, and police who actually have to work in LA? Because I know cops who aren’t corrupt, racist, or out to kick some ass, who are treated terribly by some of the recalcitrant inner-city youth whose behavior is the product of a society devoid of discipline and traditional values?
Oh, that’s right, I forgot…we’re supposed to be nice to the people who kill inner-city communities, who sell drugs, intimidate, turn schools into chaotic wastelands for the kids in those communities who actually do want to make a difference. Yeah, that’s it. We should just be nice to them and stay out of their way. We’ll just move out to the Valley or Beverly Hills or find some place with a gated parking garage and security guard. That’s how it should be. We’re not supposed to actually be able to park our cars on the street and walk places. It’s OUR fault when our cars are broken into on Adams and our girlfriends are raped coming home from class. It’s our friend’s fault when he gets jumped by gangbangers on his way back from the Two-Nine.
You’re right. By the way, don’t walk alone too far down Jefferson, Exposition, Hoover, or any of the other streets by campus, and believe me, don’t, by any means, go past Vermont.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
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Johnnie Cochring says:
Oh, yeah, and I’m not from the Midwest, either.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
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This Guy says:
You’re forgetting that the Isley Brothers had an extremely successful career in rock n’ roll before their switch to proto-funk.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
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Allahver Fist says:
Sorry Johnnie, we stopped serving breakfast. You have to order something from the lunch menu.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
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GamecockTony says:
So the Poodle has to be walked outside at 5:22 PDT? Good to know.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
@21
Johnnie, move to THE south(not Atlanta, Miami,etc). You’ll be elected to the office of your choice in no time.
I mean it, I’d vote for ya.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
BTW, if you do move here, might have to look into changing that name.
Just sayin’.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
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CrazyPi says:
Barrack Obama’s bitter comment was directed at the wrong disenfranchised group! His comments were obviously meant for the frustrated, self-righteous, urban-fearing, pansy litigators of this country.
Seriously, Johnnie, your hate for Pete Carroll (and USC real estate for that matter) is a little creepy. He just wants to win forever, that’s all.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
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socalbryan says:
As a trojan alumni and a life-long resident of the greater los angeles area (Orange County) I can say that I 100% concur with “Johnnie.” I can honestly say that the scariest semester of my life occurred when I lived 4 blocks from USC… in the right direction (if there is one). Campus is an oasis in a cesspool of racial hatered (between blacks and Mexicans, who are actually Mexican citizens and not Mexican-Americans) and crime. The only thing that’s going to save USC is the incredible amount of investment taking place two miles north in downtown LA. If we give gentrification a chance, it just might save LA and USC.
As for me, I’m tired of seeing this city go downhill. In fact, I’m so fed up I’m moving because I’m not sure it will get better. Those of you in NY, I’ll see you at the bar exam in July; I’m done being a lawya in dees parts.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
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Knox says:
so the reason why SC is so good is because of average recruit stars? Oh that explains why Texas has gone to 6 straight NC Title games. Check the average star rating of ND’s O-line last year. yeah… ok, no coaching needed at all.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
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socalbryan says:
30, i was agreeing with Johnnie’s critique of los angeles.
i would agree with you that recruiting isnt everything and that to be successful you’ve got to have good coaching.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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Jeff from LA says:
Johnnie Cochring, you definitely have to work on being a little more concise in your hate. Rambling on for sentence after sentence definitely doesn’t help your cause.
If we’re talking about superior talent alone being enough to succeed in college football, I would expect Notre Dame to do a heck of a lot better than they have been doing. You could probably add Oklahoma to that mix too, and Bob Stoops is considered a better than average coach.
As for strategies being more effective when you have superior talent, let’s just say that’s pretty darn obvious.
You claim that his strategies would fail if he didn’t have superior talent. Well, first of all, I’m not sure if that’s true, we’d have to see him use the same strategies with lesser player. More importantly, you develop strategies based on the players you have. If your qb is completely immobile, the spread is probably not a good offense to run.
Without more evidence for your claims, I find your arguments unconvincing.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
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Johnnie Cochring says:
It probably is creepy. But it’s what happens to a sane person when he works too long in the heart of Los Angeles’ gangland. In my career, I encounter hopelessness on a daily basis. I don’t want to discuss what I specifically do because I work for the government, but as Socalbryan indicated, those of us who live or work in downtown LA (especially those who work in law enforcement, education, and social work) are tired of watching this city decay while the powers that be throw us under the bus every chance they get. I don’t believe Pete Carroll’s approach is the right way, nor do I think lowering educational standards to improve the abysmal graduation rates in LA is the answer. His heart is good, though. He’s just unaware of the severity of problems in the inner-city and thinks it’s a much easier fix than it actually is.
Obviously, Knox, there’s more to it than just star ratings, but since there’s been such a thing as star ratings, it’s fairly well-documented that the last six or seven (how ever long they’ve kept records) national champions (including Texas a few years back) have averaged top fifteen or better recruiting classes in the years prior to their victory.
I know there are plenty of arguments for and against these ratings, which I don’t care to argue, because with or without them, Pete Carroll has a superfluous amount of talent, more than any team he faces. I don’t see how anyone could argue that he is more of a coach than he is just a recruiter. He’s a lot like Bobby Bowden. Heck, he’s a lot like most of these guys. Personally, I’ve always been one to think it’s more impressive coaching when a coach goes 8-4 with a moderately talented team than it is to go 13-0 with a supremely talented team.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
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StageCoach says:
Johnie C.
You may have come up with your own solution, albeit inadvertantly. Perhaps a change of venue for you would ease your mind…and I might suggest the very place you seem to have taken a shot at: Miami of Ohio.
Oxford is a very bucolic setting; simply a gorgeous campus in a friendly small town, abutting a scenic state park. You won’t ever have to worry about the safety of walking the streets at any time of day or night, and your car and/or bike won’t be hassled. True, there is no ocean/beach to be had, but if you like being able to be outdoors, amid lots of mature, mixed deciduous trees and red brick, Georgian architecture you could do a lot worse.
The school is extremely highly regarded academically and is, if I remember correctly, the oldest university west of the Appalachian Mountains. It was, literally, a university when Florida still belonged to Spain.
The MAC may not be the PAC-10 athletically, but if you truyly enjoy real coaching, the football team has consistently offered it, which is why it is known as “The Cradle Of Coaches.” Weeb Eubank, Woody Hayes, Ara Parseghian, Bo Schembechler and Randy Walker, among others, all coached there.
Just a thought. Student or not, it is a nice place to be.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
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DC Trojan says:
Johnnie Cochring @ various: I haven’t lived in LA since I graduated from SC, which was a while ago, so I won’t comment about your general misanthropy. My last memories of campus involved going past the National Guard to get beer at the 3-2 market before graduation and the smell of burnt buildings in the air; I’m not one to romanticize the surrounding area.
However, conflating your anger about social policy with your animus towards Pete Carroll has led you to make an argument that is complete balls. Utter tripe.
Go and take a look at the level of effort put in by the coaching staff at SC. Go and take a look at the level of effort put in by the players in practice, on the field. There’s hard work and personal discipline there, in spades. That program is the epitome of the old phrase, “The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
Is it easier to build a winning program with good players? Sure. But Miami and FSU haven’t been short on talented players lately and it hasn’t done them much good – someone has to get them pointed in the right direction and come up with a plan more complicated than “throw further, run faster, hit harder.”
Just because the tone of coaching at USC is not “sir yes sir!” doesn’t mean it’s a bad approach. I can shut up and work and get plenty done when the condition suck, but I do even better work when we approach shit conditions with a positive tone.
The success is what counts, not being miserable on the way there. And as a Scot steeped in cultural calvinism, I know from being miserable along the way.
Plainly you’ve got some problems with the way things are in Los Angeles, but trying to make a football coach as emblematic of the causes of generations of social dysfunction is to make a strawman of epic proportions. You might as well blame Pete Carroll for the increased price of oil because he drives a Range Rover.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
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Johnnie Cochring says:
I don’t blame Carroll for LA’s problems, but the point I was trying to make is that his approach to coaching is not an applicable solution to the community. Carroll makes attempts to improve inner-city LA, admirable as that may be, and working in that environment, I don’t agree with his approach because it is “THE LAST THING inner-city kids need. They don’t need to be given anything because society has already given a great deal and it is ignored. Talk to a teacher or tutor in South Central, Pico-Union, or East Los ANgeles. Ask them about their turnout to FREE tutoring. Ask about the plethora of programs provided that these kids don’t even take advantage of. Obviously, as someone who works in this area, it’s a little unnerving when Pete Carroll strolls in like a hotshot, walks up to the very kids teachers and probation officers have been working with for years, and gives them something, or listens to their excuses, or talks about how he’s going to present opportunities to them, when others have been presenting opportunities, help, and sympathy for years to no avail.
It is admirable that Carroll cares, but his methods–which are, as you, I, and everyone else who pays attention know to be successful for the Trojans–are not what inner-city youth need. The players he coaches have unusual talent. Using the same approach with dropouts, delinquents,
If Carroll would tell kids to get their ass out of bed, quit making excuses, reject the losers in their communities who convince them to join gangs and sling dope, stop abandoning pregnant girlfriends, etc. I’d have a greater appreciation for him. He could do this and should do this, but he doesn’t. He feeds the problem, IMO, because he doesn’t condemn certain behaviors that need to be condemned. There is nothing cool about gangs. Nothing good. Nothing. Men like Pete Carroll–if they want to be involved, which he does–must clearly speak out against these violent, criminal groups. Because, as hopeless as it may sound, there will never be any improvement in Los Angeles’ inner-city communities until a great majority of people in those communities reject the practice of tagging, reject gang membership, make education a priority, and decide to do whatever they can do to help improve society. There are people in those communities now who think like this, but there are not enough. Pete Carroll, in his outreach efforts, could help. He needs to change his message and delivery. If he can’t do that, then he needs to step out of the way.
Again, Carroll can’t fix this, but I’d like to hear him–since he is a pretty powerful voice–clearly condemn certain behaviors which are clearly proven to be detrimental to Los Angeles and society in general.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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Johnnie Cochring says:
As a SC alum, here is where Pete Carroll lost points with me:
1) Letting OJ Simpson talk to the team before the Orange Bowl: This was bullshit, plain and simple. Whether you believe OJ is innocent or guilty, he’s too controversial to be allowed to speak to the team. In fact, he’s a total piece of shit. Carroll should have shown some integrity (balls) and barred OJ from speaking to the team.
2) Allowing Snoop Dogg and other celebrities (almost all of whom did not graduate from SC) on the sideline: If you don’t understand what’s wrong with this, you’re part of the problem
3) Starting the “A Better LA” program but doing it with an utterly vague/weak stance on crime/gangs, discipline, and responsibility.
Because of these three things, I will not root for USC, despite graduating from there, while Pete Carroll is the coach
April 17th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
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DC Trojan says:
Johnnie Cochring:
@ 36 – that’s a very valid argument. It’s equally possible that as a figurehead, he might open the door for people listening to the messages you’re espousing. But if teachers, preachers, and cops aren’t getting the message across, it may be a reach to think that Carroll can. Plus, the delivery you’re looking for is so completely at odds with his usual persona, it would be dismissed as hypocrisy from the get-go. Damned either way, I suppose.
@ 37. RE: your concerns. 1) Agreed. 2) Don’t care, don’t see that making me part of the problem. It’s a business, and having celebrities alongside is a revenue raising tactic like selling passes to high-roller alumni. 3) See comments above.
If you don’t want to support SC because you think Pete Carroll’s charitable activities aren’t up to snuff, that’s certainly your prerogative. I suspect that he’s doing more than Larry Smith, John Robinson, and Paul Hackett ever did, and they are – or were, in Smith’s case – good men, as coaches go.
April 18th, 2008 at 12:14 am
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samsson says:
Where did it say that PC was using the ’same techniques’ he uses in coaching to try and change the area around USC’s campus? Much was made of him going into the neighborhood in that article but that’s only a small part of this. He has started a foundation that is at least trying to help…
In answer to the now 6 year old OJ at practice story, he showed up uninvited to an Orange Bowl practice and it would have been much worse to stop the practice and make a scene running him off. He was told he was no longer welcome at USC practices so that ended that…
JC is just another disenfrachised grad or a posuer…
April 18th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
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Johnnie Cochring says:
Oh, that’s it, Samsson. Go ahead and personally insult me, because an SC fan who works the mean streets couldn’t possibly have legitimate reasons to dislike Pete Carroll’s warm and bubbly personality. When other SC students graduate, they move away. I went right into the heart of the problem to work with it. I see shit on a daily basis that would break your heart–shit that, unless you’ve seen it, you wouldn’t believe exists in America–so don’t expect me to fall in love with an overly easy-going man like Pete Carroll or his program.
Most of the mentoring programs and friendly, “I’m here to listen” style initiatives enable the very behavior/problems they’re trying to help. This is a fact. Just like the welfare system. People don’t see that, though because these programs were started with good intentions, because the policy-makers assumed the common person was responsible enough not to abuse the system. Unfortunately, the average person abuses the system.
Supporters of these programs (who would say I’m angry, a disenfranchised black man) stand back from a distance, make a lone appearance every once in a while, and think, this is working. They think it’s making a difference. But if you’re there every day, you see the problem up close and you recognize it beyond whatever excuses are made. So when someone like Pete Carroll thinks he can make a difference, it’s insulting to those of us who are/have been working to fix the problem. We fail not because we are incapable and not because we don’t know how to fix the problem, but because the very people who welcome Pete Carroll don’t listen to us when we tell them what needs to be done. They don’t listen because we tell them the truth, and the truth is unpleasant. They don’t want to hear that, so they want us to rally behind Pete Carroll and be nicer. Play basketball with drug dealers, don’t harass known gangmembers or obvious perps, etc.
Listen, I’ve put in my time. I sacrificed enough for a society that doesn’t seem to care, that wants to keep avoiding the truth because some know-it-all with a positive message thinks he can leave his ivory tower and fix the very problems people like him created. I’ve put my life into helping. But the middle class is disappearing. The ghetto is getting bigger. You can hate on me now, call me crazy, ignore what I’m saying, but more than fifty-percent of kids born to the lowest socio-economic classes are dropping out of high school. When your city, neighborhood, block, whatever, is ruined or is surrounded by ruin, don’t say, “What happened?” Don’t wonder what went wrong.
April 19th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
Johnnie, we greatly appreciate your patronage, and your enthusiasm. However, we feel compelled to point out a few basic things that happen in comment threads:
1. Quick insults of your school.
2. Quick insults of another school.
3. Compliments or insults to the writer of the piece.
4. Sodomy/Drug jokes.
Lengthy discourses on your view of society are fine and good. They also don’t belong on this website—that’s what political websites are for, and they’re more than happy to digest eight paragraph theses on the fallacies of altruism and the tragedy of the commons.
With that: you’re yellow carded.
April 19th, 2008 at 12:33 pm