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Seahawks (ex-USC) Coach Pete Carroll (official thread)

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A long read, but it gives you an idea of why he is so successful as a recruiter. Sometimes as a Buckeye fan, you can lose sight of the fact that there are unique and special people outside of the Big 10 conference.
 
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Tremendous read. Behind all the hype and hoopla of the USC propgram is a great recruiter, coach, and man.

Carroll believes he knows why we love coaches, why the epic coaches have become American icons. ?They were themselves,? he says. Great coaches, he says excitedly, know themselves. What about coaches who fail? ?They don?t know themselves,? he says. ?So they act in accordance with what they think they should be acting like, as opposed to finding out who they are so they can act directly in connection with the essence of who they are.?
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I found this bit particularly enlightening. Looking through the ranks of college coaches, it's not hard to tell who falls into which category. JT certainly fits the mold.
 
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Bucky Katt;1010811; said:
Tremendous read. Behind all the hype and hoopla of the USC propgram is a great recruiter, coach, and man.



I found this bit particularly enlightening. Looking through the ranks of college coaches, it's not hard to tell who falls into which category. JT certainly fits the mold.
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good read, but Oh*ch's "observations..." are much better.

you had to know there'd be a sun tzu quote in there!

still, that kind of centerdness and mindfulness/presence wins people over. to use another cliche, it's like what Drucker said about the difference between a leader and a manager: a [good] leader knows the right things to do; a [good] manager does things right.

the point is that *most* people can "smell" and are drawn to leaders. clearly PfC gives off that scent and deserves to be noticed for it.
 
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I actually like Pete Carroll, he's everything I like to see in a coach, he has personality, he's energetic, he's open and gives respect to other teams. When he's beat, he says he's been beat, he doesn't make excuses, and when he does he always defers the credit back to the team that beat him, something that other coaches fail to do. When many coaches get asked what happened at the end of the game "Well, we didn't make plays, we dropped a few balls, we turned the ball over" and after USC loses I always watch, waiting to see something that makes me hate the coach at USC, but he spins it in way that gives credit to the team he played "We made some mistakes, but we were beat by a team that was better than us tonight."

He does things that you want your coach to do, he makes the oppositions team think, gets into their coaches head and strikes fear into the other teams fans. Something very few coaches can do, and does it with an attitude that I have seen no other coach do. He gets on radio, he makes himself available, he makes his team accessible, he lets people see what he's planning, what he's going to do and does that, you have to prepare for it, sometimes it bites him in the ass, sometimes it doesn't, but how often does he get blown out?

The thing is, it's not Carroll I dislike about the USC program, living in southern cali it's more the fans, the same guys who say "I am a UCLA fan during basketball and USC during football" attitude tat I can't understand. The arrogance some of the former players have, and most of the fans have, yet the coach doesn't seem to show it. He wins and loses gracefully and for that reason alone I hope he leaves college football forever and goes to the NFL :)
 
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I actually like Pete Carroll, he's everything I like to see in a coach, he has personality, he's energetic, he's open and gives respect to other teams. When he's beat, he says he's been beat, he doesn't make excuses, and when he does he always defers the credit back to the team that beat him, something that other coaches fail to do. When many coaches get asked what happened at the end of the game "Well, we didn't make plays, we dropped a few balls, we turned the ball over" and after USC loses I always watch, waiting to see something that makes me hate the coach at USC, but he spins it in way that gives credit to the team he played "We made some mistakes, but we were beat by a team that was better than us tonight."
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:p [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqmmxOsJW1Y]YouTube - Pete Carroll says 'Fuck you' to Mike Bellotti[/ame]
 
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