Caesar Makes SI Cover

PETE.SIFormer USC coach Pete Carroll makes the cover of Sports Illustrated this week. Does this count as another Trojan on the cover of SI?

77 thoughts on “Caesar Makes SI Cover

  1. No it doesn’t count as another Trojan on the cover of SI. I will say however that Pete will have the Hawks in the thick of the Super Bowl race again this season. Hes the real deal.

    BTW, why do you call him Caesar?

    • Because he ruled the Empire and had total control.

      I like the next answer better though.

        • Please check that, what kind of control? That goes beyond the head coach. Problem is, institution was in the dark. Read up on it.

          • Steve,
            Come on, buddy. Denial is stupidity’s ugly cousin. Pete hosed you and ran like a little girl with a sack full of barbie dolls. If you still want to worship him, that’s your right as an American citizen.
            Look forward to our game this year, buddy.
            4 in a row will be hard to explain unless you want to credit “probation hangover”. Let’s check back in when you boys are 2 and 2.

  2. Carroll was a great coach at USC and his record speaks for itself. Certainly not perfect, but he put together some tremendous teams, recruited fantastic players and generated so much enthusiasm over a very considerable stretch.

    The Carroll years were absolutely a grand time. It was amazing to play both ND and ucla every year and know, going into the game, there was a 90% chance of winning while the forlorn little gutties and the Domers would be heading out at halftime because the game was already out of reach.

    • Agree… those were further USC glory years. But at the end, the program was showing signs of eroding and when Mark Sanchez decided to leave after his junior year, I just sensed PC threw up his hands in believing he had lost one-last natty-run that was within reach. An opportunity came a year later to escape back into the NFL and he was gone to fulfill his dream of a Super Bowl. Let’s not be too judgmental… John McKay did the same thing.

          • No, not really….. just think about it objectively… there were 7 new head coaching positions filled in the NFL this past season…..Jim Tomsula, Jack Del Rio, Dan Quinn, Gary Kubiak, John Fox, Todd Bowles and Rex Ryan….I would guess that Mora is a much better head coach than at least half of these guys……Despite losing Brett Hundley and Eric Kendricks, this UCLA team is essentially intact and loaded for bear….They should wind up having as great a season as they have had in the last 20 years…..Mora’s stock will never be higher, and at 53 years of age, he would be in the middle group of the current NFL head coaches….Pete Carroll is second oldest at 62 years, behind Tom Coughlin who is 67 years old and perhaps ready to retire….Jay Gruden in Washington may be on his way out….and Ron Rivera seems to be hanging on to his job by a thread…..lastly, Jim’s ego may push him back into the NFL, although I think he should stay at UCLA…..so it’s not wishful thinking on my part……more of a gut feeling…..

          • If he goes, it would be his ego. I think he is better suited to the college game, but one never knows. At UCLA he has much better job security than the NFL, but I am sure he wouldn’t have trouble finding a college job again.

          • I doubt Mora will leave before UCLA completes the new FB Facility and he has one good shot at a CFB Championship.

  3. Way to go, Pete.
    It takes a special guy to move on from “the worst call in the history of the NFL”
    It’s always easier to move forward when you have no conscience and a selective memory.

        • Wang needs to follow Wolf’s formula and take on a more gossipy, sorority girl approach to Bruin football, and he will get more readership.

    • Why don’t you give us some clever metaphors, as per your name, Pilgrim?

      And that was not a bad call, because if the QB does not throw the pick (he was the goat), Seattle now has two chances with over 25 seconds to score.

      • Walnut,
        Thanks for the straight line.
        Pete’s play call at the end of last year’s Super Bowl was like letting his opponent in an arm wrestling contest use a machine gun.

  4. TrojanLights, Let your Light shine, Son. Coach Pete Carroll must be considered a Sports Illustrated University of Southern California Cover Boy. Gotta be !!! Fight On for Ole SC, and then Fight On to VICTORY !!! WE’RE NUMBER ONE !!!

  5. DEFINITELY A TROJAN
    Next subject I predict will be… A card stunt photo from 1956

  6. Less than a yard from a 2nd consecutive SB victory, and Little Petey Woodchuck “blows the layup.” No matter what Little Petey says, his horrendous blunder will always be a gorilla on his back.

      • Trolls a USC blog going by a name that includes the name a university he didn’t attend.

    • And no matter what else happens Pete will have 2 College Football National Championships and 1 Super Bowl Championship. How many head coaches have achieved that? Success at all levels and Championships are a thread that runs through Pete’s head coaching career.

      • Two 1/2 library card FB NC’s. As usual, Klownster’s love to ignore significant fact, and rely solely on Rah-Rah dreams and fantasy.

    • That is REALLY quite an overstatement, but then look where it is coming from. Not true at all.

      • “That is REALLY quite a overstatement…..” – how so ‘tevie. Please be specific.

        Fact: LPetey blows the SB at the Patriots 1/2 yard line.

        Fact: LPetey blows a guaranteed BCS Championship invitation because he loses to weakling UCLA team 13 – 9.

        Fact: LPetey and the Klownster’s, leading by 12 with 10 minutes to go, loses to Tixas, in the BCS Championship game at the RB in the waning seconds of the game.

        Fact: LPetey loses to a 41 point dog Stanford team at the crumbling mausoleum 23 – 21.

        Fact: LPetey, in the face of an investigation into R. Bush’s illegal money payments, he ignores the consequences and uses Reggie in BCS Championship vs Oklahoma winning 55 – 14.

        Bush’s contributions were minimal to LPetey’s victory, and strictly speaking wasn’t necessary to pound Oklahoma. But because Little Petey used Reggie, the Oklahoma victory was vacated,because Reggie was deemed ineligible by the NCAA.

        Fact: According to LPetey, he didna know squat!

        Need I go on “tevie.

  7. Is Pete able to go out for dinner in Seattle yet?
    Does he have a food taster like Caesar?

  8. Except Scott. ….and Charlie Bucket. …and entire the Cadre. ..

  9. Well, Carroll spends too much time in the sun, probably much of it without sun screen, so he shows the effect.

    Still, I would have had some photo-shop work done on that picture before agreeing to have it shown to the nation.

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