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Pete Carroll brought his college coach, Chester Caddas, on the trip to Arkansas. Caddas was head coach at Pacific from 1972-78, getting promoted from defensive coordinator to head coach for Carroll's senior year. Caddas also gave Carroll his first coaching job at Pacific.
Among those who coached for Caddas are current UCLA assistant Jim Colletto (an assistant while Carroll played at UOP), Patriots assistant Dante Scarnecchia (an assistant in New England with Carroll), Stanford coach Walt Harris (Carroll friend, assistant while Carroll played at UOP), Syracuse coach Greg Robinson (Carroll teammate, friend, UOP assistant) and Bob Cope (assistant while Carroll played at UOP), who got Carroll a job as a graduate assistant at Arkansas in 1977.
a round of respect to Coach Caddas. He'll give coaching tips to PC & Co. for the price of dinner.
Can u imagine what other coaches think when they see the speed on this team -- the fastest ever in the PC era? It must look like a video game. They envy the chance to coach such talent.
The Dynasty continues...
It is nice to see that a person who has hit the top in whatever endeavor remembers where he came from and who was instrumental in helping him get there. Pete Carroll is a class act.
I think Ted Leland, athletic director at stanford & son, was also at UOP in that era. Interesting how the UOP program never did anything in terms of winning games, but did produce a far amount of coaches.
Besides PC, that coaching tree is not real impressive.
In agree on the sentiments regarding Pete not forgetting where he came from.
Any coaching tree that includes several head/assistant coaches at the college level is pretty impressive to me but I guess impressive is relative.
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Nice info, big thx.