Memories

That time he pulled a John Calipari and bailed on USC leaving them holding the bag for all his cheating ways over the past 9 years. How they had to vacate Pac-10 titles, a national title and watching Reggie Bush cry as the NY Athletic club marches into Heritage Hall to take back his tarnished Heisman.

Man that was a great memory

His consistent tweets, "I'm jacked for practice. Another beautiful day on southern California. It's a great day to be a Trojan." In chaos, lies opportunity says Sun Tzu.

3. Throwing the dummy off the building

2. His affair with the co-ed in Mali-bootay

1. "What's your deal?"

3. ANNOUNCING MATT BARKLEY AS THE STARTING QB.

2. BEING THE MOST SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE COACH OF THE DECADE.

1. SEEING BIG BALLS PETE BE WEALTHY AND COOL, UNLIKE THAT LOSER BEAT WRITER, scott wolf.

Fight On BIG BALLS PETE!

Great memories of awesome wins and fun pep talks at the volley ball tourney in the off season , but what I'll remember most is the times the Program took my mind off my fathers terminal cancer and gave me moments of pause from all the pain and anger over the situation. Big Balls Pete made it happen and gave us a great run. Best of luck in all you do in the future and always Fight On.

I will never forget how he managed to keep Dirty Sanchez out of prison for raping a USC student. Such a great memory!

Taking a job no one thought he deserved, ignoring the saysayers and flourishing, creating years of success for the program, school and the players, returning the program to the prominence it enjoyed when I was a student in the late 60's early 70's. If Garrett handles this situation properly (no guarantee he will we should continue with success. Thank you Pete for letting me relive my college years of enjoyment with USC games once again.

PS: Why has no one pushed the NCAA to invoke a rule limiting the time by which these "investigations" like Bush must be completed and charges (if any) brought? Most administrative investigations similar to this one have time limits, that way the school and program are not held hostage for four or five years while they piddle around trying to find evidence. This is the travesty of this investigation, it should be over by now. At least the school may have short circuited the Mayo investigation by "punishing" itself. Let's move on, already.

USC vs. Auburn 2003!

USC won that game 23 to nothing, and it was at Auburn. No one gave USC a chance. It was a great victory and was the beginning of a great run with both Bush and Leinart. But the Carroll memory was the pep talk after the game in the locker room...

"and how many points did they score? ZERO!".

It was a great run.

The time Pete yelled at you and Petros to get over your girlish jealousy of Matt Leinart. That puts me to bed every night.

Mine is unfortunately the same as USC-TroJohn.

My brother and I were life long Trojans. And from 2001 on PC brought that back to us. In 2003 I paid $5,000 to take him and family to 50 yard line seats for Bruins, knowing it would be his last game he saw.

At the Orange Bowl I prayed my brother could watch through my eyes.

I am glad he never knew what followed.

Oh yeah, this thread is a great idea and not asking for Bruins to post total nonsense. Getting Mark Sanchez off from raping someone? Are you serious? You UCLA people are as disgusting as they come.

Scott, I respectfully request you close this thread. It is non-productive and is only asking for trouble from these morons.

Record vs. Notre Dame 8-1

Record vs. silly, little, jealous bRuins 8-1

The ONLY thing Pete should be remembered for is the Winter of 2004/05 when he blew-up his coaching staff because he couldnt handle sharing any of the credit for winning with Chow, Ed O, Davis, etc. That was the begining of the end. After the 2004 season Pete had all the talent and resources any coach could ever want and dint win squat.

Petes record from 2005-2008 of winning the most games in college football history WITHOUT winning a National Championship stands alone and will never be broken. It will forever stand as a testament of what could been had Pete only been man enough to bury that huge chip on his shoulder and check his ego.

How ironic that Petes decisions so he would get all the credit for winning, ensured the fact he would never win again. Classic!

Win Forever!!!

My memory is alienating The all star coaching staff because his ego was in the way. He scarified at least one to two more NAt Champs because the show had to be about him. ANd Like a fragile Hollywood Starlet he has been mum and digitally mute afraid that TMZ is after him. Ultimately the guy cares more about himself then the University. Good riddance hopefully Brennan can find a good spot behind the press box to chug those beers now that absolutely no one is going to listen to him.

Buying a bottle of Champagne for he and his wife at the Park Hyatt LA after defeating Michigan 28-14 in the Rose Bowl.

Another great memory. Look Carroll sent his staff to go recruit while he was planning to stab them behind his back. For All you homers at the end of the day the fool was in love with himself. I think the moniker given by Wolf of Cesear is very appropriate, because the ego maniac took us the University, LA for a fool. A an Alum i can not wait for his stench to be exterminated form Heritage hall. Some of you who are still in love with him call a rig because it will take a 18 wheeler to haul that ego to Seattle. And by the way buy him a mood light because he might experience some depression when it starts raining for a 100 straight days and he can not swim with the orcas. Bye no fuzz Pete.

Not having Reggie Bush on the field for the 4th and 1 against Texas, what a great call ! Who knew it was an omen of things to come offensively.

Good luck in Seattle Pete, well not really, is your coed hose bag going with you?

The only time I saw Carroll up close was when SC was gunning for its third national championship in a row and they had to go to Autzen Stadium to play a dangerous Ducks team. I got an early start and drove for 2-days like a mad man so I could beat the SC plane and team bus to the stadium for SC's day-before-game walk-through.

Carroll was first off the bus leading the pack, and I was alone as they approached. I said plaintively, "Welcome to Oregon, Coach." He just looked at me, did not answer, and walked right by me. Not to be undone, I then more pointedly exclaimed, "Now beat Oregon!"

The players were more responsive, kind of chuckling and all, as I informed them they had a chance to go down in history, that some day they would be telling their grandchildren that they were the only college team to win 3 national championships in a row. (Note: it almost happened)

When you first starting calling him Caesar.

I appreciate that PC allowed practice to be open, and was gracious (and patient) while I took a picture of him and my kids.

On the field, PC will be remembered as one of the best coaches in USC and Pac-10 history. He helped bring this program back to national prominence. USC's various streaks and records during his tenure are unparalled in USC and Pac-10 history, and rare in college football history. I am grateful for the records against UCLA and ND, which stand out in the history of each rivalry. The highlights were destroying Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl to cap a perfect season, the year after witnessing USC beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl (and the pass back to Matt Leinart for a TD - where did that playcalling go?).

Unfortunately, there were missed opportunities, starting with the Texas loss (which was the worst memory), and the loss to "inferior" opponents. If those opportunities were captilized, PC goes down as the most successful coach in college football history. Instead, if NCAA sanctions are handed down against the football program, his reputation is likely tarnished, unfairly or not.

Thanks Coach Carroll for all that you did for USC I just wished it ended a better on the field and off.

Best memory was everything until he ran Chow off.

After that, the best memory is the implication of his fleeing the mess he has created by going "Twitter-silent" the last few days for the first time ever.

Good riddance, Caesar. Your run was over at USC anyway. You are not good enough to win anything by yourself, which I think you know now.

@AffholterTD

Gotta agree with your post! Also, anyone with that username is golden with me! That was my freshman year and still probably the best single win in my mind as a USC fan and alum.

I'm listing my top 12. Here are numbers 12-9: http://www.mrmrslink.com/Jed/my-top-12-memories-of-uscs-pete-carroll-era-12-9/

My memory is a relatively recent one...

When Stanford went for the two point conversion prompting Carroll to upsetly ask Harbaugh, "What's your deal?" After a bye week to think about it, Carroll then plays UCLA and decides, despite the risk of an interception, to throw a long touch down bomb with the game already locked up. Carroll then ignites his staff and players to taunt UCLA from the sideline and pretends to not understand why UCLA's players were so pissed.

Does it get any more hypocritical and classless than that? Clearly Carroll is a good person off the field with all the "A Better LA" stuff...but on the field is another story.

Cheatey Petey and the SUC tOeJams!!

I will always remember Pete for warmly welcoming double murder and armed robber OJ Simpson to practice before the Orange Bowl.

That showed me exactly what he was about: Winning at all costs, who cares what kind of character you have.

I will rarely defend Carroll, but anyone who thinks that the chain of events at the end of the USC-UCLA game was initiated by Carroll is myopic and must have pussy-blue and pee-yellow glasses on. Without the moronic timeout Neuheisel called after USC took a knee to try and end the game, the game would have ended with no fireworks at all. Neuheisel fired a shot at Carroll and it bit him in the arse - hard. Anyone who knows one tiny iota about how football works knows that if the other team is classy enough to take a knee to try and end a game, you don't call timeout. In fact, I believe it is the first time I have EVER seen it done in 35 years of watching football, which is well over 2500 games. You call timeout when the other team is calling off the dogs, you are asking for whatever happens after that, IMO.

That showed me exactly what he was about: Winning at all costs, who cares what kind of character you have.

Signed,
Sam Gilbert and the UCLA basketball team

USC Holmey...most football analysts agree that Cheatey Petey was a hypocrite. Be like the rest of Trojan nation and forget about the Stanford game two weeks prior to the UCLA one.

In case your memory is fading you...your Coliseum is going to look half full again now that Cheatey Petey is leaving. The Hackett era is back! Bandwagon is emptying like rats jumping off a sinking ship.

Mine are about the way he handled quarterbacks, starting with embarrassing himself during the Sanchez NFL announcement last year. It was followed up beautifully by treating Aaron Corp like yesterday's garbage during the fateful 2009 season.

What happened in the Stanford game? You mean Harbaugh's inappropriate 2-point conversion? How does that relate to Neuheisal's timeout?

Had Neuheisal NOT called timeout, USC would have taken one more knee and the game would have been over. Period. How is that even debatable?

And I couldn't care less if people are leaving the bandwagon. Never liked a crowded bandwagon. I was getting really tired of having to leave 6 hours before gametime anyway. I miss the days of being able to get off the 110 20 minutes before kickoff and having butt-in-seat right as the band started the National Anthem.

I have sat in the Coliseum 50 times when there were 100,000 people there (Rams and USC) and have sat in the Coliseum 50 times when there were 37,000 people there. I can handle both, bud. Ebbs and flows. Ebbs and flows.

Have to be how he left NCAA in such a sorry state that its likely that all the victories and championships will be forfeited. I've said for years the man was running an NFL program in college. It showed on the field...and now it's showing off the field. I actually field bad for next year's players.

This is tough, but here goes...

1. When Pete told Smeagol-Wolfe that it was only appropriate when team members slapped other team members on the butt.

2. When Pete told Smeagol-Wolfe to remove the Chihuahua (named “Liza”) from practice.

3. When Pete gave Smeagol-Wolfe tickets to the Tony Awards to rid him from summer practice.

4. When Smeagol-Wolfe was called out for wearing his “dress” sneakers and Crate and Barrel taupe bag to a Rose Bowl press conference.

Memories indeed....

#3 What's your deal
#2 Sanchez leaving early
#1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqmmxOsJW1Y

Watching the crystal ball ceremony at the Orange Bowl after SC demolished Oklahoma and staying until 2 a.m. listening to the SC band play tusk and shouting, 'fucla sucks!'

I have several memories of Pete, but the favorite one is the long touthdown pass with only a few seconds left in ucla game. I think he was telling "SLICK RICK" bye! bye! butthole I am going PRO.

I don't think I'll ever forget that lit-up face of Pete just as the national championship game of 2004 was under way. It almost said the game was won even before it started. Man, that moment was the pinnacle of his great tenure at SC. You'll be sorely missed, Coach. You've done more than great!!! Best of luck to you wherever you are. Thanks a million for what you've done for our program. Fight on!!!

Mike, oh so true....such a great memory. I remember waiting for the gates to open and we were surrounded by Oklahoma fans yelling Boomer-Sooner. Once the game started, Oklahoma couldn't stop our offense and by the middle of the third quarter there were very few Oklahoma fans left. One Oklahoma fan by us with nothing else to cheer for started chanting "ucla sucks" along with the rest of the Trojan fans. Luved it!!! Thanks Pete for all the memories.

Coach, you brought the program back to the top level in college football where before it was spinning in its wheels. You had a great run here and I'm sorry it didn't last as long as maybe it could have. You have set the bar high for the next head football coach to come in. He will know he cannot be so-so or he will get blown out fast. The best of luck to you...

lol, the best coach of the decade! good luck to him in seattle!

My favorite memory was la cappi tan flipping burgers out by Pete's pool last summer. Man, that training he got a McDonals was super. Rare, medium and well(no onions). He did it all. When Pete asked him about next year, la cappi said "I'm In". Guess "he's out".