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Pete Carroll Getting Honorary Degree from USC? For What?

By Caleb Calhoun

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From 2001 to 2009, Pete Carroll was head coach of the USC Trojans and engineered what many would call one of the greatest runs in college football history?

And then, in 2010, Carroll bolted the program just before it was hit with major sanctions, which happened under his watch, forcing the program to go through a two-year postseason ban and to forfeit its only BCS National Championship.

But with the only thing on his resume an AP National Championship that should also come into question and the fact that he left the program in nearly as bad of shape as when he found it, USC appears poised to overlook all of that and give him an honorary degree from the school.

For what?

He won exactly zero BCS National Championships after the 2004 season was forfeited, yet he is glorified at USC as if he orchestrated the greatest run in history.

Okay.

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    • Carroll created the situation that forced Lane Kiffin to be fired from USC in 2013. He left Kiffin with a program on probation and in an ultimate mess, with loss of scholarships, players leaving, and a very difficult time to recruit.

    The result was no depth in the program, which forced his firing.

    Yet while all of that is due to what happened under Carroll, he gets to have an honorary degree because of what was done to put USC in that situation in the first place. Are we serious with this?

    It is the most laughable, pathetic thing to think about.

    A coach leaves a program on probation that sets it back five years, yet the following coach gets the blame, and the coach who left the program in that state is still hailed as a hero.

    Carroll accomplished hardly anything at USC, and it is also fair to say that he was lucky to avoid LSU in 2003 and Auburn in 2004 during his championship run. He would have lost both times.

    But let’s sweep every one of his shortcomings under the rug and blame them on somebody else.

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