Below is a collection of articles related to Pete Carroll and the USC Football program from sources outside of PeteCarroll.com for you to enjoy:
Twenty-three reasons why a profile of Pete Carroll does not appear in this space
December 2007 - By J.R. Moehringer, Los Angeles Magazine
Pete Carroll, head coach of the football team at the University of Southern California, turns to me one night around 8 p.m. and says he’s got something to do, somewhere he needs to be. We’re standing outside his office at Heritage Hall, the redbrick headquarters of USC’s athletic program, the trophy-filled heart of Troy. ...More...
USC's Carroll reaches out to the streets
April 20, 2008 - By Kurt Streeter, Los Angeles Times
It could have been a USC football game, the narrow sidelines at the Coliseum. "Hey man, you're doing great, keep it going," said Pete Carroll, swooping in for a back slap as he approached Marlo Jones. Jones could have been a quarterback. "Coach, thanks," he said. "It's been tough lately . . . we're holding on." But this was no game, this was not the Coliseum, and Jones was not a quarterback. This was a recent night on a sidewalk inside South L.A.'s squalid Jordan Downs housing project, hard by the Watts Towers. ...More...
Trojan Force
November 2007 - By Eric Neel, ESPN.com
Football coaches are hard-ass barkers with scowls on their faces and poly-blend shorts pulled up high. Great football coaches run boot camps. They break your will and slowly, if they deem you worthy, piece you back together in their image. They put the fear of God in you, humiliate you, lord over you from a distance, just waiting for you to screw things up so they can bring the hammer down. They're edgy. Paranoid. Surly on principle. But this isn't that coach. ...More...
To Be a Trojan
November 26, 2007 - By David Baker, WeAreSC.com
I am not a Trojan. I didn’t play at USC. I didn’t go to school there. I have never even paid tuition for my son to go there. And, I’ve never felt that buying tickets to the Coliseum or wearing cardinal and gold made me a Trojan. I am honored, however, to have witnessed the birth of a Trojan. And, I have observed, up close, how the character of a Trojan is tempered in the fire of intense competition. ...More...
