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Pete Carroll Returning To Coliseum

Pete Carroll is returning to the Coliseum! Unfortunately, he won’t be coaching a USC game.

Carroll has been named commencement speaker for the USC Marshall School of Business. The ceremony will be at the Coliseum, fittingly.

“I am fired up to return to USC and the L.A. Coliseum, the place where we competed, won, and shared lifelong memories with the Trojan Family,” Carroll said.

This raises an interesting question: Has Lincoln Riley ever attended a USC commencement? Carroll attended ceremonies when he was USC’s coach and now has been chosen to speak at two USC graduations.

33 thoughts on “Pete Carroll Returning To Coliseum”

    1. Pete: “President, faculty, honored graduates —I stand here today to talk —not of times long past —but of times recent. I’d like to say some words about my life as Raider Coach….”

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  3. oh, nice wolfman, now you got all these Dummies weeping into their bottles of Ensure!! not nice to tease them with a provocative headline like that, wolfman!! we all know the trOXans haven’t done squat since Petey got rid of Norm Chow, and that was the last time the trOJans were of any consequence!!!

    i’ve been thinking wolfman, instead of torturing the Dummies with dreams of ancient history, why not face up to reality?? i think we both know the only chance the trOXans have to win anything is to move to the Mountain West Conference!! that’s where they play finesse football and SC with it’s 23 HS All-American WR’s can actually string some wins together! we all know if the game turns into a smashmouth affair, the trOXans disappear!! they don’t got the Hoby Brenners or Keith Van Horns anymore to win in the rough and tumble Big-10!!

    #WeCanGetEmThoseNewSafetyHelmets

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    1. Oh…so the category is ancient history? Can I play?

      When was the last time UCLA won the Rose Bowl? Was it in this century? [Answer: Hardly].

      USC has one: A thriller against highly ranked Penn State.

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      1. KAM: And now the Granddaddy of Them All, the Rose Bowl,has been relegated to being a lowly tradition bereft playoff game.

        DON: So UCLA or USC will never ever win another Rose Bowl because it doesn’t exist any more.

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      2. UCLA: “The Granddaddy of Them All” sounds so elitist! Only football players who think they are “Kings” would want to play in something called by that name!

        #NoKings!!

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    2. Chuckster,

      What century, decade, and year did the ruins play in the Rose Bowl on Jan 1? When was the ruins in contention? When was the last time that they had a winning record? If you have to, go to the ruins library and look it up. It’s been centuries.

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      1. Ha! [and —if you go to the bruin undergrad, grad or law library — watch out for ‘problems’ in the men’s room]….

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      3. Every bruin male’s favorite line in the men’s room: “I’m sorry. I hope you understand I didn’t mean to enter your urinal…”

        #”IGuessIDidn’tSeeYouStandingThere”

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      5. Bucket, I don’t often care for your posts, but this one was a hoot! Haven’t heard that phrase in more decades than I care to admit.

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      6. Charlie —Just so you know: I just got censored for thanking you for a trip back to my grammar school days….

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      7. Come on ‘paw-saw-duh-nah’ it’s always ‘…..basketball…’ time at bel-air tech….and then the annual dedication of the ‘glory to the peckerwood’

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  4. ucla Bucket is relishing SC’s recent years of futility due to ‘hamburger-type’ football players, but that is soon changing with the addition of ‘filet mignon’ footballers

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    1. KAM: John Robinson wasn’t bad either 1976-1982.

      DON:John Robinson led USC to three conference titles and four Rose Bowl victories from 1976 to 1982, finishing with a record of 67–14–2. His 1978 team also captured a share of the national championship.

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      3. USC was robbed of the titles outright in both 1978 and 79. In 1978 they beat Alabama and lost to ASU when three centers all were injured in the game. And, in 1979 they beat Bama again, but Bama was given the title anyway. The tie with Stanford was bad because they were leading 21-0 at halftime and completely went to sleep in the second half, but beating Bama should have given them the title. We should also have won in 2008 but lost to 42 point underdog Stanford and we missed the playoff to one loss Florida and the SEC hype machine on ESPN. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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  6. Bucket never changes. You would have thought after all these years he would have given in and become what he always really wanted to be, a Trojan. Still waiting for the guest pass for ladies night.

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    1. The Charlie side is usually witty and fun….. the Sybil side is sitting on Kristi Noem’s couch watching Project Runway with balloon breasts strapped on….

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    1. KAM:Dick Vermeil is a former American football coach known for his successful coaching career in the NFL, including leading the Philadelphia Eagles to the Superbpowl after the 1980 season and leading the Rams to a Super Bowl victory in 1999. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2022.

      DON: He was such an amazing coach he even led woeful UCLA to a miraculous season, defeating USC 25-22 to win the Pac 8 and then upsetting #1 Ohio State 23-10 in the Rose Bowl. He was a passionate, detail-oriented leader who motivated through strong personal connection with his players and rigorous preparation that led to burnout.https://webmail.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/vermiel.wavlol

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