On the ESPN Football Today podcast, Jeremy Green mentioned that his dad had been in contact with the Raiders. Dennis Green has been rumored to be the Raiders coach several times over the years.
Weis is in as OC in Kansas City.
To no one’s great surprise Larry Zierlein has been fired as the Steeler’s offensive line coach for failure to turn chicken feathers into chicken soup.
Bruce Arians may still be able to keep his job, depending on how his meetings with Mike Tomlin go.
This just in: Jim Mora the Younger is fired by the Seahawks. This makes it even more likely that Seattle will draft a first-round QB.
Article at the Seahawks website.
It seems nearly confirmed Pete Carrol to Seattle now. Rat leaving the sinking ship?
I wouldn’t call USC a sinking ship. It’s one of college football’s elite programs, and he can be a perennial contender as long as he stays there.
If he’s going to the NFL, it’s because it still sticks in his craw that he was fired there twice (by the Jets and Patriots), and wants another chance to prove he’s a great pro coach.
Whether he’ll succeed or not, who knows? But I respect his desire to prove himself at the highestlevel.
Well I was thinking about the possible NCAA violations. More and more reports seem to think it is coming to a head, and will hit the football program.
Indeed. Word is they snuck down for an interview earlier this week. Deal sounds as good as done with Carroll as Head Coach and GM power over personnel, and bringing his OC Jeremy Bates on board in Seattle. Also talk of former exec and current CNNSI writer Pat Kirwin getting on board in a contract negotiation and player evaluation position.
I would bet large sums of NCAA-violation cash that a USC smackdown is in the cards. Everybody on the planet knows that they paid Reggie Bush, and the Joe McKnight fiasco is probably the final straw. The NCAA has to act, or it’s not even like they are even trying to pretend that they are holding USC to anywhere near the same standard as the rest of the schools. Couple these infractions with the OJ Mayo fiasco and we’re looking at an SMU style lack of institutional control sanction. (I don’t think for a second SC will get the death penalty, though.)
They’re going to have to vacate wins and possibly deal with scholarship reductions. Maybe the deal is that SC has to purge itself of their cheating coaches to be left alone, and the NCAA will let bygones be bygones. The eternal teenager Pete Carroll might want to leave town now, because the job is going to get a whole lot less fun very quickly. That’s my crackpot theory, anyway.
I don’t think Carroll 2.0 will be any more successful than the previous version in the NFL. He’ll get paid though.
As a fan of the 49ers, I’d love to see him improve the Seahawks, because I want a strong division.
The downside is, once again, most head coaching vacancies will probably be filled with known, white coaches.
Heh I didn’t think of that. If they have to vacate all Reggie Bush games…
Michigan wins the Rose Bowl!!! in 2004
What I love most about this is that they cheated and Texas still beat 'em.
Unless Carroll thinks USC has peaked and is bored, or expects a big NCAA crackdown - that’s been looming for years with that school - I don’t know what the hell he’s doing. There’s no way he’s going to be as successful in the NFL as he has been at USC.
Is that how it works? If USC vacates wins A, B and C, does the opposing team change their loss to a win, or does USC just lose the win?
I wonder how well the NFL will put up with him throwing a tantrum 15 yards onto the field every time he stops getting attention.
Not really. That’s why they invented the term vacated. A forfeited win does become a victory for the other team.
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I’m glad to see that Jim Mora was fired. I actually know relatively little about him, so the one event that really sticks out in my mind has a very strong influence on my opinion of him: Mora’s slamming his kicker in a post-game conference for missing two field goals out of six in a close loss. It was a stupid thing to do, and, more importantly, it was based on *being *stupid about an important sporting fact. Sometimes athletes fail despite being diligent, hard-working, and skilled. His kicker (Olindo Mare) was 4-6 with misses from 34 and 43 yards. It was a below average day for an NFL kicker, but not terribly so, and if you saw the kicks it was clear they weren’t shanks or due to some mental lapse – they were just misses, they happen.
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I really don’t get why Pete Carrol, or any NCAAF head coach in his position, would want to leave for the NFL. The pay isn’t a whole lot better (if at all), the job security is about 100 times worse, and there doesn’t seem to be much correlation between being good at one job and being good at the other. Best case for Carrol if he goes to Seattle is that he has a lot of success early, and so builds up enough good will that he can have 8-10 years in as head coach before the team starts thinking about his replacement. But that’s pretty much the *worst *case scenario for him if he just stays at USC. I don’t get it.
I think the NCAA is going to come down hard on USC. That would be the only reason Carroll would leave for the NFL. If he flops, he’ll be able to broadcast. Seattle needs a lot of rebuilding and I don’t see them being able to move past the Cardinals or 49ers anytime soon.
Pete Carroll? More like Pete Carrollpari.
Actually, I know the buck is supposed to stop with the head coach, but I wonder how much knowledge and control the head coach of a major college football program actually has over players getting paid and other violations. Maybe college coaches are supposed to actively police this stuff but coaches like Carroll neglect that aspect because all they want to do is coach football and hang out at the beach.
It’s official, Pete Carroll is the new head coach for the Seahawks.
Bad news for the Bears today in their search for a Offensive Coordinator.
Jeremy Bates canceled his scheduled interview with the Bears for tomorrow after accepting the OC position under Carroll in Seattle. Can’t say that I blame him since Lovie might be a lame duck coach this year and he could get kicked to the curb if a big name HC was brought in next season. Also it must be noted that the Seahawks have the deepest pockets in the league and the Bears, well, don’t. Though I had hoped that the possibility of coaching the Bears on offense and becoming the odds on favorite to replace Lovie could be a bargaining angle. I think the Bears offensive personnel are in a better place at the moment than the Seahawks, but that will probably be fixable for Seattle if they can find a way to replace Hasselbeck.
In equally frustrating news Tom Clements, the Packers QBs coach, was not allowed to interview with the Bears for the OC job. It’ll be interesting to see if this changes at any point, but typically coaches are allowed to interview for jobs with other teams so long as it would be for a promotion.