For Pete’s sake, don’t do it Mr. Carroll
Bolting to a Falcons team in total disarray would be a disaster for Pete Carrol; Why in the world would he even consider it?
BY SCOTT JACOBS
JSB SPORTS COLUMNIST
You’re Pete Carroll. Respected college head coach, the mastermind behind USC’s dominance this century, and one of the best recruiters in the country. You accumulate top notch blue chip recruits by the dozens, and make it look so easy, that sometimes there’s not enough room on one team to put them. You’ve won two national titles in Los Angeles, and are the premier football team in the area. You nearly won a third, but Vince Young was in your way. This past season, you had an off-year and still made it to the Rose Bowl, dismantling an over-matched Illinois team.
You are idolized in the college ranks, the barometer for which most successful present head caoches are measured. And now you’re thinking about jumping ship to take a dead end job with the NFL’s most disfunctional franchise?Yes, that’s right. Pete Carroll is planning on talking with the Falcons about their vacant head coach opening. A position that opened up initially, because another high profile college football head coach, Bobby Petrino bolted back to college, where the grass was a heck of a lot greener on the other side.
Forget about money buying happiness. Does money by the type of sanity that it would take to run the trainwreck known as the Atlanta Falcons?
No Mike Vick. He’s in jail. Something about dogs fighting or something.
No GM, though you might be able to do that too if you take the job.
No plethora of young talent, or huge allotment of picks to sort through and make good with.
No franchise player to ride with or die with. Not a whole lot of anything.
It’s like taking over an abandoned house that has roach problems, mold issues, and needs more money to be put into it then it would cost to just buy a new one– or here’s a thought, to just stay put.
It makes about as much sense for Pete Carroll to consider, not even take the job, as it does to make Brittany Spears a school bus driver. It’s dumber then June Jone’s leaving for SMU. It’s more confusing then wonderlic test scores.
Should I go on? No? Okay, I think you get the point.
Pete Carroll was a decent head coach in the pros. And he had New England and New York to work with. Teams that had players. Who does Atlanta have? An aging Warrick Dunn? (O was I supposed to keep going, cause I got nothing else).
Please Pete, think about even thinking about this. Baton Rouge, Athens, Norman, and all the other big college football cities would celebrate like it’s 1979 if you left. USC just wouldn’t be the same without you. Nope, not even close. You brought them back, you made them big. The players made you look good, but someone had to bring those guys in.
So that’s it. What is there to think about? Money? Is it worth taking a little more to take over a dump? I don’t think so. And as for power, how’d that work out for Mr. Saban? Um, memory recalls, not good. So that’s it, that should be the argument. That’s mine at least.
Anyone dare to disagree?
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Carroll should stay college, he could be a legend like bear bryant..him going pro (again) is like when Jerry Tarkanian bolted for san antonio we remember what kind of disaster he should have stayed UNLV…so no carroll going pro again BAD IDEA..coaches like carroll who are teachers do better a college level dealing with students of the game NOT EGOS like the michael vicks of the NFL….the ones that dont dogfight
Wait one more thing….national champ
LSU or Georgia???
I would say LSU only because Ohio State was a superior team over Hawaii and that’s the two teams those guys respectively played in their bowls. Had Georgia played someone like USC (Get the Rose Bowl on the phone), the argument would be much much much closer
I agree with you about LSU. Oh, and man, oh man do I agree with you about the Georgia game- I went, and it was, for lack of better words pretty boring. A lot of people left before half-time.
Alan
“People like polls so they can let the other guy make up their mind for them. Along time ago they called it Sheepherding.
I don’t honestly care about the polls myself. Mainly because the only candidate who truly gives a damn about the citizens he represents is Congressman Paul. I urge you to go look at his record whether you believe me or not. Don’t just tow the line read for yourself. The media, and his own party don’t want him (he poses a threat to them), but I feel that the people would- that is if they could get out from under the shoe of partisan politics and corporate manipulation.
A vote for Ron Paul would be a vote to put freedom back into the hands of the people. Don’t let Liberty die. Vote Ron Paul 2008.” *Note he wants to abolish most of your federal taxes*
Ron Paul would be a great president if he were the only candidate. We have serious problems that need serious people to fix them. The next president needs to be able to fix domestic policy and keep america safe at home. Ron Paul would cut the military drastically right now, NOT GOOD. We need to keep it the size it is. We need tax reform, he is just not the person to get the job done. Who would be his running mate Ross Perot????
Wow, the Ron Paul internet craze has now descended onto my blog.
Bleh, let’s keep it sports here… Ron Paul is exactly that, Ron Paul