Pete’s on the Hot Seat

Apparently Pete Carroll has already given up on the #1 ranked tailback recruit, Bryce Brown.  Well, USC has said that “they are no longer interested.”  Sort of like how I said I was no longer interested in Angelina Jolie once she got with Brad Pitt.

We’ve added another entry to the list of possible replacements for Pete Carroll.  Our previous two suggestions, Bill Synder and Lane Kiffin, have already been snagged.  This one is still available, so get on it, Mike Garrett.

It’s been a week since Signing Day, but we’re not closer to sorting through the rubble.  Some overly optimistic sources rank USC’s incoming recruiting class as high as fourth, while the more realistic ones put it around seventh.  But at least there’s one thing they can all agree on:  As usual, Pete Carroll isn’t first.

Watching last night’s absolutely amazing Super Bowl that will undoubtedly go down as the best of all time mainly because of the classic, game-changing play-making orchestrated by the Steelers’ future hall of fame QB Big Ben, I couldn’t help but think about a recent epic game that we failed to highlight.

The Fiesta Bowl.  Texas vs. Ohio State, where once again, Texas won due to last second heroics from a star quarterback.  And this wasn’t against a USC team riding a wave of media success into a national championship game they’d already been deemed the winners of, led by a coach whose ego barely fit into the Rose Bowl that night.  No, this was against a Buckeyes team desperate not to be embarrassed on the big stage during bowl season for the third year in a row.  And they more than accomplished that task.