Pete’s on the Hot Seat

A 10+ win season.  Pounding a Big Ten team in the Rose Bowl.  Finishing in the top four of the polls.  And sending a number of players to the NFL, many of whom will be drafted in the first round.

I’ve come to expect nothing less from Coach Pete Carroll.  And I’m sick of it.

The title is in no way an attack on Joe Paterno, a coach that deserves the utmost respect.  Unlike Pete Carroll, he has changed his coaching style over the years, and he allows his great coordinators to do as much of the work as possible.

Sure, he’s 82 years old, but that makes him a whippersnapper compared to the Rose Bowl, which was first held 106 years ago.  It’s the oldest bowl game, and it’s definitely showing its age.  If it were a human, odds say it would be dead.  Which it is.  This year’s Rose Bowl is as lifeless as can be.

Props to Arizona State.  Sure they lost by 17 points, but only because they had the guts to schedule an SEC team (Georgia), while my Trojans are stuck with their “showcase” game being against an Ohio State team that couldn’t even put up a good fight in its two consecutive National Championship appearances even after losing only one regular season game the past two years.

Meanwhile, Georgia is a team that had an argument for being included in the National Championship game last year but had to settle for pounding Hawaii by THIRTY-ONE points, and they look poised to make it all the way this season if they can get through the relentlessly grueling punishment that is an SEC schedule with only one or two losses.