The NCAA football landscape is going to look a little different next season.
Pete Carroll has reportedly resigned as head coach at Southern California and will become the next coach of the Seattle Seahawks.
A source told the Los Angeles Daily News of Carroll’s resignation, but USC didn’t comment on the report. Later, the LA Times reported Carroll would accept the job with the Seahawks. The Times reported players and coaches learned of Carroll’s intentions via text message from an assistant coach.
Seahawks CEO Tod Leiweke was reportedly in Los Angeles Sunday to finalize a contract for Carroll. An earlier report from the Daily News said the deal was for five years and worth between $6.5 million and $7 million per season.
I like Caroll a lot, so good for him. He seems like a very chill, personable guy, but has enough of a killer instinct to really stick it to his opponents. USC was terrible this year and has been overrated quite a bit in the past, but it’s still tough to think of any school as the class of the PAC-10 besides USC.
You’ve got to think that losing Caroll is going to hurt USC quite a bit not only on the field but with recruiting as well. And so what does that mean? It means that next year, there will be one fewer team being overrated by the media and then placed in a bowl game where it gets annihilated by a powerful SEC team. With USC out of the picture, it’ll be a few darling schools with weak schedules and a Big 12 school or two that spends its season playing against other Big 12 schools with no defense that will be served up to be slaughtered by the next SEC/BCS champion.
It’s a joke how much better the SEC is than the rest of the country, and with USC certainly on the decline, it will remove another undeserving team from BCS consideration. The SEC has now won 4 BSC championships in a row and 6 of 12 overall. That’s just silly.
Either break up the SEC or merge them with the NFL. It’s become a joke at this point.
