12-08-2022, 05:12 PM
(12-08-2022, 04:44 PM)washingtonismoney Wrote: Or take Pete Carroll, the example that's third-to-last on your list. His college record barely needs elucidating, but then again he's .593 as an NFL coach with a Super Bowl ring. I think the most natural reading of the evidence is that a pretty good NFL coach turned out to be an all-timer college football coach (albeit nearly twenty years ago. Pin that point.)
At the time of his hire into USC, he had a 33-31 record at the Jets and Patriots (52% winning percentage). He had gone to the playoffs twice in four years, and his worst season was 6-10.
Most of his .593 record and the Super Bowl came from a .619 winning percentage in a dozen seasons in Seattle. But, none of this could have possibly been foreseen at the time of his hiring into USC. Sure, you can retrospectively look at his record and say he was a great NFL head coach, but you could not possibly have known that or foreseen it at the time. I mean, if Garrett is hired and is successful at Stanford, bolts to the NFL, and wins a Super Bowl, then retrospectively it would seem like a no-brainer hire.
BC