Hey, Oregon...

The first time Del Rio jumped a player's ass, the player would go to coach O. I'm sure O would defer to Del Rio, but I can see that causing problems.

 

and then what if his first year is mediocre? you are bound to get a lot of rumblings from the players and alumni saying "coach o would have done better, why didn't we hire him, or let's fire del rio and hand it back over to coach o." a lot of that goes away if coach O is say washington's next coach.

 

Del Rio's NFL resume walking in will actually be better than Carroll's was. Good point.

 

Players always go to assistant coaches in that situation. So what?

 

Handing them a copy of an Ole Miss media guide would disavow them of that notion.

 

carroll won a higher % of his games in the NFL before USC than Del Rio has to date. the only truly successful NFL coach i can think of who went back to college was Bill Walsh.

 

Del Rio might be going back to college with a super bowl ring.

 

you don't understand the USC mentality at all. they are mighty SC. What happened at ole miss has nothing to do with them.

 

so did dave wannstedt. and it should be noted that del rio isn't going back to college. he's never coached in college. carroll had 10 years of college coaching experience.

 

Yeah, not like I've ever been around the people who've actually coached there and run the operation. Just throwing darts in the blank. Nothing says "We're superior" like hiring a guy who lost more than 2/3rds of his games in his previous head coaching stop.

 

Yeah, Carroll's college experience was a real selling point.

 

Del Rio's record, like Gruden's, is distorted because management thought enough of him to let him stay around during a rebuild. Carroll sucked so much nobody bothered to keep him around for long.

 

Is it common for guys going from the Pros back to college to absolutely struggle? Mediocre, sure, but out and out suck?

 

well kiffin clearly didn't understand USC either. let's not forget before carroll they hadn't won a NC in 25 years. there have been a lot of bad hires over the years in the name of being part of the "trojan family" and fit. hell you could argue hadan himself fits that to a T.

 

better than literally nothing

 

The sample size is so small that it's meaningless without regard to success or failure.

 

Yeah, being the offensive coordinator at a school that no longer plays football 19 years earlier was obviously the launching pad for Carroll's success.

 

the only successful ones outside of carroll were head coaches in college beforehand.

 

it certainly gives you a leg up in recruiting, dealing with alumni, bulding a recruiting staff, etc rather than never doing it.

 

Yeah, coaching at Pacific as an assistant two decades earlier is a great training ground for USC.