RiverDog
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seatownlowdown":2z2gdgaw said:carroll built up 2 programs from scratch: the usc trojans and the seattle seahawks. he won titles with both those teams. at usc he had a national-record 33 consecutive weeks as the associated press's #1-ranked team.
I beg your pardon. Pete did not build the USC Trojans up from scratch. He already had Carson Palmer and Troy Polomalu on the roster. They went 6-6 and 8-5 in the two years prior, certainly not a good years by USC standards but a far cry from having to build from scratch like he would have had to have done had he gone to someplace like WSU. USC has some of the biggest recruiting advantages in CFB. Plus you have to consider that Pete skipped town just before the hammer came down on his program, that he left it in shambles, and that the NCAA subsequently took away his one NC title.
As a matter of fact, IMO Pete's rival Jim Harbaugh did a much more impressive job of turning Stanford from a doormat where the CW prior to his arriving was that the academic standards of the school prevented building it into a top 5 program and NC contender, and established a trend of Stanford being a perennial contender that continues to this day. That's something that even the legendary Bill Walsh couldn't do.
Besides, accomplishments in CFB are completely irrelevant when it comes to the professional football HOF.