I've followed the Fisher King since he was a freshmen at USC, like Carroll he has a long coaching history, but unlike Carroll he has yet to produce the results we all hope for. Meanwhile Carroll continues to build a division winner and conference contender and at this point, I'd take him over any HC the Rams have had since the beloved and over hyped Vermeil.
Ya know, sometimes things get so far from reality that someone has to pull things into context. I've made no apologies for my support of USC and Pete Carroll and frankly I've grown tired of the same OLE "Pete the Cheat" nonsense.
The fact of the matter is Pete Carroll has proven repeatedly both at USC and now with the Sea chickens just what an outstanding coach he really is. Yes, I know, many folks hate USC for what-ever reasons and some continue to whine and belly-ache about Bush's crap like Carroll should somehow be responsible for every act by his players....give me a break. I can completely accept repeated criticism for Belejerk, his cheating in the 2001 SB was directly attributable to Belecheat, but to continue calling Carroll a cheat is both disingenuous and petty whining.
I've followed the Fisher King since he was a freshmen at USC, like Carroll he has a long coaching history, but unlike Carroll he has yet to produce the results we all hope for. Meanwhile Carroll continues to build a division winner and conference contender and at this point, I'd take him over any HC the Rams have had since the beloved and over hyped Vermeil.
Now this will be the last time I post in defense of Carroll, I'm sure that my rant won't change many opinions, but I have mine and Carroll has his record since the turn of the century, which I suspect speaks volumes for anyone willing to objectively judge Pete Carroll's coaching skills and results. Personally, I'd take his record in a heart beat at this point.
USC
83-19 (.813)
Bowls' 5-2
Seattle
36-24 (.666)
Sign of the devil, thanks for posting that man ,I knew I smelled sulpherSeattle
36-24 (.666)
It's not about liking the guy or not....it's about respecting him as a coach....his players love playing for him and he's successful, in this game that's all that matters....doesn't mean you have to buy him lunch.
Thordaddy with outdated info:
Sign of the devil, thanks for posting that man ,I knew I smelled sulphur
A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's actually the far less ominous 616.
The new fragment from the Book of Revelation, written in ancient Greek and dating from the late third century, is part of a hoard of previously unintelligible manuscripts discovered in historic dumps outside Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Now a team of expert classicists, using new photographic techniques, are finally deciphering the original writing.
Professor David Parker, Professor of New Testament Textual Criticism and Paleography at the University of Birmingham, thinks that 616, although less memorable than 666, is the original. He said: "This is an example of gematria, where numbers are based on the numerical values of letters in people's names. Early Christians would use numbers to hide the identity of people who they were attacking: 616 refers to the Emperor Caligula."
The Book of Revelation is traditionally considered to be written by John, a disciple of Jesus; it identifies 666 as the mark of the Antichrist. In America, the fundamentalist Christian right often use the number in sermons about the coming Apocalypse.
They and satanists responded coolly to the new "Revelation". Peter Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan, based in New York, said: "By using 666 we're using something that the Christians fear. Mind you, if they do switch to 616 being the number of the beast then we'll start using that."