In any society, rules are needed to provide a measure of order and establish a standard for conduct, performance, achievement, and the various theaters of activity in which human beings live their lives. We can all understand this.
A Hall of Fame in any sport needs to recognize achievement at a high level. It can’t let “just anyone” inside its doors. There have to be standards. We can all understand this.
What’s hard to understand is why coaching a specific number of years or reaching a specific winning percentage has to be viewed as a non-negotiable requirement for being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a head coach.
Pete Carroll, beyond any shadow of a doubt, should be in the College Football Hall of Fame. USC won 34 straight games and two national titles under Carroll, plus an additional appearance in the BCS National Championship Game at the 2006 Rose Bowl, viewed by many as the greatest college football game ever played. Carroll made a BCS (now New Year’s Six) bowl in seven consecutive seasons. He won the Rose Bowl four times. He won the Pac-10 title six straight years, seven if you include the shared title in 2002 with Washington State.
Come on. Of course he’s a Hall of Fame coach.
Yet, the College Football Hall of Fame locks him outside its gates. Why? An arbitrary rule which stipulates that a coach has to coach at least 10 years to be eligible.
Guess what? Carroll coached only nine seasons.
Gotta change the rule, folks.
Meanwhile, Carroll sits outside the Hall’s doors.
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