Saturday, September 02, 2006

Back to where it started - Inland Empire Press-Enterprise
Chester Caddas remembers how he managed to convince California kid Pete Carroll that going to Arkansas 29 years ago would be a really good career move.

Pete Carroll has come a long way from his season as an assistant at Arkansas in 1977.

"I told him if he didn't take the job, he wasn't as smart as I thought he was," Caddas said Friday. "Pete was my grad assistant at Pacific, making $3,000 a year, plus room and board that included an apartment."

And along came Arkansas, looking for an assistant who would get half of a full salary and the chance to work for Lou Holtz, who was returning to the college game from the NFL...

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