2022 MEDIA SNIPPETTS
THE SPORTING NEWS
January, Winter 2022
College Football Notebook: Despite having yet another recruiting class ranked #1 in the nation by TCY Today, and despite having won three PAC-10 titles in a row, and also despite having played for the national championship for three consecutive years - winning two of those title games, the Southern Cal football program is at it's most unstable point in the last fourteen years - since Bear Growlz took over the football program.
USC's Lead Scout Lester Stargell announced his retirement this week and a few days later Defensive Coordinator Leland Shepard announced he was also retiring from coaching. With Head Coach Bear Growlz' having yet to make a decision about whether he will return to coach the Trojans for a 15th season, the direction of the Southern Cal program - now the second most prestigious program in the nation (Excellent-98) - for the future is uncertain.
Growlz has coached at Southern Cal for fourteen years, two years shy of tying the legendary John McKay for the longest tenure of a head Coach at SC. Prior to coming to Southern Cal, Growlz coached at tiny Keene State College in the Northern New England Athletic Association - starting that program at the small new Hampshire liberal arts school.
Over the past fourteen years Growlz has become a fixture at Southern Cal, even having turned down the top job at Notre Dame - ultimately leading the Trojans to two National Championships and four PAC-10 titles - the last three of them consecutively. Growlz has taken USC to a postseason bowl for thirteen consecutive seasons and finished rated in the BCS Top 25 the past nine years.
This season Growlz passed the legendary McKay's 127 for most games ever won as Head Coach of the USC football program. Growlz finished the 2021 season with 130 wins as the Southern Cal coach.
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The College Years
Bear Growlz Coaching Record
Year Team Record Post Rank
2021 Southern California 11-1 Yes 2
2020 Southern California 12-0 Yes 1
2019 Southern California 12-0 Yes 1
2018 Southern California 9-3 Yes 18
2017 Southern California 9-3 Yes 10
2016 Southern California 10-2 Yes 5
2015 Southern California 11-1 Yes 4
2014 Southern California 9-3 Yes 21
2013 Southern California 10-2 Yes 14
2012 Southern California 8-4 Yes 28
2011 Southern California 9-3 Yes 24
2010 Southern California 9-3 Yes 14
2009 Southern California 6-6 Yes 55
2008 Southern California 5-6 No 42
2007 Keene State 10-2 Yes 20
2006 Keene State 6-5 No 73
2005 Keene State 5-6 No 80
2004 Keene State 4-7 No 100
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