| Date of birth | July 25, 1940 |
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| Place of birth | Chicago, Illinois |
| College | Western State College |
| Team(s) as a coach/administrator | |
| 1968-1969 1970-1973 1974-1975 1976-1978 1979-1982 1983-1984 1985 1986 1987 1988-1989 1990-1993 1994-1997 1998 1999-2003 2004-2006 2009 |
Arizona (Graduate Assistant) Western Illinois (Assistant Coach) Florida State (Defensive Coordinator) Iowa State (Defensive Coordinator) Western Illinois (Head Coach) Michigan Panthers (Defensive Line Coach) Denver Gold (Defensive Line Coach) Northern Iowa (Defensive Coordinator) Ottawa Rough Riders (Defensive Coordinator) Los Angeles Raiders (Special Teams Coach) Phoenix Cardinals (Special Teams Coach) Washington Redskins (Special Teams Coach) Seattle Seahawks (Assistant Head Coach) (Special Teams Coach) Seattle Seahawks (Special Teams Coordinator) Jacksonville Jaguars (Special Teams Coordinator) New York Sentinels (Special Teams Coach) |
Pete Rodriguez (born July 25, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American football coach of Mexican American descent.[1] Most recently he was the special teams coach for the New York Sentinels of the United Football League.
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Rodriguez broke into coaching as a graduate assistant at Arizona (1968–69) and later served as defensive coordinator at Western Illinois (1970–73), Florida State (1974–75), Iowa State (1976–78) and Northern Iowa (1986). He served as head coach at Western Illinois from 1979-82.
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Coaches# | AP° | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Illinois Leathernecks (Mid-Con) (1979–1982) | |||||||||
| 1979 | Western Illinois | 3-8 | 1-4 | 5th | |||||
| 1980 | Western Illinois | 4-6 | 0-4 | 5th | |||||
| 1981 | Western Illinois | 5-6 | 2-1 | 2nd | |||||
| 1982 | Western Illinois | 2-8 | 0-3 | 4th | |||||
| Western Illinois: | 14-28 | 3-12 | |||||||
| Total: | 14-28 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
| †Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches' Poll. | |||||||||
Rodriguez served as defensive line coach for the Michigan Panthers of the United States Football League from 1983-84. He was part of the USFL's first championship team, helping the Panthers to the title in 1983. He spent the 1985 season as defensive line coach with the Denver Gold.
Rodriguez was the defensive coordinator for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League in 1987.
Rodriguez entered the National Football League as the Los Angeles Raiders special teams coach (1988–89). He served in a similar capacity with the Phoenix Cardinals (1990–93), Washington Redskins (1994–97), Seattle Seahawks (1998–2003) and, most recently, the Jacksonville Jaguars (2004–2006).
Rodriguez served as the special teams coach for the New York Sentinels of the United Football League in 2009.[2]
In July, 2010 the Los Angeles Times reported that he was the coach hired by Pete Carroll as a special consultant for USC's kickers during the 2008 football season. The use of additional coach was one of the items that the NCAA found to be a Major Violation and subjected USC to the "Loss of institutional control" finding. Carroll had defended the hiring as being done with the knowledge of the USC compliance staff however the compliance staff reported that this was not the case.[3]
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