Mike Garrett

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Mike Garrett
USC (1963–1965)
NFL draft:1966 / Round: 2 / Pick: 18
AFL draft:1966 / Round: 20 / Pick: 178
Career history
As a player:
As an administrator:
  • USC (1993–2010)
    Athletic director
  • Langston
    (2013–2015)
    Athletic director
  • Cal State Los Angeles (2016)
    Athletic director
Career highlights and awards
Career AFL/NFL statistics
Rushing yards:5,481
Rushing average:4.2
Rushing touchdowns:35
Receptions:238
Receiving yards:2,010
Receiving touchdowns:13
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR

Michael Lockett Garrett (born April 12, 1944) is an American former football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL) for eight seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Diego Chargers. He played college football for the USC Trojans, where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1965.

From 1993 until 2010 he served as the athletic director at the University of Southern California (USC).[1] Then, he became the athletic director at California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) in 2016.

Early life

Garrett graduated from

Los Angeles, California. He was a resident of Maravilla
housing projects.

College career

A two time

touchdowns. Garrett also led the nation in rushing in 1965 with 267 carries for 1,440 yards. He also caught 36 passes, returned 43 punts, returned 30 kickoffs and threw 6 passes. Two of his passes went for touchdowns. Garrett was awarded the 1965 W. J. Voit Memorial Trophy as the outstanding football player on the Pacific Coast. He won the Heisman Trophy after the 1965 regular season.[2] In 1985, he was voted into the College Football Hall of Fame
.

Garrett signaled the dawn of the "

(1976).

Garrett was a brother of the Alpha Kappa Chapter of the

The Pigskin Club of Washington, D.C.
National Intercollegiate All-American Football Players Honor Roll.

Professional career

Garrett went on to play in the American Football League (AFL) with Kansas City Chiefs from 1966 to 1969 and in 1970 as the Chiefs moved to the National Football League in 1970. He was traded to the San Diego Chargers and remained with them until 1973.

Garrett was a two-time

AFL All-Star. in 1966 and 1967. He played in the first AFL–NFL World Championship Game, now referred to as Super Bowl I, with the Chiefs after the 1966 season. He contributed 17 rushing yards, three receptions for 28 yards, and two kickoff returns for 43 yards in their loss. Garrett won a World Championship ring with the Chiefs in Super Bowl IV, the last AFL–NFL World Championship Game before the AFL–NFL merger, when the AFL's Chiefs beat the NFL's Vikings, 23–7. Garrett was the top rusher of Super Bowl IV with 11 carries for 39 yards and a touchdown, also catching two passes for 25 yards and returning a kickoff for 18 yards. His touchdown came on head coach Hank Stram's
iconic 65 Toss Power Trap play call. In his eight professional football seasons, Garrett rushed for 5,481 yards, caught 238 passes for 2,010 yards, returned 14 kickoffs for 323 yards, and returned 39 punts for 235 yards. Overall, Garrett gained a total of 8,049 yards and scored 49 touchdowns (35 rushing, 13 receiving, 1 punt return).

Garrett also was drafted three times by professional baseball teams. He was selected in the 41st round of the

After professional football

After his professional football career, Mike Garrett earned a

Great Western Forum, worked in the district attorney's office in San Diego and worked in various management positions. He also did color commentary
for USC football telecasts.

In January 1993, Garrett returned to USC to become its sixth athletic director. He came under fire when he hired the heavily criticized Pete Carroll as head football coach in 2001, but was vindicated when USC returned to status as a dominant football power. In 2005, he allowed safety Darnell Bing who was at USC at the time to wear his retired number 20 for his senior season. In 2010, the USC football program was hit with severe NCAA sanctions, and USC self-imposed sanctions on its basketball program, in the wake of allegations about violations involving former USC stars Reggie Bush and O. J. Mayo. These sanctions have been criticized by some NCAA football writers,[4][5][6][7][8] including ESPN's Ted Miller, who wrote, "It's become an accepted fact among informed college football observers that the NCAA sanctions against USC were a travesty of justice, and the NCAA's refusal to revisit that travesty are a massive act of cowardice on the part of the organization."[9] On July 20, 2010, USC's incoming president, Max Nikias, announced major changes in the athletic department, including Garrett's replacement (effective August 3, 2010) by businessman and former USC quarterback Pat Haden.[1][10]

In June 2013, Garrett became athletic director at the historically black college, Langston University, an NAIA school in Langston, Oklahoma. He resigned that position less than two years later.[11] He is a board member for the Lott IMPACT Trophy, which is named after Ronnie Lott and is awarded annually to college football's Defensive IMPACT Player of the Year.[12]

Garrett retired from the position of Executive Director of the Athletics Department at California State University, Los Angeles in 2016.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b USC President-Elect C. L. Max Nikias Announces New Leadership in Athletics Archived July 20, 2010, at archive.today, USC, July 20, 2010
  2. ^ Hall, John - GARRETT RUNS OFF WITH HEISMAN TROPHY - USC Ace Praises His Team - GARRETT HEISMAN WINNER. Los Angeles Times, November 24, 1965
  3. ^ "Mike Garrett minor league statistics & history". Baseball Reference.com.
  4. ^ Jay Bilas, "Anyone know what NCAA's standards are?", ESPN.com, July 1, 2010.
  5. ^ Bryant Gumbel, "Student/Athlete Behavior", Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, September 21, 2010.
  6. ^ Bryan Fischer, " Trojans never stood a chance after taking NCAA's best shot", CBSSports.com, May 26, 2011.
  7. ^ Pete Fiutak, "USC paying for NCAA's inconsistency?", FoxSports.com, May 26, 2011.
  8. ^ Stewart Mandel, "What USC's sanctions mean for Ohio State", SportsIllustrated.com, April 27, 2011.
  9. ^ "What we learned in the Pac-12: Week 14". December 4, 2011.
  10. New York Times
    , July 20, 2010.
  11. ^ Klein, Gary (April 16, 2015). "Former USC Athletic Director Mike Garrett leaving Langston University". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  12. ^ "Lott IMPACT Trophy -". Archived from the original on May 5, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2011.

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