I hope Charlie Rogers got choked up when he heard about Pete's passing. That's what I remember from Pete's tenure here.
EDIT--looking at Pete's page on Wikipedia, looks like he also had a connection to our current coach named "Pete":
"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."
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Rodriguez