El Camino College
Community college in Alondra Park, Californiawww.elcamino.edu
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Oct 9, 2026
Shane LarsonHOST
Dump.
Shane LarsonHOST
Like, and then like, you're like 10 minutes down the road to El Camino community college.
Shane LarsonHOST
I go to El Camino community college and we go play a game.
Shane LarsonHOST
And I'm like, it's the most beautiful campus I've ever seen for junior college.
Shane LarsonHOST
Like what is going on here? I'm like, they've got this.
BrianSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I mean, that's why I applied to USC, or that's what influenced, that's part of what influenced me to go there.
BrianSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And there, I think I finished one semester, but this was all like, you know, I was still a freshman, right? Or I'd taken a few classes at, at, uh, El Camino College that would transfer.
BrianSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But, um, did I tell you? Uh, yeah, so between George Washington and El Camino, then I went to Sorbonne.
BrianSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, GW, um, UC Santa Cruz, El S- El Camino, Sorbonne, USC, and then I did one semester at USC in, like, huge, uh, like, auditorium classes.
Matt MosconaHOST
Now, Joe Houston was a special teams coordinator at Florida, but man, his career has been interesting.
Matt MosconaHOST
So he started his coaching career at El Camino College as the special teams coordinator, went to Toledo, Iowa State, spent one year under Nick Saban in Alabama in 2019, and then got hired by Bill Belichick with the New England Patriots, where he was until Belichick was let go after the 2023 season.
Matt MosconaHOST
Then Joe Houston spent the last two years at Florida under Billy Napier and now has joined Kiffin at LSU.
Matt MosconaHOST
And Lane Kiffin, during the spring, I had the opportunity to ask him about Joe Houston and kind of gave a little bit of the backstory on Joe.
Matt MosconaHOST
I mean, you're talking about a guy that, He is super bright and could do darn near anything he wanted to in life.
Matt MosconaHOST
He just loves football and coaching specialists and special teams.
Matt MosconaHOST
And so he was working at El Camino College and delivering pizzas to make money because he wasn't getting paid to coach in Juco.
Matt MosconaHOST
He's just doing it because he loved it.
Maxine WatersGUEST
We have recognized in the past, because the districts are so big, you hold them in one place, and maybe a far area of the district doesn't get there.
Maxine WatersGUEST
So, uh, on Saturday, that's tomorrow, October 3rd, at 10:00 AM, we're gonna be at El Camino College.
Maxine WatersGUEST
At 2:00 PM, we're going to be at Inglewood High School.
Maxine WatersGUEST
This is the first of several town hall meetings we're doing all over the district.
Ryan KartjeHOST
Chow had his own protege he wanted to help out, Steve Sarkisian, one of his former quarterbacks.
Ryan KartjeHOST
Chow was the first to see a future for Sarkisian, plucking him out of El Camino Junior College with an offer to BYU.
Ryan KartjeHOST
Now Sarkisian was 27 and in need of another lifeline.
Ryan KartjeHOST
He was selling software in the South Bay at the time.
BrianHOST
I dropped out of a lot of other schools.
BrianHOST
I dropped out of George Washington University, and then I kind of dropped out of the community college, called El Camino Community College.
BrianHOST
And then I went to USC and I dropped out of that.
BrianHOST
Oh, and before USC, I went to Le Sorbonne.
Lauren HalseyGUEST
Yeah, 17 years.
Lauren HalseyGUEST
I went to El Camino Community College.
Lauren HalseyGUEST
and did a lot of the majority of the architecture program there.
Lauren HalseyGUEST
And there's this cool thing that happens, like, when you get enough prerequisites, you get to do design, build, and you collaborate with the construction students who have enough of their prerequisites, and you go out into the field, which is, like, the parking lot, and you get to, like, work in building, like, a maquette of sorts, a Tisco maquette.