John Robinson, a veteran football coach who led the University of Southern California to four Rose Bowl titles and helped make the Los Angeles Rams into a near-perennial playoff contender in the 1980s,

John Robinson, the veteran football coach who enjoyed many years of success at USC and with the Los Angeles Rams, has died. He was 89.

“Every coach has a quirk. Some have more than one. For Robinson, once the game and the post-game shows were over, he was done talking about football,” wrote Dave McCann, a sports reporter for Brigham Young University and ESPN+ who was close friends with Robinson.