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,

His Trojans won four Rose Bowls during his two stints at Southern California and shared one national championship. He took the Rams to two conference championships.

“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.