Robinson's USC teams won four Rose Bowls and captured a share of the national championship in the 1978 season.
He moved to Provo, Utah, at six, and then to Daly City, California, at nine, where he attended Catholic parochial school with future Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, graduating in 1950, and Junípero Serra High School graduating in 1954.
In 1976, when John McKay left USC to coach the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Robinson was named to succeed him.
Both of those contests ended in defeat against eventual Super Bowl champions, the 1985 Chicago Bears and the 1989 San Francisco 49ers.
After a 5–11 season in 1990 and a 3–13 mark in 1991, Robinson was fired by the Rams, though his 79 career victories remained the most in franchise history until Sean McVay surpassed him in 2024.
[4][5] Two years later, Robinson was hired to coach football at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
In July 2019, Robinson joined the LSU football program as a senior consultant to head coach Ed Orgeron.
[9] He was a board member for the Lott IMPACT Trophy, which is named after Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back Ronnie Lott and is awarded annually to college football's Defensive IMPACT Player of the Year.
[10] His son, David Robinson, is a defensive coordinator for the Fullerton College Hornets football program.