Seahawks Legend Pete Carroll Headed Back To USC... To Be A Teacher

Seattle Seahawks have a whole new era of football coming in 2024. They fired Super Bowl winning head coach, Pete Carroll, who was the oldest coach in the NFL at 72 years old. They transitioned to the youngest head coach in the NFL with Mike Macdonald at 37 years old. 

Originally there was rumors that Pete Carroll has stayed on with the Seahawks as an advisor in the front office, but that has been anything but the truth. Carroll says he is making it clear to stay away from the team and the new operations. 

"I haven't talked to those guys at all," he said. "I ran into Mike in the parking lot one day, and it was a great chance to just, the two of us alone, to meet, say hey and kind of get greeted, and on we go. I have not had much to do with them in any way, and really I'm just watching the games a little bit when I see them on TV. I'm not paying that much attention to it because it just feels like it's the right thing to do to let them go. I don't really have any opinion other than they're really hardworking and it's a really smart group of guys, and I know that they have a good group around them to build on and it sounds like they've done some really good things. ... With purpose I'm staying away from it and I'm not visiting with them at all."

It's clear that Carroll is doing this purely out of good intentions, he does not want to be a shadow on the wall, and let the new staff do what they need to do. He seems to have no affiliation at all with team. 

Well, in classic Pete Carroll fashion, he believes at 72 years old, that he can still coach, but right now that is not the opportunity he has, so he has gone into to teaching back at USC.

Pete Carroll will return to USC next spring to teach a class 👀

He says he “could coach tomorrow” if he wanted to, but is not “desiring it at this point.”

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Carroll coached USC from 2001 to 2009, before joining the Seahawks for a 14-year run in Seattle. He's one of only three coaches to win a Super Bowl and a college national championship.

"I'm excited about it because there's more stuff to teach," he said. "There's more stuff to share. Everybody wants to know what I'm doing and all that, am I coaching or what am I doing, I'm working with some really fun people and some exciting opportunities to do some really cool stuff and putting things together ... for others, so I'm going to keep working that way and see what happens."

Carroll, 72, didn't close the door on coaching again, saying he hasn't lost his competitive edge, but he noted he doesn't feel the desire to do so right now.