The question was the right one, even if the answer was no. When the Seattle Seahawks were looking to bring in Pete Carroll, then the hotshot head coach at Southern Cal, they asked, “Do you want to be the GM?”
“I said no,” Carroll recalled. “But I’d like to hire him.”
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Carroll and Kraft. Two gracious guys. They represent the best of the NFL.
Carroll wasn't as bad as the media portrayed. However, let's not start fitting him for the Hall of Fame either. The 1997 team should have won the Superbowl. During the season, they had one ill-advised (okay, outright stupid) throw to the flat that was run-back. That meant later that the play-off game would be in Pittsburgh instead of Foxborough. Then, during the play-off game, they ran the same ill-advised, outright stupid, throw to the flat again, and it was picked off and run-back, again. You can blame Carroll for allowing the play in the first place, you can blame Carroll for not learning his lesson with that play, and in the end, you can blame Carroll for not winning the Superbowl that year. After those unfortunate two plays, it was all down-hill for Carroll and the Pats the next two seasons. Pete Carroll was a fine coach. He was never as bad as portrayed. He was never as good as he is portrayed now, either.