What will the Seattle Seahawks announce during their press conference regarding former USC coach Pete Carroll?”
The Seahawks confirmed that they have hired former USC coach Pete Carroll as the eighth head coach in team history on Monday. Carroll had said early Monday that he was leaving USC to join the Seahawks. Seattle CEO Tod Leiweke said in a statement: “We are excited to add Pete as our coach. He brings a great passion for winning and a positive attitude that is contagious. We now turn our full attention to the hiring process for a general manager.
In a sprawling 20-minute, stream-of-consciousness monologue, Pete Carroll was full of “thank yous” and nostalgia as he said goodbye to USC during a Monday evening press conference at the school. Carroll said he’s breaking up with USC not because of anything the Trojans did — or because of the NCAA or athletic director Mike Garrett, for that matter — but because the Seattle Seahawks made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. “Why can’t it keep going?” Carroll rhetorically asked. “It can’t keep going because I can’t pass up this opportunity that has come up.” What exactly the “opportunity” the Seahawks are giving Carroll is presently vague.
Seahawks CEO Tod Leiweke talked for a while this afternoon about the hiring of the team’s new head coach, Pete Carroll. Carroll, who will be introduced in a press conference tomorrow at 10 a.m., will be the team’s head coach and VP of football operations and “is going to sit independent of the general manager.” Leiweke said Carroll and the yet-to-be hired general manager will work “shoulder to shoulder” and will report to Leiweke, as will current VP of football administration John Idzik, who handles negotiations and salary cap issues. “What we’re doing here is a clean slate,” Leiweke said. “A new era for Seahawks football.” Carroll will control the 53 man roster, and Leiweke will have the final say in disputes should they arise between his shoulder-to-shoulder GM and Carroll. Carroll will also sit in on the interviews with the “four or five” GM candidates lined up for interviews.
