On the occasion of his departure from his 14-year position as the Seattle Seahawks’ head coach, it’s worth remembering that very few people were excited about Pete Carroll’s hire. Carroll had been wildly successful at USC, but he had failed in a relative sense with the New York Jets and the New England Patriots in the 1990s, and he was thought of at the time to be the kind of coach without the gravitas to make it all the way in the NFL.
