Seattle Seahawks' head coach Pete Carroll did a little reflecting when he spoke to the media about his time at USC. Carroll spoke highly of the school and said had he known the school was about to be hit with serious sanctions he would still be in Southern California.
The Super Bowl winning coach told the Los Angeles Times that he believes that he could have fixed USC after the massive sanctions and would have loved to be the guy to coach through the hard times.
"The truth was, an opportunity came up and it was one I couldn't turn away from," Carroll told the Times. "... The NCAA came back at the university ... 'Now we're going to revisit after five years.' I had no knowledge that was coming. We thought maybe it wasn't coming because they didn't have anything to get us with. It wasn't five days, it wasn't five weeks. It was five years. Had we known that that was imminent ... I would never have been able to leave under those circumstances. When I look back now, I would have stayed there to do what we needed to do to resolve the problem.”
Carroll can reflect on his time at USC now that he has a Super Bowl under his belt and any return to the college game would be ludicrous. Carroll has been a mixed bag in his career in the NFL as he went 33-31 in his eight years with the New York Jets and the New England Patriots. Carroll then went on to have massive success at USC before joining the Seattle Seahawks in 2010. In his time in Seattle, Carroll has a 38-26 record in four seasons but has built the leagues best defense from the bottom up.
[ESPN]
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