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TNF’s Herbstreit: Seahawks’ Carroll has same energy he did at USC
Pete Carroll has been the pinnacle coach of the Seahawks lengthy sufficient that it’s straightforward to neglect he had a reasonably profitable chapter in his teaching profession earlier than coming to Seattle.
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At age 59, Carroll made the transfer to the Seahawks in 2010 after 9 seasons main USC, the place he amassed a 97-19 document, together with 7-2 in bowl video games, and back-to-back nationwide championships in 2003 and 2004.
Now 71, Carroll has been in Seattle 4 seasons longer than he was in LA, with a 126-80-1 document, 9 playoff appearances, and a Tremendous Bowl trophy beneath his belt with the Seahawks.
There was an attention-grabbing alternative to check and distinction these two variations of Carroll previous to the Seahawks’ Week 15 recreation in opposition to the 49ers, as Kirk Herbstreit was on the TV name. Now in his first yr as an NFL coloration commentator for Thursday Evening Soccer on Amazon Prime, Herbstreit coated Carroll’s time within the faculty recreation carefully throughout his earlier gig, as he was a longtime fixture on ESPN’s Faculty Gameday and NCAA protection.
Thursday morning on Seattle Sports activities’ Brock and Salk, Herbstreit was requested about his observations after getting to speak to Carroll 13 years after he left USC.
“So far as his persona and his power and his juice, man, it’s the identical man. Identical precise man that that we used to cowl when he was at SC,” Herbstreit mentioned.
Primarily based on Herbstreit’s feedback, it’s fairly clear how a lot respect he has for Carroll and what he’s gone on to do in Seattle.
“Clearly all of us change as we develop and get age. I’ve at all times cherished him, I’ve at all times had a very good relationship with him going again to his days when he was rolling at SC,” Herbstreit mentioned. “We had been round them a lot, it looks as if it was each different week we had been both doing a Gameday with USC or calling a recreation with him. For no matter motive, we’ve simply at all times linked.
“I actually love his power and I feel it’s actual, and I feel his gamers really feel it.”
That led Mike Salk to ask Herbstreit why it appears Carroll doesn’t age, which resulted in a query being thrown again.
“Do you suppose it’s his lifestyle?” Herbstreit responded. “We are able to child, however I’m telling you, man – take soccer out, simply speak to him about life. Simply speak to him about something and he’s simply a type of guys who’s excessive, discovering constructive power in life. And I feel (that’s what occurs) if you stay your life each single day, each minute like that.”
You may hear the complete dialog with Herbstreit within the podcast participant beneath or at this hyperlink.
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