Pete Carroll has been a coach for over 50 years now, but how long has he been a coach for the Seattle Seahawks?
Pete Carroll and the Seahawks
Carroll joined Seattle as head coach in January 2010. The Seahawks have won five NFC West titles and have reached the playoffs in 10 of the last 13 seasons. Seattle has never missed the postseason in back-to-back years under Carroll.
The team has won at least nine games in 10 of the past 11 seasons, including back-to-back Super Bowl appearances in 2013 and 2014. The Seahawks also won the Super Bowl in 2013. Had it not been for a QB Russell Wilson interception in the end zone, the Seahawks would have won back-to-back titles.
In 17 years as an NFL coach, Carroll has an overall record of 161-112-1 in the regular season and 11-11 in the postseason. His 172 combined wins rank 16th in league history.
Prior to his time in the NFL, Carroll created a dominant program at USC, where he won two national titles and seven Pac-10 championships in nine seasons with the Trojans.
Carroll’s coaching career began in 1973 as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, the University of the Pacific. He also coached at Arkansas in the 1970s with HC Lou Holtz.
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Carroll later served as defensive backs coach for Bud Grant in the 1980s with the Minnesota Vikings and coached alongside Hall of Famer Bill Walsh during his time with the San Francisco 49ers.
In an interview with Fox Sports, Carroll said he has carried lessons from each of his coaching stops throughout his career.
“When I went to Arkansas, that’s when I knew I wanted to be a coach,” he said. “I got the bug. It was huge and fun. It was big-time football for the first time, and I was drawn into it and ready to roll. From then, it was just having fun coaching. And here we are.”
He has credited his time with Grant and Walsh with shaping him into the coach he is today.
“I fortunately had a really great opportunity with both Bud and Bill to hang out with those guys in the years that we were together,” Carroll said. “And it just meant so much because I dug in. I was asking the real questions and real stuff. It was just an amazing time for me and accelerated anything beyond my wildest dreams.”
Carroll is 72 years old and the NFL’s oldest head coach, but he shows no signs of retiring soon.
“I’m having the time of my life right now. This team we’re building right now is as fun as any team we’ve ever had,” Carroll said back in August. “I’m thrilled by the thought that this is Year 13 or 12 or 14 — whatever the heck it is — that we’ve been here because, to me, it has never been about winning the one time. It’s, ‘How long you can keep winning? How long you can keep going?’”
The Seahawks are currently 6-4 and will take on the 7-3 49ers on Thanksgiving.
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