Pete Carroll headed to the NFL?

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Originally Posted by coastietech

Plus how do you turn down the 7mil a year that Seattle is offering, that's huge money for someone that has had Pete's kind of success in the NFL in the past.

Paul Allen owns the Seahawks and the Blazers. Here is the lead-in for an article published today in the Oregonian. Kinda summarizes Allen well.

It was not lost on Sunday at the Rose Garden that Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen recently bought himself a sparkly new coach for his Seattle Seahawks football operation.

He just had to have USC's Pete Carroll.

And if you remember, it was Allen who hired R&B star Usher to sit in with his own band during a New Year's Eve party. And Allen who summoned Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski at the height of his popularity to interview for the Blazers coaching job. And it was Allen who bought his 301-foot super-yacht Tatoosh in 2001, then three years later saw the 416-foot Octopus.

He had to have it. So he bought it.

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/ore...en_decide.html