FORMER Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll has a new gig.
The Super Bowl XLVIII champion is returning to the University of Southern California, where he coached for nine seasons, to teach a class.
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“I’m looking forward to that,” Carroll told a sports radio in Seattle, Washington.
“It’s going to be a really exciting endeavor when it’s finalized and all that.”
Carroll, 72, took over at USC after a stint as the New England Patriots head coach in the late 1990s and before taking charge of the Seahawks in 2010.
With the Trojans, he claimed back-to-back college football national championships in 2003 and 2004.
They also won the Rose Bowl four times.
Carroll has been officially serving as an adviser to the Seahawks since relinquishing his head coaching position earlier this year.
But he’s actually not been heavily involved in the team’s operations, according to ESPN.
In the meantime, the California native took on other projects, including a trip to a US military base in Kuwait for a basketball tournament with the troops, per the report.
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That venture is said to have inspired him to keep giving back.
“I’m excited about it because there’s more stuff to teach,” Carroll said of his USC reunion.
“There’s more stuff to share.
“Everybody wants to know what I’m doing and all that, am I coaching or what am I doing,
“I’m working with some really fun people and some exciting opportunities to do some really cool stuff and putting things together … for others.
“So I’m going to keep working that way and see what happens.”
College football’s 2024 shake-up
Oklahoma and Texas switching from the Big 12 to the SEC is one of the biggest changes to college football in recent times.
And that has set off a chain reaction which has left the Pac-12 conference decimated.
The Pac-12 has lost 10 of its 12 members and is down to just Oregon State and Washington State.
Four of those teams are headed for the Big 12 – Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah.
Another four are going to the Big 10 – Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington.
And the other two teams, California and Stanford, will join the ACC conference.
No teams have left the SEC, Big Ten or ACC.
Carroll didn’t rule out a return to coaching in the future, though.
“I get asked it a lot and I’m pretty familiar with the answer now,” he said.
“I could coach tomorrow. I’m physically in the best shape I’ve been in in a long time.
“I’m ready to do all the activities that I’m doing and feeling really good about it.
I could, but I don’t really — I’m not desiring it at this point.
“This isn’t the coaching season. We’ll see what happens. I’m not waiting on it at all. I’m going ahead.
“I’ve got other things that I want to do that I’m excited about, and I’m going to see how all that goes.”
