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What Would You Ask Pete Carroll?

Pick the brain of the new Seahawks coach tomorrow night at Town Hall.

By Laura Dannen July 20, 2010

Here’s hoping the Seahawks get to douse coach Pete Carroll this season.

According to his blog, today is Day 7 of Seahawks coach Pete Carroll’s book tour, and he’s already logged 71 interviews touting Win Forever: Live, Work and Play Like a Champion and eight book signings. In seven days. Yesterday, he did 14 interviews alone in Los Angeles; does that make him the hardest working man in show biz?

Which makes me wonder: When Carroll stops by Town Hall tomorrow at 7:30pm to wax philosophic about playing without fear, what can we possibly ask him that he hasn’t already heard? What would you ask the winningest active coach in college football (until he left USC for Seattle)? The new guy at Qwest Field?

A couple responses we’ve gotten so far…

Quote Tony Dungy on NBC in January: “Most college coaches find out it’s a lot harder to coach rich 25-year-olds than it is poor 19-year-olds.You’ve coached both already. What do you think of that statement?

In college, guys are playing – in most cases – for the chance to eventually get drafted. In the pros, they’ve already been drafted, already gotten their payday. How do your methods of motivating change?

In that year between the Patriots job and getting hired at SC, was there a crystallizing, pick-myself-up-off-the-ground moment? Did you read something? Have a conversation with someone? What made you say, “I’ll be back”?

If you had the ability to sign Michael Vick, would you?

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