College Football: 5 head coaches that aren’t taking over at your school

5. Pete Carroll

It has been almost a decade since Pete Carroll left USC ahead of NCAA sanctions against the school. Officially he jumped from Southern California for the Seattle Seahawks position. After seven seasons it appears to have been the correct move for his career. While the Trojans are beginning to emerge once again as a national contender under Clay Helton, Carroll has continued a long streak as a successful head coach.

Carroll’s Seahawks teams won Super Bowl XLVIII over Denver in 2014 and lost Super Bowl XLIX the following year to New England. Seattle has won four times since 2010 and have reached the playoffs in six of Carroll’s seven seasons with the team. As he enters his eighth year in Washington, there is no indication that he has any desire to leave the pros to return to the college ranks.

There was talk in 2015 about USC trying to get Carroll back to Los Angeles after Steve Sarkisian was fired and Ed Orgeron was not offered the full-time position. During his nine seasons with the Trojans, Carroll won eight Pac-10 championships. His 2003 team claimed the AP’s share of the national title, and won the BCS championship the following season over Oklahoma.

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With an 86.2 percent career winning percentage, Pete Carroll would be right back among the best coaches in the college game were he to make the leap. Carroll’s former nemesis at Stanford and then with the San Francisco 49ers, Jim Harbaugh, returned to college in 2015. Tempting though it may be for fans of the sport, no college team is going to lure Carroll away from the Seahawks in 2018.