Pete Carroll was named the Seattle Seahawks Head Coach and President in January 2010. Prior to the Seahawks he was the Head Coach at USC since 2001. In his time at USC, the Trojans have made it to multiple national championship games (winning the National Championship in 2004 and splitting the National Championship in 2003 with LSU) and have consistently emerged as PAC-10 conference champions.

He was named the Trojans' head football coach on December 15, 2000, signing a 5-year contract. His team won a school record 34 straight games from 2003-2005, a streak that started after a triple-overtime loss to California and ended with the 2006 Rose Bowl. During his tenure, USC has broken its average home attendance record four times in a row, without any stadium expansions; the USC home attendance average in his first season, 2001, was 57,744 and in 2006 was over 91,000.

While USC's head coach Pete Carroll led a resurgence of football at the University of Southern California. He coached three Heisman Trophy winners (Carson Palmer 2002, Matt Leinart 2004, Reggie Bush in 2005).