No one knows whether Pete Carroll will lead the Seahawks to greatness, but it’s becoming clearer why a full housecleaning in Seattle made sense.
Via Danny O’Neil of the Seattle Times, radio football analyst Hugh Millen had a fascinating tale that speaks to the dysfunction which marked the end of the Ruskell/Mora regime.
Ruskell, the man who hired Mora, was not pleased with Mora’s stumping for Mike Holmgren to return to Seattle. (Ruskell’s future had already been decided.) According to Millen, a Mora confidant, Ruskell sent an angry text message to Mora about it.
“Real classy,” the text started. Later it said, “I was wrong about you and I paid for it dearly.”
Ouch. The entire succession plan in Seattle seemed flawed from the start. O’Neil captures the essence of the insanity better than we could: “You had the president who resigned two-thirds of the way through the season texting the coach he hired to criticize the coach’s support of the man whose staff he served on for two years before becoming head coach.”