Looks like the Seattle Seahawks have a new strength and conditioning coach. According to Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times, USC’s strength coach Chris Carlisle is headed North to Seattle.
The Trojans announced Carlisle’s departure to Seattle in a press release today.
Mike Clark had held the position of strength coach for the Seahawks for the last six years.
The video above gives you a good idea of what Carlisle is about.
According to Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis offensive line coach Art Valero interviewed with the Seattle Seahawks. Valero could come in as an assistant offensive line coach to help with Alex Gibbs.
According to the report, Valero has been with the Rams for the past two seasons, working as assistant head coach/running backs coach in 2008.
While Eric is away on vacation, I’m going to use his blog for some shameless self-promotion. Over on our military blog, I wrote about the Special Olympics returning to McChord Air Force Base and Fort Lewis.
The grand marshal of the opening ceremonies should be a familiar name to Hawks fans.
Whether the Seahawks back-channeled this through Hugh Millen or Hugh took it upon himself to quell the rampant Jim Mora-to-Washington rumors is not clear. But Hugh has basically said that there is 0 (ZERO) percent chance that his former roommate becomes the next Huskies coach — and Hugh would know better than anyone whose last name is not Mora.
And really, if you are Mora, why would it even be a consideration? Think about it: Now that Seattle has gone 2-10 and could be on the way to 3-13, the only place for Mora to go is up. The same could be said for Washington, but at least there is something left in the cupboard with the Seahawks. The cupboards are bare at UW. In fact, there may not be any cupboards. They have to be put up with the remodel.
I don’t know if this is like the game of telephone, where something is passed on from one person to the next, the context of the message gets changed and the misinformation picks up steam; or whether there is legitimacy to any of it, but the Jim Mora-to-Washington rumors simply will not die.
I was just taking a look at Bob Condotta’s blog over at the Times, and he posted an item that says Mora’s Wikipedia entry was briefly updated — then changed — saying Mora would be announced as UW’s coach on Dec. 3. It is an eight-year
…We speculated about this yesterday following Mike Holmgren’s press conference, but Jim Mora is being mentioned as a candidate to replace Karl Dorrell at UCLA. Here is a link to a story in the Long Beach paper.
Our coverage today includes a story about the Seahawks’ efforts to re-sign their assistant coaches. All but a few have re-signed in recent months. Team president Tim Ruskell said he’s confident the remaining guys will be re-signed. Larry Kennan, head of the NFL Coaches Association, said roughly 20 NFL staffs earn more, on average, than the Seahawks’ assistants. Ruskell disputed that assessment. Either way, Dwaine Board, Stump Mitchell, Teryl Austin and Bob Casullo entered the final month of the season without deals for 2007. “I know it’s been frustrating for some guys,” Ruskell said, “but I feel good about
…Defensive coordinator John Marshall is pushing his guys to play with attitude. That’s the tack he took when asked about recent problems with tackling. He said it’s important to practice leverage and technique and those things, but none of it matters unless you attack the game with a certain attitude. He pointed to Ray Lewis and others as examples, implying that the Seahawks need to focus on that aspect of defense.