Curious about Saban/Carroll

Is Pete Carroll having tremendous success in the NFL?

IMO, Saban leads by intimidation and millionaire, grown up, Pro's aren't gonna be intimidated. Carroll is a "players coach". He's probably friends with most of his players....

Pete Carroll is only a .500 coach in the NFL. Saban was 15-17. Not a huge difference although the sample sizes are not ideal for comparison.

Pete Carroll failed in his first TWO coaching gigs in the NFL. He got fired after one year with the Jets. In New England, he took over a team that went to the Super Bowl the previous year and they went steadily downhill the three years he was there. Bill Simmons sums up his time in New England.

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Once upon a time, back when I was still living in Boston, Pete Carroll did a terrible job coaching the New England Patriots. Eventually, they fired him. But not before I gave him the nickname "Coach Fredo" on my old Web site.

Deep down, I always felt bad about it. Pete seemed like a good guy. Of course, that was the problem -- there wasn't anything coach-like about him. His teams consistently screwed up and did dumb things. His players consistently walked all over him and found trouble off the field. Even in his press conferences, beat writers found ways to undermine him and make him look bad. Poor Pete carried himself like a giddy substitute teacher for an inner-city high school, the high-energy dude who strolls in hoping to change everyone for the better and ends up getting duct-taped to his desk and covered with gobs of whiteout. That was Pete Carroll in New England.

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You wish he had been a bit more successful, maybe so that he would return?

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Why is it that Pete Carroll can be successful in the NFL and Nick Saban can't?

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I'm not certain that he "can't"

Perhaps he didn't during those two years, but that certainly does not indicate an inability to have success. He was made to take Dante Culpepper over Drew Brees. Really throws off your ability to be successful when you have a gimp of a QB who couldn't finish a season.