Age and Employment: Debating 73-Year-Old Pete Carroll's Future

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00:00Pete Carroll wants the Bears job.

00:05Here's to not hiring 73-year-olds to do anything.

00:09I stand by what I say.

00:12I will not be doing anything at 73.

00:15I might be dead by then.

00:17I am not hiring a 73-year-old to do anything, including working at Walmart.

00:21I'm not, Mike, I'm not doing it.

00:26We all enjoy ourselves at 73 and have a cocktail and sit by the pool or by the intercoastal.

00:33What are you doing?

00:34That's what I would say.

00:35Forget that other people want to hire them.

00:37I would say to them, what are you doing?

00:40Why are you not?

00:41Bill Belichick's got a girlfriend 50 years younger than him, and he's like, let me go

00:45back to working full-time.

00:46I'm not sure if it says more about him or her, but he's going back to work full-time

00:52and trying to run a college program.

00:53Pete Carroll seemingly has a nice setup, right?

00:57He's an advisor to the owner.

00:59I know he's got a lot of energy for his age, but I don't really understand the NFL teams

01:05getting into this.

01:06Maybe they aren't getting into it.

01:07They specifically didn't hire Belichick, and this is just a rumor right now.

01:12A lot of times, these rumors are started on the talent side and not necessarily on the

01:16team side.

01:18Maybe there isn't really anything to it, but Pete's throwing his name back out there because

01:22he wants a gig.

01:23I just have a hard time with it for this reason.

01:25It's not that he's not more capable, and he's a better coach, obviously, than some of the

01:30guys that will ultimately get hired.

01:32But when you're looking at a five-year plan and a person's going to be 74 when he starts

01:36the job, what could the five-year plan be?

01:39That is to see if he lives through the five years.

01:44Here's the deal.

01:45I also put his girlfriend—

01:46I wish that was a joke, but that's actually a serious consideration, considering the stress

01:50of the job.

01:52Will end up sleeping with a college co-ed at North Carolina when she's down there watching

01:56one of his games.

01:58There's a better chance of that happening than her staying with him for the next five years.