...If there's a coach Hawkins emulates, it's Pete Carroll. Hawkins had met Carroll before they went on a Nike trip together last year. On that trip, Hawkins walked up to Carroll and said, "I know I don't know you that well, but here's what I think about Pete Carroll. I said, '(1) I think you really coach your guys, (2) you are getting the best players in the country, and (3) I think you get it.'"Carroll invited Hawkins to speak at a clinic earlier this month and was so intrigued by him that he gave him a ride to the airport so he would have more time with him...
..."I felt very familiar with him without knowing him very well," Carroll said...
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