RENTON, Wash. -- The basketball hoop in the auditorium at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center, a fixture during the Pete Carroll era and perhaps the building's most prominent symbol of it, is no longer there.
The Seattle Seahawks aren't scrubbing all of their old head coach's fingerprints from team headquarters, but they won't have Mike Macdonald address his players every day with a reminder of his predecessor literally hanging over his head.
The absence of the hoop, like having a new coach after Carroll's 14-year run at the helm, will take some getting used to.