IN JANUARY 2009, Mark Sanchez held a news conference to announce he was leaving USC a year early. He shared the dais with his then-coach, Pete Carroll.

Carroll made it clear they did not share the same feelings. A blogger for the LA Times wrote: “Carroll was visibly unhappy, refusing to sit down for part of the press conference and saying that he disagreed with the decision based on a number of factors. ‘We don’t see this decision the same,’ he said. ‘Mark is going against the grain on this decision. He knows that.’ ”

Sanchez and Carroll have been through a lot since that day. They’ve faced each other in the NFL once, in 2012 at Seattle, during what would turn out to be Sanchez’s final season quarterbacking the New York Jets. Carroll’s Seahawks won, 28-7.

via Les Bowen of The Philadelphia Daily News