by Daniel Dullum

GLENDALE AZ–Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll also has had his share of tricks up his sleeve as head coach at USC and in Seattle. Carroll in June 2010 saw the NCAA put a two year ban on USC and they eliminated the college’s 30 draft picks for allowing USC running back Reggie Bush to receive gifts, Bush also got free housing for his parents, and reportedly tons of money under Carroll’s watch.

Carroll and the Seahawks were fined for $300,000 for holding contact practices during training camps in August of 2014 the NFL has banned any contact mini camp practices for the 2015 season for the Seahawks and players will be paid for the missed practices.

For New England head coach Bill Belichick, he and the Patriots were fined $500,000 in 2007 by the NFL and had their first round draft pick taken away for taping the New York Jets assistant coaches and stealing their signals from the sidelines. The video recordings of the stolen signs were confiscated by the NFL and the Spygate scandal was almost in the rearview mirror until this month when Belichick and the Patriots were accused of deflating up to 11 footballs during the AFC Championship game in which they demolished the Indianapolis Colts.

Belichick said that no rules have been broken, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady insists that he knew nothing about any wrong doing. You got to believe somebody had to know what was going on because quarterbacks have a preference for how they want the ball. Brady had to be doing this but he insists that he hadn’t and Belichick had chose to throw his quarterback under the bus which is kind of cool.

The whole thing looks to be orchestrated by Belichick to take the pressure off everybody else and go about the business of preparing for the Super Bowl. What this does is plays in the heads of everyone involved and he’s giggling all the way to the war room and it’s like a red herring I’ll throw this out there to give everybody something to chew on while were actually working on our game plan.

During media day this week there are going to be extra questions about Deflategate there’s going to be at least half a dozen questions on all of that and it deflects away from the business at hand and therefore their not talking about it as much. Their able actually to focus on the game itself. Carroll and the USC Trojans were penalized for allowing Bush to house his family and he received cash. All that stuff that Bush received was a huge no no and besides the fine to USC also Bush was forced to return his Heisman Trophy.

Daniel Dullum is covering Super Bowl XLIX for http://www.sportsradioservice.com