There’s a lot of information swirling about Pete Carroll going to the Seahawks, so we thought we’d help make sense of it all.

Here are the hard cold facts:

• Seattle fired their head coach, Jim Mora, after just one season today. Now they need a new head coach.
• Seattle’s owner, Paul Allen, has more money than he knows what to do with and wants to use it to buy a good football team.
• Pete Carroll has said publicly that if he were going to consider an NFL job, he’d want to have player personnel control.
• Seattle is rainy. A lot.
• The Seahawks have never been that good. They’re always ok, sometimes good, but never championship caliber. They’re like the Mariners of the NFL.
• The Dallas Cowboys (the Yankees of the NFL), should they lose to the Eagles this weekend, will almost surely fire their head coach and be looking for a big name to fill the void.
• The Seahawks cannot hire a new head coach until they interview at least one minority candidate. Their request to speak with Vikings’ defensive coordinator Lesley Frazier were denied, so they’re still shopping for someone who’ll fulfill their quota and that has to go down before they can hire Pete or anyone else.
• Pete Carroll, when reached for comment via text message, made one statement on the record about the move: “You know I haven’t responded to a NFL question in two years.”

And here’s the speculation and stuff coming from “anonymous league and USC sources”:

And that’s it — we’ve got one report from Chris Mortensen