Rocky Seto, Former Seattle Seahawks coach (Pt 1)
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🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Episode 220
Rocky Seto was living the dream as an NFL coach. Working for Pete Carroll and the Seattle Seahawks, Seto was a part of a team that made two straight Super Bowls and an NFL championship in 2013. And then, after the 2016 season, Seto decided to leave his dream job and enter ministry, as a pastor.
Seto played college football at USC in 1997 and 1998, and then became a coach soon thereafter where he would help the Trojans to the AP National Championship in 2003 and 2004, and win the Rose Bowl 5 times.
In 2010, he would join coach Pete Carroll with the Seattle Seahawks where he would remain until his departure in 2017.
Seto is now pastoring Evergreen Baptist Church in La Puenta, California.
In part 1 of our two part interview with Rocky, we learn about his faith journey, coming to Christ at USC as a player and the impact Coach Pete Carroll has had on his life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.6 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast, part one of our conversation with former Seattle Seahawks coach Turnpaster, Rocky Seto, is brought to you by Compassion International. |
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| 1:13.6 | Today on the podcast, part one of a two-part conversation with Rocky Seto. Rocky is currently the associate senior pastor at Evergreen Baptist |
| 1:20.1 | Church in La Puente, California, in the San Gabriel County. Rocky, though, isn't just a pastor. He's also a former coach in football, |
| 1:30.5 | first in college with USC, where he won two national championships, a two-time AP college football |
| 1:36.5 | champion in 03 and 2004 with USC. He was a coach at USC from 2002 to 2009, and then Pete Carroll, who was the coach at USC from 2002 to 2009 and then Pete Carroll, who was the coach at USC, left to go to the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL. |
| 1:52.0 | And not far behind was Rocky Seto, who then moved on to Seattle to become an assistant coach with the Seahawks from 2010 to 2016. |
| 2:02.6 | Rocky is married, has four kids, and that had a lot to do with his decision to walk away |
| 2:08.5 | from a lucrative career in football, potentially leading to a possible head coaching job |
| 2:14.0 | someday, and instead going into ministry and becoming a pastor. So this is a two-part |
| 2:21.2 | conversation we have with Rocky and in part one we talked to him about leaving ministry and what |
| 2:27.2 | life is like right now and then learn about his faith journey. When did he come to Christ? |
| 2:31.9 | It happened in college at of all all places, USC, and then |
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