The Carolina Panthers have hired Dave Canales to be their next head coach. There were murmurs that he was doing really well in interviews, and the Panthers brought him in for a second one a few days ago. He clearly impressed ownership and new general manager Dan Morgan enough that they offered him the job.
We profiled Dave Canales on this very same Cat Scratch Reader website exactly one week ago. You can read some finer details of his rise in there, but the long and short of it as that Canales served under Pete Carroll in a variety of roles both in his last season at USC and with the Seattle Seahawks.