{"id":183806,"date":"2010-01-15T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromtherumbleseat.com\/2010\/1\/15\/1249130\/nfl-head-coaches-and-their-alma"},"modified":"2010-01-15T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T13:00:21","slug":"nfl-head-coaches-and-their-alma-maters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/183806","title":{"rendered":"NFL Head Coaches and their Alma Maters"},"content":{"rendered":"

A google search showed up in the site meter a couple days ago that read, “NFL coaches colleges.” Since I’ve been breaking down players, I figured I’d enlighten the masses on what colleges all the NFL coaches went to (I’ll work my way up to the 120 I-A coaches eventually). Over the course of the 2009-2010 season, there were 33 different head coaches. Dick Jauron was fired by Buffalo midseason so I added the interim coach into the mix.<\/p>\n

Since about ~70% of the players in the NFL are from I-A programs, it’s only fitting that 13 of the NFL head coaches this past season were from I-A programs. The Pac 10 had the most alums with 4 (2 from USC, 1 from Oregon, and 1 from Washington). The real champions of Division I football (I-AA) had 6 head coach alum in the NFL while Divisions II and III combined for 8. NAIA football had a single head coach. And defunct football programs or schools that don’t even have football teams had 3 reps.<\/p>\n

The most represented universities were Eastern Illinois (a I-AA school in the Ohio Valley Conference), Southern Cal, and Wesleyan (Belichick\/Mangini). Brad Childress, Sean Payton, and Mike Shanahan<\/a> all went to EIU. If there’s one school that can lay claim to Head Coach U for the 2010-2011 Season, it’s EIU.<\/p>\n

Georgia Tech was 1 of 12 I-A institutions represented by an NFL head coach this season (Ken Whisenhunt). The other 11 I-A programs represented were Houston, Idaho, Iowa, Miami (OH), Oregon, San Diego State, Syracuse, Texas A&M, Tulsa, Southern Cal, and Washington.<\/p>\n

So far, the newest additions to the NFL head coaching fold are Pete Carroll (Pacific) and Mike Shanahan (EIU). Pacific’s football program shut down in the ’90s. Buffalo still hasn’t named a permanent head coach for 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A google search showed up in the site meter a couple days ago that read, “NFL coaches colleges.” Since I’ve been breaking down players, I figured I’d enlighten the masses on what colleges all the NFL coaches went to (I’ll work my way up to the 120 I-A coaches eventually). Over the course of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}