This feels like a marketing driven decision more than anything. It’s impossible to predict a CFB coach’s success in the NFL. Even the GOAT, Saban, didn’t set the world on fire when he was at Miami.
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Very few college coaches have been successful when jumping to the NFL.
9 head coaches who got it done in college and the NFL
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Three Head Coaches have won it all at both levels.
Pete Carroll
Not so long ago, Carroll would have made the list of "Successful college coaches who flopped in the NFL." Not anymore. Carroll had two failed head-coaching gigs in the NFL before heading to college and taking the USC Trojans to the top of the mountain with consecutive national titles in the mid-2000s. He returned to the pros in 2010 with the Seattle Seahawks and soon took the team to one Super Bowl win and came within a play of winning a second. Let's see if he continues to build on his success.
Carroll, who has the moral integrity of a Gutter Rat, is also know for leaving USC one step ahead of the NCAA for buying a house for Reggie Bush's parents.
The sanctions were announced on June 10, 2010, and affected the USC football program from 2010 to 2012. Sanctions for the football team included postseason bans (2 years), scholarship losses (3 years), vacating old games (including a BCS Championship game), and disassociating with
Reggie Bush. Separately, Bush returned his
Heisman Trophy. USC head coach
Pete Carroll also left USC shortly before sanctions were announced.
Two other coaches have won both titles - without using Real Estate deals -
Paul Brown
The Cleveland Browns are named after him, for Pete's sake. And if that wasn't enough, he went on to found the Cincinnati Bengals, as well. Paul Brown is a giant of the game and one its most treasured ancestors. He won three championships with the Browns and has been credited with several breakthroughs, including using game film to study opponents. However, did you know that Brown was the man who coached Ohio State to its first national title back in 1942? This was a man who got it done everywhere he went.
Jimmy Johnson
Johnson wasn't a household name when he was named the head coach at the University of Miami in 1984. But in five years in Coral Gables, he compiled a record of 52-9 and won a national championship and played for another. He was named the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in 1989 and resurrected an organization that was sitting at the bottom of the league. The infamous Herschel Walker trade he orchestrated set the table for a run of Big D dominance that saw him win back-to-back Super Bowls.
