UM Coaches Have 75 Years Experience Coaching/Playing in NFL
The thread earlier about hiring Granito from the Pats to be our new athletic trainer made me wonder just how much NFL experience we have on our staff in addition to his many years. This is what my search came up with. In parentheses is the highest level each coach reached during that time. Only two, Brown and Partridge, come with no Pro League pedigree.
HC: Harbaugh: 6 years coach (HC SF), 14 years player (QB CHI, IND, 4 others)
DC Brown: 0 years coach, 0 year player
OC Drevno: 3 years coach (OL SF), 0 years player
QB Fisch: 11 years coach (OC JAX), 0 years player
TE/ST Harbaugh: 3 years coach (OCQ BAL), 0 years player
DL Mattison: 3 years coach (DC BAL), 0 years player
LB/ST Partridge: 0 years coach, 0 years player
DB Smith: 9 years coach (ALB PHI), 0 years player
RB Wheatley: 2 years coach (RB BUF), 9 years player (RB NYG, OAK)
S Zordich: 4 years coach (S PHI), 11 years player (S NYG, ARI, PHI)
Edit: Corrected, at first I mis-typed Zordich's playing career as 1. Also missed JH's 2 years coaching at Oakland.
Nice work on that....
Who's got it better than us?????
If so many people are saying this is great, why did he only get two points so far, including my vote?
Come on, folks: he did some excellent work here. Upvote his post.
Great factoid! I am going to immediately write that down in my giant "Book of Totally Worthless Facts that Have No Impact on My Life"!!!
Well, good thing you most likely aren't a recruit with future NFL aspirations.
I was only kidding, of course. But since you asked...do you REALLY think there are a lot of recruits who are actually adding up the sum total of NFL coaching experience of the entire coaching staff of each team they like before making a choice? Like, Michigan will get some recruits because N=63, while Alabama will lose some because N=51 only???
No, but being able to throw a big number out there like that could turn some heads. I don't think many staffs come even close. Like someone posted, I'm sure something similar has been made into a flyer on twitter by the AD, to make recruits aware.
what was Saban's track record in the NFL again????
I mean, other than "dismal"???
Yeah, and that kind of furthers my point too... Lots of guys have bounced around the NFL for literally decades and absolutely sucked everywhere they were. I guess it still makes them something more than your average assistant college coach or something, but it hardly means you have a leg up on an incredible college coach who has never been interested in the NFL... JMHO
True. If you look at the position and teams ours coached at, it's still pretty impressive. The exceptions would be JAX, And probably TW at BUFF.
And wasn't Harbaugh with the RAIDERS for a few years? Maybe we should subtract those years from the total... :-D
I'm sure WD already has written it down. Why not save time and see if he'll print you a copy?
Lol, I'm eagerly awaiting his corrections.
Wasn't there a period when Harbaugh was a QB coach for the Raiders?
You're right! I'll keep adding to the total.
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Would be interesting to know how many NFL "wins" our current staff has a coaches and players.
Illinois has around 90 years (a few of those include one guy's tenure as a scout).
If you recall, a year ago at this time, there were concerns about Jay Harbaugh's qualifications. The play of our TEs last year appears to have put those to rest.