Harbaugh's first Stanford coaching staff has produced 5 head coaches
December 15th, 2016 at 12:40 AM ^
That's pretty amazing, especially considering how weak that program was at the time that staff was put together. You would have to assume Drevno will make it 6 within the next couple years.
December 15th, 2016 at 12:45 AM ^
Drevno was almost gone this year. We are very fortunate !
December 15th, 2016 at 1:19 AM ^
December 15th, 2016 at 9:28 AM ^
He's got plenty of money, it's more about what he wants to do. There are about 20 non power 5 schools paying their coach more than Drevno makes.
December 15th, 2016 at 9:57 AM ^
Coaches have been taking less to become HCs for a while now, ever since assistant salaries started booming in the past decade. It's the only way to gain experience and fewer and fewer big schools are willing to take a shot on untested coordinators.
December 15th, 2016 at 9:57 AM ^
Coaches have been taking less to become HCs for a while now, ever since assistant salaries started booming in the past decade. It's the only way to gain experience and fewer and fewer big schools are willing to take a shot on untested coordinators.
December 15th, 2016 at 7:21 AM ^
But Jim also told us, ‘Stick with me and you’ll be farting through silk,’ which I guess meant that we’d all be so successful we could afford silk undergarments.
December 15th, 2016 at 7:49 AM ^
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December 15th, 2016 at 12:42 AM ^
5 head coaches and 0 jive turkeys
December 15th, 2016 at 1:14 AM ^
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December 15th, 2016 at 9:44 AM ^
Such as Woody Hayes.
December 15th, 2016 at 1:23 AM ^
But I think there's going to be a lag of 10 years or so, for these players to attain the age they work their way up to D1 ball (and maybe retire from the NFL!!). I think when you play for Harbaugh you love the game (and the work required to get better and better at it) and aren't there for the weightlifting or the social status bump on campus.
I don't know who they are yet but I believe we will recognize these names very easily in the future.
My super secret hope is that Drevno just hangs around Ann Arbor foreva, becoming the successor to Harbaugh someday as the HC in true Gary Moeller fashion. If he gets bored we can always put him on defense to broaden his skill set.
December 15th, 2016 at 5:35 AM ^
I think it would be great if Drevno left for a few years, got some head coaching experience, and then came back when Harbaugh retires (or dies) in like 2060.
December 15th, 2016 at 7:44 AM ^
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December 15th, 2016 at 1:23 AM ^
Dereck Mason at Vandy and Brian Polian [formerly] at Nevada as well.
December 15th, 2016 at 9:57 AM ^
Also, Ed Lamb is the HC at Southern Utah. Lamb was Harbuagh's Special Teams coordinator his second year at San Diego.
December 15th, 2016 at 10:27 AM ^
Ed Lamb moved over to BYU this past season to be the Assistant Head Coach (he covers special teams unit too) under Kalani Sitake (former Utah DC under Kyle Whittingham and Oregon State DC under Gary Anderson).
Most around BYU expect him to only last a year or two more before becoming a head coach somewhere. He got looked at for the Nevada job that just opened up. But he'll get a FBS job soon.
December 15th, 2016 at 7:02 AM ^
December 15th, 2016 at 10:04 AM ^
He's actually already been a head coach for as long as Lloyd was -- 13 seasons for both. Lloyd spent a long time as an assistant, Harbaugh spent 1 year.
December 15th, 2016 at 9:14 AM ^
Five of Bo's first group of assistants became head coaches. Eleven of his assistants during his first decade became head coaches, and by my count he had fifteen overall during his Michigan tenure. I might have missed one or two.
Four of his assistants—Carr, McCartney, Miles, and Nehlen—took their own teams to the national championship game, with the first three winning.
Moeller inherited Bo's staff, and he was HC for just four years so he didn't have much of an opportunity to put his own stamp on his staff.
Carr had three in his coaching tree—Hoke, Debord, English. Stan Parrish was also a Carr assistant who went on to be HC at Ball St and interim HC at EMU, but Parrish had previously been HC at three different schools before joining Carr's staff so I wouldn't call him part of Carr's tree.
Only one of RR's assistants at Michigan has ever been HC, but that was Greg Robinson, whose disastrous tenure at Syracuse prior to joining RR was the the worst in Orange history.
None of Hoke's assistants have become HC, and right now it's difficult to envision any of them doing so.
December 15th, 2016 at 10:01 AM ^
None of Hoke's assistants have become HC, and right now it's difficult to envision any of them doing so.
But I hear that Al Borges is in line for the Cleveland Browns HC gig.
December 15th, 2016 at 9:15 AM ^
December 15th, 2016 at 10:04 AM ^
Derek Mason was not on that staff but is another for Harbaugh's tree. Crazy good.
December 15th, 2016 at 11:21 AM ^
It'll be quite a bit more before he's all said and done.
Drevno and Fisch are probably heading somewhere in the not so distant future. Wheatley and Harbaugh Jr. could as well, but they've definitely got to prove themselves at a coordinator level before they take that kind of jump to HC. Brown could probably have most any job he wants if he were open to looking. Thank the good lord he's "too damn old" for that.
That's one of the many things that absolutely baffled me about Carr. The guy had almost no coaching tree to speak of. And the guys he did send off into the wild blue yonder turned out to range somewhere from average to awful.
December 15th, 2016 at 12:24 PM ^
I think Wheatley could be a head coach in the next 3-5 years. Between his NFL experience and the nature of how M calls plays, he's a guy who can "skip ahead" on the traditional career path.
Honestly, Harbaugh's personnel management may be his #1 advantage. He's so good at mixing continuity with new people/ideas and has an incredible network of college, NFL and HS coaches as his talent pool (and knows when to go outside of that pool of known guys like with Don Brown).