Feb 1, 2015; Glendale, AZ, USA; Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll on the left talks with New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick before Super Bowl XLIX at University of Phoenix Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports
Which NFL head coaches would make college football even more fun and exciting than it already is and inject some youth, energy and a great deal winning experience?
The NFL and college football have been tied together seemingly forever. This has resulted in coaches from both leagues dipping their toes in each other’s waters with a number of success and a number of epic failures.
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Pete Carroll and Jimmy Johnson both won national championships while head coaches in college. Winning titles in college always brings with it rumors of NFL teams wanting those coaches to resurrect their struggling NFL franchises. Carroll and Johnson both did just that going from college to the NFL and each have a Super Bowl ring to cement themselves as coaching legends.
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On the flip side, there are even more stories of college coaches jumping to the NFL and falling flat on their faces. Some of the greatest college coaches who dominated and won titles (like Dennis Erickson, Nick Saban, Lou Holtz, and Steve Spurrier), failed miserably when they jumped up to the NFL.
Every year like clockwork, articles get written about which college coaches are ready to jump to the NFL. This is not one of those articles. In fact, this is the reverse.
Look at the success Jim Mora has had at UCLA after leaving the NFL for the college ranks. With the Michigan Wolverines going hard to land Jim Harbaugh, an NFL coach with a lot of success, one has to wonder, could other schools go this route, and if they did, who would be the top choices?
Every coach on this list has at least one thing in common, Super Bowl rings, so here are five NFL coaches we’d love to see in the college game.
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