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What is the pathway to becoming a coach in the NFL?
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:14 pm
Or college? is it as competitive as a Hollywood director or politician?
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Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:16 pm to PSG
Be good at telling players what to do and how to do it
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:16 pm to DirtyDawg
where do you start out at or even apply?
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:17 pm to PSG
Be born to a current NFL coach.
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:18 pm to PSG
You can start as an assistant at the high school level or become a GA at a college program if you have connections.
Work up from there after that.
Work up from there after that.
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:20 pm to PSG
It's really hard to make it in the NFL as an outsider when you have coaches like Jeff Fisher and Rob Ryan that just get recycled all over the league.
Totally different from the NCAA. Takes a special mentality to coach guys that get paid way more than you do and still be effective.
Totally different from the NCAA. Takes a special mentality to coach guys that get paid way more than you do and still be effective.
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:21 pm to PSG
Work for free someplace. Work long hours, have a contact with a coach.
NFL is you have to know someone and be willing to go 100 hr weeks.
NFL is you have to know someone and be willing to go 100 hr weeks.
This post was edited on 1/20/17 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:22 pm to PSG
For the NBA, just be a video editor and then the Heat will hire you with a stacked team.
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:27 pm to PSG
There's a bunch of ways, and most are basically still long shots
Know the right people, be related to the right people, and be successful in the opportunities you get
Know the right people, be related to the right people, and be successful in the opportunities you get
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:39 pm to LL012697
That is absolute insanity 
This post was edited on 1/20/17 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:46 pm to PSG
Start out on the absolute lowest part of the totem poll and be a volunteer unpaid-or-below-minimum wage-assistant in the coach's office and look at game film in your spare time.
I think Eric Mangini did that.
I think Eric Mangini did that.
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:48 pm to PSG
Wear a grey sleeveless hoodie and don't smile.
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:48 pm to PSG
If Vito Corleone were an NFL honcho, Fredo would have been an assistant special teams coach.
nearly one-quarter of current NFL head coaches have one of their sons on staff.
• Bill Belichick, Patriots (Steve Belichick, coaching assistant)
? Jeff Fisher, Rams (Brandon Fisher, defensive backs coach)
? Marvin Lewis, Bengals (Marcus Lewis, defensive assistant)
? Andy Reid, Chiefs (Britt Reid, assistant defensive line coach)
? Lovie Smith, Buccaneers (Mikal Smith, safeties coach)
? Mike Zimmer, Vikings (Adam Zimmer, linebackers coach)*
? Pete Carroll, Seahawks (Nate Carroll, assistant wide receivers coach; Brennan Carroll, assistant offensive line coach)**
*?Vikings offensive coordinator Norv Turner also has his son, Scott, as quarterbacks coach.
**?Of Carroll’s three children, only daughter Jaime is not on staff in Seattle.
We have seen head-coaching brothers recently — Jim and John Harbaugh, Jon and Jay Gruden — with both sets of siblings from a coaching family. Buddy Ryan begat Rex and Rob. Bum Phillips begat Wade and Wes. Former NFL coach and current UCLA coach Jim Mora coached under his father, Jim Sr., with the Saints. And on and on.
One-quarter of NFL offensive coordinators have family coaching connections.
nearly one-quarter of current NFL head coaches have one of their sons on staff.
• Bill Belichick, Patriots (Steve Belichick, coaching assistant)
? Jeff Fisher, Rams (Brandon Fisher, defensive backs coach)
? Marvin Lewis, Bengals (Marcus Lewis, defensive assistant)
? Andy Reid, Chiefs (Britt Reid, assistant defensive line coach)
? Lovie Smith, Buccaneers (Mikal Smith, safeties coach)
? Mike Zimmer, Vikings (Adam Zimmer, linebackers coach)*
? Pete Carroll, Seahawks (Nate Carroll, assistant wide receivers coach; Brennan Carroll, assistant offensive line coach)**
*?Vikings offensive coordinator Norv Turner also has his son, Scott, as quarterbacks coach.
**?Of Carroll’s three children, only daughter Jaime is not on staff in Seattle.
We have seen head-coaching brothers recently — Jim and John Harbaugh, Jon and Jay Gruden — with both sets of siblings from a coaching family. Buddy Ryan begat Rex and Rob. Bum Phillips begat Wade and Wes. Former NFL coach and current UCLA coach Jim Mora coached under his father, Jim Sr., with the Saints. And on and on.
One-quarter of NFL offensive coordinators have family coaching connections.
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:59 pm to PSG
Being a graduate assistant or volunteer coach is how most do it. Do that well enough and you get promoted.
Posted on 1/20/17 at 2:03 pm to PSG
Easiest path is to be a successful high school coach, get an auxiliary position at a big in state school, move on field, then work up as usual
Posted on 1/20/17 at 2:16 pm to rolltide32
That is not the easiest way at all. You have to rung up two major steps of the chain going through that.
A lot of guys don't ever get a chance to move up from HS, usually when they do it's because they have a player or relative that they can seal up
There's exceptions but the odds are much longer starting off at the HS level
A lot of guys don't ever get a chance to move up from HS, usually when they do it's because they have a player or relative that they can seal up
There's exceptions but the odds are much longer starting off at the HS level
Posted on 1/20/17 at 2:38 pm to PSG
so NFl has more nepotism then hollywood ?
Posted on 1/20/17 at 3:51 pm to PSG
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so NFl has more nepotism then hollywood ?
By a long shot.
Posted on 1/20/17 at 3:55 pm to Rhio
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Start out on the absolute lowest part of the totem poll and be a volunteer unpaid-or-below-minimum wage-assistant in the coach's office and look at game film in your spare time.
Think Sean Payton started out like this as well.
You have to put in a lot of hours doing thankless work in order to hone your craft and get the exposure you need.
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