+ Billy Donovan's leaving NCAA Florida to coach NBA Orlando. Prediction: it won't work. Who was the last successful NCAA-to-NBA coach? Can't name one. Now the failure I can name off the top of my head... And the NFL failures, too...
+ Eric Mangini (Jets) helicoptered to his mother's graduation. Nice story.
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6 comments:
Donovan is really disappointing in being, well, so predictable.
your own UofF prejudice is also somewhat predictable ;-)
NCAA to NFL head coach? The only ones I can think of that were successful were Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer, and the latter's obviously a special case because he took over the most loaded roster the NFL's seen in the last twenty years.
But how about NCAA head coaches who came into the NFL as coordinators? Any of those?
don't know, Jaq. probably, but i can't think of any. Norm Chow, sort of.
heck, even Johnson can be questioned. he wasn't real great shakes at Miami...
Gosh, Sean, am I that transparent? But there is symmetry here. Duke is to Florida as Coach K is to Donovan. What can I say beyond that?
As they were saying on the radio the other day, Larry Brown is probably the only one who had any success at the NBA level. But even he bounced back to the NCAA a couple of times.
Chris
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