Here's a good stat for you.
Those coaches are:
Dabo Swinney, Bob Stoops, Kirk Ferentz, David Shaw, Jimbo Fisher, Gary Patterson, Pat Fitzgerald, Mark Helfrich, Mike Gundy, Tom Herman.
Notably, two of those coaches have won national titles and all but Fitzgerald have won at least one conference title.
I see a lot of people saying that Bob Stoops is an outlier, and if you want to hire a successful coach you need someone with a lot of head coaching experience beforehand. Obviously a lot of the guys listed above have gotten a lot of experience at their current jobs. But the fact remains, none of those coaches had any head coaching experience before taking over their current jobs.
Those coaches are:
Dabo Swinney, Bob Stoops, Kirk Ferentz, David Shaw, Jimbo Fisher, Gary Patterson, Pat Fitzgerald, Mark Helfrich, Mike Gundy, Tom Herman.
Notably, two of those coaches have won national titles and all but Fitzgerald have won at least one conference title.
I see a lot of people saying that Bob Stoops is an outlier, and if you want to hire a successful coach you need someone with a lot of head coaching experience beforehand. Obviously a lot of the guys listed above have gotten a lot of experience at their current jobs. But the fact remains, none of those coaches had any head coaching experience before taking over their current jobs.
