Station HYPO

By CDR Brian Schulz, Commanding Officer, Navy Information Operations Command Yokosuka, Japan. 

When football pundits talk about the “great” head coaches, their assessments turn to championships and then inevitably to the “coaching tree.” This idea of a coaching tree is identifying what former assistant coaches under a head coach went on to their own success as a head coach.   Bill Parcells, one of the all time greats (I said “one of,” don’t stop reading now out of Giants/Patriots/Jets/Cowboys hatred), has a coaching tree that includes Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, Mike Zimmer, Anthony Lynn, Doug Marrone, and Todd Bowles…all former assistants under Parcells and now all pretty successful head coaches (or former, in Bowles case) in their own right.