an amazing 40 assistant coaches have come from bill walsh’s coaching tree and gone on to become nfl head coaches over the past 19 years since walsh retired. plus, another 6 have gone on to become head coaches in college with pete carroll winning 2 national titles with usc and 3 of the 6 being black head coaches (dennis green, tyrone willingham and karl dorrell).
the coaching tree above is actually not complete… here are more head coaches in walsh’s coaching tree, plus a high percentage of all black head coaches in the nfl’s history come from walsh’s coaching tree—that’s 7 of 9 with only art shell and romeo crennel not from walsh’s coaching tree… now that’s simply astounding:
marvin lewis (bengals)
herm edwards (chiefs, jets)
mike nolan (49ers)
norv turner (chargers)
sean payton (saints)
pete carroll (patriots & jets)
dick jauron (bills, bears)
gregg williams (bills)
jim mora, jr. (falcons)
chuck studley (oilers)
david shula (bengals)
dick lebeau (bengals)
mike white (raiders)
lane kiffin (raiders)
nfl head coaches & assistant coaches who became college head coaches afterwards:
dennis green (stanford, northwestern)
tyronne willingham (washington, notre dame, stanford)
pete carroll (usc)
paul hackett (usc, pitt)
karl dorrell (ucla)
tom holmoe (cal)
they are or have coached in the following conferences: pac-10, big 10, big east and independent.
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how about this factoid… bill walsh’s coaching tree has had a head coach on every team in the league except the cowboys, redskins (norv turner coached there before he was an assistant with mike nolan and nolan was his defensive coordinator at washington), browns (although carmen policy and dwight clark were there when the browns returned to the league) and dolphins. that’s 28 out the league’s 32 teams that walsh’s head coaching tree extended to after walsh retired from the 49ers.
more walsh factoids to come.
since walsh retired from coaching the 49ers in 1988 with 3 super bowl titles, his head coaching tree has won 8 super bowls:
1989 george seifert (49ers)
1994 georger seifert (49ers)
1996 mike holmgren (packers): holmgren also coached in two superbowl losses with the 1997 packers and the 2005 seahawks
1997 mike shanahan (broncos)
1998 mike shanahan (broncos)
2000 brian billick (ravens)
2002 jon gruden (bucs)
2006 tony dungy (colts)
starting with 1988, walsh’s head coaching tree has coached in the super bowl every year except for 1990-1993, 1995, 2001—a total of 13 out of the last 19 years. and within that time span, walsh’s head coaching tree has represented both the afc and the nfc in the same super bowl on 5 occassions (1988 bill walsh [win] vs. sam wyche, 1997 mike shanahan [win] vs. mike holmgren, 2000 brian billick [win] vs. jim fassel, 2002 jon gruden [win] vs. bill callahan, and 2006 tony dungy [win] vs. lovie smith. plus, the last 5 years running a head coach from walsh’s coaching tree has coached in the super bowl, winning 2 of those 5.
1988 bill walsh (49ers win) vs. sam wyche (bengals loss)
1989 george seifert (49ers win)
1994 george seifert (49ers win)
1996 mike holmgren (packers win)
1997 mike shanahan (broncos win) vs. mike holmgren (packers loss)
1998 mike shanahan (broncos win)
1999 jeff fisher (titans loss)
2000 brian billick (ravens win) vs. jim fassel (giants loss)
2002 jon gruden (bucs win) vs. bill callahan (raiders loss)
2003 john fox (panthers loss)
2004 andy reid (eagles loss)
2005 mike holmgren (seahawks loss)
2006 tony dungy (colts win) vs. lovie smith (bears loss)
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