There have been plenty of successful college coaches flaming out in the NFL, but is Belichick the first high-profile example of a successful NFL coaching flaming out in college?

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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/jfarbzz on 2025-10-09 13:51:06+00:00.

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Football history is littered with good-to-great college coaches trying their hand at an NFL head coaching gig and failing hard- think Urban Meyer, Nick Saban, Bobby Petrino, the list goes on- but Bill Belichick has got me thinking, are there any other examples of the opposite? An NFL coach moving down a level to coach college and being a disaster there? Off the top of my head the only other one I can think of is Lovie Smith having a losing record at Illinois, but that wasn’t THIS kind of bad…