I never had anything planned, like, 'When I'm 40 I'll be coaching here.' A number of people in our profession have done that, but my thing was always, wherever I was coaching, to work hard, do the best you can, and if it happens, it happens.

Coaches who want to coach in the NFL usually don't go to the high school level for 10 years. They know where they want to go early.

I took a leave of absence for a year to coach at San Francisco State under Vic Rowen, fully intending to go back to high school.

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