That's a good one, Wann.

Can't believe I missed it.

It is hard to believe how few fired coaches turn up better.

Carroll was run out of Foxboro on a rail, resplendent with tar and feathers. College is a different milieu. Have you seen Carroll's sideline behavior? After a big win, Carroll behaves like a kid who's just discovered a Playstation 2 under the tree on Christmas morning. Not very classy, in fact. One of the basic rules of behavior that coaches try to instill in their teams is to 'try to act like you've done this before...behave like you EXPECT to score and EXPECT to win. In this regard, Carroll's enthusiasm and lack of aplomb make him well suited for the college game. So, essentially, we're discussing apples and oranges here (i.e. the pro to college transition). Carroll may be contemplating moving back to the NFL but in my estimation, it would be a mistake for him. The picker is quite right in his article. A firing often makes a coach anathema to other institutions, at least until said coach has done his pennance as an assistant for several seasons and once again proven his worth. Another interesting little-known-fact is that once a college coach has been sissy-slapped on the field (e.g. Callahan taking a 70 pointer on the chin against TTech a couple of years ago), he seldom reaches the level of icon at any institution. After absorbing such a pounding, a coach may be able to hang around a program and steady the ship for a few seasons, but I cannot think of a single one who's taken such a beating and then gone on to reach the standards of Bryant, Wilkinson, Hayes, etc...(with the possible exception of Bill Snyder who, admittedly, took some pretty heavy pounding his first couple of years...but bear in mind that Snyder had no tradition to live up to in Manhattan...he was establishing tradition).