Bill Belichick
Coaching TreeBill Belichick Coaching Tree
- Bill Belichick
- Nick Saban
- Bobby Williams
- Pat Shurmur
- Mark Dantonio
- Brad Salem
- Josh McDaniels
- Derek Dooley
- Jimbo Fisher
- Will Muschamp
- Jason Garrett
- Scott Linehan
- Mike Mularkey
- Jim McElwain
- Al Groh
- Jim Schwartz
- Woody Widenhofer
- Kirk Ferentz
- Rod Dowhower
- Jim Fassel
- George Seifert
- Ray Rhodes
- Mike Holmgren
- Jon Gruden
- Mike Shanahan
- Jeff Fisher
- Tom Holmoe
- Gary Kubiak
- Bo Pelini
- Pete Carroll
- Ray Handley
- Brad Childress
- Ken Whisenhunt
- Woody Widenhofer
- Charlie Weis
- Eric Mangini
- Romeo Crennel
- Josh McDaniels
- Bill O'Brien
Bill Belichick is a member of the following coaching trees:
What is a coaching tree?
A coaching tree is a graphical depiction of the former assistant coaches of a certain head coach that then went on and became head coaches. The tree also shows the next generations of head coaches at each layer.
In the above Bill Belichick coaching tree, only the coaches named directly below Bill Belichick are the head coaches that were former assistants of Bill Belichick.
Coaching trees can be useful to track the philosophical influence of a particular coach as well as tracing the "lineage" of a coach back to various other coaches. Recently in the NFL, all 32 head coaches could be traced back to three prominent head coaches: Bill Walsh, Bill Parcells and Marty Schottenheimer.