Don James
Coaching TreeDon James Coaching Tree
- Don James
- Bob Stull
- Skip Hall
- Dom Capers
- 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
- Gary Pinkel
- Jim Lambright
- Jim Mora
- Keith Gilbertson
- Jim Mora Jr
Don James 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 Don James coaching tree, only the coaches named directly below Don James are the head coaches that were former assistants of Don James.
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.