Template talk:Infobox NFL Coach
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[edit] Combining NFL Coach, NFL PlayerCoach and College Coach Infoboxes
I think that Template:College coach infobox should be combined as well as NFL Coach and NFL PlayerCoach. Let's face it, the normal progression is college player to pro player, and a pro player never regresses and becomes a college player again. So, the Template:Infobox NFLactive has that covered.
However, the normal progression for a coach's career is different. He didn't have to play pro football to be a coach, and for that matter, he didn't even have to play college ball. An NFL head coach doesn't have to be an NFL assistant first, he could have been a college coach.
What about a coach that goes pro and then returns to college? Like Lou Holtz, Steve Spurrier, or Nick Saban? These folks are only going to have one page within Wikipedia, so the infobox should be able to accurately summarize their careers. Having an infobox tied to only college or only pro doesn't make sense to me bacause of this. This works great only for coaches who spent their career in one segment of the sport.
What about coaching position? Existing infoboxes--college and pro--want to just list head coaching positions in the resume section. Does that make sense? I don't think so. You have I-AA head coaches who will take a I-A assistant postion as a promotion. You have coaches like Ron Zook who go from assistant in college, to assistant in pros, and then return to college because a top job at a major school can be a promotion over being an assistant in the NFL.
I would like to see a better info box that can handle these situations.
Any ideas or comments? - SCgatorFan 03:40, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
