Eastern Illinois - Coaching Hotbed

[TexasTerror]

Nice write-up in the Times Picayune, part of their Saints special section today.

Almost three quarters of the players in the NFL come from big-time college programs everyone has heard of, but is the same true among the league's head coaching fraternity?

It's not.

That sweepstakes has produced an unlikely winner: Eastern Illinois University, and the Panthers aren't just putting guys into the NFL's notorious coaching carousel, either. At the moment, Eastern Illinois has three alumni as professional head coaches, and one of them -- the New Orleans Saints' Sean Payton or the Minnesota Vikings' Brad Childress -- is going to be coaching in Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7 in Miami.

Good to see EIU getting some pub down here in NOLA.

[dbackjon]

Pretty amazing that EIU had half the final four coaches as alums, along with the QB of a final 8 team.