Jim Harbaugh
Former QB turned head coach is up next. Currently he’s the head coach at his alma mater, University of Michigan Wolverines. From 1994 to 2001, as a player, Harbaugh also was an unpaid assistant coach at Western Kentucky University, where his dad was head coach.
In 2004, he was head coach at San Diego, earing consecutive Pioneer League championships. Then in 2007, he moved to Stanford and earned two bowl berths in just four seasons, including the 2011 Orange Bowl.
Frank Leahy
During World War II there were few schools that actually prospered but Notre Dame was one of them. Leahy coached for 13 seasons, 12 of them at Notre Dame, where he would turn the Fighting Irish into the most dominant team of the ’40s.
But before he turned to coaching for Notre Dame, he actually played for them! Between 1928 and 1930, Leahy played the position of tackle for the University of Notre Dame. But even before then he had stood out as a football player.