Urban and Jimmy are more "leadership" and "culture" guys. That translates.
Urban also has a history of turning programs around and found success each time.
Spurrier and Kelly were more "scheme" and "style"
Paul Brown, Tom Coughlin, and Dick Vermeil were all college guys who found NFL success.
With Paul Brown you are correct......Vermeil and Coughlin had previous NFL experience before returning to college coaching and back to the NFL ( many have taken this route).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Vermeil
Vermeil shares the distinction of being hired as one of the NFL's first
special teams coaches with Hall of Fame Coach
Marv Levy.
[3] Vermeil was hired by
George Allen's
Los Angeles Rams in
1969 the same year Levy was hired by
Jerry Williams, then Head Coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. Except for 1970, when Vermeil was an assistant coach with
UCLA, he would remain with the Rams until
1974 when he was named as head coach by UCLA.\
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coughlin
Coaching career[edit]
Coughlin's first head coaching job was at the
Rochester Institute of Technology from 1970 to 1973. He then returned to his alma mater where he was eventually promoted to
offensive coordinator, a position he also held at
Boston College where he coached
Doug Flutie. He returned to the staff after his stint at the
Rochester Institute of Technology. Coughlin's second stint started in 1974, and ended in 1980. He left the collegiate level to become a
wide receivers coach in the
NFL for the
Philadelphia Eagles, and later the
Green Bay Packers and
New York Giants.
While at New York, he was an assistant to
Bill Parcells, and helped the Giants win
Super Bowl XXV. Coughlin and Parcells have both made the
NFL playoffs five times as Giants head coach, and the two
Super Bowl titles they each have won with the Giants have occurred in their fourth and eighth seasons with the franchise, respectively.
[5]
Boston College (1991−1993)[edit]
After the 1990 season, Coughlin returned to
Boston College to take on his second job as a head coach. In three seasons at Boston College, he turned the program into a consistent winner. Coughlin's tenure was capped with a 41–39 victory over #1 ranked
Notre Dame in 1993, the first time Boston College defeated Notre Dame.