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HEAD COACH
- Dallas Renegades
- Bob Stoops - Head Coach and GM - Oklahoma Head Coach from 1999-2016. Was almost the Iowa Head Coach as he is a proud Hawkeye alum and was an All-Big Ten selection and started his coaching career there where he coached under Hayden Fry for five years. Stoops elevated the Oklahoma program with consistently great offensive teams and on the years they found defenses, they were on the elite level of college football. I’m guessing he is the highest paid coach in the league as he is allegedly receiving $1 million for coaching this season.
- Hal Mumme - OC - The originator of the Air Raid, and the man that taught it to Mike Leach. His earliest college head coaching job was with Iowa Wesleyan, because all great things start in Iowa and then move on. His head coaching resume is a mixed bag, but he knows offense, so Dallas is very likely to put up points.
- Scott Spurrier - Quality Control - Oh hell, yeah, the young ball coach.
- Chris Woods - DC - A lot of smaller school experience and a brief stint as Texas State’s interim head coach in 2018.
- St. Louis Battlehawks
- Jonathan Hayes - Head Coach and GM - Iowa tight end that played over a decade in the NFL. He learned under Hayden Fry and first coached under Bob Stoops. Has mostly been a tight ends coach but was the head coach during the East West Shrine Game in 2018.
- Doug Meacham - OC - Former offensive lineman for Oklahoma State who has been an offensive coordinator at many different places. He was last at Kansas where he was fired in the middle of the 2018 season.
- Chuck Long - RB Coach - Iowa - Greatest quarterback in Iowa history. Should have won the Heisman in 1985 but lost what was the closest Heisman vote in history to some schlub running back from Auburn named Vincent Jackson. Jonah, do you remember anything about that running back? As for his coaching career, he started off as a defensive backs coach for Iowa before transitioning to quarterbacks and worked his way up to Oklahoma offensive coordinator before becoming head coach at San Diego State. It ended after three seasons, and then he spent a couple years as Kansas’s offensive coordinator but has not been coaching since 2011.
- Az-Zahir Hakim - WR Coach - Hell yeah, Az-Zahir is the man. His only coaching job was wide receivers for the San Diego Fleet in the Alliance.
- Jay Hayes - DC - An Idaho graduate who is the brother of Jonathan Hayes, so that is quite the XFALpha connection there as both the Hawkeyes and Vandals are represented. Special Teams coach for four years before spending 15 years as a defensive line coach, 13 of those years in Cincinnati.
- Matt Raich - Co-Defensive Coordinator - Another long-time defensive assistant that did most of his work with lineman and linebackers.
- Tampa Vipers
- Marc Trestman - Head Coach and GM - Former Minnesota Golden Gopher QB before going on to Miami to earn a law degree and make Bernie Kosar great as his QB coach at both Miami, where they won a National Title, and part of Kosar’s stint in Cleveland. He’s worked with Steve Young, Scott Mitchell, Jake Plummer, and led Rich Gannon to his MVP season. I know Jonah must love Trestman, because he is a 3-time Grey Cup Champion, twice as Head Coach of the Montreal Alouettes and once with the Toronto Argonauts. Oddly, there is no record of him coaching from 2013-2014 so as far as I know this is his first head coaching gig in the United States.
- Jaime Elizondo - OC - Also has a law degree. He spent his last three years coaching offense for the Ottawa Redblacks so there is the possibility of him calling punts on third down.
- Jerry Glanville - DC - Master’s Degree, and he’s 78 years young, was a head coach nine seasons with Houston and Atlanta but never won a division title. Is not only worse than Joe Gibbs at coaching but also NASCAR. His last head coaching job was with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, so I think Trestman may have really been banking on this league having CFL rules.
- Houston Roughnecks
- June Junes - Head Coach and GM - June Jones is a very good offensive mind who had some impressive success at Hawaii and SMU. His pro coaching career wasn’t quite as stellar, but he knows how to put points up with the run and shoot, so at least his team should be exciting.
- Chris Miller - OC - The old Falcons quarterback which is how he knows June Jones so well. His only coaching experience above high school is a four-year sting with the Cardinals as a quarterbacks coach that ended in 2012. He hasn’t coached since.
- Ted Cottrell - DC - He’s coached a lot of defense in his day with a consecutive run from 1973-2009. And in 2009, he got his first head coaching gig with the New York Sentinels of the United Football League, but they were 0-6 and so bad that they moved to Hartford the next year. He took a ten-year break before being a linebackers coach in the Alliance, and now he’s a full-fledged defensive coordinator again. Sometimes you don’t need to be good; you just need to stick around.
- Seattle Dragons
- Jim Zorn - Head Coach and GM - Possibly the most successful player of all the head coaches as he was a quarterback for over a decade in the NFL. He helped get Matt Hasselbeck career years as Seattle’s offensive coordinator before spending two years as the Redskins head coach. Since it lasted only two years, I feel like you can guess that things did not go well. He last coaching gig was quarterbacks coach for the Chiefs. You may be thinking that he may have some of that Andy Reid magic who has been with the team since 2013, but Zorn was actually pre-Andy, as he coached there in 2012 under Romeo Crennel. Hopefully the game of football hasn’t changed in the last eight years.
- Mike Riley - OC - It’s not fair that I laugh every time I hear Mike Riley’s name, but hot damn, he had to have been the worst possible fit for Nebraska. He was a very good coach for Oregon State, but his style really didn’t fit the bigger stage as he also showed when he inexplicably became a NFL head coach with the San Diego Chargers for three years. He would probably say his Nebraska tenure was highlighted by his 9-win season, but I prefer the previous year where he won the Foster Farms Bowl despite Nebraska entering the game with only a 5-7 record because not enough teams were academically eligible to make bowl games that year. In all seriousness, he’s probably overqualified to be the offensive coordinator, especially considering he led the San Antonio Commanders to a 5-3 record in the only AAF season.
- Clayton Lopez - DC - This is his first coordinator position, and he hasn’t coached since 2013.
- DC Defenders
- Pep Hamilton - Head Coach and GM - He’s never been a head coach, but he has coached Andrew Luck, and somehow getting Luck to be a good quarterback is enough to continue to give this man chances. I feel like he would have had a pretty hard time to not get that done, and considering Luck’s immense talent, I’m not even sure if he did a good job with him.
- Tanner Engstrand - OC - He was an offensive coordinator at San Diego before a year as an offensive analyst at Michigan. He retweets everything the DC Defenders account tweets out.
- Jeff FitzGerald - DC - Has extensive experience coaching linebackers. He hasn’t coached since 2016.
- Los Angeles Wildcats
- Winston Moss - Head Coach and GM - May have been fired from the Packers for tweeting mean things about Aaron Rodgers. He’s also never been a coordinator at any level but did coach under Mike McCarthy for 12 straight seasons, so that is a thing that happened.
- Norm Chow - OC - Was hailed a genius for developing an offense at USC that was effective as long as they had the best talent in the nation playing for them. That magic formula wasn’t so great at other stops and especially bad at his one head coaching job at Hawaii. His last coaching position was a high school assistant in 2016.
- Jerry Fontenot was an old Bears offensive lineman, and now he’s coaching offensive line for the Wildcats so that’s cool.
- Pepper Johnson - DC - Was a defensive coach with the Patriots for 14 seasons but this will be his first coordinator position. Another guy who was very good on Tecmo Super Bowl for the Giants. He got his name by putting pepper on his corn flakes.
- New York Guardians
- Kevin Gilbride - Head Coach and GM - Has only been a head coach one time in his career and that was a two-year stint with the San Diego Chargers where he went 6-16 before getting fired less than half way through his second year. He is mostly remembered for getting in a fight with Buddy Ryan while they were coaches in Houston. He won two Super Bowls as the Giants offensive coordinator but hasn’t coached since 2013. This does not seem like the most ideal hire to me.
- George Mangus - OC - Most recently was the offensive coordinator at Kutztown, but he has both played and worked under Steve Spurrier, so maybe he can finally uncover some of that Spurrier magic buried deep inside him.
- Jim Herrmann - DC - He was the top college assistant in the nation...in 1997. He left Michigan in 2005 and has bounced around as a linebackers coach since. He was originally going to become Bowling Green’s Linebacker’s coach, but the XFL is so hard up for coaching talent that he is now a professional defensive coordinator.
- Cris Dishman (D-Backs Coach) was a stud on Tecmo Super Bowl.
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