[stupac2]

You have to scroll way down on this article, but here's the Shaw bit:

There’s little doubt in my mind that the college coach who piques the interest of NFL teams the most right now (except for Nick Saban and Jim Harbaugh) is Stanford’s David Shaw. I was in Palo Alto two weeks ago and recorded a conversation with Shaw for my Dec. 28 podcast, and I recommend it highly. (Subscribe to my podcast on iTunes to have it download automatically to your feed when it posts.) Shaw’s an intelligent guy, players love playing for him, and he’ll have his chance one day to run an NFL program.

But I doubt it will be soon. Never say never, but he sounds very comfortable at Stanford.

Shaw, 44, was an NFL assistant for 10 seasons before moving to Stanford in 2007.

I asked Shaw: What’s the biggest difference between the NFL and college?

“Everything,” Shaw said, sitting his office at Stanford. “Absolutely everything. When you are in college, the essential thing for being a good college football coach, in my opinion, is to never, ever forget that someone just dropped their most important possession in my lap. I can’t ever forget that, no matter what I do, no matter what I say, no matter if we win or lose or if I yell at a young man or put my arm around him. I can’t ever forget that that is somebody else’s baby and they gave them to me. Now, in the NFL, when a guy walks in the door, he works for me. He has a job to do or I’m cutting him. That’s it. That is everything. The essentials of both are completely different. That 17-year-old kid who walks in the door, I am going to take care of him and get the best out of him and teach him to push himself and expect a lot of himself in the classroom, on the football field and the community. In the NFL, we are trying to win football games. Nothing else matters.”

I asked him if it’d be tough to turn down some rich man offering him $8 million a year to coach his team.

“Not at all,” Shaw said. “What is more money? Especially when it is temporary. I am different because I grew up in this business. My dad was a football coach. I watched it happen over and over again. That first press conference for an NFL head coach that just got hired … as soon as that press conference starts, you start the clock for how long he is going to be there. It’s just a fact of the business, I’m not saying it is good or bad. It just is. It's three to five years, that's what you have, if you're lucky. It's not a permanent job. You are a temp. Every NFL head coach outside of Bill Belichick is a temp. To not understand that is folly, to be one of those guys that just takes the money, just because it is the money, doesn't understand it. If I get myself into that washing machine at some point—because that's what it is, it churns you up and the timer goes off and you get out—then I am doing it with my eyes wide open. For me right now, my daily life at Stanford University, I can't imagine there is a better job in America.”

So there. Shaw would be a great get, but it’ll take something really special to get him off The Farm.

I didn't listen to the mentioned podcast, but presumably there's more in there. I wonder if we'll see Shaw's name on any short lists for NFL jobs this year, I can't imagine there will be any he's interested in.

[stupac2]

You have to scroll way down on this article, but here's the Shaw bit:

There’s little doubt in my mind that the college coach who piques the interest of NFL teams the most right now (except for Nick Saban and Jim Harbaugh) is Stanford’s David Shaw. I was in Palo Alto two weeks ago and recorded a conversation with Shaw for my Dec. 28 podcast, and I recommend it highly. (Subscribe to my podcast on iTunes to have it download automatically to your feed when it posts.) Shaw’s an intelligent guy, players love playing for him, and he’ll have his chance one day to run an NFL program.

But I doubt it will be soon. Never say never, but he sounds very comfortable at Stanford.

Shaw, 44, was an NFL assistant for 10 seasons before moving to Stanford in 2007.

I asked Shaw: What’s the biggest difference between the NFL and college?

“Everything,” Shaw said, sitting his office at Stanford. “Absolutely everything. When you are in college, the essential thing for being a good college football coach, in my opinion, is to never, ever forget that someone just dropped their most important possession in my lap. I can’t ever forget that, no matter what I do, no matter what I say, no matter if we win or lose or if I yell at a young man or put my arm around him. I can’t ever forget that that is somebody else’s baby and they gave them to me. Now, in the NFL, when a guy walks in the door, he works for me. He has a job to do or I’m cutting him. That’s it. That is everything. The essentials of both are completely different. That 17-year-old kid who walks in the door, I am going to take care of him and get the best out of him and teach him to push himself and expect a lot of himself in the classroom, on the football field and the community. In the NFL, we are trying to win football games. Nothing else matters.”

I asked him if it’d be tough to turn down some rich man offering him $8 million a year to coach his team.

“Not at all,” Shaw said. “What is more money? Especially when it is temporary. I am different because I grew up in this business. My dad was a football coach. I watched it happen over and over again. That first press conference for an NFL head coach that just got hired … as soon as that press conference starts, you start the clock for how long he is going to be there. It’s just a fact of the business, I’m not saying it is good or bad. It just is. It's three to five years, that's what you have, if you're lucky. It's not a permanent job. You are a temp. Every NFL head coach outside of Bill Belichick is a temp. To not understand that is folly, to be one of those guys that just takes the money, just because it is the money, doesn't understand it. If I get myself into that washing machine at some point—because that's what it is, it churns you up and the timer goes off and you get out—then I am doing it with my eyes wide open. For me right now, my daily life at Stanford University, I can't imagine there is a better job in America.”

So there. Shaw would be a great get, but it’ll take something really special to get him off The Farm.

I didn't listen to the mentioned podcast, but presumably there's more in there. I wonder if we'll see Shaw's name on any short lists for NFL jobs this year, I can't imagine there will be any he's interested in.