What is Jerry Jones going to do? Nobody quite knows who will lead the Dallas Cowboys from the sidelines in 2019. The likeliest scenario is that it won't be their current head coach, Jason Garrett. It may also not be one of those highly touted college ones.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones does not sound too crazy about employing a coach from the college ranks as his head honcho.
“College coaches coming directly into [NFL] head coach have the lowest percentage rate of success as opposed to coming from coordinators,” Jones said on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, via Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News. “You pay a price for somebody to get up to date.”
There is a learning curve coming from college coaching to the NFL. Jones does not appear too keen to waiting for one of those coaches to take their time. That could mean that those excitable candidates Oklahoma's Lincoln Riley, Baylor's Matt Rhule and others may be off the table.
Or, it could mean that Jones is playing mind games. Perhaps he does not want to get the fanbase excited to bring one of those college coaches. He, like most every NFL organization, knows what NCAA coaches are inclined to take a job in advance. It's possible that Riley or Rhule is not willing to leave the powerhouses they built for the most polarizing coaching job in sports.
Nonetheless, Jones' statements don't particularly correlate to his history. The first coach he brought in when he became an owner was Jimmy Johnson, who was at the University of Miami before. Though Johnson went 1-15 in his first year, he quickly built a Super Bowl dynasty. He then fired him for another college coach in Barry Switzer, who went on to win a Super Bowl in Dallas.
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