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[QUOTE="BlazeOrange, post: 954003, member: 683"]
But before those coaches got their [U]position[/U] level jobs at P5 schools:
 
Pete Carrol - went from grad assistant (4 years at Pacific and one at Arkansas) to Secondary Coach at Iowa State.  He then moved up to the same position at Ohio State and parlayed that into a defensive coordinator gig at NC State.  Went back to Pacific the next year, then went pro for the first time.;
 
Nick Saban - went from grad assistant (3 years at Kent State) to Defensive Assistant at Kent State for one year to the same position at SU. He then took 1-2 year stints at basically the same position at WVU, Ohio State, and Navy before landing a coordinator job at Michigan State.  Then he started bouncing back and forth from the pros.;
 
Doug Marrone - went from one year stints at Cortland (TE coach), Coast Guard (OL coach), and Northeastern (OL coach) to TE coach at Georgia Tech.  He later got promoted to OL coach, then made lateral moves to Georgia and Tennessee before going pro. 
 
So I'd say we're getting coaches with better resumes than these three had at their first P5 school.  There were more "lateral" moves than I thought I'd see going into this Google exercise.  Some are easily understood upgrades to higher profile factory schools. I don't know the reasoning for others - may be some HC changes involved.
 
Some others at the positions we just filled:
Urban Meyer - hired as TE coach at Ohio State with only one year of high school coaching experience.
Dabo Swinney - played at Alabame, then 3 seasons as grad assistant, then hired as WR/TE coach
Les Miles - hired as OL coach at Colorado with only two years as grad assistant at Michigan on his resume
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