31.   Rice coach Ken Hatfield, who coached Gailey in college at Florida, said he knew then that Gailey had what it took to be a successful coach.

32.   Rowatt agreed that Knight has been a successful coach in spite of his aggressive coaching style.

33.   Successful coaches come in lots of different packages.

34.   Successful coaches like Shanahan, Parcells, Joe Gibbs, and Bill Walsh understand the importance of having older players on a team.

35.   Successful coaches put an increasingly heavy stress on mental preparation, Ungerleider noted.

36.   The closest the country has come to producing a successful professional coach is Bruce Arena, who guided D.C. United to two Major League Soccer titles.

37.   The firing of a successful coach is hardly unprecedented.

38.   The legal system may operate on a presumption of innocence, but in NBA courts superstars are assumed to be guilty of lacking the necessities to become successful coaches.

39.   The truth is, there is no fool-proof pedigree for a successful NBA coach.

40.   The successful NFL coaches have an edge of some sort.