1.   Also, no team that had a coaching vacancy coming has yet to hire a coach.

2.   And, yes, he would have liked a contract extension after the team denied him permission to talk to Portland about its coaching vacancy last summer.

3.   As an assistant coach, Belichick, under normal circumstances, would have to be allowed to interview for a head coaching vacancy.

4.   At Chatsworth High, that means fewer teachers to oversee the cheerleading team or fill two open coaching vacancies on the junior varsity football squad.

5.   Beamer, like Bowden, was floated as a possible candidate for prime coaching vacancies.

6.   -- Mike Ditka hired for the first coaching vacancy.

7.   A year ago, his job status was so uncertain that when Tulane called about its coaching vacancy, Dunn interviewed.

8.   A year later, Ross was rumored to be under consideration by just about every NFL team with a coaching vacancy, real or imagined.

9.   Brian Billick, a candidate for head coaching vacancies in Cleveland and Baltimore, has pushed all the right buttons.

10.   Carolina aggressively went after George Seifert and got him before the other teams with coaching vacancies could make their moves.