1.   Along with staffer Joe Avezzano, Davis got a courtesy interview for the head coaching job when Johnson left.

2.   Among white head coaches, the average time from coordinator to the head job is six years.

3.   An assistant at the University of Massachusetts gets a head job at a high profile program like UNLV.

4.   And to be sure, they are not the only team that has not interviewed blacks for the head job.

5.   Assistant coaches can be like older brothers to players while the head job demands that you be more of a father figure.

6.   At his first head coach job at Ole Miss, he inherited a program that had been placed on NCAA probation.

7.   Before being promoted to the head job he was in his second stint as a Devils assistant coach.

8.   Boone acknowledges as much when he at first turns down the head coach job.

9.   Bobby Williams replaced Nick Saban in December after Saban took the head job at Louisiana State.

10.   ----- Former Patriots offensive coordinator Chris Palmer interviewed in Cleveland and Baltimore the last two days for head coaching jobs.