11.  Hill is in his fourth season, and Gentry is his third coach.

12.  If Syracuse loses, Boeheim will become the third coach to have lost two championship games without having won at least one title.

13.  In Jackson, Plummer will be playing for his third quarterbacks coach in as many years.

14.  In three years here, Smith is on his third head coach and third offensive coordinator.

15.  Jimmy Johnson was named the third head coach in Miami Dolphins history Thursday, an event so rich in anticlimax it rivaled a Larry Holmes announcement he was un-retiring.

16.  No one has taken the loss harder than Reeves, who is now only the third coach in league history to go winless in four Super Bowls.

17.  Now he has to get used to his third quarterback coach in as many years, likely to be former Dallas QB coach Jack Reilly.

18.  Reeves is the third Falcons coach in two years to suffer a heart attack.

19.  Soon, Bersticker would be playing for his third North Carolina coach.

20.  That leaves young Tony Banks with his third position coach in three seasons.