The Lions' Pride

It's a good, and appropriate, question.

My opinion is that he'll stay longer than most are expecting (10-15 years, if he's successful), but he will end up taking a pro job at some point. It's hard to say for sure right now, though. I'm not sure if we'll know or not unless he starts going on interviews during the offseason.

A huge talking point and something he has mentioned more than a dozen times is honesty. So if you take him at his word that he believes in honesty and with him saying multiple times that he wants this to be his last coaching job.... you have your answer.

Listen, I love the job BOB's done so far, and I am a believer that he will win and recruit with the best of them. But he's not even been on the job for 6 months.... let's cool the "contract extension" talk.

Nevertheless, I agree that I think/hope he will be our coach for 10-15 years, and I really hope that he doesn't start interviewing for any other HC jobs in the coming years. That said, if his name pops up in high profile job searches, that means he'd have been very successful to that point.

I think BOB will be here for the long haul.... This was not a job you grab for the short term way too much building to do for a job hopper.

Don't think he leaves in the near future (1-10 years) unless he's pushed out.

I have heard many times college fits the hyper controlling coaching type better than the NFL since you control everything in the NFL you're just a part of it....

Honestly, my biggest fear (causing him to leave early) is that he has too much success too quickly. We have a super soft schedule this year and might have a very experienced team for our very tough schedule in 2013. If we rise back up as fast as some people thought we might (Post Joe), BO'B might peak early.

He yelled at Brady because he was protecting a WR that Brady was criticizing. I have yet to hear anything out of him that leads me to believe he's the controllng type. He seems to have a lot more relaxed rules than Joe did.

If he's as good offensively as we think he is, he can be succesful anywhere. The difference between College and the NFL is the level of effort that goes into recruiting year round, being the face of a university football program, raising money, being public, and baby sitting players, on top of game planning.

Wait, what?

College coaches love to control everything and run the whole ship.... I think Bob has those characteristics. You said you did not..

I'm saying he's more like Mack Brown than Joe Paterno/Nick Saban with regards to being a control freak. I think he believes in personal accountability, and leaves it up to the players to live up to that, rather than make an attempt to control their actions. We already see this with his rules regarding attire, hair, and facial hair.

He strikes me as someone who is naturally relaxed and confident, and not the type of coach who puts the fear of God into his players (something Joe did, long with others such as Saban and the Bear), but will get into people's faces when needed. Another example is that quote of his regarding his relationship with Paul Jones and how they have similar sense of humors...the Saban/Paterno types rarely got into personal relationships like that with players. It's an attitude also made famous by Herb Brooks.