Well, if they’ll do it for a guy who never won a national championship, why not Erk?

They adjusted the criteria to get in Leach, but the criteria for Russell that is keeping him from the HOF is that a coach has to coach for ten years. While he logged twenty plus years as an assistant or coordinator, he only held the head coach position for eight years.

Being a head coach for a long time versus a short head coaching career where you amass three national championships? What if someone is a head coach for that span of time and never wins one? Mike Bellotti is in, and only won two PAC-10 titles in seventeen years as a head coach. Likewise, what did Barry Alvarez do?