Head Coaching Candidates for 2026 Arena and Indoor Football Season Part 2: IFL Assistant Coaches

The IFL season just wrapped up, and the indoor and arena football offseason is in full swing already. As new and established franchises slowly finish announcing where they will play in 2026, soon another small wave of news will begin trickling out as teams begin narrowing down their list of head coaching candidates. Teams like the Pueblo Punishers, Dallas Bulls, Shreveport Rouxgaroux, “Outlaw Football Team”, Iowa Barnstormers,  Massachusetts Pirates, as well as potentially the Tyler Crude will be looking to fill head coaching positions.   

In part one, we looked at coaches who could see interest from the AAL2 and TAL. In part two, we will look at current assistant coaches who could be on track for a Head Coaching position in the future. Some of these men even have Head Coaching experience in one or more of these leagues. 

Current Assistant Coaches on the Track to Being a Head Coach

In this article, we will take a closer look at names like Peyton Riggs, Matt Behrendt, Rod Windsor, and many other respected assistant coaches who deserve consideration as a Head Coach. 

Hurtis Chinn, Offensive Coordinator, Vegas Knighthawks 

Hurtis Chinn is easily one of the most qualified names on this list, and I am fairly certain most reading this won’t disagree. Not only is he fresh off of his second career Championship win in 2025as the Offensive Coordinator for the Vegas Knighthawks, but he also has Assistant Coach of the Year and Coach of the Year Awards on his resume. 

In 2022, he was named the Assistant Coach of the Year after leading the second-highest scoring offense in the league. The following season, he was promoted to Head Coach. He led the team to a 9-7 record and later won Coach of the Year. After just one season as the Head Coach, Chinn opted to step down and was hired by Vegas. Ironically, this is not the first time Chinn has stepped down after 1 season as a Head Coach. Following the 2017 season, Chinn left Nebraska to pursue other opportunities. 

In 2024, he helped Jarome Johnson become league MVP, and in 2025, based on a gut feeling, he rolled out a two-quarterback system that eventually led to starting IFL rookie Jayden De Laura in the Championship. De Laura went 12 of 15 for 131 yards and 1 TD. He also rushed 11 times for 70 yards and 2 touchdowns, winning the Championship MVP. 

Immediately after the Championship game, Vegas extended Chinn’s contract. Ensuring it will be difficult for Chinn to want to leave, however if you are a team looking to hire a Head Coach, this extension should not prevent a conversation, it should simply signal that any team trying to hire Chinn will need to be prepared to come over the top of his situation in Vegas, where he is allowed to run the offense with very little oversight from Coach Davis who believes he has the best OC in the IFL. 

Xzavie Jackson, Defensive Coordinator, Vegas Knighthawks 

Hurtis Chinn’s counterpart in Vegas, Jackson, has been making a name for himself in the indoor football world for years now. Jackson was once a player on the roster of Kyle Moore-Brown for two seasons with the Lacrosse Spartans. A direct student of Moore-Brown, he would later cross paths with Hurtis Chinn in Nebraska as a player before transitioning to coaching in 2017, Chinn’s first as the Head Coach, due to an injury. 

His first season as a coach with Nebraska, he served as DL Coach and Special Teams Coordinator. In early 2020, it was announced that the Danger were not likely to be participating in the 2020 IFL season. This led to Jackson moving on from Nebraska. He would land in Tucson, reuniting with Chinn, in the same role he held with Nebraska. 

Before the 2021 season, Chinn left for Arizona. While the IFL record holder for career sacks, Jackson returned to Tucson in 2021, ready to pick up where he left off before COVID-19 prevented his debut. Tucson would finish 6-8 in their first season with Dixie Wooten as the Head Coach. 

Jackson remained in Tucson through a transition to Chinn as Head Coach. After the 2023 season, he and Chinn would both head to Vegas in pursuit of a championship. Two seasons later, they achieved just that. Hiring Jackson would mean hiring a legend; not only is he the career sack leader for the IFL, but he resides in the IFL Hall of Fame and just added a ring to his collection of accolades. 

Update: During an interview with Kyle Moore-Brown the new Head Coach of the New Mexico Chupacabras announced he has hired Xzavie Jackson as his Defensive Coordinator for the 2026 season. Jackson will get a chance to call defensive plays in 2026 after serving under defensive minded Head Coach Mike Davis who calls defensive plays. This could be a big step in Jackson’s growth toward being a future Head Coach.

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Peyton Riggs, Offensive Coordinator, Arizona Rattlers 

The son of legendary Sioux Falls Storm head coach Kurtis Riggs, Peyton has been directly or indirectly involved with indoor or arena football for most of his life. He grew up in unparalleled success, with the Storm becoming a dynasty under his father’s direction. 

As they say, the Apple typically doesn’t fall far from the tree, and in this case, Peyton found his way into coaching as well. Working with his father’s foundation, the Riggs Premier Football Academy. Later, he landed at the University of Washington, where he served as an offensive recruiting analyst and Scout for one season. 

Following the 2022 season, he went on to join his father as the offensive coordinator for the Storm in what would be his final season as an IFL Coach. There was speculation at the time that Riggs could be considered a potential replacement for his father with the Storm. However, after just one season of coaching in the IFL, the team instead promoted Andre Fields.

Riggs remained as the offensive coordinator for one more season. After the 2024 season, it was announced that the Storm would be filing for dormancy due to unsustainable costs at their arena. There have been Facebook Marketplace ads selling off pieces of the Storm Turf, signaling the demise of the once great franchise. This left Peyton looking for a new position. 

He would move from one storied franchise to another with the Arizona Rattlers. It has been one of the staples of indoor and Arena Football for decades. He was hired as the Offensive Coordinator and Director of Football Operations. This gave him his first real taste of having his hands on everything that involves the football side of the team. 

In my eyes, this was essentially the beginning of his formal training to be an IFL Head Coach in the very near future. Now considered a branch of two of the most respected coaching trees in indoor football. While still very young at just 36 years old, Riggs would make perfect sense for the Tucson Sugar Skulls.

Reports are that Billy Back is leaving Tucson to replace Andre Coles as the Offensive Coordinator in Tulsa. Riggs has been Kevin Guy’s right-hand man for the last year, and could be the perfect hand-picked candidate to step in for the Sugar Skulls.  

Matt Behrendt, Offensive Coordinator, Green Bay Blizzard 

Another experienced coach who has cut his teeth playing and coaching in the IFL since 2015. This culminated in a trip to the championship game in 2025, as well as the IFL Assistant Coach of the Year.  Behrendt has a direct hand in the development of the last two IFL MVPs, having coached Jarome Johnson in 2023 before trading him to Vegas, and sticking with his fellow University of Wisconsin-Whitewater alum, Max Meylor. 

Meylor would develop into one of the best quarterbacks in the Indoor Football League, thanks to the watchful eye of former IFL quarterback and current Offensive Coordinator Behrendt. The irony of the situation is that Behrendt was only in his second season as the OC when the Blizzard found Johnson and Meylor. In 2025, Meylor and Behrendt would pace the league in touchdowns and overall points. 

Before that, he had Brook Bolles, an IFL rookie who had graduated from college in 2019. Bolles did not earn MVP, but he finished the season scoring 23 tds, to just 3 ints, according to the IFL website. Not a bad run if you are planning to hang your hat as a coach on developing young players. 

Known as one of the most efficient quarterbacks in Wisconsin-Whitewater history, it should come as no surprise that his players are finding success following his tutelage. With four years of experience as an IFL, as well as four years of playing experience, he has an innate knowledge of how the league operates and how to be successful at this level. He, along with Head Coach Corey Roberson, has overseen a complete turnaround for the franchise. 

It feels like so long ago now, but there was a stretch in the not-so-distant past where the Blizzard struggled to put forth a winning season. Now they are one of the most competitive teams in the league and bordering on the team to beat in the East. Kudos to ownership for believing in their staff and specifically Roberson through tough times, allowing him to see his vision through to this point. 

Typically, as a head coach, your coordinator receiving head coaching interest is a sign of your success. I have no doubt Roberson would like to retain Behrendt, but he also will be the first to vouch for him. All three openings would make sense, as all three teams have seen him coach in person. If I had to guess, he will likely be picky about his options to be a Head Coach, given that he has long-standing ties to Green Bay, but if I were Iowa, I think I would be taking a long look at hiring Behrendt. 

Rod Windsor, Offensive Coordinator, Bay Area Panthers 

Coach Windsor is currently the Offensive Coordinator for the Bay Area Panthers. He is another coach with a long-standing history of developing young quarterbacks. This includes winning an IFL championship in 2022 with rookie Kaleb Barker at the helm.

Each season, NAZ has found new rookies to insert at quarterback. A former college quarterback who eventually moved to wide out, Windsor has firsthand experience playing in both arena and indoor style rules. He has so far only coached indoor rules, but in his particular case, I think he would be uniquely prepared to make the transition back to arena rules. 

One aspect of Windsor’s background that I believe is very valuable to his recruiting process is the fact that he is one of the success stories that began his professional football career indoors before finding interest in the NFL. This is a tool he can use when he is talking to young players as he builds a roster. 

What might be more important is the places he has found success as a coach. In NAZ, it was a stellar coaching staff, not big-name players, that carried the Wranglers to win the 2022 Championship. The coaching staff combination of Les Moss, Rod Windsor, and Rob Keefe is a winning formula. 

What is even more impressive about this situation is the fact that, up until his move to join Bay Area, he had not had the opportunity to work with the same starting quarterback two seasons in a row. 

While these three coaches reuniting with Bay Area did not result in a championship in 2025, if this staff remains intact for the 2026 season, the Panthers have to be one of the favorites to make the playoffs again in the West.

Les Moss, Offensive Line Coach/Assistant Head Coach, Bay Area Panthers 

Les Moss winding up as an assistant coach with the Bay Area Panthers was a decision he made to step away from his position with NAZ. My personal assumption for this move was that the Wranglers were often among the bottom of the league in payroll and were asked to compete using mostly rookies and tasked with finding new players at key positions every season. 

Look no further than the quarterback position, where, as mentioned when discussing Rod Windsor, NAZ went into four straight seasons under Moss and Windsor with a different starting quarterback. This was not necessarily by choice, either, given the success they had found in 2022 with Barker starting. 

Instead, he chose to reunite with a man in Rob Keefe, with whom he has spent a good portion of his career working closely. Keefe spent time in NAZ and knew exactly what the Bay Area could offer versus what NAZ could. 

Moss has to know with his résumé, and if placed in the right situation, he will continue to receive interest for head coaching positions. Moss has coached arena and indoor rules and won championships in both. Moss is a guy who I don’t see getting a job this cycle, but I do not believe this is due to a lack of interest from teams.

I believe Moss is one of the best coaches available for teams searching for a head coaching candidate, but he also has been placed in a very desirable situation in the Bay Area, and will be able to leverage this into being very picky with his next landing spot. Even if it is not until the 2027 cycle, I would be surprised if Moss is not a head coach again in the near future. 

Reggie Gray, Wide Receivers Coach, Bay Area Panthers 

“Big Play” Reggie Gray was a longtime wide receiver and kick returner on many different teams for nearly 15 seasons. By the time he retired, he had over 15,000 all-purpose yards and over 280 touchdowns. Gray, not unlike some other arena football players at the time, began his coaching career at the college level while still playing arena football. 

His coaching career began with Elmhurst College in 2017. Gray, being from Chicago, was a natural fit with Elmhurst. Beginning his coaching career a full three seasons before he retired from playing arena football was a move that set him up for a long-term career in coaching both indoors and outdoors. 

Originally joining the Massachusetts Pirates in 2020, immediately after his playing career ended, unfortunately, the season was canceled, leaving the entire league away from football for a season. 

Clay Harrell, Defensive Coordinator, Jacksonville Sharks

Rumor has it Harrell has already interviewed for an opening and could be a Head Coach in the very near future. Harrell began coaching indoors back in 2012 when he was hired by the Spokane Shock as their line coach. This came following a career playing fullback that dates back to 2006 and ended with two seasons in Spokane. 

Since joining the coaching ranks, Harrell has spent a lot of time focusing on the trenches, coaching both sides of the line. He held this role with the Spokane Shock, Portland Thunder, Orlando Predators, Cleveland Gladiators, Columbus Destroyers, and even the Sharks. In 2019, he was given his first chance as a Defensive Coordinator with Columbus. He would see a promotion to Defensive Coordinator in 2025. 

Harrell has assisted some of the more respected coaches in the IFL, working with Rob Keefe and Jason Gibson. Harrell would follow a recent trend of former line coaches getting Head Coaching positions, including, most recently, Kyle Moore-Brown. Also, if Harrell does wind up leaving Jacksonville, it has some intriguing options for replacements, including recent Orlando Predators Head Coach Ej Burt. 

Jordan Mosely, OL Coach/Run Game Coordinator 

Jordan Mosely is a former Offensive Lineman who began his playing career back with the Pittsburgh Power and Orlando Predators in 2013, following a rookie mini-camp invite with the New York Giants. Mosely actually once blocked for the former indoor football quarterback who runs the show with the Pirates, Jawad Yatim. His playing career included a 2017 IFL Championship run with the Rattlers.

His playing career took him across the country and even abroad to countries like China and Mexico. Ultimately, in 2017, he began his collegiate coaching career with Arizona Christian University. He now has years of coaching in the IFL. This includes working under or around coaches like Tom Menas, Les Moss, Billy Back, Andre Coles, and Rod Windsor along the way. This reads like a who’s who list of IFL Coaches and includes four former or current Head Coaches.

Mosely has primarily focused on Offensive Line coaching, but added other duties like Run Game Coordinator, Interior Special Teams Coach, and Director of Player Personnel during his time in the IFL. He also currently serves as the Offensive Line coach at Elmhurst College, located in Elmhurst, Iowa. With the Head Coaching opportunities filling up fast, perhaps we see Mosely join the Iowa staff with Coles, whom he knows well from his time in Frisco?

Mosely could serve as the Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line Coach, and Coles could, in theory, retain play calling duties while having Mosely assist in game planning. This could be the final step for Mosely if he wants to eventually ascend to Head Coach. Mosely may be a few years removed from his playing career at this point, but he should have no issue keeping a good relationship with most players, given his background.

His calm and cool demeanor would suit a Head Coaching role perfectly. He never seems to allow his emotions to cloud his coaching, and for the most part, he seems fairly laid back from the outside looking in. Joining Iowa would allow him to progress his career, while finding something of a home where he can stay the majority of the year thanks to his coaching roles.

Toby Johnson, Assistant Head Coach, Run Game Coordinator, DL Coach, Massachusetts Pirates 

Recently, we had the Social Media Manager from the Massachusetts Pirates on, and something he said caught the attention of multiple viewers. He seemed to zero in on Toby Johnson during a statement, and it came off as if we should be expecting Johnson to be a very prominent member of the staff in 2026. Now we already knew he was one of two coaches retained from 2025, but could he be the Head Coach in 2026?

Toby Johnson is a fiery, passionate player turned coach in 2025. He was playing in leagues like the XFL, USFL, and UFL over his playing career, but whenever those outdoor leagues were on hiatus, Johnson found his way back to Massachusetts in some capacity. In fact, this was not the first time the Pirates looked at him like a coach.

Johnson began his football career in 2015 as an NFL undrafted free agent, bouncing around several teams for the first three seasons of his career. In 2018, he was waived/injured from the Lions roster just before the season. He spent the year rehabbing and waiting out NFL deals, but would ultimately sign with the Pirates for the first time in 2019.

Following the 2019 season, the XFL was set to relaunch in 2020, and Johnson was selected in the draft process by the New York Guardians. He would go on to be released from his contract when the league ceased operations due to COVID after just 5 games. Ultimately, they would not return in 2021, and this left Johnson to return to Massachusetts for the second time. In 2021, the Pirates would win the IFL Championship game, and Johnson was named First Team All-IFL.

In 2022, the USFL returned, and Johnson again applied for the draft and found himself selected by the New Jersey Generals. He would stick with the Generals until the merger hit the delete button on the New Jersey-themed team. This left Johnson in the dispersal draft, where he would be selected by the Houston Roughnecks. Unfortunately, another injury led him to injured reserve, and Houston chose to move on before the 2025 season.

This time, instead of coming back as a defensive tackle for Mass, he returned to coach the Defensive Line, while serving as the Defensive Run Game Coordinator and Assistant Head Coach. While he has a long and decorated playing career, his coaching career is just beginning. I have been saying all offseason that this is who I expect to be named the Head Coach for the Pirates in 2026. This just feels like a move Massachusetts would make, although…Johnson did mention wanting to play one more season, could Mass lose him altogether?

Rayshaun Kizer, Defensive Coordinator Tucson Sugar Skulls

Rayshaun Kizer is one of the most slept-on Head Coaching candidates in any indoor football league. He has been involved with indoor football for a long time, and for one reason or another his opportunities to be a Head Coach have been few and far between. Kizer has on his resume two separate one season stints as a Head Coach. Normally when you read a statement like that you typically expected to be followed up with a poor win-loss record, that is not the case for Kizer.

Kizer is a former player who spent 12 seasons playing professional football at various levels. Like most his career began outdoors as a undrafted Free agent in the NFL. however after three seasons of bouncing around in the NFL and CFL, he began what would turn into a very long and decorated arena football career. Playing for some of the most iconic franchises in the history of the sport including the Green Bay Blizzard, Orlando Predators, Philadelphia Soul, Arizona Rattlers, Louisiana Voodoo, Cleveland Gladiators, and the Los Angeles Kiss.

Immediately after hanging up his cleats he jumped into coaching as a Defensive Coordinator/Assistant Head Coach with the Bismarck Bucks for the 2019 season. This showed how well respected his football IQ was as he finished his playing career. In 2020 he joined the Pirates in the same role before the season was canceled. Returning for the 2021 season in the same capacity, the Pirates won their first and only IFL Championship as a franchise.

In 2022 Kizer was promoted to Head Coach as Patrick Pass moved into the Front Office. Kizer led the team to an 11-5 record losing a 1-point game in the first round of the playoffs. Kizer’s defense held the Steamwheelers to 39 points, but the offense fell just shy of victory. The Pirates decided to go a different direction, leaving Kizer to find his next coaching home. Ultimately he was hired by the Omaha BEEF as their head coach for the final season in CIF history, 2023. He would lead his team to an undefeated 10-0 regular season, and a Championship victory before the Beef also opted to move on.

Kizer was then hired to assist Coach Billy Back as his Defensive Coordinator, a role he has held for two seasons now. Collectively over his entire coaching career Kizer is: 24-36 as an Assistant Coach, and 21-5 as a Head Coach. Along the way he coached the #1 scoring defense in the IFL in 2021 allowing just 31.8 points per game, and in 2022 they were ranked 4th allowing just 36.1 points per game, in 2023 the Beef won on the strength of their running game and a strong defense. Kizer should be on every team’s list to consider.

Hired

Andre Coles, Offensive Coordinator, Tulsa Oilers Hired by Iowa Barnstormers

Andre Coles, in a recent interview, discussed how he wound up getting into indoor football and coaching here in an interview with Off the Wall. Rather than rehash a lot of what he said, I figured I would just embed the interview for you all to enjoy and learn more about Andre Coles.

Update: Andre Coles has been named the Head Coach of the Iowa Barnstormers. He is just one season removed from serving as the Head Coach for the Frisco Fighters. Coles being hired by Iowa is an interesting pairing. Speculation has long been that Iowa does not want to spend money to win games, and it has resulted in mediocre results over the past few seasons.

With Coles coming in, he may want to bring in his guys who followed him from Frisco to Tulsa. Tj Edwards. Phazione McClurge, Cole Blackman, Meatball Carter, to name a few. If Iowa is willing to take care of these players, we could see an immediate resurgence for the Barnstormers under Coles. If he is forced to recruit rookies, then I am afraid he may be doomed to a similar fate as Dave Mogensen.

Just by random luck of the draw, we actually managed to have Dave Mogensen, and Andre Coles on the same episode of Around the Indoor Football World about a week before Coles was named Head Coach of Iowa.

Jonathan Bane, Quarterback Coach S.A. Gunslingers, Hired as Gunslingers Head Coach

Jonathan Bane is a legend when it comes to arena and indoor football. His professional playing career began back in 2014 with the Richmond Raiders, and spanned until 2024 with the West Texas Warbirds. He has played in the PIFL, the CIF, the NAL, two different variations of the AFL, the IFL, and the AAL. He has seen all levels of indoor football, and while many look at his situation and wonder how he ascended the ranks so quickly, I look at it like par for the course for Jonathan Bane’s career.

As mentioned before 2014 was Bane’s first season ever playing indoor football. By 2015 he was named Offensive Player of the Year, and First Team All-PIFL. If 2025 was his “rookie” season as a coach, it only makes sense that an elevation was coming quickly. Bane was never the greatest athlete on any field he stepped foot on, but he understood the game at an incredibly high level, he was cerebral, and his success came because he quickly adapted to the mental nuances of indoor and arena football.

While most might look at 2025 as his first season of coaching I actually look back to 2023 when he suffered a very scary neck injury ending his season early. Having to take a step back from the playing field and focus on his rehab, it allowed him to mentally prepare for his future after his playing career ended. Ultimately he was not quite done playing at that point and he returned in 2024 with West Texas until he suffered another scary injury. This was the final injury of his playing career as he has not played another game since the injury.

Ultimately West Texas would opt to shut down following that week 8 game. In 2025 he was officially hired as the Quarterback Coach for the San Antonio Gunslingers working under Tom Menas, and James Fuller two highly respected former Head Coaches. He worked with several different players as the season progressed.

Now heading into 2026 all eyes will be on the staff he assembles around him. Bane has yet to hold a coordinator title, that does not mean he would not be capable of calling plays, but it does mean he would be taking on a lot of firsts in 2026 unless he hires coordinators around him that he can trust. It would not shock me at all to see Bane bring in former teammates that are now coaching, or coaches he has worked with in the past.

He has over 12 years of relationships built with fellow players and coaches to lean on when building his staff, and it would not surprise me in the slightest if it is an impressive lineup when the dust settles.

Tae Brooks/Clinton Solomon Co-Head Coaches, Pueblo Punishers

The Pueblo Punishers chose a very unique setup for their first season in the National Arena League. Hiring Tae Brooks who was the Head Coach of the Eau Claire Axemen in 2025, and Clinton Solomon who was the Offensive Coordinator for the Beaumont Renegades who won the NAL Championship in 2025.

Both men have previous experience as players, coordinators, and even as Head Coaches, but it is always a hit or miss prospect as to how two coaches can coexist as Co-Head Coaches. Bay Area worked this setup to perfection in 2023 when they won the IFL Championship after firing Darren Arbet and proceeding with Rob Keefe, and Dixie Wooten operating as Co-Head Coaches. However this was a totally different scenario. Keefe and Wooten had been hired initially to be coordinators under another Head Coach.

They were not hired to be Co-Head Coaches, they just ended up in this position due to the decision to remove Arbet. Both men had extensive experience as Head Coaches and Coordinators and more importantly the team already had a picture of how the two coaches could coexist on a team prior to the move.

I believe it is worth noting that even after Rob Keefe was hired as the full-time Head Coach in 2024, Wooten remained for one season as the Offensive Coordinator and Assistant Head Coach. While Wooten did depart following 2024, it was not due to any internal issues, he was offered the Head Coaching position with Fishers Freight who we now know was setup incredibly well in year one.

I say all of this to say that while often co-head coaching situations do end up ending with explosive results in a bad way, the right mesh of minds and a common goal can result in something explosive in a positive way. Brooks and Solomon may not have coached together previously, but they are far from strangers walking into this situation, and both coaches seem very excited about the prospect of working together.

The key factor here is the fact that both coaches specialize on an opposite side of the ball. Brooks is a former defensive back who has coached primarily defense holding multiple Defensive Coordinator roles, as well as coaching DB’s early on. He also has some experience coaching Special Teams.

Clinton Solomon is a former wide receiver, who has primarily coached offense. He is fresh off of an NAL Championship in 2025 as an Offensive Coordinator and only a year removed from his Head Coaching position. He also has ties to special teams and we could see a coaching by committee approach on special teams and at Head Coach. Perhaps we see Brooks handle the kickoff and field goal block units, while Solomon handles the kick return unit, and field goal unit. Ultimately only time will tell if this situations pans out well, but something tells me more information will come to light that at least partially explains why the organization chose this path in year one.

Final Thoughts

This is just part two of what has now turned into a four part series. We still will discuss assistant coaches from the TAL, AF1, and NAL in another article, and then finish out the series with an article highlighting the Free Agent Head Coaches. The point of these articles is to provide a guide to any teams out there looking for coaches who have been around various organizations over the years, who may have earned the right to at least be in the discussion for a potential Head Coaching Opportunity.

These articles have so far included young up and coming coaches, veteran coaches, and maybe even a few coaches who are too green currently to be hired as a Head Coach. Although with San Antonio hiring Jonathan Bane, one has to begin to wonder if this will slightly change the outlook on hiring former players so early into their post retirement coaching careers. Bane was regarded as one of the best quarterbacks of his time in arena and indoor football, and now just a little over a season removed from his playing career he is already a Head Coach in the IFL, a coveted position many would beg for given the chance.

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