I always enjoyed Mike Leach , either coaching , on Sirius Sattelite radio CFB show, or his interesting book. The dude never played the game, but loved watching and decided to give up his career in Law , yes, he's a lawyer, and start from scratch and become a football coach.
What he's done at both Texas Tech and Wash St is pretty impressive.
The Problem is he currently makes about 2.75 million and I'm guessing he's going to get a raise and extension after this season, unless he bolts for greener pastures (and Piscataway doesn't fall into that category, I'm sorry to say)