Some college football writers caused a bit of a kerfuffle amongst Detroit Lions fans over the weekend. It appears to have begun with The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman, who in his list of potential candidates for the now-vacant Texas A&M head coach job noted Lions coach Dan Campbell.
“The 47-year-old Texas native played at A&M. Campbell epitomizes everything we suspect the school would want in a head coach, and if you’ve watched any clips of him in front of his team, you’ll see why,” Feldman wrote. “He has jumped into what was an abysmal franchise and has that city thinking there’s finally a Super Bowl in its future.