TAMPA — There are only 32 NFL head coaches, and two shared an office in 1985 as young assistant coaches at Division II San Francisco State.
And as the Bucs' Dirk Koetter and the Chiefs' Andy Reid meet for the first time Sunday as NFL head coaches, it's an intersection of coaching tracks that ran parallel for six years across three colleges early in their careers.
Both have fond memories of their roots in San Francisco with the now-defunct Golden Gators, selling hot dogs on Thursdays on the campus quad to raise money, riding buses to road games and getting a $24,000 salary.