Basedon a major biographical study of NFL Head Coaches in the salary cap era, I helped assemble, the one category of NFL coaching hire that dramatically outpaces the mean is the once-fired, retread coach.
And it is no coincidence that one of the reasons the Steelers has been one of the most successful franchises in the history of the sport during the Rooney ownership (father then son) is due to their collective ability to judge the content of the character of its players and coaches without first filtering out candidates basedon non-football criteria.