At Florida State, the school that finished No. 2 on the list to Iowa with 15 alums currently coaching, only four of those coaches started as graduateassistants there.
Though it's not unusual for football players to return to their alma maters as graduateassistants, having so many of them go on to become successful coaches elsewhere is particular to Iowa.
In a typical semester, about a dozen Cornell faculty members and graduate students make the two hour round trip to teach the courses, aided by 40-50 undergraduate teaching assistants.