QB Erik Ainge, Tennessee
WR Donnie Avery, Houston
OL Heath Benedict, Newberry College
TE Cole Bennett, Auburn
QB Colt Brennan, Hawaii
P Durant Brooks, Georgia Tech
LB Titus Brown, Mississippi State
DL Red Bryant, Texas A&M
WR Andre Caldwell, Florida
DB Simeon Castille, Alabama
RB Tashard Choice, Georgia Tech
TE Brandon Cottam, Tennessee
OL Oniel Cousins, UTEP
K Brandon Coutu, Georgia
DB Quintin Demps, UTEP
WR Early Doucet, LSU
WR Harry Douglas, Louisville
OL Robert Felton, Arkansas
DL Andre Fluellen, Florida State
RB Matt Forte, Tulane
DL Wallace Gilberry, Alabama
DB Marcus Griffin, Texas
LB Gary Guyton, Georgia Tech
WR D.J. Hall, Alabama
DL Marcus Harrison, Arkansas
RB Jacob Hester, LSU
LB Ali Highsmith, LSU
RB Peyton Hillis, Arkansas
DB Chevis Jackson, LSU
WR Dexter Jackson, Appalachian State
OL Steve Justice, Wake Forest
DL Kendall Langord, Hampton
DB Patrick Lee, Auburn
OL Kory Lichtensteiger, Bowling Green
RB Rafael Little, Kentucky
OL Mike McGlynn, Pittsburgh
DB Leodis McKelvin, Troy
LB Ben Meffitt, South Florida
DL Dre Moore, Maryland
OL Barry Richardson, Clemson
DL Darrell Robertson, Georgia Tech
DB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Tennessee State
DL Athyba Rubin, Iowa State
DS Garrison Sanborn, Florida State
TE Jacob Tamme, Kentucky
DL Jeremy Thompson, Wake Forest
OL Cody Wallace, Texas A&M
LB Phillip Wheeler, Georgia Tech
OL Chris Williams, Vanderbilt
DB D.J. Wolfe, Oklahoma
QB Andre Woodson, Kentucky
LB Wesley Woodyard, Kentucky

DB Jamar Adams, Michigan
LB Xavier Adibi, Virginia Tech
DL Cliff Avril, Purdue
OL Sam Backer, USC
OL Kirk Barton, Ohio State
LB Beau Bell, UNLV
WR Adarius Bowman, Oklahoma State
QB John David Booty, USC
WR Dorien Bryant, Purdue
DS Tim Bugg, Indiana
OL Gosder Cherilus, Boston College
LB Dan Connor, Penn State
LB Shawn Crable, Michigan
DE Bruce Davis, UCLA
TE Fred Davis, USC
DB Kellen Davis, Michigan State
DB Thomas DeCoud, California
LB Jordan Dizon, Colorado
P Mike Dragosavich, North Dakota State
DL Chris Ellis, Virginia Tech
DL Sedrick Ellis, USC
QB Joe Flacco, Delaware
RB Justin Forsett, California
DB Charles Godfrey, Iowa
WR Lavelle Hawkins, California
QB Chad Henne, Michigan
DL Lawrence Johnson, USC
RB Chris Johnson, East Carolina
DL Jason Jones, Eastern Michigan
DL Trevor Laws, Notre Dame
DL Bryan Mattison, Iowa
WR Jordy Nelson, Kansas State
OL Carl Nicks, Nebraska
OL Mike Pollak, Arizona State
DB Tracy Porter, Indiana
DL DeMario Pressley, North Carolina State
OL Drew Radovich, USC
OL Chad Rinehart, Northern Iowa
LB Keith Rivers, USC
WR Eddie Royal, Virginia Tech
TE Martin Rucker, Missouri
RB Dantrell Savage, Oklahoma State
RB Owen Schmitt, West Virginia
OL Roy Schuening, Oregon State
K Alexis Serna, Oregon State
WR Marcus Smith, New Mexico
OL John Sullivan, Notre Dame
DB Terrell Thomas, USC
DB DeJaun Tribble, Boston College
RB Chauncey Washington, USC
DB Terrence Wheatley, Colorado
DB Tom Zbikowski, Notre Dame

Bobby Petrino quit on his team and left the Atlanta Falcons without a head coach before the 2007 season had even finished.  Petrino opted to return to the college ranks after a short stint as a coach in the NFL. 

There appears to be a developing trend occurring where college coaches are jumping into the pro game to improve their resume in an effort to return to the NCAA to land a more lucrative coaching job.  Last season, Nick Saban left the Miami Dolphins for a premium head coaching job in the college game. Now Petrino has followed in Saban’s footsteps and benefited from the brief stay in the NFL.

I think the league needs to put a rule in place where if college coaches are wanting to climb up into the NFL for a head coaching job, they will need to sign a minimum three-year mandatory contract where the only opt out option is if the club decides to terminate the contract.  I understand the view point that if the team can just fire the coach to break the contract, then the coach should have the option to break the contract too.

However, something has to be done, because coaches jumping into the NFL only to bail on their team to go back to the college game is watering down the NFL.  The coaches that are bouncing back to college from the pro game are leaving behind a mess that they made.  These are messes that could take NFL clubs upwards of a decade to fix. 

It is just not right that these rent-a-coaches are leaving pro teams in disarray just so they can use the fact that they coached in the NFL as a recruiting tool at their new jobs.  It is time that the NFL fights back and declare that they are not a developmental league for college coaches, and going forward, they will do anything in their power to keep these type of NCAA coaches where they belong…in the NCAA!

This article came courtesy of www.prosportsbeat.com.