Despite having minimal NFL coaching experience of any kind, Jim Harbaugh's hiring as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers made ownership look brilliant this past season.
Harbaugh took virtually the same presumed-to-be bland 2010 roster that went 6-10 and turned it into a magical 13-3 season that ended in disappointment at the hands of the Giants in the NFC Championship Game.
But Harbaugh is not the first rookie NFL head coach to make such a big splash his first season.
Rex Ryan's fiery attitude put the New York Jets on the map and into the AFC Championship game in his first two seasons, starting in 2009.
Sure George Seifert may have inherited a defending Super Bowl championship team, but he led the 49ers to another ring in his first season as head coach in 1989.
Credit Peyton Manning and the rest of the team Tony Dungy left behind all you want, but Jim Caldwell's first year at the helm for the Indianapolis Colts turned into a Super Bowl trip.
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