Football Advisory Committee
The Football Advisory Committee guides the continued development of USA Football’s educational resources and player safety initiatives, including USA Football’s national Heads Up Football® program. USA Football’s Football Advisory Committee also reviews recommended coaching points on key fundamentals and drills to improve skill development; provides recommendations to enhance USA Football’s on-field instruction, resources and guidelines; advises USA Football on prospective football development models to maximize player development; and advise USA Football on key topics, including playing standards, practice guidelines, and rules to advance player safety and promote a positive coaching philosophy.
Bill Polian, Chairman
NFL analyst, former NFL team senior executive
In 24 seasons as an NFL general manager with the Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers and Indianapolis Colts, Polian’s teams earned 17 playoff berths, eight conference championship games and five Super Bowl appearances, including the Super Bowl XLI champion Colts. He joined ESPN in 2012 as an NFL analyst, regularly contributing to TV, radio and internet. A six-time NFL Executive of the Year, Polian was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015. Polian is the father of University of Nevada head coach Brian Polian and grandfather of a youth football player.
David Cutcliffe
Duke University Head Coach
Cutcliffe is in his seventh year as the head coach at Duke. He led the Blue Devils to a 10-2 record and a Coastal Division title in the ACC in 2013, earning National Coach of the Year honors. Cutcliffe previously was the head coach at Ole Miss for six seasons and has been named Coach of the Year in both the ACC and the SEC. Before becoming a head coach, Cutcliffe served as an assistant at Tennessee, where he won the Broyles Award in 1998 for top assistant coach in the country, and helped the Volunteers win two SEC titles, two BCS bowl games and a BCS national championship.
Tony Dungy
NFL analyst, former NFL head coach
Dungy is a former NFL player and head coach with nearly three decades of coaching experience who currently works as an NFL analyst for NBC. The Indianapolis Colts reached the playoffs all seven years that Dungy served as head coach and won Super Bowl XLI. His Tampa Bay Buccaneers teams also reached the playoffs in his final three seasons there, giving Dungy the NFL coaching record with 10 playoff berths. His overall coaching record is 139-69 (.688). Dungy also earned a Super Bowl ring as a player with the Pittsburgh Steelers following the 1978 season. He was named a coach on the NFL’s 2000s All-Decade Team and is the national spokesman for the fatherhood program All Pro Dad.
Pat Fitzgerald
Northwestern University, head football coach
The second-longest tenured Big Ten head coach, Fitzgerald’s eight seasons as head coach at Northwestern includes five straight bowl berths and a 10-win season in 2012. Twice named an All-America linebacker at Northwestern, Fitzgerald was a leader on NU's 1995 and 1996 Big Ten Championship teams, earning consecutive National Defensive Player of the Year awards. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008.
Merril Hoge
NFL analyst, former NFL running back
Hoge played for the Pittsburgh Steelers (1987-93) and Chicago Bears (1994) before concussions ended his playing career. He led the Steelers in rushing and receiving in four seasons and joins Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris as the only Steelers to run for 100 yards in back-to-back playoff games. An ESPN NFL analyst and former youth football coach, he has been featured in USA Football's certified coaching education program at usafootball.com, which has helped train hundreds of thousands of youth coaches since its 2007 inception.
Gabe Infante
Philadelphia St. Joseph’s Preparatory High School head coach
Infante has been the head coach for five seasons at Philadelphia St. Joseph’s Prep, leading the Hawks to the 2013 Pennsylvania Class AAAA state title. He also was head coach at Paramus (N.J.) Catholic for two seasons and played at the College of the Holy Cross. He served as U.S. Under-19 National Team defensive coordinator in the 2010 International Bowl and defensive line coach at the 2012 IFAF Under-19 World Championship.
Chuck Kyle
Cleveland St. Ignatius High School head coach
Kyle has been the head coach at Cleveland St. Ignatius High School for more than 30 years, leading his alma mater to a 301-69-1 record, including 11 state championships – the most by any school or coach in Ohio playoff history. His program has earned three USA Today national championships, and he has twice been named national coach of the year. A full-time English teacher and the head track coach since 1973, Kyle was the head coach of the 2009 U.S. Under-19 National Team that won the gold medal at the IFAF Under-19 World Championship in Canton, Ohio.
Bill LeMonnier
Former Big 10 official
LeMonnier was a Big Ten football official for 20 years before retiring in 2013. One of the most respected and recognizable referees in the nation, LeMonnier worked 15 bowl games, including the BCS National Championship between Oregon and Auburn in January 2011. A former principal and assistant superintendent in Chicago area schools, LeMonnier also serves as USA Football’s rules editor, overseeing the organization’s Rules Committee. He currently works as an ESPN rules analyst during the college football season.
Oliver Luck
University of West Virginia athletic director, former NFL quarterback
Oliver Luck is the executive vice president of regulatory affairs at the NCAA after serving as director of athletics at his alma mater since 2010. He is a member of the inaugural College Football Playoff committee and serves on the NFL Player Safety Advisory Committee. As a player, he twice earned Academic All-America honors and left West Virginia with most of the school’s passing records. A Rhodes Scholar finalist, Luck played five seasons with the Houston Oilers. He is the father of Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck.
Sam Mutz
Pop Warner Little Scholars youth football national commissioner
Mutz has been with Pop Warner since 1994. He earned his undergraduate degree from Temple University in sports administration. Pop Warner is a non-profit organization that provides youth football, cheer and dance programs to children ages 5 to 16 in 42 states. Consisting of 325,000 participants, Pop Warner is the largest youth football program in the world.
Roman Oben
NFL director of youth football, former NFL offensive lineman
As NFL director of youth football, Oben directs youth and high school efforts and coordinates with key stakeholders in the sport. He played 12 seasons in the NFL, helping the New York Giants win Super Bowl XXXVII. He also played for the Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and San Diego Chargers before retiring in 2007. As a player, he served as a NFL Players Association team representative during seven of his pro seasons.
John Roderique
Webb City (Mo.) High School head coach
Roderique has been the head coach for 17 seasons at Webb City (Mo.) High School, where his teams have won nine state championships – with four coming in the past four years – and finished runners-up once. A member of the U.S. Under-19 National Team coaching staff, his program has won or shared the conference title every season since his arrival and once held a 45-game winning streak. Roderique also coached seven seasons at Pittsburg (Kan.) State University, helping that program reach four Division II national championship games, winning one.
Bruce Rollinson
Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei High School head coach
Bruce Rollinson has served as head coach of the Monarchs since 1989. Entering the 2014 season, his teams were 240-76-2 and reached the CIF finals seven times during the 1990s, winning five CIF championships, one state title and two USA Today national championships in 1994 and 1996. A high school state champion in football and track, Rollinson played defensive back and wide receiver at Southern Cal, participating in the Trojans’ 1970 Rose Bowl win over Michigan.
Jeff Saturday
NFL analyst, former NFL offensive lineman
Saturday played 13 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts – with whom he won Super Bowl XLI – before finishing his NFL career with the Green Bay Packers. Anchoring an offensive line in front of Peyton Manning, the Colts allowed the fewest sacks among NFL teams in 2004, 2005 and 2006, winning 10 games in 11 of his seasons in Indianapolis. An undrafted free agent out of North Carolina, Saturday was named All-Pro four times and played in five Pro Bowl games, starting nearly 200 game in his pro career. Saturday is a member of the NFL Players Association executive committee and currently serves as an NFL analyst for ESPN.
David Shaw
Stanford University head football coach
Shaw has been the head coach at his alma mater, Stanford, since 2011. Entering the 2014 season, his teams were 34-7 and have reached a BCS bowl game in all three seasons, including back-to-back Pac-12 championships in 2012 and 2013. The son of a former NFL and college coach, Shaw started his career at Western Washington. He then coached with the Philadelphia Eagles, Oakland Raiders and Baltimore Ravens before joining the University of San Diego staff. Shaw played football at Stanford from 1991-94 under Dennis Green and Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach Bill Walsh.
Bob Stoops
University of Oklahoma head football coach
The winningest coach in Oklahoma history, Stoops has won the Big 12 Conference championship eight times, four BCS bowl games and the 2000 national championship. He has led the university to 15 straight bowl games. Before taking the head coaching job at Oklahoma, Stoops served as defensive coordinator at Florida, helping the Gators win the 1996 Sugar Bowl and 1998 Orange Bowl. The son of a longtime high school football coach, Stoops was a four-year starter at defensive back at the University of Iowa, earning Big Ten MVP in 1982.
Grant Teaff
AFCA executive director
The executive director of the American Football Coaches Association since 1994, Teaff oversees an organization that includes more than 11,000 coaches and stakeholders at all levels of the sport. He has been part of football for more than 50 years. Teaff was a coach for 33 years on the high school and college level, including 1972-93 as the head coach at Baylor University. Teaff led the Bears to 128 victories, leaving the post as the winningest and longest-tenured coach in school history. He was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2001.
George Teague
Dallas Shelton High School head coach, former NFL safety
Teague has been the athletic director and head football coach at Shelton High School in Dallas since 2011. Before that, he coached at Harvest Christian Academy in Fort Worth and Carrolton (Texas) Christian Academy. A first-round pick of the Green Bay Packers in 1993, Teague played nine NFL seasons at safety with the Packers, Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins. He finished his career with 15 interceptions.