Rob Ryan (born 1948) is the founder, past chairman and CEO of Ascend Communications, and currently mentors entrepreneurs through his Entrepreneur America Mentors' bootcamps at his ranch in Montana.
 Ryan earned national attention when he grew his 1989 start-up company, Ascend Communications, to more than $2 billion in sales.
 Lucent Technologies acquired Ascend in 1999 for $24 billion in what was termed at the time the "largest technology merger ever.
"This sale still ranks as the largest technology merger today in the US.
The 2010 Allstate Sugar Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was part of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) for the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the 76th Sugar Bowl.
 The contest was played on Friday, January 1, 2010, in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana between the Florida Gators, who lost the 2009 SEC Championship Game and the Cincinnati Bearcats, winners of the Big East Conference.
 The Bearcats were coached by Offensive Coordinator Jeff Quinn on an interim basis after Head Coach Brian Kelly left Cincinnati to take the head coaching position at Notre Dame on December 10, 2009.
 This would be Quinn's only game as head coach for Cincinnati, as he had already accepted the head coaching position of the University of Buffalo's football team effective after the Sugar Bowl.
Rob Ryan (born June 24, 1973 in Havre, Montana) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Oakland Athletics.
 He attended Washington State University where he played college baseball for the Cougars from 1993–1996, and was drafted by the Diamondbacks in the 26th round (785th overall pick) of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft.
 He signed with the Diamondbacks two days later on June 6.
 Ryan, who batted and threw left-handed, was listed at 5' 11" in height, and 192 lb in weight.
The 1994 Arizona Cardinals season was the team's 75th season with the National Football League, the seventh season in Arizona and the first season as the Arizona Cardinals.
 Buddy Ryan became the 32nd head coach in Cardinals history.
 After being given a large share of the credit for the success of the Houston Oilers in 1993, Ryan was named head coach of the Arizona Cardinals in 1994.
 Also named general manager of the Cardinals, Ryan went 8–8 his first year, the Cardinals' first non-losing season since 1984.
Weldon Drew (born April 22, 1935) was the head men's basketball coach at New Mexico State University from 1979 to 1985.
 He was named to the position in 1979 as the successor to Ken Hayes who left to become head coach at Oral Roberts University.
 Drew was previously an assistant coach for New Mexico State University from 1975 to 1979.
 Drew came to NMSU after coaching high school basketball for Houston's Kashmere High School (485-135 record in 18 seasons), where he left with a 78-game winning streak after winning two consecutive Texas 4A state championships and the high school national championship.
 Drew also won national coach of the year in 1975.
 The NMSU job was Drew's first head coaching position at the college level.
 Drew was the 20th person to hold the head coaching position in the Aggie basketball history.
 After a dismal 1984-85 season, Drew was fired.
 He then went to be an assistant coach at Oklahoma State for two seasons.
 In 1987 Drew became the head coach at traditionally-black Langston University in Oklahoma.
 Drew graduated from Fisk University in 1957 after a standout career playing basketball.
 Drew graduated high school and played basketball at Wheatley High School in Houston.
Dennis Fryzel (February 21, 1942 – July 6, 2009) was the last head football coach at the University of Tampa.
 He was the captain of the football team at Garfield Heights High School, where he lost his teeth to on-the-field injuries.
 He attended Denison University, where he played football and ran track.
 Although offered a tryout by the Boston Patriots, he was unable to bulk up enough to accept.
 He entered the coaching ranks with jobs at his former high school, Columbia University, and Williams College, before being offered the defensive coordinator position by Tampa head coach Earle Bruce.
 Fryzel took over the head coaching position when Bruce was offered a job at Iowa State University the next year.
 Fryzel coached for two years at the University of Tampa, before the program was disbanded.
 Ironically, Fryzel, who had become the fourth UT head coach in as many years, had given assurances on his hiring that he intended to serve out his three-year contract, and not use it to serve as a springboard to a higher-profile job.
 Fryzel then took the position of special teams coordinator with the expansion NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
 After one year, he returned to the college ranks and served as defensive coordinator at Syracuse University and Air Force, before rejoining Bruce at Ohio State University.
 After being fired (along with Nick Saban and Steve Szabo) following the 1981 Liberty Bowl, Fryzel retired from coaching.
 Saban, who calls Fryzel a "great mentor" and included him on the sideline at Alabama games, credits him with helping him to make up his mind to leave the Miami Dolphins and take the University of Alabama coaching job.
 He died in July 2009 of renal cancer.
James David "Buddy" Ryan (February 17, 1931 – June 28, 2016) was an American football coach in the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL).
 During his 35-season coaching career, Ryan served as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals, and the defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears and Houston Oilers of the NFL.
Robert Allen Ryan (born December 13, 1962) is an American football coach in the National Football League (NFL).
 He has served as a defensive coordinator or coach for seven different NFL teams, and served as the linebackers coach for the New England Patriots when they won both Super Bowl XXXVI and Super Bowl XXXVIII.
 He is the son of former defensive coordinator and head coach Buddy Ryan and the twin brother of Rex Ryan.
Angela Lawson (born January 19, 1966) is the head women's basketball coach at the University of the Incarnate Word.
 She played college basketball at Louisiana Tech University where she was a three-year starter for Leon Barmore and the Lady Techsters and won the 1988 NCAA Division I National Championship in her senior season.
 Lawson went to the University of Tennessee to earn a master's degree and serve as a graduate assistant for Pat Summitt and the Lady Vols.
 In her second season as GA, Tennessee won the 1991 NCAA Division I National Championship.
 Lawson then took an assistant coaching position at Texas State, which she served for 3 seasons.
 Then she took an assistant coaching position at Baylor with former Louisiana Tech coach Sonja Hogg.
 After serving 6 years at Baylor, Lawson took the head coaching position which she currently holds at the University of the Incarnate Word.
Dale Haupt (born April 12, 1929) is an American football coach who served as the defensive line coach for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL), winning a Super Bowl with them in 1985.
 In 1986, Haupt joined Bears defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan in leaving the team to join the Philadelphia Eagles, and was replaced by John Levra.
 He served the Eagles until his retirement in 1995.
 He was hired by the Coast Guard Academy in 1997, reuniting him with former Bears coach Jim LaRue.
 Haupt has worked with Buddy Ryan with the NFLPA Game.

Question: What NFL coaching position doboth Buddy Ryan and Rob Ryan have in common?
Answer: defensive coordinator