Darryl Dale Rogers (born May 28, 1935) is a former American football player and coach.
 He served as the head coach at California State University, Fresno (1966–1972), San Jose State University (1973–1975), Michigan State University (1976–1979), and Arizona State University (1980–1984), compiling a career college football record of 126–77–7.
 Rogers was then the head coach of the National Football League's Detroit Lions from 1985 to 1988, where his record was 18–40.
 In 1991, served as head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL) coaching the Blue Bombers to a 9–9 record and an appearance in the East Final.
 After the CFL stint, Rogers was named head coach of the Arkansas Miners of the fledgling Professional Spring Football League.
 However, the league never made it out of its first training camp and folded just ten days before the start of the 1992 season.
The 2008 Detroit Lions season was the 79th season for the franchise in the National Football League.
 The Lions entered their third season under head coach Rod Marinelli and were looking to improve on the 7–9 record they put together in 2007.
 Instead, the Lions had one of the worst seasons in pro sports history.
 The team lost all sixteen of their games in 2008, becoming the first team since the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers to end an NFL season with no wins and no tied games as well as the first and only team to do it since the schedule was expanded to sixteen games.
 The Lions were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs by Week 11, when they stood 0–10.
 The team's victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 16 of 2007 stood as their last until Week 3 of the 2009 season.
 From the time the Lions recorded a win over the Denver Broncos in 2007 to reach 6–2, the team went 5–47 over their following 52 games (including all of 2008 and 2009) before winning four games in a row at the end of the 2010 season.
 As of 2017, this is the only team in NFL history to finish a season with a 0–16 record.
 The 2016 Cleveland Browns and the 2009 St. Louis Rams came close to 0–16, both going 1–15.
The Detroit Lions season was the franchise's 86th season in the National Football League, their 82nd as the Detroit Lions and the second under Head Coach Jim Caldwell.
 By Week 7 of the season, the Lions had already lost six games, more than they did in the entire 2014 season.
 This led to the firing of Offensive Coordinator Joe Lombardi and two other coaches.
 After falling to 1–7 the following week, the team fired President Tom Lewand and General Manager Martin Mayhew.
 On November 19, the Lions named Rod Wood as team President.
 The Lions were eliminated from playoff contention after their loss to St. Louis in week 14.
 The team had a 6–2 record in the second half of the season to finish at 7–9, good for third place in the NFC North.
 Also this season involved the Lions first win in Green Bay since 1991.
George M. "Potsy" Clark (March 20, 1894 – November 8, 1972) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and athletics administrator.
 He served as the head football coach at Michigan Agricultural College, now Michigan State University, (1920), the University of Kansas (1921–1925), Butler University (1927–1929), and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (1945, 1948), compiling a career college football record of 40–45–7.
 Clark was also the head coach of the National Football League's Portsmouth Spartans/Detroit Lions (1931–1936, 1940) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1937–1938), amassing a career NFL mark of 64–42–12.
 Clark's 1935 Detroit Lions team won the NFL Championship.
 From 1945 to 1953, Clark served as the athletic director at Nebraska.
Garrard Sliger "Buster" Ramsey (March 16, 1920 – September 16, 2007) was an American football player who starred at William and Mary and was the first head coach of the American Football League's Buffalo Bills in 1960.
 Prior to coaching the Bills, and after a stint in the United States Navy during World War II, Ramsey played for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) from 1946 to 1951 and a member of the 1947 NFL Champions.
 In 1951, Ramsey became a player-coach for the Cardinals before becoming the defensive coach for the Detroit Lions in 1952.
 During his tenure with the Lions, Ramsey is credited with devising the 4-3 defense, a staple of modern football, and being the first coach to blitz linebackers, a package he called Red Dog.
 The Lions won three World Championships in the 1950s with Ramsey running the defense.
 He developed Lions greats such as Yale Lary, Jack Christiansen, Jim David, and many others.
 In 1960, he was lured to the new AFL as coach of the Buffalo Bills.
 Though fired by Bills' owner Ralph C. Wilson Jr. after the 1961 AFL season, Ramsey is credited for laying the foundation of one of the best defensive teams in the history of the AFL.
 He also had a brother, Knox Ramsey, who also starred for the College of William and Mary, the Chicago Cardinals, and the Washington Redskins.
 Ramsey was elected into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1974, and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1978.
James Caldwell (born January 16, 1955) is an American football coach who is the head coach of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL).
 Caldwell served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University from 1993 to 2000, and as the head coach of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts from 2009 to 2011.
Rey Dempsey (born September 20, 1936) is a former American football coach.
 He served as the head football coach at Youngstown State University from 1973 to 1974, Southern Illinois University from 1976 to 1983, and Memphis State University—now known as the University of Memphis—from 1984 to 1985, compiling a career college football record of 73–57–3.
 In 1975, he was a special teams coach for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL).
 In 1983, his Southern Illinois team went 13–1, the best record in school history, winning an NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship.
 From 1991 to 2002, he served as Senior Pastor of Christ the King Church.
The 1999 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season.
 In their seventh season under head coach Jim Caldwell, the Demon Deacons compiled a 7–5 record, finished in a three-way tie for fifth place in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and defeated Arizona State in the 1999 Aloha Bowl.
John Russell Thomas (July 24, 1924 – March 19, 1991) was an American football tackle who played four seasons with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL).
 He was drafted by the Lions in the third round of the 1946 NFL Draft.
 He played college football at Ohio State University and attended Charleston High School in Charleston, West Virginia.
 His playing career ended in 1949 after he suffered a knee injury.
 Thomas was an assistant coach on the Detroit Lions 1952 and 1953 NFL Championship teams.
 NFL He was general manager of the Detroit Lions from 1967 till his retirement in 1989.
Paul Leonard Briggs (April 18, 1920 – February 14, 2011) was an American football tackle who played one season with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League.
 He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the seventh round of the 1944 NFL Draft.
 He played college football at the University of Colorado and attended Grand Junction High School in Grand Junction, Colorado.
 Briggs was the head football coach of Bakersfield High School in Bakersfield, California from 1953 to 1985.
 He was head coach of Rocky Ford High School in Rocky Ford, Colorado from 1949 to 1950 and head coach of Natrona County High School from 1951 to 1952.
 Briggs was also an assistant coach at Orange Coast College from 1985 to 2005.
 He was inducted into the University of Colorado Hall of Honor in 1974, Citizens Athletic Foundation High School Hall of Fame in 1975, California Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1977, Bob Elias Kern County Sports Hall of Fame in 1978 and Bakersfield High School Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
 He joined the United States Navy in 1943 and was stationed on the USS Daly.
 Briggs earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart after being hit in the nose and back by shrapnel during a Japanese kamikaze attack.

Question: Which college team went 7-5 under the coach who is now the head coach of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL)?
Answer: Wake Forest Demon Deacons