Tom Luginbill Tom Luginbill ( born January 3 , 1974 ) is a college football analyst for ESPN . Luginbill grew up in Tempe , Arizona and San Diego . He is the son of the professional and college coach Al Luginbill and a distant cousin of talk radio host Joe Luginbill . Playing career . Luginbill was the starting quarterback for three colleges over his four - year career . He had varying degrees of success ranging from a national championship to a one win season . He played football for Palomar College ( Juco ) from 1992 – 1993 , where he amassed 21 wins . In 1993 , he led Palomar to the National Junior College championship and a perfect 11 – 0 record , and was named a first - team All - American by the Junior College Athletic Bureau . Luginbill also set the all - time national junior college record for passing while playing for Palomar Junior College , becoming the most highly recruited junior college player in the nation . He still owns numerous team records at Palomar ( as of January 26 , 2010 ) . He then transferred to Georgia Tech and won the starting quarterback position in 1994 from Donnie Davis , who had started all eleven games the previous year . In 1994 , despite Luginbill turning in performances that would earn him ACC Rookie of the Year honors , the Jackets , purportedly embroiled in controversy over the decision to demote Davis and start Luginbill , would manage to only defeat Division I - AA Western Carolina going 1 – 10 on the season . With the departure of Bill Lewis and instatement of George O ' Leary as the head coach at Georgia Tech , a change in offensive scheme would prompt Luginbill to consider another transfer . Luginbill transferred and played his final year at Eastern Kentucky in 1995 . Luginbill went into the Arena Football League and played for the Texas Terror in 1996 and the Florida Bobcats in 1997 . Coaching career . Luginbill ' s short playing career lead him into coaching in four professional football leagues — the XFL , NFL Europe , the Arena Football League and af2 . Luginbill ' s first coaching job was as a player personnel / coaching assistant with his father for the Amsterdam Admirals in 1996 and 1997 . He then joined the AFL ' s New York CityHawks in 1998 as QB coach and offensive coordinator . Luginbill ' s first head coach ing job was for af2 ' s Tennessee Valley Vipers in 2000 where he was a 25 year old head coach that lead his team to the ArenaCup championship in their inaugural season . When the XFL was formed in 2001 , Luginbill again went to work with his father as assistant for the league champion Los Angeles Xtreme . He was the QB coach for league MVP Tommy Maddox prior to Maddox moving back into the National Football League . Luginbill then moved on to the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys and then the AFL ' s Dallas Desperados as the offensive coordinator and player personnel director . He then got a new head coaching job with the Detroit Fury in 2002 before the franchise folded in 2004 . He would finish the season with the Fury before moving on to work for Scouts Inc . as an NFL personnel evaluator which has led to his current role as National Recruiting Director for ESPN ' s college football recruiting service Scouts Inc .