Former San Francisco 49ers & Detroit Lions head coach Steve Mariucci is leaving the door open for a possible return to coaching.

“The right situation may never present itself again,” Mariucci said, “because we’ve decided as a family not to move anymore. We are back in northern California in our home and we settled back in. I’ve moved my wife 18 times, and I don’t want to move again, nor does she. Our home base is going to be in the Bay Area. It’s that simple.

“For me to coach again, it either has to be on the West Coast or I would have to commute.”

Mariucci is an under-rated coach and he definitely has what it takes to lead a team to a championship. It’s only a matter of time before he’s coaching again somewhere.