 Most stops were for one or two years, while the longest he stayed at any one school was his seven-year tenure as head coach at Western Michigan University.Along the way he has coached under or alongside Bo Schembechler, Lloyd Carr, John Cooper, Bill McCartney, Don Nehlen, Bill Mallory, Les Miles, and Bill Belichick.While head coach at Navy, Uzelac had several notable assistants, including Tom Amstutz, Chuck Bresnahan, Steve Belichick, Dean Pees, and Carl Reese.