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Football coaches who are looking to advance up the career ladder might want to listen to Oliver Luck before climbing that next rung.

Luck’s been an NFL quarterback, a college athletic director (West Virginia), a Major League Soccer team president and the president of NFL Europe, in addition to his current role at the NCAA, vice president of regulatory affairs (and yes, he's also Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck's father). He’s been on both sides of the interview table on plenty of occasions.

The presentation he’ll give today at the USA Football 2018 National Conference at Pro Bowl, Interviewing for the Job You Want, will be a compilation of what he’s learned along the way. It's set for 5 p.m. in Rooms 240 A/B at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

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Luck said interviewing for a football coaching job isn’t much different than interviewing for a job anywhere else, with a couple of exceptions.

“I want to see enthusiasm, and I want to see someone who’s prepared with some sort of plan, because it indicates their level of leadership,” Luck said. “The one thing you do want to see in a coach or assistant, you want to see somebody who can lead men. You need someone who can be in that locker room and develop trust, confidence and love.”

To that end, Luck laid out four principles that coaches should always apply appropriately when interviewing for a job:

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1. Be appropriately enthusiastic. “Most committees look for someone who’s excited about this opportunity, and that needs to come through,” Luck said.

2. Do your research. “There’s so much more information out there,” Luck said. “I can’t speak in the high school space, but certainly in the college space. You have all this data and analytics you can use. It makes it easier to prepare your plan.”

Which leads directly to the third principle:

3. Prepare a plan. “I’ve always been impressed when coaches come in, they know what the roster is, they know the history, the conference and the competition, and they’ve prepared a plan for that,” Luck said. “There’s enough information out there, you can get a pretty good idea of what the challenges would be.”

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4. Be authentic and honest. “There are going to be questions that surprise you, questions that you haven’t thought of or might reveal something you didn’t know,” Luck said. “Don’t be unwilling to say, ’I don’t know.’ Most people can figure out if you’re trying to talk yourself out of a challenging situation.”

Luck said he decided to speak on this topic because he often gets the question from coaches who are looking for their next gig.

“This was always something I obviously thought was important to coaches, just as it was important to administrators,” Luck said. “Over the years, whether it was in pro sports or in college athletics, I seem to get asked relatively often by coaches at all levels, ‘What does an athletic director want to see in an interview, what’s the best way to prepare for it?’”

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Finally, Luck would like to remind coaches who are prepping for an interview not to overlook the seemingly simple tips for interviews in all walks of life.

“You can never be overdressed and you can never be too early,” Luck said. “I think those things are worth emphasizing because they are important. That includes knowing beforehand who’s going to be in that room … their names, knowing a little bit about them,” Luck added. “You never know when a fact like that will come in handy. It tells the people doing the interviewing, this guy did his homework.”

This article originally published in USA Football's Show Daily Saturday edition for the National Conference. Click here to see the entire edition.