Memo to all NFL teams currently hunting for a head coach: There’s a guy north of the border primed and ready.

Scott Milanovich.

The Butler graduate turns 40 later this month and if he’s not being considered for one of the seven head coach openings around the league, he should be.

The NFL has become all about offense.

No one knows more about designing an offense than this guy.

Milanovich coaches in the Canadian Football League, where you get only three downs as opposed to four. Yes, the field is wider and players are allowed to move forward in the backfield before the snap, but football is football. And Milanovich can coach it.

He was offensive coordinator and associate head coach for Montreal when the Alouettes won consecutive Grey Cup championships.

He took the Toronto Argonauts to the Grey Cup title in his first year there as head coach this past fall.

One could say Milanovich has not been a head coach in the pro ranks for more than a year, but NFL teams hire less seasoned coaches than him on a fairly regular basis.

Milanovich has groomed himself to be a head coach. He coached in college and NFL Europe before moving on to the CFL.

One of the first moves he and the front office did when he got to Toronto was go out and get a quality quarterback.

In the CFL, you can’t win without one.

In the NFL, it’s becoming the same thing.

The San Diego Chargers and Chicago Bears have under-achieved offensively over the past couple of years. Norv Turner and Lovie Smith lost their jobs as a result.

Philip Rivers and Jay Cutler are pretty decent quarterbacks in those two cities. Both have skilled players to work with at receiver, running back and tight end.

It’s easy to believe Milanovich could succeed if given the reins of such a scenario.

A former quarterback himself, Milanovich has always been fascinated by the X’s and O’s of the game. While he was a rarely-used backup during a brief NFL career, other rarely-used backups — Gary Kubiak and Jason Garrett come to mind — went on to become NFL head coaches.

Maybe Milanovich will land in the NFL as a coordinator or position coach first at some point, but it seems the man has already earned his stripes.

He took over a Toronto team that hadn’t won the Grey Cup in years and was barely considered a playoff contender and won the league championship his first year there.

Milanovich says he’s happy in Toronto and he has plenty of reasons to feel that way. But if the NFL came calling, it’s likely he’d pick up the phone.

The man is young, energetic, hungry, passionate about the game and possesses a proven track record.

Sounds like he’s worth that phone call.

John Enrietto is sports editor of the Butler Eagle