Sporting News' 50 greatest coaches of all time

[Sportsaholic]

No I understand who gets credited for the West Coast offense but watch what the Vikes did in the 70s and it isnt any different. Some announcers even point that out.

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To the good ole days!

 

[gardenweasel]

i think they made a big mistake by not putting sid gillman on this list....he revolutionized the passing game in football....here is a list i got of the people who coached under gillman (from the nfl site)...

Al Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders

Chuck Noll, who coached the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl titles

Ara Parseghian, former coach at the University of Notre Dame

Bo Schembechler, former coach at the University of Michigan

Bill Walsh, who coached the San Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowl titles

Chuck Knox, former coach of several NFL teams

Dick Vermeil, coach of several NFL teams

George Allen,coach of the LA Rams & Wash. Redskins.....

this guy should be in the top 20 at least....

excellent list,my man...

 

[jhawksoon]

I think they did a pretty good overall job. Disagree where some of the college football coaches fall in the rankings. Wilkinson should be closer to the top. If Urban Meyer or Pete Carroll put together the streaks he did, their face would be on Mt. Rushmore, or at least Mt. Bristol.

Anyway, Osborne and Parseghian should be much higher than Bowden and Robinson in my mind.

Totally agree about Wilkinson. I'll let Wikipedia do the talking:

In his first season of 1947, Wilkinson led Oklahoma to a 7-2-1 record and a share of the conference championship, the first of 13 consecutive Big Six/Seven/Eight conference titles. Ultimately, Wilkinson would become one of the most celebrated college coaches of all time. His teams captured national championships in 1950, 1955, and 1956, and amassed a 145-29-4 (82.6%) overall record. An ultra-organized innovator, Wilkinson would post practice schedules that were broken down to the minute.

The centerpiece of his time in Norman was a 47-game winning streak from 1953 to 1957, an NCAA Division I record that still stands today and has only been seriously threatened thrice: by Toledo (35 wins, 1969-71), Miami (Fl.) (34 wins, 2000-03) and USC (34 wins, 2003-05). Earlier, the Sooners ran off 31 consecutive wins from 1948 to 1950. Except for two losses in 1951, the Wilkinson-coached Sooners did not lose more than one game per season for 11 years from 1948 to 1958, going 107-8-2 over that period. His teams also went 12 consecutive seasons totaling 74 games (1947-58) without a loss in conference play ? a streak which has never been seriously threatened. Wilkinson did not suffer his first conference loss until Halloween 1959 against Nebraska ? his 79th conference game at Oklahoma.

His 1955 Oklahoma team is considered one of the greatest teams in college football history, regardless of era. He was also the first collegiate football coach to host a television show, aptly named "The Bud Wilkinson Show."

Wilkinson was also remarkable for compiling this record while showing a genuine interest and concern for the performance of his players in the classroom. Following the 1963 season, his 17th at Oklahoma, Wilkinson retired from coaching at the young age of 47. His overall record was 145-29-4. Along with Bennie Owen, Barry Switzer and Bob Stoops, he is one of four coaches to win over 100 games at the University of Oklahoma. No other college football program has more than 3 coaches to accomplish such a feat.

While still at Oklahoma, Wilkinson served on the President's Council on Physical Fitness from 1961 to 1964, by which time he'd left the Sooners.