Who was the top coach from Sporting News?
John Wooden, who at UCLA won a record 10 Division I men’s basketball championships in 12 years, was a runaway winner. SN’s 1970 Sportsman of the Year picked up 57 first-place votes from the panel, which includes seven World Series-winning managers, four Super Bowl champion coaches and the winningest coaches in the NBA, NHL and college basketball. “When I think of Coach Wooden, the first word that comes to mind is execution,” said Gail Goodrich, who wrote an appreciation of his former coach in SN. “We never worried about the opponent, only about how we were going to play.” Green Bay Packers great Vince Lombardi came in second place in SN’s rankings, picking up 20 first-place votes. Wrote Bart Starr, Lombardi’s Hall of Fame quarterback: “(He said), ‘Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it because in the process we will catch excellence.’ He paused for a moment, g
In the aftermath of last year’s national title game, Urban Meyer told his friend and kingmaker, athletic director Jeremy Foley, that if Florida landed another big recruiting class a month later, the program would begin to look like USC. There’s one big difference: Florida plays for — and wins — national titles. No wonder Meyer has overtaken USC’s Pete Carroll as the game’s best coach. A brief list of why Meyer is the hottest coach in college football: • His teams at Florida have won two of the last three BCS national championships, and they’re the clear favorites this fall to make it three of four. Sources: http://www.sportingnews.
