And they forgot about Mt. Union, which just won the D-III national championship again. And Mangino at Kansas was an assistant for Tressel at Youngstown State. WSJ: "Both Florida's Urban Meyer and Oklahoma's Bob Stoops, who will face off in the national-championship game on Jan. 8, grew up in Ohio. Recent title-winners Jim Tressel of Ohio State and Les Miles of LSU are native Ohioans, as are two of the college game's rising stars, Nebraska's Bo Pelini and Missouri's Gary Pinkel. The list of coaches with Ohio ties includes Alabama's Nick Saban, who played at Kent State and coached at Toledo, and USC's Pete Carroll, who was an Ohio State assistant in 1979. Less than 4% of the country's population lives in Ohio, but 15% of college football's major-conference head coaches were born there -- the most for any state. And this volume is more than matched by quality: 14 of the last 18 teams that have made it to the national title game have had head coaches with Ohio connections." Buckeye State Coaches
the 14 of 18 stat is superficial. what does it take to have a connection? assistant somewhere? player somewhere? most head coaches lead a nomadic life until they become a head coach at a BCS team.
You know those rating systems are flawed. They don't take in account houses that have... uh... more than two television sets... and...other things of that nature.
There sure is something about the water in Youngstown, that's for sure. Pelini is from there, right? (did not read the article)
What's more impressive is the QBs Western Pennsylvania has produced. Most of these are hall of fame QBs. Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath, George Blanda, Jeff Hostetler, Marc Bulger, Gus Frerotte and Jim Kelly. I believe Bernie Kosar was from Youngstown, which is near the ohio/pa border
Mangino is from New Castle, Pennsylvania. I remember this because when he told me I thought he said White Castle.
There was a coach out of Ampipe in Pennsylvania that went on to coach in college and the pro's. I remember seeing a documentary on the Ampipe program back in the 80s. Love, football, hard times and toilet papering a coaches house. Steel country. There has to be something in Youngstown's water. It is a pretty ****** city in a pretty ****** state so maybe they knew what they had to do in order to get the hell out of there and got lucky to do so. I know I would do what I could. Even Shark got the hell out of there. He willingly left the land of the burning cheap couch and faux tough douchebags. Props to him for that.
Wrong. East Tennessee has: Mack Brown Phil Fulmer - ok, that one is kind of a bust Steve Spurrier There's one or two more that I can't think of right now that are pretty big-time.
Correction: Mangino graduated from Youngstown State.. "Mangino is one of a handful of current Division I-A football coaches who did not themselves play I-A football. He graduated from Youngstown State University in 1987 and was an assistant coach there in his last two years. He also coached at Elwood City High School in Pennsylvania and Geneva College before gaining an associate position at Kansas State University (1991–1998). He was later (1999–2001) the offensive coordinator for the Oklahoma team which beat Florida State for the 2000 national championship."
I would be surprised if Youngstown continues to be the hotbed of coaching. Most of downtown is boarded up, although the suburbs seem to be doing okay. Interestingly, so many of the famous (Hall of Fame) quarterbacks grew up in Pennsylvania, within about 40 miles from Youngstown. It seems to me that it is this general area that is the hotbed, not Ohio in general. As far as demographics of the state goes, Youngstown is pretty similar to Cleveland in that they are both industrial/steel towns. Columbus is more of an agricultural town (historically, although banking is pretty big too), and Cincinnati is more of a corporate town with companies like P&G headquartered there. I haven't followed Ohio football in many years, so I am curious to know whether Cincinnati Moeller and Cleveland St. Ignatius are still the big football schools.
It probably won't be a popular sentiment here, but for a state its size, Arkansas has produced a lot of coaching talent. Bear Bryant, Barry Switzer, Jimmy Johnson, Butch Davis, Tommy Tuberville, Gus Malzahn.
