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Amo Bessone	To this day, Bessone's 1966 Michigan State team remains one of the biggest underdog stories in NCAA ice hockey history.
Steve Beuerlein	Before Beuerlein's senior year, Faust resigned after five seasons of mediocrity, including a 30-26-1 record, only one bowl win in two appearances, and never finishing a season ranked.
Tim Rebowe	In 1996, he helped lead Nicholls State to its first playoff appearance in a decade and completed one of the greatest one-year turnarounds in Division 1-AA history.
June Jones	Jones led the Warriors to a 9 -- 4 record and a share of the Western Athletic Conference football championship in the 1999 season, making it the most dramatic turnaround in NCAA football history.
David Duncan (footballer)	In that short period of time, he led Free State Stars to victory in the Phakisa Cup in 2009 beating Soweto giants Orlando Pirates and Chiefs.
Dolph Stanley	For 10 seasons Stanley coached the Knights to four regional and three sectional titles, advancing to the state quarterfinals in 1963.
Frank Barbour	As the coach of the 1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Barbour expanded the team's schedule to twelve games and took the team on its first extended road trip to the West.
Bobby Williams	Williams coached the Spartans to a 37-34 win over Florida in the 2000 Citrus Bowl in his first game as head coach.
George Welsh (American football)	Welsh turned around the program quickly, leading Virginia to a win in the school's first-ever bowl appearance, the 1984 Peach Bowl.
Rube Foster	By 1915 Foster's first serious rival in the midwest had emerged : C. I. Taylor's Indianapolis ABCs, who claimed the western championship after defeating the American Giants four games to none in July.
Bruce Savage	In February 2008, Savage led Gulf Breeze to the FHSAA State Final Four for the fifth time in the school's history.
Paul Westphal	After compiling a 21 -- 9 record in his lone season there, he moved on to Grand Canyon College, also in Phoenix, and after two seasons led them to the NAIA national title in 1988.
Gary Williams	On April 1, 2002, Williams led the Terrapins to their first NCAA National Championship, defeating Indiana 64 -- 52.
Ray Bourque	During Bourque's tenure with the Bruins, the team continued what would be a North American professional record twenty-nine consecutive seasons in the playoffs, a streak that would persist through the 1996 season.
Dave Kragthorpe	The best results were definitely in his second season, a 12 -- 1 season in 1981, when the Bengals won the Big Sky Conference title and the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship behind quarterback Mike Machurek, who went on to become a reserve player with the Detroit Lions.
Sonny Dykes	Dykes was named 2011 WAC Coach of the Year for leading Louisiana Tech to the 2011 WAC title and an appearance in the 2011 Poinsettia Bowl.
Bob Knight	Knight quickly improved the program, which had not been to an NCAA tournament since 1996.
Carl Madison	The 1988 Eagle team was named as mythical national champions by USA Today, and Madison earned the title of the High School Coach of the Year.
Jerry Sloan	During the 2008 -- 09 season, Sloan reached 1,000 wins as coach of the Jazz on November 7 after beating the Oklahoma City Thunder 104 -- 97 in a Friday night game.
Marvin Webster	He was named to the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball 50th Anniversary All-Elite Eight Team in 2006.
Sam Mitchell (basketball)	Mitchell, who witnessed his team struggle with rebuilding in his first years as coach, also led the Toronto Raptors to their first division title in franchise history as the team won the Atlantic Division in the NBA's Eastern Conference in the 2006 -- 07 season.
Ron Vanderlinden	Despite these setbacks, Maryland improved significantly during Vanderlinden's tenure, winning more games in 1999 than the previous two years combined.
Gary Pinkel	In 2008, Pinkel guided his Tigers to a second consecutive Big 12 North title and a chance to have back to back double digit win seasons.
Rick Neuheisel	His only losing season at Colorado was 1997 ; the Buffs were expected to be national title contenders, but never recovered from a blowout loss to Michigan on national television.
Brian VanGorder	The 2002 season saw VanGorder's defense not only lead the SEC in scoring defense, but finished fourth nationally.
Tyrone Willingham	In 2004, Notre Dame posted a 6 -- 5 record in the regular season, including a 41 -- 16 loss to Purdue (The second-worst home loss ever to Purdue) and ending with Willingham's third consecutive loss to USC for his fifth loss by 30 points or more, and eighth by 22 points or more, in his three seasons.
Kelly Graves	In the 2010 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament, Graves guided Gonzaga to an 82-76 first round victory over Hall of Fame coach Sylvia Hatchell's University of North Carolina Tar Heels women's basketball team and a 72-71 second-round victory over Gary Blair's Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team.
Eagle Keys	In 1966 he won his only championship as a head coach, with his Roughriders team winning the 54th Grey Cup.
Sonny Dykes	In Dykes last game at Texas Tech, he helped orchestrate the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I-A bowl game history in the 2006 Insight Bowl against Minnesota.
Tim Stowers	Stowers 2010 CCSU offense was first in 9 of 14 Northeast Conference Statistical Categories for the 2010 CCSU NEC Co-Champions.
Vic Bubas	He led Duke to the NCAA Final Four three times (1963, 64 and 66).
Chris Mack (basketball)	Mack's squad did not win the Atlantic 10 in 2012 but was able to advance to the Sweet 16 with wins over the University of Notre Dame and Lehigh University.
Adolph Rupp	An important game in Rupp's career was the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship game at Cole Field House against Texas Western, coached by Don Haskins.
Willie Miller (basketball)	In the 2007 Fiesta Conference, he led the Alaska Aces with the help of 2007 PBA Fiesta Conference Best Import Rossell Ellis to the championships once again after 5 years.
Stub Barron	Barron led them to an undefeated season in 1918 and the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship.
Bill Doba	Doba oversaw one of the greatest WSU victories of all time in the 2003 Holiday Bowl and won three of five Apple Cup rivalry games against Washington.
Sandy Alderson	The Athletics won four division titles, three pennants and the 1989 World Series during Alderson's tenure.
Emanuel King	Starting his second year and Ums in 2012 he hopes to lead the Bulldogs to a state championship.
Vic Rowen	In Rowen's early years, San Francisco State was a west-coast small college football powerhouse, winning eight Far Western Conference titles before 1967.
Claude E. Thornhill	Stanford lost Thornhill's first two appearances, but won the 1936 Rose Bowl over SMU, 7 -- 0.
Tom Jurich	One of his greatest accomplishments was bringing Rick Pitino, who had brought the rival University of Kentucky's basketball team to one NCAA championship and three Final Fours, to the University of Louisville on March 21, 2001.
Gil Santos	On September 26, 2010, the Patriots defeated the Buffalo Bills 38-30 ; it marked the 700th Patriots game, encompassing preseason, regular season, playoffs, and the Super Bowl, that Santos broadcast.
Phillip Norris Armstrong	The program never had anything but'' winning'' seasons under coach Armstrong, with the worst record being 4 wins and 3 losses in 1929, the worst loss that year a 46-0 defeat by the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Stew Morrill	Morrill and Utah State gained national attention in March 2001 for their upset overtime victory over Ohio State 77 -- 68 in the NCAA Tournament.
William Alexander (coach)	The 1929 Rose Bowl win, which earned his team the national championship, is the most celebrated because of the wrong-way run by California's Roy Riegels.
Jack Harbaugh	His 2002 squad won the NCAA Division I-AA national football championship.
Steve Spurrier	And in November 2010, he coached South Carolina to a 36 -- 14 victory in Gainesville (their first ever on Florida Field) in a game that decided the SEC Eastern Division title.
Taylor Smith	She helped her previous club team, the Olympia Panthers, to the 2004 Washington state championship.
Coquese Washington	Washington's first post season appearance at Penn State was a first round loss in the 2010 WNIT Tournament.
Derek Stingley	In 2007, his first season in Georgia, Stingley recorded a 10-6 record and advanced to the second round of the playoffs.
Hayden Fry	A five game conference winning streak in 1984 helped put Fry and Iowa in contention for the league title, but injuries contributed to Iowa's 0 -- 2 -- 1 finish to the conference schedule.
Scott Brooks	The following year he led the Thunder to the Western Conference Finals, where they eventually lost to the 2011 NBA Champions, the Dallas Mavericks.
Mike Nixon	After a 6-8 campaign in his first year, the team improved to a 9-5 record the following year, and was one game away from winning the Eastern Conference title in 1963.
Otto Graham	Graham continued to coach in the College All-Star Game while at Coast Guard, and his college team beat Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers in a 20 -- 17 upset in 1963.
Chot Reyes	In 2003, he led Coke to three successive Finals appearances, winning the Reinforced Conference championship with Artemus McClary as import.
Dave van Horn	Coach Van Horn has also led 14 straight teams to the postseason NCAA tournament, from 1999 -- present.
Kliff Kingsbury	Kingsbury also became the first coach in Texas Tech history to start the season 6-0 in their debut season after the Red Raiders defeated Iowa State on October 12, 2013.
Ray Riddick	Ray stayed as the head coached of Lowell High School until 1976, where he brought Lowell High to three national football championship playoffs, and became known as one of the America's greatest high school football coaches.
John Roos	Roos also served as an honorary captain -- alongside John Elway -- for Stanford before the Cardinal's victory in the January 2011 Orange Bowl.
Senichi Hoshino	Hoshino made a number of big trades, and led the Dragons to a league championship in 1988.
Bill Snyder	In 1996, Snyder led the Wildcats in the first Big 12 Conference football game against Texas Tech, winning 21 -- 14.
Ned Harkness	In 1966, Harkness bested the previous year's total by winning 22 games while losing only 5 times.
Bobby Jackson (American football coach)	Allen finished third in the NFC in rushing both times he reached the plateau, while Davis led the conference in that category in 1999.
Jamie Dixon	At the end of the 2010 season, Dixon is the winningest coach in Big East history with a current.
Rick Klassen	Saskatchewan was beaten by Klassen's old team, the B. C. Lions, 42-18 in the Western Semi-Final and the Roughriders had yet to host a home playoff before hosting Calgary in the Western Semifinal during the 2007 CFL season.
Earle Bruce	In his second season, he led the Rams to a winning record and a victory over Oregon in the Freedom Bowl, their first bowl appearance since 1948 and their first bowl victory ever.
John Pelphrey	On December 30, 2008, Pelphrey earned his biggest upset as coach of the Razorbacks up until that point by beating # 4 ranked Oklahoma in Bud Walton Arena, 96-88.
Clyde Drexler	Despite finishing the regular season with a record of 47 -- 35, which placed the Rockets 6th out of 8 playoff teams in the Western Conference, Drexler and long-time friend Hakeem Olajuwon helped propel them to an improbable second consecutive championship in 1995, sweeping the Orlando Magic.
Dan Hawkins	On June 27, 2013, Hawkins won his first game as Alouettes head coach, defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Winnipeg.
Bob Otolski	During his time at Indiana, they went on to win the first bowl game in school history, the 1979 Holiday Bowl.
Cliff Hagan	In 1958, his second season in the NBA, the Hawks, led by Hagan and Bob Pettit, won the NBA championship (one of the five Western Conference titles the Hawks won during his tenure with them), defeating the Boston Celtics 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals.
Randy Cunneyworth	In his first season with the club in 2010 -- 11, Cunneyworth led the Bulldogs to a 44 -- 27 -- 2 -- 7 record, getting 97 points and first place in the North Division.
Gary Kubiak	Kubiak was named the AFC Coach of the Year by NFL 101 after leading the Texans to a 10-6 regular season record and the franchise's first division crown, playoff berth and playoff win in 2011.
Greg Howes	He led the team to a division win and the playoffs in 2012 -- 13 Las Vegas Legends season.
Robb Akey	Akey's tenure as Vandals head coach ended in 2012 on October 21, when Idaho fired him following a 70 -- 28 loss to Louisiana Tech, moving the team's overall record to 1 -- 7 for the season.
Joe B. Hall	He won 8 Southeastern Conference regular season championships and one Southeastern Conference tournament championship (1984).
Larry Lacewell	Lacewell is the winningest coach in ASU history and led the team to four consecutive appearances in the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs, with the 1986 team making it all the way to the championship game before losing to Georgia Southern.
Marc Colombo	He played a key role in one of the most successful offensive seasons in club history while helping the team to a franchise record-tying 13 wins and the first NFC East title since 1998.
Ed Brown (quarterback)	In 1955, with Bratkowski in the military, Brown beat out Blanda for the starting job and led the Bears to an 8-4 record and a very close second place finish to the Los Angeles Rams.
Rodney Marsh (footballer)	He coached the team to the Freedom Conference title in 1981, and they went on to beat his former club New York United 2 -- 1 in the championship final.
Frank Kush	In 1978, Kush's team once again finished 9 -- 3, this time defeating Rutgers in the Garden State Bowl.
Rocky Long	He garnered his first bowl win as Lobo coach by defeating the Nevada Wolf Pack in the 2007 New Mexico Bowl.
Lon Kruger	In the process, he led the University of Florida to its first-ever Final Four appearance in 1994.
Margie Wright	She led Fresno State to a national championship in 1998, the first national championship won by Fresno State in any team sport.
Billy Kennedy (basketball)	Southeastern Louisiana hired Kennedy in 1999 and he steadily improved his alma mater, winning 10 games in his first season and doubling that total four seasons later, winning the Southland Conference regular-season championship.
Freddy Sanchez	Sanchez went to Glendale Community College for two years, where he led the team to a co-championship in the Western State Conference, which was also the college's first playoff appearance since 1981.
Watson Brown	In twelve seasons as the Blazers' head coach he compiled a record of 62 -- 74, and led the team to its first bowl appearance in the Hawaii Bowl in 2004.
Paul Mainieri	Mainieri coached LSU to the 2009 College World Series championship.
Jeff Tedford	Cal defeated Air Force 42 -- 36 in the 2007 Armed Forces Bowl, giving Tedford and Cal a sixth-straight winning season.
Margie Wright	She led the Fresno State Bulldogs to the NCAA national softball championship in 1998 and is the NCAA's all-time winningest softball coach.
Gus Malzahn	Malzahn led his squad to the state title game in only his second season in 2002.
John Stiegelmeier	Stiegelmeier was also honored as the Great West Football Conference Coach of the Year in 2007 after compiling a 7-4 overall record and winning the GWFC title.
Mark Hutson	The team he led as interim head coach lost in the first round of the 2006 playoffs, 24 -- 13, to Illinois State.
John Chalmers	However, Iowa won just one Western Conference game with Chalmers, the 1903 victory over Illinois.
Vince Gibson	When he was hired, the school was mired in a 21-game non-winning streak and had not enjoyed a winning season since 1954, but he promised the Wildcat fans,'' We gon na win !''
George Karl	On December 31, 2008, Karl reached 900 coaching career wins with the Nuggets as they beat the Toronto Raptors 114 -- 107.
Sonny Dykes	During his tenure as the Texas Tech receivers coach, the Red Raiders participated in a bowl game in each of his five years including the 2000 Galleryfurniture.
Gregg Brandon	The day after winning their first road contest at arch rival Toledo since 1994, Brandon was fired by athletic director Greg Christopher after six years as Bowling Green's head coach and posting a 44-30 record.
Ben Braun	In the 1998 -- 99 season, Braun's club defeated North Carolina, UCLA, and Arizona during the course of the year to become the first team ever at Cal to beat three Top 10 schools in the same season.
Dennis Erickson	With Erickson's arrival as head coach, the program embarked on 15 consecutive winning seasons (1982 -- 96), and 11 trips to the Division I-AA playoffs in 14 seasons.