Greatest Coach of All Time

[AA_Train]

The thread title says it all. I'm not going to bother to post a survey because there would be too many names to mention. Some of my picks include:

Scotty Bowman: Nine Cups plus is probably whispering into the ear of his son Stan with the Chicago Blackhawks.

Bill Walsh: Revolutionized football with the west coast offense plus the four Super Bowl titles.

Toe Blake: Eight Cups as a coach, including five straight to end the 1950s.

Red Auerbach: Nine championships in ten years is pretty astonishing.

Casey Stengel: The former disciple of John McGraw surpassed the master winning eight championships including five straight in the 1950s.

 

[Real Sonny Burnett]

 

[bartendr]

Scotty Bowman: Nine Cups plus is probably whispering into the ear of his son Stan with the Chicago Blackhawks.

I doubt its a whisper. I think that Stan and Joel Quenville are just the figureheads.

 

[bartendr]

Scotty Bowman: Nine Cups plus is probably whispering into the ear of his son Stan with the Chicago Blackhawks.

I doubt its a whisper. I think that Stan and Joel Quenneville are just the figureheads. Great in their own right, but we're talking Scotty Bowman!!!

 

[grusse]

Vince Lombardi should be in most Top 5"s.

I think it was John Wooden who coached UCLA to something like 8 or 9 consecutive NCAA titles

small point...Casey Stengel was mgr of 7 championship teams during his tenure,incl. 5 in a row.

thx for this thread,makes for thoughtful discussion.

 

[AA_Train]

Vince Lombardi should be in most Top 5"s.

I think it was John Wooden who coached UCLA to something like 8 or 9 consecutive NCAA titles

small point...Casey Stengel was mgr of 7 championship teams during his tenure,incl. 5 in a row.

thx for this thread,makes for thoughtful discussion.

Yes, my bad. I wasn't totally wrong as he did win 8 championships but one was as a player.

 

[BORKO]

A lot of these guys had stacked teams though, in particular Bowman and Jackson, where they couldn't do too much wrong when you have that many hall of famers. You can just look at guys like Mike Shanahan and Mike Holmgren whose reputations have taken a beating because of their performance changing teams and not having Elway and Favre.

You'd think a guy like Larry Brown should get more respect since he's arguably done more with less.

 

[sevenofnine]

Football

Vince Lombardi
Bill Belichek

Hockey

Scotty Bowman

 

[grusse]

Pro Hockey - Scotty Bowman, Toe Blake.
Jr hockey - Brian Kilrea
Ncaa hockey Badger Bob Johnson, Don Lucia
CIAU/CIS - Clare Drake

Football - Vince Lombardi, Don Shula, Tom Landry and Bill Belichek
College Football- Paul "bear" Bryant , Eddie Robinson and Bobby Bowden

Basketball Phil Jackson, Lenny Wilkens, John Wooden, Pat Summit

Soccer and Baseball have managers and not coaches. Lol so I don't consider them lol

If I had to it would be Alex Ferguson (soccer) and Casey Stengal (baseball)

very comprehensive list, Badger.

he's still got yrs to go but Don Hay with 3 Memorial Cup teams(or is it 4?)could be considered one of the top Jr coaches as well.

 

[kickback]

This is not an easy question to answer but...

 

[kickback]

Since you asked for 'COACH' and not 'COACHES'

VINCE LOMBARDI...non of the other guys have a trophy named after them and he had no superstars to coach. Lombardi was pure motivation and only winning mattered.

 

[grusse]

Since you asked for 'COACH' and not 'COACHES'

VINCE LOMBARDI...non of the other guys have a trophy named after them and he had no superstars to coach. Lombardi was pure motivation and only winning mattered.

true kickback, nobody else mentioned has a trophy named after him,and the Lombardi Trophy is arguably for the most prestigious ,at least in North America,prize, the Super Bowl.

No doubt he was a great coach and motivater, but to say he had no superstars?I warrant if you google NFL all-star teams from 1959-1967,when he coached Green Bay, you'd
find Packers crowding those all-star selections,both Offense&Defense.

Definition of "superstar" can be subjective.I don't know how many of his Packers are in the Hall of Fame but it would not surprise me to see Bart Starr, Paul Hornung, Jim Taylor,
Jerry Kramer,Forrest Gregg, Max McGee. Ray Nitschke,Herb Adderly,Willie Wood,and I've probably miised a couple.

No question, he was a great coach, also no question, he had great talent to work with.

I wonder if the NHL missed when the re-naming of divisions came about.This could've been a time for a Blake div, a Bowman div,etc
I'd say that has a bit more cachet than Metropolitan div. Central div,etc

 

[who]

true kickback, nobody else mentioned has a trophy named after him,and the Lombardi Trophy is arguably for the most prestigious ,at least in North America,prize, the Super Bowl.

No doubt he was a great coach and motivater, but to say he had no superstars?I warrant if you google NFL all-star teams from 1959-1967,when he coached Green Bay, you'd
find Packers crowding those all-star selections,both Offense&Defense.

Definition of "superstar" can be subjective.I don't know how many of his Packers are in the Hall of Fame but it would not surprise me to see Bart Starr, Paul Hornung, Jim Taylor,
Jerry Kramer,Forrest Gregg, Max McGee. Ray Nitschke,Herb Adderly,Willie Wood,and I've probably miised a couple.

No question, he was a great coach, also no question, he had great talent to work with.

I wonder if the NHL missed when the re-naming of divisions came about.This could've been a time for a Blake div, a Bowman div,etc
I'd say that has a bit more cachet than Metropolitan div. Central div,etc

Willie Davis, Henry Jordan, Jim Ringo, and Dave Robinson

 

[grusse]

Willie Davis, Henry Jordan, Jim Ringo, and Dave Robinson

thx who, I knew I was omitting some,couldn't think of the D line.