The school soccer world is coping with the truth that Nick Saban is not roaming a university soccer sideline. The previous Alabama head coach introduced his retirement, which instantly intensified the dialogue over the best faculty soccer coaches of all-time.
As such, 247Sports put out its winningest coaches of all-time record over the weekend. And the identify Eddie Robinson was nowhere to be discovered. Robinson led his Grambling State College program to 408 wins from 1941 by way of 1997, essentially the most of any man to teach faculty soccer when he retired. However he was not on the 247Sports record.
Just one man within the historical past of school soccer received extra video games than Eddie Robinson. Joe Paterno received 409 video games as Penn State head coach from 1966 by way of 2011 when he was fired following the Joe Sandusky scandal. He had 111 wins vacated following that scandal which had been ultimately re-instated, giving him one win greater than Eddie Robinson. Coincidently, Paterno was a three-time award winner of the Eddie Robinson Award, given to the highest coach in faculty soccer by the Soccer Author’s Affiliation of America.
Not one of the different coaches on that record received extra video games than Eddie Robinson.
Bear Bryant received 323 video games in an SEC that was fully closed to African-American gamers for almost all of his time at Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A&M and Alabama — gamers that Robinson had on his staff that may have seemingly been competing for an SEC program at present.
However these coaches each coached at what’s now the FBS stage for his or her complete careers — so perhaps this record is only for FBS coaches, proper?
Flawed.
No. 4 on the record is Pop Warner, credited with 311 wins. From 1897 by way of 1914, Warner break up his teaching profession from Carlisle and Cornell. Carlisle is a college that grew to become defunct greater than 50 years earlier than the NCAA created the FBS. Cornell is presently an FCS college — identical to Grambling State College.
Amos Alonzo Stagg received 282 video games at Chicago — which is now a Division III program — together with Williston Faculty and Pacific — and he’s on the record.
The remainder of the record is full of coaches who received 275 video games or much less, ending with Lou Holtz at 249.
Robinson achieved excellence regardless of the racism and lack of assets that the boys on this record by no means needed to cope with, and he received extra.
Lists are a dime a dozen lately — and everyone seems to be entitled to them. However there is no such thing as a manner you’ve gotten a complete record of the highest soccer coaches of all time and never have the identify Eddie Robinson on it.
