RIP Howard Schnellenberger

[Jake from State Farm]

Plus he coached the Colts but not his best stop

 

[Bronco77]

Shula is a clear No. 1 on South Florida's football Mount Rushmore, but I'd vote for Schnellenberger as No. 2, with Dan Marino and Joe Robbie also up there.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Had a bit part in the film version of MASH.

That’s tremendous.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Also part of the Paul Brown coaching tree.

Not sure where Brown ranks on the list of all-time coaches, but as a talent evaluator (player and coach), I don’t think anyone was close. It’s mind-boggling how many HOFers he found.

 

[MileHigh]

RIP coach. Sorry for all the oranges that got thrown your way.

A good thing they didn't go to the Gator Bowl all those years instead of the Orange Bowl.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

RIP coach. Sorry for all the oranges that got thrown your way.

He probably thought all that juice was well worth the squeeze.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Schnellenberger would have been in the HoF if he had stayed at Miami. Several successors reaped the benefits of his program construction efforts.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

I had forgotten why he left the U. He was going to take over the Washington Federals when they moved to South Florida, but the new ownership backed out once the USFL decided to switch to fall. (Thanks Trump!) Franchise went to Orlando instead and hired Lee Corso.

Not so fast, Mr. Schnellenberger ...

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Without all the USFL shananigans, Jerry Jones would've hired Jimmy Johnson from Oklahoma State anyway.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

Came close to being the Giants’ coach too. He almost replaced Parcells after a 3-12-1 season in 1983, but Howard ultimately turned them down. From what I read, Parcells realized that offseason he needed to change his coaching ways, and the Giants immediately improved, of course.

 

[Octave]

A lot of the Paul Brown coaching tree goes through Weeb Ewbank, but everyone from Red Miller to Bill Walsh stepped through.

 

[tapintoamerica]

A lot of the Paul Brown coaching tree goes through Weeb Ewbank, but everyone from Red Miller to Bill Walsh stepped through.

Is Bill Cowher, Schottenheimer's special-teams coach in Cleveland, listed on a different part of this chart that we can't see here? He and Lindy Infante, who later coached the Packers and the Evil Irsays, were on those Browns staffs.

 

[Scout]

How is Chuck Noll not on this? Played for Brown and coached for Shula?

 

[Octave]

That's only the Ewbank branch.

Paul Brown Coaching Tree · Cradle of Coaches

 

[Octave]

One thing on that exceptional graphic put together by ESPN's exceptional former or current graphics people:
If you're going to put that much love into the thing don't use a team's current logo for a dude who coached the Broncos in the 1960s.
They didn't even feature orange for part of that decade.
An old pet peeve.

 

[BartonK]

He left Louisville in '94 because he didn't want to coach in Conference USA, and (rightfully) saw it as preventing him from ever competing for a national championship.
I notice that most of the obituaries are glossing over his disastrous tenure at Oklahoma, where he lasted one season and lost to Oklahoma State for the first time in two decades.