Lords Of The Gridiron: College Football's Greatest Coaches

Absolutely outstanding...a great book--Lou Holtz"Outstanding job"--Dr. Ted Koy, halfback, Texas Longhorns, 1969 National ChampionsSports Historian Matthew DiBiase expands the boundaries of college football history with Lords of the Gridiron: College Football's Greatest Coaches. This groundbreaking book boldly goes where no other college football book has ever gone before: revealing and ranking the 50 greatest college football coaches of all time using an analytical rating system.This book profiles past college football coaching immortals Bear Bryant, Bud Wilkinson, Joe Paterno, Knute Rockne, and Darrell Royal alongside present day coaching greats Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, and Dabo Swinney.Celebrating 150 years of college football Lords of the Gridiron: College Football's Greatest Coaches contains memories and insights from college coaching legends Urban Meyer, Tom Osborne, Bobby Bowden, Lou Holtz, Mack Brown, Bob Stoops, Steve Spurrier, Phillip Fulmer, Vince Dooley, and Jim Tressel who discuss their influences, their offensive and defensive tactics, their motivational approaches to coaching and the highlights of their glorious coaching careers.Lords of the Gridiron: College Football's Greatest Coaches also reveals the tactical innovations created by the coaches featured in this book. The great games in college football history are discussed in detail: the 1957 Oklahoma vs. Notre Dame Game; Nebraska vs. Miami in the 1984 Orange Bowl; and Texas vs. USC in the 2006 Rose Bowl for example. The great players are featured here as well like Jim Thorpe, George Gipp, Herschel Walker, and Peyton Manning for instance.Lords of the Gridiron: College Football's Greatest Coaches is a must read for all college football fans throughout America because all the great college football programs are celebrated in this book: Alabama, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, USC, Penn State, Nebraska, Texas, Michigan, Florida State, and Ohio State to name a few.This book resolves (or renews) the argument about who were the greatest college football coaches of all time.

• | Author: Matthew DiBiase
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 350 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1087114039
• | ISBN-13: 9781087114033