Greatest Coaches Countdown - #44 Ara Parseghian

Sport: College Football
Stops: Miami (Ohio) (1951 - 1955)
Northwestern (1956 - 1963)
Notre Dame (1964 - 1974)
Record: 170 - 58 - 6 (.739 Winning Percentage)
Championship: 2

Fun Facts

1. Parseghian is the first non-Notre Dame alum to coach the Irish and he immediately turned a 2 - 7 team in 1963 into a 9 - 1 squad in 1964
2. In 2007 Notre Dame unveiled a statue in his honor, which depicts players carrying him off the field in triumph following the 1971 Cotton Bowl Classic