Posted by SpartaRick on 12/29/2007, 8:06 pm, in reply to "best coach"
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Not even close. Darryl Rogers. He brought us to the next level. Before DR we were a local unimportant football program. He raised us to Pac 10 level of competition and did it while taking over a Dewey King team that was less than mediocre. We never had a losing season with him as coach. Our win on national ABC television over Claude Gilbert's nationally ranked San Diego State (we also ended up nationally ranked--I believe for the first time) team with a full Spartan Stadium rocking was a classic I will never forget. We blew them away. He instilled tremendous discipline in the players. If he spoke to the entire team he could whisper and the whole team was totally quiet and leaning forward to catch his every word. They would go through a wall for the man. Had we enlarged Spartan Stadium like he asked he would not have left us for Michigan State. He was actually filling the stadium with his exciting teams. Later in his career he wanted to return here (after stints at MSU, ASU and the Detroit Lions) but we went with Dave Baldwin.
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: list below Roers, Elway, Gilbert and Shea? I
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