Buckeye86;1958018; said:
Nice deflection, but what you said was that:
Ball State has had 15 head football coaches in their history, starting in 1924.
8 of those 15 head coaches had better records than Brady Hoke, including 7 of the last 9 coaches prior to Hoke being hired.
This includes such coaching legends as: John Magnabosco (68-46-14), George Serdula (14-9-1), Ray Louthen (37-13-3), Wave Myers (15-14), Dave McClain (46-25-3), Dwight Wallace (40-37), and Paul Schudel (60-48-4),
The only two coaches Hoke had a better record than in the last 76 years before he was hired was Jim Freeman (18-28-2) and Bill Lynch (37-53).
Dave McClain now there is a name from the past. A native of Ohio and died young (heartattack) when he was the coach at Whisky...He was an assistant under Woody and actually did a fine job at Whisky. His teams upset the Bucks a couple of times in the 80's.. Overall he was a pretty good coach....from wikipedia...
A native of
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, McClain was a 1956 graduate of
Upper Sandusky High School and a 1960 graduate of
Bowling Green State University, where he played both
quarterback and
safety. As a basketball player for Upper Sandusky, McClain held the career-scoring record from 1956 through 1982 with 1079 points.
McClain started his coaching career at
Crestline High School in
Ohio with an 8?1 record and then returned to Bowling Green as a graduate assistant in 1961, where he served as freshmen offensive coach. He then served as an assistant coach at
Cornell University under
Tom Harp in 1962; at
Miami University under
Bo Schembechler, 1963?1966; at the
University of Kansas under
Pepper Rodgers, 1967?1968; and at
Ohio State University under
Woody Hayes in 1969?1970 before accepting the head coaching job at Ball State.
During his seven seasons at Ball State, McClain compiled a 46?25?3 (.642) record.
[1] During his tenure, Ball State joined
Division I and the
Mid-American Conference (MAC). He was the
MAC Coach of the Year in 1975.
[2] The 1976, team captured the school's first MAC title in only its second year in the conference.
Following his successful run at Ball State, McClain was hired as the head football coach at the
University of Wisconsin?Madison, where he served from 1978 to 1985. During his tenure he compiled a 46?42?3 (.522) record, including a 1?2 record in post-season
bowl games. He led the
Badgers to back to back seven-win seasons in 1981 and 1982. McClain was the first coach in Badger football history to win the first four games of his head coaching tenure at Wisconsin.
[3] He also recorded Wisconsin football's first post-season bowl victory, a 14?3 win over the
Kansas State Wildcats in the
1982 Independence Bowl.
[4]
still and can go rape PA, GA, & FL for some talent that those schools overlook or think are too big for the SEC.
