John Gagliardi.

or, You Can't Touch This!
The winningest coach all-time in college football history.

The 2007 Liberty Mutual Division III Coach of the Year, Gagliardi tied the all-time collegiate win record, held by former Grambling State head coach Eddie Robinson, on Nov. 1, 2003 and broke the all-time record on Nov. 8, 2003 on the way to a perfect 14-0 season and an NCAA Division III championship.

Gagliardi also broke Robinson's record for the most games coached in college football history (588) Sept. 20, 2008, against Concordia-Moorhead. He also coached his 600th game on Sept. 19, 2009, against the Cobbers.

Gagliardi's coaching career began when his high school coach at Trinidad (Colo.) Catholic was drafted into World War II, Gagliardi, as captain, took over the reins at the age of 16 in 1943. His teams won four conference titles in Gagliardi's six years of coaching high school at Trinidad Catholic and St. Mary's in Colorado Springs.

After graduation from Colorado College in 1949, his first college coaching position was at Carroll College in Helena, Mont. The college was thinking about dropping football because of losing seasons and lack of interest.

Gagliardi led Carroll to three conference titles in his first four seasons as a college coach. Gagliardi coached basketball and baseball and also won championships.

His success caught the attention of Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minn. Saint John's needed a coach to succeed the legendary Johnny "Blood" McNally, a charter member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame.

Compared to Carroll, Saint John's football program was healthy before Gagliardi's arrival but not exactly thriving. SJU had not won a conference title in 15 years. Gagliardi took over the program in 1953 with an intent to turn the program around. Meanwhile, Blood offered this gloomy prediction: "Nobody could ever win at Saint John's."

Gagliardi proved McNally wrong by winning the MIAC title that fall. He also won championships with SJU's track team, and he also coached the SJU hockey team for five seasons, compiling a 42-25-1 record, which is still the best career winning percentage of any hockey coach in school history.

After 58 seasons, Gagliardi's teams still set the standard for MIAC competitors. He has coached four national championship teams (1963, 1965, 1976 and 2003), and made the 2000 national title game. His teams have reached the national semifinals as well in 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2001 and 2002. In 2001, Gagliardi became only the third coach in NCAA college football history to coach 500 career games.

Let's not forget the facts.
Other divisions might be bigger, but numbers are numbers and wins are wins, even if you leave morals out of it. Which I'm pretty sure, Joe, John Gagliardi at St. John's never had to...


ADDED:
I dunno, but the publicity today by Herman Cain's grown-woman "accuser" sure seems like small peanuts today, no? She asked him to stop, said she wasn't interested, and he dropped the matter.

How much longer will the media continue to feast on that story, do you suppose? Also: are these vulnerable young alleged victims in Happy Valley minority young men? It would be nice to know what Sandusky's "type" was, other than seemingly fatherless, athletic, and vulnerable.

Comment of the Day:

If Cain would have had a cigar in his hand when he ran it under her skirt it wouldn't have been that big of a deal.

Honestly, that man is back in the news, plugging his fix for the country. Bill, Bill, Bill ... you foisted Hillary upon us, first as Senator, then as Secretary of State. Please ... the people of the world beseech you: Stop Helping So Much!!

Runner Up:

He needs his wife to become more visible very quickly.

I remember when Schwarzenegger was accused of this kind of behavior, having Maria out there to talk for him, bat these accusations away, that helped a lot. Same with Hillary and Bill early on.

Really. Of course, Ah-nold and Bill (and Maria and Hillary) were white. I suspect that matters. A lot. (ie/ "Ways White Women can use Victimization to build up a Floundering Career". Coming soon ... to a white woman's magazine, near you!)