"Only in America can a guy be fired twice and win coach of the year."

Much to their surprise, they received the famous World Championship winning coach.

Coach Brown won coach of the year in 1978.

Fratello won coach of the year in 1986 as well.

He has won two Special teams coach of the year awards, one in 2004, and another in 2008.

He is also an award winning American Football coach and author of books on football history.

Gilbert is the state's only 1,000 game winning coach in baseball and one of six basketball coaches to do so.

Now he has another team to push to its limit, and he should win coach of the year honors for a job well done.

He also won Big Ten coach of the year honors in 2005.

Snyder has won several conference and national coach of the year awards.