Rest In Peace, coach. Thank you for getting it all started.
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Rest In Peace
Damn ! Damn ! Damn ! God speed to a towering figure ! Even without the football praise what he did for his son was fantastic. Rest well Sir !
May be the best HC Miami ever had. Built on what Lou Saban started and led Miami to its first NC in 1983-84. ((Thanks Tom Osborne). Too bad Howard left for a USFL job that never came to fruition.
Also HC at Oklahoma, Louisville and FAU and for the hapless Baltimore Colts in the early 1970’s. Assistant under George Allen, Don Schula (and Bear Bryant? IRRC.)
Was an non-consensus (AP and NEA) All American offensive end at Kentucky back in 1955. (Played for Bear Bryant and Blanton Collier IRRC).
His offenses always made games interesting.
RIP
Correct, he convinced Joe Neimath to play there.
"Shortly after taking the UM job, Schnellenberger learned the administration was discussing “dropping to Division 1-AA. When I found out, they went back into committee to restudy the motion, then tabled it for five years.”
Schnellenberger said he made of a list of the football program’s “assets and liabilities.” He concluded that some of what the school considered liabilities were actually strengths.
“I said we had the greatest stadium in the south in the Orange Bowl, which they thought was the worst stadium for them because it was too big and wasn’t on campus,” he said.
“The second thing I said we had was the best schedule a team could have — Notre Dame, Florida, Florida State, Penn State. That was an asset for me, but for them it was a liability, because they though these teams were strong and they thought we can’t win.”
The third asset Schnellenberger listed was ultimately vital to his success at UM: “I said we’re sitting on a hotbed of talent, the best 30-mile ratio in the world.
“So when I looked at that list, it became obvious to me that the only liability they really had was they were pessimists, losers, people that didn’t believe in themselves.”
Miami came very close to dropping football around 1977. They had already dropped basketball. The President of the University at the time, Henry King Stanford, convinced the BOT to give football another shot and they hired former AFL/NFL coach Lou Saban. Saban was only coach for a year or two, but recruited players like Jim Burt and Jim Kelly. He resigned due to the controversy surrounding a couple of players tossing an Orthodox Jewish guy into “Lake” Osceola and that’s how Schnelly got the gig.
Howard Schnellenberger elderly bond salesman … Who knew???
https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/barry-jackson/article242605541.html
Jackson is wrong about Howard being an All American defensive end, he was a non-consensus All American offensive end (1st Team AP, 2nd team NEA) There were seven agencies that selected All Americans, hence the consensus tag.
A great coach and probably an even finer person.
RIP to a great man. forever grateful for what he did for our program.
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Legend.
RIP.
The passing of a legend. RIP.
My signature has been this for years… going back to the old board…
“…the University of Miami taught the other schools in Florida how to win the national championship. I just didn’t realize the others were so hard-headed that Miami had to do it four times before they learned how to do it themselves” --Howard Schnellenberger
RIP Big Guy.
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