Top Mo High school football coaches with no state titles
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Mark St Clair 185- 68 record with Hannibal 22 Seasons, 15 Postseason Apparences and 1 State Runner-Up in 2006 and 10-0 Bowling Green this year
Not in MO at the moment, but I would put him on this list. Steve Ary. Willow, Mtn Grove and West Plains. He is a great coach. I don't know his record off top of my head, but it is really good.
Great Coach!
Coach Vern Nickerson! The state championship escaped him but he did manage to win a national championship at the college level!
Edit: Just realized this was specific to MO. Please kindly disregard my comment.
Edit: Just realized this was specific to MO. Please kindly disregard my comment.
Billy Weber and his run at Thayer would be on the list as well.
Tony Braby Hall of fame coach great run at Tipton Just could never get over the hump with a title.
Ampipe head coach Vernon Nickerson. He ran practices like a drill sergeant, golf club in hand, grabbing players’ facemasks to ensure he had their attention. Is he doing it to tougher them up? Or was he just a jerk?
His 6-2 Monster Stack if the stuff of legends, for teams that never got it done.
His 6-2 Monster Stack if the stuff of legends, for teams that never got it done.
Also at Sweet Springs and Maysville. I think, not sure, that was his Sweet Springs team that finished 2nd to Rock Port in 1985.
He was 182-95 in Missouri with who knows how many playoff appearances with Mtn Grove and Willow. I’m pretty sure he had back to back semifinal appearances with Mtn Grove
When he showed up at WP, the Zizzers were 0-10. When he left, they were 12-1
Stan Helms took two Herculaneum teams to the finals.
Stan Kee at Carrollton
Gary Miles at Centralia/Rolla
Kent Gibbs at Hayti/Fredericktown/Sikeston/Cape Central
Mark Goldenberg at Parkway Central
Kory Schweiss at Park Hills Central
Gary Miles at Centralia/Rolla
Kent Gibbs at Hayti/Fredericktown/Sikeston/Cape Central
Mark Goldenberg at Parkway Central
Kory Schweiss at Park Hills Central
Paul Carney - Osceola, Stockton, Clinton, Sherwood - all around class act, good man and great coach
Lance roweton
Lance roweton
He is still an assistant at Branson, but as a head coach I would put Steve Hancock on that list... Its hard to get much better
I think Shannon Jolley doesn't get enough credit for what he has done turning around some really poor programs.
Matt Haug has to be pretty high on the list. 265-108 at NC, Dexter, and Potosi. Made the finals once and semis 5x, but never could get over the hump. The Potosi program had won 6 games total in 6 years and he went 29-11 in his time there.
shame he left when he did he would have got them and him the title in 2009
Understatement for sure!! Some of those programs were in all time lows when he took over.
Just a few I can think of Tom Cox MV, Webb, Ozark. Alan Spencer Monett. Lance Parnell Cassville.
Wes Beachler, he has turned some programs around.
Wes Beachler, he has turned some programs around.
Anybody makes it 35 years at 1 school is a hall of famer!
Tony Braby. I believe he took Sweet Springs to the finals and then had Tipton in several state semi-finals. In the Hall of Fame as well.
Lot of worthy names is this thread but my vote would be with Queasy. As a coach Ary always reminded me of the Bum Phillips quote about Bear Bryant, "He can take his'n and beat your'n, and then turn around and take your'n and beat his'n." I consider Ary to be one of the best evaluators of football talent (getting the right players in the right position for their ability) around. Rate him right up there with Pete Adkins and Bob Shore in that regard.
Steve Hancock; 9 years at Stockton, 25 Branson, I belive 6 at Springfield Catholic. 310 wins, District championships in clases 2,3,4,5. Two second place finishes, 4 or 5 semi finals, 27 or 28 yrs straight without a losing season. Plus, an even better person and mentor.
Did Chuck Literes get a title as Head Coach at Harrisonville? If not he built the foundations of good programs at Maryville and Fort Osage but never won it all.
Props to FS for starting this thread. I never really stopped to think about how many quality coaches (people) toiled long, and successfully, even though they were never able to grab that championship ring. I salute them all.
Of course I would like to throw Darin Acklin from MVBT Liberty on there. Took over a school that was winless when he got them and left there with a dozen or more district titles and conference championships. Definitely had a team that could capture the state a few different times.
