Stan Parrish

College coach infobox


Name = Stan Parrish
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DateOfBirth = Birth date and age|1946|9|20|mf=y
Birthplace = Cleveland, Ohio
Sport = Football
College = Ball State University
Title = Offensive coordinator
CurrentRecord =
OverallRecord = 57-41-2
Awards =
Championships =
CFbDWID = 1821
Player = Y
Years = 1965-1968
Team = Heidelberg College
Position = Defensive back
Coach = Y
CoachYears = 1979-1982
1984-1985
1986-1988
CoachTeams = Wabash College
Marshall University
Kansas State University
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Stan Parrish (born September 20, 1946) is a college football coach. He was head coach at Wabash College, Marshall University and Kansas State University. He is currently offensive coordinator at Ball State University where he has coached since 2005.

Parrish is a graduate of Heidelberg College, where he played defensive back from 1965-1968.

Coaching career

After graduating from Heidelberg, Parrish began his coaching career at Windham High School in Windham, Ohio in 1969. He coached the Bombers first as an assistant, then as head coach. [cite news |last=McKeever |first=Curt |title=Ball State assistant has seen highs and lows during long career |url=http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2007/09/22/huskerextra/football/doc46f47c689b7e4246803813.txt |date=2007-09-22 |accessdate=2008-06-10] In 1975, Parrish joined the staff at Purdue University as a graduate assistant. [ [http://ballstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=67658&SPID=7633&DB_OEM_ID=14200&ATCLID=1148147&Q_SEASON=2008 Stan Parrish profile] at ballstatesports.com. Accessed June 10, 2008]

Wabash College

Parrish had a highly-successful 42-3-1 stay as head coach at Division III Wabash College from 1979-1982, where he coached future NFL player Pete Metzelaars. Parrish was the 29th head coachfor the Little Giants in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and he held that position for five seasons, from 1978 until 1982. As of copmletion of the 2007 season, Parrish's record at Wabash is ranked second in winning percentage (0.924). [ [http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/ncac/wabash/coaching_records.php Wabash College coaching records] ]

While at Wabash, Parrish also coached the tennis team.

Marshall University

In 1984, Parrish was hired as head football coach at Marshall University. In two years at Marshall, Parrish helped establish a lasting winning tradition for the school. In 1984, Parrish led Marshall to a 6-5 record, Marshall's first winning season in twenty years and the first since the team's 1970 air disaster. The following year, the Thundering Herd went undefeated at home and earned a #3 national ranking (in NCAA Division I-AA) early in the season before fading to a 7-3-1 record. Partly as a result of the back-to-back winning seasons, plans for a new stadium at Marshall were in place before the next season began. Parrish left Marshall following the 1985 season to take the head coaching job at Kansas State University.

Kansas State University

Parrish was not able to repeat his success at K-State in his three years as head coach. From 1986 to 1988 Parrish posted a 2-30-1 mark (.076 winning percentage). Parrish was fired after his team posted an 0-11 record in the 1988 season, and replaced by Bill Snyder. Counting his work in all NCAA divisions, Parrish still has an overall winning career record as head coach, 57-41-3.

Assistant coaching

After leaving Kansas State, Parrish served as an assistant head coach at Rutgers University from 1990-1995. For the following six years he coached at the University of Michigan, where he served as offensive coordinator in 2000 and 2001. As the quarterbacks coach he also worked with Brian Griese and Tom Brady at Michigan. Parrish helped the Wolverines to a 1997 berth in the Rose Bowl and the school’s 11th national championship. Parrish spent the 2002 and 2003 seasons as the quarterbacks coach of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In 2002, he tutored starting quarterback Brad Johnson, who led Tampa Bay to a 12-4 regular-season record and the first Super Bowl title in the franchise's history.

Parrish is enshrined in the Wabash College Athletic Hall of Fame.

References

External links

* [http://www.wabash.edu/sports/ Wabash College athletics website]
* [http://ballstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=67658&SPID=7633&DB_OEM_ID=14200&ATCLID=1148147&Q_SEASON=2007 Ball State football profile]