Fame
The formula for coaching fame is so simple, even a monkey could remember it. First, you need to coach college or professional sports, because high school coaches just don't get the same exposure as their colleagues who coach older athletes. Second, you need to make your team the winningest winners who ever winnered.
- Bill Belichick has taken the New England Patriots to five Super Bowls; the team won three.
- John McGraw may have managed baseball teams at the beginning of the twentieth century, but he’s still the second-winningest manager ever. He also coached his athletes to three World Series championships.
- Béla and Márta Károlyi have coached American gymnasts to multiple individual and team Olympic medals.
- Bear Bryant led the University of Alabama football team to six national championship titles.
- Pat Summitt, former coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Tennessee, is the winningest NCAA basketball coach ever, and the Lady Vols won eight NCAA championships during her tenure (source).