George Seifert
Profile George Seifert was a coach starting back in 1964 as a grad assistant at Utah all the way through 2001 with the Carolina Panthers. He won 5 Super Bowls, 3 as a coordinator with San Francisco and 2 as the head coach. He is the owner of the 2nd highest win % in NFL history, product of being handed an elite 49ers team, and being pushed out at the top by an owner who wanted Steve Mariucci as his head coach*. I'm sure if you asked him, the most important year of his career was 1966 when he was a Graduate Assistant as the University of Iowa**. * 49ers won their division 2 out of the next 14 years until Jim Harbaugh arrived ** The Iowa coaching tree is large, including Jerry Burns (Vikings), Bill Snyder (Kansas St), Barry Alvarez (Wisconsin), Bob Stoops (Oklahoma), Dennis Green (Vikings/Cardinals), Bret Bielema (Wisconsin), Mike Stoops (Arizona), Chuck Long (San Diego St), Dan McCarney (Iowa State), Lou Holtz (Notre Dame), Wayne Fontes ...