5 worst coaches to win the Super Bowl

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Football: Super Bowl XXX: Dallas Cowboys coach Barry Switzer victorious holding Vince Lombardi Trophy with NBC Sports announcer Greg Gumbel (C) and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones after winning game vs Pittsburgh Steelers at Sun Devil Stadium.Tempe, AZ 1/28/1996CREDIT: Al Tielemans (Photo by Al Tielemans /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)(Set Number: X50011 TK4 R10 F26 ) /

Barry Switzer. 4. player. 123. . Dallas Cowboys. Super Bowl XXX

As it was with Dick Vermeil, it was pretty hard to put a great head coach like Barry Switzer as one of the five worst head coaches to win a Super Bowl. Switzer helped lead the 1995 Dallas Cowboys to a Super Bowl XXX victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Switzer is one of the top 10 college football head coaches of all-time. He went 157-24-9, leading the Oklahoma Sooners to three national titles and 12 Big Eight Championships. From 1973 to 1988 the Sooners were an absolute juggernaut under Switzer in college football.

Though Switzer did win a Super Bowl in his four seasons as the head coach of the Cowboys (1994-97), his legacy in the college game far outweighs anything he did in the NFL. Switzer went 40-24 during his regular season with the Cowboys and 5-2 in the postseason.

What hurts Switzer’s NFL legacy is that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was probably right that anybody could have won a Super Bowl with The Triplets (Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irvin). Given that Jimmy Johnson won two Super Bowls immediately before him along with Switzer’s resignation after the 1997 NFL season, Switzer is one of the worst NFL head coaches to have won a Super Bowl.

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