Golfweek Survey: Mike Small Once more Voted Greatest within the Nation

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – During Illinois males’s golf head coach Mike Small‘s 26-year tenure on the helm of the Fighting Illini program, so much has modified on the earth of faculty golf. But because the saying goes: the extra issues change, the extra they continue to be the identical.

In an nameless College Golf Coaching Survey performed by Golfweek’s Lance Ringler and Cameron Jourdan, Small was named by his peers as the best coach in college golf.

Sound acquainted?

That’s as a result of in an identical survey performed by Ringler a decade in the past, Small’s name also topped the list.  

From Golfweek.com:

In the ultimate a part of our College Golf Coaching Survey, we requested who one of the best coach was in males’s faculty golf. Coaches have been requested to call their prime 5 so as. Coaches ranked first obtained 5 factors, these in second obtained 4 and so forth. Here are the outcomes:

Who’s one of the best males’s faculty golf coach?

1. Mike Small – Illinois
2. Ryan Hybl – Oklahoma
3. Alan Bratton – Oklahoma State
4. Scott Limbaugh – Vanderbilt
5. Nick Clinard – Auburn
6. Matt Thurmond – Arizona State
7. John Fields – Texas
8. J.C. Deacon – Florida
9. Mike McGraw – Baylor
10. Michael Beard – Pepperdine
11. Bruce Heppler – Georgia Tech
12. Bowen Sargent – Virginia
13. Trey Jones – Florida St.
14. Jake Amos – LSU
15. Chris Haack – Georgia
16. Chris Malloy – Ole Miss
17. Jerry Haas – Wake Forest
18. Conrad Ray – Stanford
19. Jay Seawell – Alabama
20. Greg Sands – Texas Tech
21. Brennan Webb – Tennessee
22. Scott Schroeder – North Florida
23. Ryan Cabbage – Charlotte
24. Jamie Bermel – Kansas
25. Rob Bradley – South Carolina

Small’s teaching resume speaks for itself: 18 NCAA Championship appearances, 9 NCAA Match Play berths (most by any head coach with one program within the nation), seven NCAA Regional titles, two particular person NCAA Champions (Scott Langley, 2010; Thomas Pieters, 2012), 13 Big Ten championships, 9 particular person Big Ten medalists, 39 All-Americans, 68 All-Big Ten choice, and 87 Academic All-Big Ten honorees.

However, probably the most telling accolade that illustrates the usual of sustained success that Small has instilled within the Fighting Illini is being voted the highest coach in America by his friends in two separate votes, 10 years aside.