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Lloyd Carr's Michigan Football Journey: How an Interim Coach Stepped Up for the Michigan Wolverines and Won His Way into the College Football Hall of Fame

2023

Synopsis

Lloyd Carr became the head coach of the Michigan football program in the most unusual way. Head coach Gary Moeller resigned under pressure in May 1995. Suddenly, Michigan Athletic Director Joe Roberson was scrambling. Lloyd Carr, who carried the title of “Assistant Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator” was waiting in the wings. However, he had never been a head coach at the college level. Mr. Roberson had to make a decision since the college football world was waiting and watching. Roberson named Carr as the “interim” head coach of the Michigan football program. That was it! It was a good news/bad news situation for Lloyd Carr. The good news was that Carr had the opportunity to earn one of the best coaching jobs in America. The bad news was that Lloyd Carr was going to have to win nine or ten games to stay in Ann Arbor.

This insightful book details how “interim coach” Lloyd Carr picked up the pieces of the Moeller scandal and started winning football games. In fact, he won so many that he won a national championship, five Big Ten Conference Titles and six bowl game trophies. Coach Carr’s football story is about a loyal assistant who stepped up in one of the most difficult times in Michigan football history. Within three years, he took the Wolverines to Michigan’s first national championship in fifty-years. Lloyd Carr was an outstanding leader who won a lot of games and coached his players to high levels of performance. He never had a losing season in thirteen years and finished with some of the most impressive numbers ever posted by a Michigan football coach. This book gives you a comprehensive look at the amazing Michigan career of Coach Carr. After reading this book, you will know why Lloyd H. Carr is the winningest coach in the history of the winningest program in college football history. And you will learn how he quietly became a coaching legend who landed in the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011.

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