Stan Parrish Stan Parrish ( born September 20 , 1946 ) is an American football coach and former player . Most recently , he was the head coach at Ball State University from 2009 to 2010 . Parrish was previously head coach at Wabash College , Marshall University and Kansas State University . He has been an offensive coordinator at Ball State and the University of Michigan . Parrish is currently the quarterbacks coach at Siena Heights University . Early life . Parrish was born on September 20 , 1946 in Cleveland , Ohio . He attended Valley Forge High School in Parma Heights , Ohio , and graduated in 1964 . Parrish then attended Heidelberg College , where he played football as a defensive back from 1965 to 1968 . He graduated in 1969 with a bachelor ' s degree . Coaching career . After graduating from Heidelberg , Parrish began his coaching career at Windham High School in Windham , Ohio in 1969 . He coached the Bombers first as an assistant , then as head coach . He led the Bombers to their first ever Ohio high school football playoff berth in his final year , 1974 ; only four teams in each division qualified in those early years of the playoffs . In 1975 , Parrish joined the staff at Purdue University as a graduate assistant . Wabash . Parrish had a highly successful 42 – 3 – 1 stay as head coach at Division III Wabash College from 1979 to 1982 , where he coached future NFL player Pete Metzelaars . Parrish was the 29th head coach for the Little Giants in , and he held that position for five seasons , from 1978 until 1982 . As of the 2007 season , Parrish ' s record at Wabash is ranked second in winning percentage ( . 924 ) . While at Wabash , Parrish also coached the tennis team . Parrish is enshrined in the Wabash College Athletic Hall of Fame . Marshall . In 1984 , Parrish was hired as head football coach at Marshall University . In two years at Marshall , Parrish helped establish a lasting winning tradition for the school . In 1984 , Parrish led Marshall to a 6 – 5 record , Marshall ' s first winning season in twenty years and the first since the team ' s 1970 air disaster . The following year , the Thundering Herd went undefeated at home and earned a # 3 NCAA Division I - AA national ranking early in the season before fading to a 7 – 3 – 1 record . Partly as a result of the back - to - back winning seasons , plans for a new stadium at Marshall were in place before the next season began . Parrish left Marshall following the 1985 season to take the head coaching job at Kansas State University . Kansas State . Parrish was not able to repeat his success at K - State in his three years as head coach . From 1986 to 1988 Parrish posted a 2 – 30 – 1 mark ( . 076 winning percentage ) . Parrish was fired after his team posted an 0 – 11 record in the 1988 season , and replaced by Bill Snyder . Rutgers , Michigan , Tampa Bay Buccaneers . After leaving Kansas State , Parrish served as an assistant head coach at Rutgers University from 1990 to 1995 . For the following six years , he coached at the University of Michigan , where he served as offensive coordinator in 2000 and 2001 . As the quarterbacks coach , he worked with Brian Griese , Tom Brady , and Drew Henson . Parrish helped the 1997 Wolverines to victory in the Rose Bowl and the school ' s 11th national championship . Parrish spent the 2002 and 2003 seasons as the quarterbacks coach of the NFL ' s Tampa Bay Buccaneers . In 2002 , he tutored starting quarterback Brad Johnson , who led Tampa Bay to a 12 – 4 regular - season record and the first Super Bowl title in the franchise ' s history . Ball State . Parrish was hired by head coach Brady Hoke as quarterback coach at Ball State following a one - year hiatus after leaving the Tampa Bay Buccaneers . The following season , he was promoted to offensive coordinator , while retaining his quarterback coaching duties . In the 2008 season , Ball State had a historically successful campaign , winning their first 12 games before falling to Buffalo in the MAC championship game . Hoke used this success as a springboard to securing the head coaching job at San Diego State , resigning prior to the team ' s appearance in the GMAC Bowl . Rather than follow Hoke to San Diego State , Parrish accepted the position as his successor at Ball State . This was Parrish ' s first head coaching position in 20 years . At Ball State , Parrish has compiled a 4 – 16 record , including two losses to FCS schools , a loss to a team who had an 18 - game losing streak , and a return to the ESPN Bottom 10 . He was fired after the 2010 season . In April 2011 , Parrish was appointed as the quarterbacks coach at Siena Heights University prior to the inaugural season of the school ' s new football program under head coach Jim Lyall . His role is on a voluntary basis , which allows him to coach without any recruiting duties .