Warren Giese

Head coach, South Carolina, 1956 to 1960

College career28-21-1

Program liftNo. 489tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

3-5 against his rivals. Just 1-4 against Frank Howard.

Rivalry record

3-5

37.5% · 2 rivals

One-score games

7-7-1

46.7% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

1-0

100.0%

Rivalry ledger

Clemson1-420%

Georgia2-167%

The toughest matchupNemesis

vs. Frank Howard1-4

5 meetings, 1956–1960

’56 L’57 L’58 W’59 L’60 L

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

1-0 100.0%

Power Program

6-11 35.3%

National Program

5-7 41.7%

Regional Program

14-3 82.4%

Building the roster

Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1956-1960) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

The NFL pipeline

at least4Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.

At least 4 — his 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.

0 roster-verified · 4 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1960	R7.70	Estimated
1959	R2.12	Estimated
1959	R7.68	Estimated
1957	R2.23	Estimated

A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.