Mike Dailey

Mike Dailey
Current position
Record	9–21
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1989–1990	Washington Commandos (assistant)
1997–2003	Albany/Indiana Firebirds
2004–2008	Colorado Crush
2009–2014	McDaniel (DC)
2015	McDaniel (PGC/WR)
2016–2018	McDaniel
Head coaching record
Overall	115–84 (AFL); 9–21 (college)

Mike Dailey is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at McDaniel College from 2016 to 2018, compiling a record of 9–21. Dailey was a head coach in the Arena Football League for the Albany Firebirds and the Colorado Crush. During his time in the Arena Football League, he won two ArenaBowls and was named AFL Coach of the Year in 1999. He is fifth all time in wins with a career record of 115–84, including an 11–8 mark in the postseason. Under his leadership, the Firebirds won ArenaBowl XIII in 1999, defeating the Orlando Predators led by Jay Gruden, former head coach of the Washington Redskins. In 2005 the Crush, then owned by John Elway, won the ArenaBowl XIX. Dailey's 1999 Albany Firebirds team was voted the greatest team in AFL history, while his 2005 Colorado Crush was voted fifth. He was inducted into the Arena Football Hall of Fame in 2012.

Head coaching record


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
McDaniel Green Terror (Centennial Conference) (2016–2018)
2016	McDaniel	3–7	3–6	T–6th
2017	McDaniel	3–7	2–7	T–3rd
2018	McDaniel	3–7	2–7	T–8th
McDaniel:		9–21	7–20
Total:		9–21

v t e Members of the Arena Football Hall of Fame
Players	Aikens Bembery Bennett Bonner Bowden Brown Cooper Corker Dixon Dolezel Fleming Gatewood Gayles Gruden Hammond Harrell Hernandez Hopkins LaFrance March McMillen Moore-Brown Mullen Randle Rettig Roehlk Roquemore Samuels O. Smith R. Smith Thomas Wagner C. Walls H. Walls Warner
Coaches	Arbet Dailey Hohensee Marcum Moss White
Contributors	Foster Ilitch Kurz Mazula Niro Nudo Paganelli Vitto