Who is the all-time greatest coach or manager with two first names? I asked this question on Twitter last night and nominated the following candidates: Bud Grant, George Karl, Connie Mack, Tom Kelly, Billy Martin, Herb Brooks, Doug Moe and Pete Carroll.

I’ll admit the list is Minnesota-heavy — I have a Midwest Coast bias — but those were all the names I could think of in 60 seconds, which seemed about the right amount of time to devote to Twitter. (I can afford to be more leisurely in this space, to which I’ve always applied a Domino’s Rule: Blogs must be conceived and delivered in 30 minutes or less.)

Write-in candidates began to pour in immediately. Among the two-first-named coaches put up for enshrinement were Buddy Ryan, Bill Russell, Norm Stewart, George Allen, Bill Terry, Charlie Manuel, Homer Drew, Bo Ryan and Don James. Strangely, voters also wrote in candidates with only one first name (Sean Payton) and  candidates with no first name (Doc Rivers) and candidates with a first-name-last and a last-name-first (Everett Dean).

A couple of people independently offered up Phil Jackson and Pat Riley as two-first-name exemplars, but the screening committee of one pre-emptively disqualified both on the grounds that Jackson and Riley were surnames before they were first names, violating the spirit of this competititon.

The election returns were coming in as I was watching the 3rd period of Game 7 of the Bruins-Hurricanes series, during which some inspired soul tweeted to say that the respective coaches in the game — Claude Julien and Paul Maurice — were pitted against one another in a four-first-name cage match.

Anyway, Tom Kelly narrowly defeated Bud Grant in the polling, which was as unscientific as it was unproductive. So my question to you is: All-time greatest coaches with two last names: Urban Meyer? Clark Griffith? Cotton Fitzsimmons? Miller Huggins? Houston Nutt? The polls are now open.