The tunnel at Michigan Stadium was officially renamed and dedicated to honour retired coach Lloyd Carr on Friday before the Penn State game in Ann Arbor following a board of regents resolution in September.

The Big House’s facade features a sign that reads “Lloyd Carr tunnel” in big, bold letters. Carr saw the first-quarter tribute to the 1997 National Championship squad during the Penn State game. Carr was joined by Charles Woodson, Warde Manuel, Jay Feely, and others during the brief in-game celebration.

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Between 1995 and 2007, Carr coached the Wolverines to 120 victories, including a 1997 national championship and five Big Ten Conference titles. In terms of victories at Michigan, Carr is only behind Bo Schembechler and Fielding Yost.

Carr joins the ranks of Oosterbaan Field House, Crisler Center, Yost Ice Arena, and Schembechler Hall as the fifth head football coach at Michigan to have a structure or section of a structure named in his honour on the school’s athletic campus.

Carr was named a coach in the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011.

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Carr’s coaching career began as an assistant at Belleville High School (1970–73) and Nativity High School in Detroit, Michigan (1968–1969). He took over as head coach at John Glenn High School in Westland, Michigan, in 1973, and after an 8-1 year, he was named Regional Class A Coach of the Year in 1975.

Following two seasons as an assistant coach at Illinois (1978–79) under head coach Gary Moeller, Carr began his collegiate coaching career in 1976–77 at Eastern Michigan University under head coach Ed Chlebek.

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Before leaving for Michigan in the autumn to work under head coach Bo Schembechler, he served as the defensive backs coach at West Virginia for a brief period in the summer of 1980 under head coach Don Nehlen.

Carr met up with Moeller again at Michigan, where he was working again as an assistant coach. For his first seven seasons with the organisation, Carr served as the defensive secondary coach. From 1987 to 1994, he served as the defense’s coordinator. Carr was given the position of assistant head coach by Moeller in 1990, the year he took over Schembechler’s position.