- Head Football Coach for the Temple Owls from 1983-88(Win-Loss record: 27-39).
- Under Arians' leadership, Indy's nine-win improvement from 2011 (2-14 to 11-5) matched the third-largest single-season turnaround in NFL history.
- In his first season, Bruce Arians led the Cardinals to a 10-6 record by winning seven of the final nine games; AZ doubled its win total from 2012 and the five-win improvement equaled the team's best one-season turnaround in team history in a 16-game season.
- Bruce Arians was named the 2012 AP NFL Coach of the Year after serving 12 games as Indy's interim head coach while Chuck Pagano was treated for leukemia. He was also named "Assistant Coach of the Year" by Pro Football Weekly & the Pro Football Writers of America in 2012, becoming the first individual to win both awards in the same year.
- Bruce Arians joins 2015 Hall of Fame finalist Don Coryell as the only coaches in Cardinals history to lead the team to 10+ wins in back-to-back seasons. Arians was the first coach in franchise history to do so in his first two seasons with the team.
- Bruce Arians was named the Associated Press Coach of the Year after leading the Cardinals to an 11-5 record and a berth in the postseason in 2014. It marked the second time in three years Arians was awarded NFL Coach of the Year honors (Indianapolis, 2012) and he became the first coach in NFL history to be named Coach of the Year multiple times in a three-year span with multiple teams.
- At the age of 30, Bruce Arians was named head coach at Temple University and spent six seasons (1983-88) there. Also worked as an assistant coach at the collegiate level for 10 seasons with Virginia Tech (1977), Mississippi State (1978-80; 1993-95), and Alabama (1981-82; 1997).
- Bruce Arians has compiled a 30-14 record over his first 44 games serving as a head coach; he was 9-3 as an interim head coach with Indianapolis in 2012 and is 21-11 in two seasons with the Cardinals. Only three NFL head coaches have more wins in their last 44 games: John Fox (35), Bill Belichick (34) and Pete Carroll (34).
- Bruce Arians came to Arizona with 20 years of experience as an NFL assistant coach with five different teams: Indianapolis (2012; 1998-2000), Pittsburgh (2004-11), Cleveland (2001-03), New Orleans (1996), and Kansas City (1989-92).
- Bruce Arians' 21 wins are more than any head coach in Cardinals history through their first 32 games and only four teams - Denver (25), Seattle (25), New England (24) and Indianapolis (22) - have more wins than Arizona in the last two seasons.
- Bruce Arians became an NFL head coach for the first time when hired by Arizona on January 17, 2013.
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