Santo Buda (born ) is a former

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coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Nebraska Omaha from 1978 to 1989, compiling a record of 84–49, the Omaha Beef of the National Indoor Football League from 2000 to 2003 and the

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of the Fall Experimental Football League during that team's lone season in 2014. Buda attended Creighton Preparatory School in

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. He played

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and

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at the

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, before graduating in 1967.

Head coaching record

IPFL/NIFL

FXFL

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