Frank Sirianni sold women’s clothing for years at the Dan-Dee Shop, a storefront he owned in a small Pennsylvania town about 90 miles southeast of Erie. The shop on Fraley Street — Kane’s main road — sold designer coats, dresses, and bathing suits. It was a piece of the town’s charm. But Sirianni told his son, Fran, to find something else after college.The Sirianni family business would not be fur coats and corsets. Instead, it became coaching.
“We didn’t see all the other sides of coaching,” Jay Sirianni said. “My dad did a really good job of keeping that from us. You know how it is being a coach and all the outside chatter and the criticisms. I never saw that. I know my dad went through a lot and I’ve experienced that as a high school coach, but he never brought that home with him.”
“When you connect, you build relationships,” Jay Sirianni said. “What that relationship turns into between a coach and a player is different at the high school level than it is for Nick at the professional level, but it’s still a relationship where there’s trust involved. It’s amazing when you have that connection and you’re willing to go out there and perform for one another.
After his brother ignored him, Mike Sirianni tried to hire him on his staff at Washington & Jefferson but was overruled by the school because officials saw it as nepotism.Nick Sirianni went against his brother’s advice and couldn’t coach with him, but the stylings of the eldest Sirianni brother have been easy to see on the road to the Super Bowl.