Digger Phelps is 83 years and 4 month(s) old. He was born in 4 Jul, 1941. Digger Phelps is a former collegiate basketball coach in the United States who most notably coached the Notre Dame Fighting Irish from 1971 to 1991. He worked as an ESPN analyst for 20 years, from 1993 to 2014. His father, a mortician in Beacon, New York, gave him the nickname "Digger."