Significant Achievements
- Claiborne coached four Academic All-Americans and eighty-seven all-conference academics.
- Named the nation's Coach of the Year by the Sporting News in 1974.
- Named Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year in 1983.
- Claiborne's Kentucky team won the College Football Association Academic Achievement Award for the highest graduation rate of 90% in 1989.
- The University of Kentucky named Claiborne into its Alumni Hall of Fame in 1992.
- In 1999 the Lexington, Kentucky's chapter of the National Football Foundation was named after Claiborne.
- Retired with a lifetime record of 179–122–8, ranking him fourth among active college coaches in victories when he retired.
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