The five coaches I hated omitting (Benedict Arnold is one)
The trouble with Top 10 lists is, duh, there are only 10 spots. (Tune in next week when I suggest water is indeed wet.) In yesterday’s exhaustively unscientific rundown of my Top 10 college football coaches, there were moments when I thought, “Let’s just make this a Top 15.” But then that would have become a Top 25, and before you know it I’d have a list that includes Ron Zook.
But, in the interest of completeness, I do feel compelled to share these names with you, and — fair warning — one of them will make you throw a shoe at your computer monitor.
11. Jim Grobe, Wake Forest: Look, the guy won an ACC championship at Wake Forest, which to me is bigger than Steve Spurrier winning one at Duke when Florida State hadn’t yet joined the league. And Grobe had to outcoach the mastermind Chan Gailey to do it.
12: Jim Leavitt, South Florida: Every time I say, “There’s no way Georgia State can ever have a decent football team,” I rebut myself by thinking about USF. Leavitt started a program in 1996, has moved up from Division I-AA and has had two losing seasons in 12 tries.
13. Bobby Johnson, Vanderbilt: Another of those pure coaches, and by “pure coach” I mean a guy you could plop down in Pop Warner and know his teams would still be playing good smart football. (Grobe falls under this heading, as does Paul Johnson.)
14. Houston Nutt, Ole Miss: Were I a coach with demonstrably better personnel, Nutt’s the last guy I’d want to play. He’s the best upset guy out there, and he’s creative with personnel. This whole NFL Wildcat stuff came from Nutt’s deployment of Darren McFadden.
15. Bobby Petrino, Arkansas: Here’s where you throw the shoe. I know he ran out on the Falcons, but he’s one of the smartest coaches on any level. I mean, he nearly played for a BCS title with Louisville. Sorry to disillusion you, but ot every good coach is a nice guy.
OK, and now you’re asking: Where’s Spurrier himself? (Still entertaining, but that’s it.) Where’s Randy Edsall? (He’d have been No. 16.) Chris Petersen? (No. 17.) Pat Hill? (No. 18.)
Where’s Kyle Whittingham? Mark Mangino? Mark Dantonio? Gary Pinkel? Rich Rodriguez? Bobby Bowden? Jeff Tedford? Greg Schiano? Mike Leach? Mike Gundy? Mike Bellotti? (Whoops, he retired.) Joe Paterno? Butch Davis? Tom O’Brien? Matt Hayes’ man Brian Kelly? Lane Kiffin? Rich Brooks? (OK, maybe not so much the latter two.)
All I can say is that they were, as Ryan Cameron shouts after a Hawk blocks a shot, “Inspected … and rejected.”
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Herschel Talker
July 15th, 2009
2:49 pm
Where’s Ron Zook?
Dixie Normus
July 15th, 2009
2:53 pm
One coach that I’ve yet to see mentioned on any of these coaching lists is David Cutcliffe. Maybe he needs to turn dook around even more to get noticed but his work at Tennessee and Ole Miss and his moulding of the Manning Bros. (new video game?) should be of note.
Ken Stallings
July 15th, 2009
2:59 pm
Well at least you gave Tom O’Brien an honorable mention! LOL!!
Records matter and so it will take O’Brien making NC State a powerhouse. You cannot vote on potential. However, if TOB achieves what many think he’s building for, he’ll be on everyone’s top 10 list.
Kudzu Wildcat
July 15th, 2009
3:04 pm
Where is Bill Snyder of Kansas State?
Larry
July 15th, 2009
3:08 pm
Mark,
How would you rank Bobby Cox? First?
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
July 15th, 2009
3:21 pm
Dixie, this is not a top assistant blog
Mark Bradley
July 15th, 2009
3:23 pm
I believe Bill Snyder is indeed at Kansas State.
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
July 15th, 2009
3:25 pm
Just cause the BCS is flawed, don’t give credit to Petrino. Damn Kudzu, Snyder wouldn’t make the top 10 in his conference.
Gerry DiNardo
July 15th, 2009
3:25 pm
Why didn’t I make the top ten?!?
G-Silk
July 15th, 2009
3:26 pm
Mark,
Lay off GSU. We’ll be a powerhouse in no time. Don’t make negative judgements about a team that has yet to take the field.
Mark Bradley
July 15th, 2009
3:27 pm
Because you went for two against Georgia, Coach DiNardo. (And Will Witherspoon knocked the ball down.)
StingerSplash
July 15th, 2009
3:29 pm
And Grobe had to outcoach the mastermind Chan Gailey to do it.
Yeesh. Talk about damning with faint praise, Mr. Bradley.
And that picture of Bobby Paintrino … boy, does he look excited to be Fayetteville, Ark. He has the look of a guy whose thought is “Did the first check clear already?” He looks like he’s ready to start mouthing along the words to the fight song that he will never bother to learn because he won’t be there long enough before a better job comes along.
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
July 15th, 2009
3:41 pm
Rating Petrino ahead of Leach and Gundy is like rating Rita Moreno ahead of Salma Hayek and Eva Mendes
phar71
July 15th, 2009
3:42 pm
No June Jones? Bogus list
Charlie Weiss
July 15th, 2009
3:47 pm
How bout me? I’m the head coach one of the greatest programs in the history of college football?
Lonesome Dove
July 15th, 2009
3:50 pm
Whoever is coaching at Emory University. Still undefeated after all these years.
Mark Bradley
July 15th, 2009
3:51 pm
Don’t get me started about Rita Moreno. Or Rita Hayworth.
Bama Aaron
July 15th, 2009
3:57 pm
Mark I gotta agree with Bank on this one. And personally I’m not ranking anyone ahead of Ms Hayek!
Huh?
July 15th, 2009
4:06 pm
I’m glad you posted this blog Mark because I didn’t get the chance to ask you on the other one how in the crap you have Paul Johnson over Jim Grobe. One 9-4 season (inflated by two D-1aa’s and a weak ACC) and the guy’s one of the best in the biz? Totally laughable. As you pointed out, Grobe has at least won a championship and I would argue he has less to work with at Wake Forest than Johnson does at Tech.
Otto
July 15th, 2009
4:14 pm
Cutcliffe did a good job at Ole Miss given what he had to work with and is doing well at Duke. It is a shame he was not promoted to coach at Tenn. He would do better than the clown they have now.
Glenn
July 15th, 2009
4:51 pm
Good Grief . Alright I’ll bite . I’d replace Jim Leavitt & Bobby Petrino with Brian Kelly & Randy Edsall . Whats up with all that big eastness ? I don’t get the lack of love for that guy & no I’m not from New England . You are aware UConn has not even been division 1 for a decade . Is winning at USF really that impressive with the talent pool they have around them ? The lack of love for Randy Edsall really surprises me . I bet he is at ND next year .
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 15th, 2009
4:56 pm
(Tune in next week when I suggest water is indeed wet.)
And I predict at least 100 posters will opine that you don’t know what you’re talking about (Probably in more unkind language).
Glenn
July 15th, 2009
4:57 pm
He would have been 16 . I should have read further .
TommyP
July 15th, 2009
5:07 pm
Pat Hill? Gimme a break, Mark.
Mark Bradley
July 15th, 2009
5:09 pm
What’s wrong with Pat Hill? Other than the mustache.
Reid Adair
July 15th, 2009
5:15 pm
The traitor is a good college coach. He had no business ever being hired to coach the Falcons (or any team in the NFL, for that matter). The cowardly way in which he snuck out of town just sealed the fact.
Joe
July 15th, 2009
5:15 pm
The Wildcat is high school coach Hugh Wyatt’s conception. It was brought to Arkansas by Gus Malzahn. Nutt just takes credit. He had nothing to do with it.
RAMBLE ON!!!
July 15th, 2009
5:15 pm
Huh? or Duh?
CPJ has 2 more National Championships than St. Richt. One more than the total of UGAg Football Program.
…I can’t find my blue bird.
Jerry Glanville
July 15th, 2009
5:18 pm
Wow Bradley, it seems your judgement is no better then when I was around them parts. Theres been no greater defensive mind and motivator in the history of the game and you and elvis both know it.
Reality
July 15th, 2009
5:20 pm
BFD, nobody really cares about I-AA championships. That’s like bragging about winning an Arena league championship.
MyWhiskeyClear
July 15th, 2009
5:35 pm
Wow, everyone’s tough on D1-AA as if it weren’t still the same tough proposition as the rest of college football: take students who are also athletes, form a cohesive team that stacks up well against others and play a season and post season. Yeah, championships are nothing…you could probably do it yourself.
Huh?
July 15th, 2009
5:36 pm
That’s cute Ramble On, but we’re talking D-1 here you clueless goob. Sure, Johnson is a good coach, but 9th best in the land? Puh-leeze. If it wasn’t for that 3 point Georgia win last year he’d have an 8-5 team whose biggest win came against Boston College. Whoopdeefreakingdoo. That’s not much better than anything Gailey ever did. We’ll see what he does this year and next, but I’m not quite ready to put him up there with the best after one year. Your schedule last year was absolutely laughable. Look at the month of October. What a joke. And he still managed to lose to crappy Virginia. In fact, I saw the same kind of patterns last year that I did under Gailey. You win a big one (Clemson, FSU, Georgia) then choke on a fatty the following game (Virginia, UNC, LSU). Georgia Tech cannot handle success. This is a fact until proven otherwise. Good luck in 2009.
Tide Rising
July 15th, 2009
5:44 pm
Mark,
As a Bama fan all I got to say is thank God for Petrino. He took some of the heat and hate off of Saban. All Saban did was change his mind and do a poor job of handling the situation publicly. But he never lied to the Dolphins owner Wayne Heizenga. He left on good terms with Heizenga and the remain friends. Petrino lied to Blank less than 12 hours I think before he was in Fayetteville accepting the Ark. job.
JSS_62
July 15th, 2009
5:50 pm
Don’t you mean Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo, or Carole Lombard? Go Emory!!! 1927 forever!!!
Tide Rising
July 15th, 2009
5:56 pm
Mark,
You hit the nail on the head with Houston Nutt. He continously beat teams with superior talent like AU, Bama, and LSU and gave all those coaches headaches. And look now at what he’s doing at Ole Miss. Nick Saban said that out of all the coaches in NCAA football the one he admired most was Houston Nutt because he got more out of his players than any other coach. That’s saying something.
bb
July 15th, 2009
6:04 pm
What the dawg fans fail to realize is that CPJ deserved to be ranked where he is before last year. He won 43 games in 5 years at Navy of all places. You can say what you want about who Navy plays, but I can guarantee you that Navy did not ‘out-recruit’ even one of those teams (including the D1AA opponents). He won 43 games and took Navy to 5 straight bowl games with less talent than any other Div 1A team (except maybe AF and Army).
Mark Bradley
July 15th, 2009
6:13 pm
Don’t forget Clara Bow.
DenverDawg
July 15th, 2009
6:26 pm
I’m still waiting to read WHAT TED STRIKER thinks!
Chris
July 15th, 2009
6:29 pm
Mark,
You’re dead nuts accurate on Bobby Johnson. I was curious as to why an Auburn or Clemson or Tennessee showed zero interest in Johnson at the end of last year.
Maybe they did, but I never heard where any of the search firms had him on any of their ‘A’ list of available coaches. Maybe you should start a search firm?
Jack G.
July 15th, 2009
6:34 pm
Mark
You are not old enough to remember Clara Bow, but I do.
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
July 15th, 2009
6:54 pm
Chris, those three missed a bunch of opportunities. Of all the coaches that are out there and Auburn goes to Iowa for a coach. What a bunch of maroons.
Mark Bradley
July 15th, 2009
6:55 pm
I’m old enough to remember Clara Bow as a debutante.
I thought Clemson should have taken a run at Bobby Johnson. But I guess they just wanted to have a coach named Dabo.
Not Disappointed "Looking out for the big Man!"
July 15th, 2009
6:57 pm
Mark, What about “The Fridge!” Hell, if he hadn’t left Ga Tech in 2000, they were on there way to the top. He was always better than O’leary and knows how to coach. He just doesn’t have the talent like down south. As a fat person, I’m a offended. LOL! What gives Mark?
Mark Bradley
July 15th, 2009
7:02 pm
The Fridge is a good coach. But I have to say I expected Maryland to have broken upward by now. He won 10-plus games in each of his first three seasons but hasn’t done it again in the five since.
Not Disappointed
July 15th, 2009
7:05 pm
Mark who’s the better coach. Fridge or O’leary.
Mark Bradley
July 15th, 2009
7:07 pm
Boy, that’s tough. I’m tempted to say O’Leary, but he wasn’t as good after Friedgen left in 2001, was he?
But I’d still say O’Leary, after further review.
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July 15th, 2009
7:12 pm
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JSS_62
July 15th, 2009
7:12 pm
Poor Clara Bow, now there’s a woman who felt the wrath of old Hollywood… Now Mr. Bradley only Mr. Bisher is old enough to remember her debut to society or the USC football team… So sad, I feel very Jeff Schultz like dirty after making that correlation… RIP Ms. Bow…
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Tom
July 15th, 2009
7:45 pm
Mark, do you think Mark Richt has lost his intensity and turned into a comfortable shoe. My Alabama Student son gives me hell about the fact Coach Richt took his players to the pool while Saban was making his men chisled hardbodies during two-a-days.
John
July 15th, 2009
7:52 pm
Thanks Mark for the mention of Grobe. I would argue that 90% of the time when Wake takes the field it is against a team with superior athletic talent. I do not know where the quote came from but I feel that Grobe is one of those special coaches who “can beat you with mine or take yours and beat you”
C. Strickland
July 15th, 2009
8:13 pm
Mark, you are still my hero. I wish I hadn’t been fired by the AJC. I think I could write cool blogs, though I’m not as clever as you. Three times a day. Man, that a lot of crap to make up.
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Mark Bradley
July 15th, 2009
9:27 pm
Some people say the quote originated with Bear Bryant; others say it came from Bum Phillips talking about Bear Bryant. But whoever said it first, it’s a good un’.
Festus
July 15th, 2009
9:49 pm
Im sure suprized thait thare coach who uster be at Waste Virginny isnt on your liast Mister Mark! You know the one who beet them thare doagies in thait thare bowal gaime a few yers baick. Nows hee’s at Meeshigan.
Clempsun Taters Rule
July 15th, 2009
9:54 pm
Who would want a coach who looks like Steve Martin anyway?
GT
July 15th, 2009
10:59 pm
What about the guy from TCU Gary Patterson? Must be something wrong with him Auburn among others interviewed and never hired? If you watch his recruiting Georgia Southern looks better and then he goes in and beats OK one year and seems to always be in the undefeated streak that is ranked in the nation.
Mike
July 15th, 2009
11:02 pm
As a Michigan fan, I hope RR can one day be on this list. I fear he will one day be run out of Ann Arbor. One day soon.
Pepper Rogers and Mike Price
July 15th, 2009
11:05 pm
What about us Mark? We’ll buy you a lap dance if you put us on your list. Whadda you say?
Mark Bradley
July 15th, 2009
11:13 pm
Mike Smith looks like Steve Martin. And he coaches football, too.
Robards
July 15th, 2009
11:16 pm
Where would Jim Donnan at Marshall rank on this list? Turner Gill?
Gene Stallings
July 15th, 2009
11:35 pm
Frank Beamer? After he was too frightened to play LSU at home and put off the home and and away series for 3 years, he finally goest to LSU and gets his nads handed to him. This is an ACC lightweight with no strength of schedule. BeamerBall is a joke. This guy would be middle of the pack (at best) in the Pac-10 or Big 12 or Big 10. Maybe even the Big East at this point. Michael Vick is the reason he has anything to hang his hat on.
Tressel? This is pathetic. Good luck with that next BCS championship. You play in a weak and overrated conference, and you lose the games you shouldn’t just like Pete Carroll.
Saban? Great game against Utah last year. They actually should have been in the title game. I think they could have beaten Florida. But then again, they played against a super overrated Alabama team (no tradition at ‘Bama) and totally destroyed them in the Sugar Bowl. Julio Jones is a stud, and that’s it.
Just a few comments. I do agree – Houston Nutt is the bomb – should have been hired by LSU when Saban jumped ship. But don’t worry, Alabama will lose many games on blown coverages on the last play of the game because Saban’s teams always do this. That’s why no title is in the future of the Bama program anytime soon. Seventeen years and counting…
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
3:54 am
Comparing Petrino to Benedict Arnold is a disservice. Arnold was a patriot and a great general. He only defected when he thought America was getting too chummy with France; he thought England was the lesser of two evils. Petrino’s just a douchebag.
JSS
July 16th, 2009
5:03 am
Whoa!!! Completely off the subject; but did the alarms and the sirens not go off in the AJC or in fans minds when D. Ledbetter included the names of the new investors involved in the minority owners that Blsnk brought in? Low and behold one Derek Smith of ChoicePoint!!! The same company that put hundreds of thousands credit and personal information at risk in 2005 with a giant security breach… Wow!!!
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
July 16th, 2009
7:37 am
Grinch, Amen. Look at that photo….I just want to give him a round house kick to the head.
dagnabit
July 16th, 2009
8:05 am
maybe Petrino is a douchebag. However, didn’t Arthur fire a Hall-of-Fame coach with three games left the first year he owned the team.
LuvsMeSumKiffin
July 16th, 2009
8:32 am
I was beginning to think you could write a college football article without the obligatory dig at Lane Kiffin. Alas… We’ll see how fast that tongue goes to lickin’ when Kiffin starts tickin’.
SuperB
July 16th, 2009
8:45 am
The best college football coach– hands down– is Jim Grobe of Wake Forest. College football is NOT played on a level field. Grobe has won at a tough place to build a winner.
Also, are you just rating coaches on wins and nothing else? That would explain Urban (It’s all about Me!) Meyer.
the real Old Gold
July 16th, 2009
8:53 am
I would have had Nutt in my top 10.
The Champ is Here!
July 16th, 2009
8:57 am
Jim Grobe, IMO is better than Mark Richt. Paul Johnson is better than Mark Richt. I know you are a Jawja Homer so it explains the rating of Richt.
dan
July 16th, 2009
11:02 am
Question to “the Champ is Here”
Paul Johnson has won one game against Richt. Would you consider Al Groh better than Paul Johnson based on the Cavaliers win over Tech last year? It’s way too early to be judging Paul Johnson at this point. Pepper Rodgers beat Vince Dooley in their first meeting, but is he considered a better coach than Dooley? Now if Johnson beats Richt 4 out 7 times they play, then I’ll concede that Johnson is better. But it’s too early to tell right now.
dan
July 16th, 2009
11:05 am
P.S. Does anyone not think that Richt couldn’t win a National Title at Georgia Southern? If you don’t then you’re an idiot.
dan
July 16th, 2009
11:12 am
Sorry, meant to say” Does anyone not think that Richt could win a National Title at Georgia Southern?” Nothing against what Paul Johnson accomplished down there, but I think Richt could do the exact same thing.
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11:20 am
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Jeff
July 16th, 2009
12:19 pm
So Greg Schiano, a coach who took one of the perenially worst college football teams in the country, to four straight bowls, the last three wins, and to #12 in the country and won coach of the year, is NOT in your top 15?! Yet Mark Richt, who has not only not accomplished anything but took a supposed #1 team in the country and spit the bit is top 10?
braveswin
July 16th, 2009
2:34 pm
Jeff, re post at 12:19 I took the liberty of looking up the word dumbass in websters. Found a good photo of you
The Champ is Here!
July 16th, 2009
4:17 pm
Dan, PJ has less to work with and beat Jawja on their home turf. IMO, this year will be the same. Richt won when the SEC was down. Florida was rebuilding, Bama was in shambles and LSU was seldom on the schedule. Even when Florida was down Richt was 1-2 against Zook who many made fun of. Probably the best Jawja win of the decade was against LSU for the SEC title. I think Richt is a good coach but Paul Johnson and Jim Grobe are better. I think if Paul Johnson or Jim Grobe was at Jawja, the Dawgs would do some serious damage in the SEC. Mark Richt is a great coach in regards to Jawja’s standards.
Jeff
July 16th, 2009
5:07 pm
braveswin, how could that be when your picture was already there? What’s wrong buddy, all upset b/c I had the audacity to criticize your born again coach?
slimpickens
July 16th, 2009
9:04 pm
Fire Mark Bradley!
dan
July 16th, 2009
9:12 pm
Richt won when the SEC was down? What conference have you been watching?
2001: Richt beat Tennessee in Knoxville. That was Tennessee’s only loss in the regular season that year. Fulmer called the 2001 team his most talented squad yet.
2002: UGA beat a VERY talented Alabama squad in Tuscaloosa for the first time in UGA history.
2003: UGA blewout a 10-3 Tennessee team and lost to LSU twice( who were the National Champs that year).
2004: UGA returned the favor vs. LSU and blew them out. They lost to a 14-0 Auburn team and a 10-3 Tennessee team.
2005: Hammered LSU in the Title game, LSU then hammered Miami 40-3( aren’t they in the ACC?)
2006: Was a down year for the Dawgs but they beat a 11-2 Auburn team in Auburn.
2007: Got their heads beat in by Tennesse before they got their act together and beat Florida, Auburn, both of whom would have destroyed any team from the ACC.
I don’t understand ACC fans. They actually think their conference is legit in football. I never understand that. Their champions finish with 9-4 records and the championship game is poorly attended. I mean I’m and SEC fan, but I’ll be the first to admit their our conference was the worst in basketball this year( which makes the Dawgs season that much more pathetic). I’m not saying ACC teams can’t beat SEc teams, but our top 2-3 teams on any given year would smoke the ACC’s top 2-3 teams. A “down year” in the SEC would be a great year by ACC standards.
momorris1970
July 17th, 2009
9:18 am
Perhaps you will feel different about Spurrier after September 12th?
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11:17 am
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July 17th, 2009
11:55 am
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iluvmybearcats
July 17th, 2009
11:59 am
I wonder if this is the first article that the author has written on CF? I think that he has been involved in writing for a High Scool paper on gym activities.
brian
July 17th, 2009
1:01 pm
LOL… Jim Leavitt. Let me know when he wins something significant.
Sting 'em Buzz
July 17th, 2009
4:01 pm
I would rather net rest my laurels on what other teams in my conference do.
Sting 'em Buzz
July 17th, 2009
4:02 pm
not rather than net
2EggsAndASausageLink
July 18th, 2009
7:21 am
My lord Mark, take the SEC “sausage” out of your mouth. Leavitt, Bobby Johnson, and Houston Nutt above Brian Kelly?
I guess if a squirrel with one eye was coaching at an SEC school you’d probably rank him in your 15-20 list, right?
You need to change your name from Mr College Football to Mr Swallowing Every Coach in the SEC.
topdawg70
July 18th, 2009
7:38 am
As a UGA homer, I admit to being prejudice. However, I dispute Mr. Bradley’s assertion that 2008 was not Mark Richt “finest hour”. Which of the coaches he mentioned could…play the toughest schedule in the nation (by won loss record), have 22 season ending injuries, including 2 of your top 5 players before the season started, lose to the eventual National Championship team, the runner up for that Championship team (this is the only opinion in this blog the SEC championship was really the NC. especially since TX got hosed) and their most hated rival where records often don’t matter…and go 10 and 3. Not to many of them.
Top Dawg
July 19th, 2009
8:36 am
I was hollering for CMR & UGA to hire John Chavis as DC long before Les Miles hired him. However, a lot of the defensive commitments say they really like CWM. Go figure.
CWM’s defenses’ numbers are steadily getting worse each year. One of the AJC columnits wrote about that last year. It’s a scary trend that gives me ulcers each Fall.
Don
July 29th, 2009
5:38 am
Nutt has a SEC winning percentage at the bottom of the league for coaches with more than three years in. And its not even close. Last year that apparently hyper talented Ole Miss team, who lost the two games between the Florida win, eaked out a .500 SEC record. A great year for a team with such talent? If you say so.
Take away his wins over 1-AA and Sun Belt teams, and he’s at right about .500 for his career. He never wins big games when he has the better team. Isn’t that really the most important quality in a “great” coach?
Nutt sometimes wins when no one expects him to….but most of the time he doesn’t. Nutt rarely wins when everyone expects him to. So, honestly, what is with all the “one of the best coach” love? He’s average. His 10+ years in the SEC show that conclusively, occasional upset or not.
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