re: Elite college coaches and love for school

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How much does that factor into their success.

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Pretty much zero and I'll tell you why. Think about all of the top head coaches in the SEC in recent years. How many top SEC coaches had significant SEC coaching backgrounds before they got their job? I can think of only one. That's Phil Fulmer at Tennessee. Nick Saban was almost exclusively a Big 10/NFL guy before he was hired by LSU. Most of Les Miles' coaching experience was at Michigan and Oklahoma State. Mark Richt was an assistant with Bobby Bowden forever before he got hired by Georgia. Urban Meyer had pretty much coached everywhere except the southeast before he was hired at Florida. Nothing in their backgrounds suggest that any of those guys harbored special feelings towards the schools they ended up coaching at but they all did very well.