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How Do All SEC Coaches Today Compare With Bear Bryant?
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:41 pm
I know that you can't make comparisons well from one era to another, but when you conisder how complex the game is, how much is involved in recruiting, how much a coach today does, the internet, social media, 100,000 seat stadiums, the speed of the game, etc., how do you think today's coaches would compare against the greatest of all time, Bear Bryant?
Would Bryant have been able to keep up in this type of setting. I am just thinking about how we call coaches morons and stupid and criticize their every move, and the worst of the SEC coaches might be more capable than Bryant was at his peak, all things considered.
This is not any kind of slam on Bryant. He was the greatest and I admire what he did. I am really just asserting that we are way too hard on the coaches of today, at least in some of our criticisms.
Would Bryant have been able to keep up in this type of setting. I am just thinking about how we call coaches morons and stupid and criticize their every move, and the worst of the SEC coaches might be more capable than Bryant was at his peak, all things considered.
This is not any kind of slam on Bryant. He was the greatest and I admire what he did. I am really just asserting that we are way too hard on the coaches of today, at least in some of our criticisms.
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Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:42 pm to AlaTiger
Well, most of them are alive. That's a good bonus.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:43 pm to AlaTiger
Drink less, less racist.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:43 pm to AlaTiger
Saban is the only current coach that deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence as the Bear. Spurrier has an argument.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:44 pm to AlaTiger
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how much is involved in recruiting,
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Would Bryant have been able to keep up in this type of setting.
He invented it.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:44 pm to AlaTiger
For all the success Bryant had at Alabama, he was also very successfully at Kentucky. When Rupp was there. I think he'd still do well today.
Joker Phillips couldn't hold Bear's jockstrap as a HC.
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the worst of the SEC coaches might be more capable than Bryant was at his peak, all things considered.
Joker Phillips couldn't hold Bear's jockstrap as a HC.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:44 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
Oh, for Pete's sake.
"Deserves?"
"Deserves?"
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:50 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
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Spurrier has an argument.
Ya think?
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:52 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
If Spurrier wins an SEC Title at Carolina, then he deserves to be right there. Things have changed drastically here since he took over, but we have to get a title first.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:53 pm to AlaTiger
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How Do All SEC Coaches Today Compare With Bear Bryant?
They don't.
Simple as that.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:55 pm to UpstateCock2007
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If Spurrier wins an SEC Title at Carolina, then he deserves to be right there. Things have changed drastically here since he took over, but we have to get a title first.
Definitely.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 2:04 pm to AlaTiger
Spurrier >/= Bear >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Saban
Posted on 1/18/14 at 2:10 pm to Cockopotamus
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Posted by Message Cockopotamus How Do All SEC Coaches Today Compare With Bear Bryant? Spurrier >/= Bear >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Saban
BS!
Spurrier at Florida didn't have the competition of today's SEC.
And Spurrier hasn't been able to reinvent his success. Championships (of any level at USCe)?
I'd say Saban >=Bear >> Spurrier.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 2:20 pm to AlaTiger
Nick Saban
Steve Spurrier
Les Miles
Steve Spurrier
Les Miles
Posted on 1/18/14 at 2:21 pm to ksrph
Bear Bryant could recruit some of the better football players just to have them on the bench so they wouldn't be on other SEC teams.
And Saban has two SEC championships at Bama.
Two.
I never thought I'd hear somebody make the argument that a coach was better than Bear Bryant with only 2 SEC championships at Bama. (4 total I guess but when people talk about Saban being great they talk about what hes done at Bama, not at LSU)
And Saban has two SEC championships at Bama.
Two.
I never thought I'd hear somebody make the argument that a coach was better than Bear Bryant with only 2 SEC championships at Bama. (4 total I guess but when people talk about Saban being great they talk about what hes done at Bama, not at LSU)
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