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Forbes' Most Powerful Football Coaches
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:33 pm
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1. Saban
2. Patterson
3. Stoops
4. Dabo (Dabo?!?)
5. Pinkel
6. Dantonio
7. Sumlin
8. Ferentz
9. Malzhan
10. Miles
Edit: Also, a Yahoo Sports article analyzing the list. Interesting stuff. LINK
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Our list of the most powerful coaches in college football uses a handful of financial metrics to define power. Those metrics range from the simple - salary and football budget - to the more complex areas of termination buyouts and coach's salary as a percentage of his school's coaching budget. We limited our scope to the head football coaches who made at least $2 million in 2014 (The average coach on our list made $4.5 million this year). We also overlooked any coaches who lost or left coaching positions this season, as well as those who are finishing their first years on the job.
1. Saban
2. Patterson
3. Stoops
4. Dabo (Dabo?!?)
5. Pinkel
6. Dantonio
7. Sumlin
8. Ferentz
9. Malzhan
10. Miles
Edit: Also, a Yahoo Sports article analyzing the list. Interesting stuff. LINK
This post was edited on 12/22/14 at 4:35 pm
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Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:34 pm to randomways
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4. Dabo
List is shite
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:35 pm to randomways
Could not read past Dabo due to the fit of uncontrollable laughter it caused.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:36 pm to randomways
Dabo is gonna kill it at UA once Saban retires to be AD.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:36 pm to Rebel Land Shark
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List is shite
On the surface, yeah. But see the Yahoo link I edited to add. They discuss Dabo.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:40 pm to randomways
I think it just shows their criteria wasn't the best.
I would have gone by staff salaries, that seems to be a better indication of a coach's power.
I would have gone by staff salaries, that seems to be a better indication of a coach's power.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:42 pm to randomways
Expected Les to be in the top five.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:43 pm to Patton
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Dabo is gonna kill it at UA once Saban retires to be AD.
Yes he will literally kill the program.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:43 pm to randomways
No Butch Jones? List is shite
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:44 pm to randomways
Dabo 
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:45 pm to cardboardboxer
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I think it just shows their criteria wasn't the best.
I would have gone by staff salaries, that seems to be a better indication of a coach's power.
Yeah, I agree, but it is Forbes. They're gonna love that golden parachute.
There are just so many ways to measure power. Can a coach get the attention of the PTB? Do assistants under a given coach get special consideration when applying for other positions? Are the coach's teams given more benefit of the doubt? How prestigious is a recruiting offer from said coach? What sort of media attention does he get? And so on. The financial metrics (including the one you suggest) are the easiest to actually measure. It's clear that Saban is the most powerful coach in the country based on the eye test, obviously, but it's less clear who comes after him, and in what order.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:49 pm to randomways
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Yeah, I agree, but it is Forbes. They're gonna love that golden parachute.
True true.
Still some metric of "coordinator cost as a percentage of budget" would be telling I bet.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:51 pm to cardboardboxer
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7. Sumlin
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:52 pm to Patton
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Dabo is gonna kill it at UA once Saban retires to be AD.
Do not want.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:52 pm to randomways
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4. Dabo (Dabo?!?)
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:52 pm to cardboardboxer
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True true.
Still some metric of "coordinator cost as a percentage of budget" would be telling I bet.
Yeah. It's instructive, as Bielema's exit from Wisconsin demonstrates.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:53 pm to randomways
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Yeah. It's instructive, as Bielema's exit from Wisconsin demonstrates.
The Wincy situation is exactly why I don't trust head coaching pay.
This post was edited on 12/22/14 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:55 pm to randomways
Everyone is hacking about Dabo but
Really? In front of Miles and mahlzahn and instead of Urbs?
no
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Ferentz
Really? In front of Miles and mahlzahn and instead of Urbs?
no
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:56 pm to randomways
Spurrier > Dabo
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