re: Is Saban the greatest coach of all time.

for college...

Bryant, Wooden, McDonell, Anson Dorrance, Al Scates and Suzanne Yoculan are the best to ever live.

all time ever

Vince Lombardi

I'd say if there's a top 25 of best ever coaches.... Saban has surely gone from receiving votes to anywhere from #20 to #25

Obviously a coach can have that many championships in Track. There are more chances and opportunities. That is awesome and great, but totally different.

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John McDonnell (Track Legend at Arkansas) Most Successful NCAA Coach of All Time

McDonnell's 42 national championships (which include 19 in indoor track, 12 in outdoor track and 11 in cross country) are more than any coach in any sport in the history of college athletics.


20 conference triple crowns since 1982, including eight straight between 1987 and 1995
25 consecutive conference titles in cross country with indoor track and outdoor track combined from 1987 to 1995
73 conference championships in the last 77 events Arkansas has entered since 1981-1982
84 conference championships overall since 1974 including 38 in the SWC and 46 in the SEC (out of a possible 50, or 90 percent)
12 consecutive NCAA indoor track championships (1984–1995)
coached 185 track All-Americans, earning 652 separate All-America honors
34 consecutive league cross country championships, including 17 straight in the SEC (1974–2007)[1]
54 individual national champions
23 Olympians coached spanning three decades and six different Olympic Games including gold, silver and bronze medalists
his 1994 indoor track squad won the national championship by the widest margins in the history of the sport as well as scored the most points (94) in the history of the NCAA event
his 1994 squad scored a meet record 223 points at the SEC Outdoor Championships
has been named national, regional or conference coach of the year a total of 140 times
has coached 23 Olympians, including gold, silver and bronze medalists, 105 NCAA individual event champions and 331 individual event conference champions

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Obviously a coach can have that many championships in Track. There are more chances and opportunities. That is awesome and great, but totally different.

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No one else has ever came close, if it were easy someone would have.

He only coached men's track FWIW.

I say yes. He's also the greatest American of all time.

No Phil Jackson

No and I understand you are a depressed Vol fan, but never go full retard.

No,

NCAA football, possibly.

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Uhm, a Mr John Wooden would like to speak with you.

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This.

Saban is a great coach, maybe the best NCAA football coach there's ever been. But to pick him over Wooden (or for that matter Krzyzewski) is silly. And I don't even like basketball. In track & field the Pigs' McDonnell and Pat Henry from LSU and A&M also have more impressive trophy accumulations. I'd go Wooden, Lombardi,..., Saban maybe top 10.