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re: Mount Rushmore of All-Time Worst SEC Coaches
Posted on 10/20/23 at 12:25 pm to Bama Bird
Posted on 10/20/23 at 12:25 pm to Bama Bird
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I definitely didn't think this at the time, but in hindsight, Shula did a pretty good job of keeping the program from completely falling apart to the point where no one could save it (ie. Miami, Nebraska, etc.)
Timing was also bad for him as SEC dominance started around the same time he took over.
With the benefit of hindsight Shula looks like the Pittman hire for Arkansas. You didn't hire him to work miracles, you hired him to simply stop the bleeding. And he pulled that off. Folks got mad at him for not being the next great super coach, but the next great super coach wasn't going to take the job at that point.
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Posted on 10/20/23 at 12:38 pm to Arksulli
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You didn't hire him to work miracles, you hired him to simply stop the bleeding.
I feel like this is its own category, the stop-gap/glorified interim coach. Shula, Pittman, Matt Luke, Arnett, fit this mold, and truthfully probably Derek Dooley, where like you said not be great but just to keep from totally bottoming out at the time bc no one of note was going to touch you.
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