re: Serious discussion about SEC Coaches strengths, weaknesses, and futures: Next 6 coaches

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Mississippi State - Jeff Lebby:

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You are handing out an A to head a coach who hasn't coached his first game, ever. You must be clairvoyant on your mother's side. Do better.

Lane Kiffin is getting the NIL money to support his roster. Very surprising, I never would have thought Ole Miss cared enough about modern football to fork over that much dough. With that much invested, I could see the Lane Train operating under real SEC pressure to perform. Who would have thunked it?

Mark Stoops is just way too conservative in his offensive approach to make a real run at the SEC. He will always want to play to his defense and that is mostly why he has the same record every year.

Brian Kelly has not come close to duplicating his success at Notre Dame in 2 years. I still haven't seen an LSU team as scary as some of the Les Miles products he put on the field. And yes, he had better get to that level, and soon, or the purple natives will get very restless. Frankly, Kelly's program is more Ole Miss/Tennessee than BAMA or Georgia at this point. That isn't a compliment at LSU.

I will go ahead and mention Drinkwitz, just because he passed Tennessee last season in the east for the second-best program and how surprising was that? If he can keep good coordinators, he has a chance to do something special from time to time. I would put him in the Ole Miss, LSU, and Tennessee, coaching tier.

Shane Beamer is dead man walking. But he's so entertaining it will take SC a while to get at it.