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What Former Coaches Have Bombed as AD
Posted on 3/24/26 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 3/24/26 at 1:18 pm
Obviously Ray Tanner. What other coaches turned AD were underwhelming? It was before my time, but you never hear what a great AD Bear Bryant was. Just based on results, it looks like Broyles was a better coach than AD. I think Pat Dye and Vince Dooley were also AD’s, but you never hear much about that part of their career. Why are former coaches not slam dunk hires as athletic directors?
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Posted on 3/24/26 at 1:23 pm to captdalton
Skip Bertman was a much much better coach than AD. I don’t know if he bombed as AD but he wasn’t good.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 1:26 pm to captdalton
Phillip Fulmer was a terrible AD. Doug Dickey was a good one. Both were better coaches than ADs
Posted on 3/24/26 at 1:43 pm to captdalton
Love Coach Dye, but I think about 4 or 5 sports got put on NCAA probation while he was AD.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 1:48 pm to captdalton
Paul Deitzel and Joe Dean
Posted on 3/24/26 at 1:51 pm to wareaglepete
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I think about 4 or 5 sports got put on NCAA probation while he was AD.
If you ain't cheating, you ain't tryin!
Posted on 3/24/26 at 1:59 pm to captdalton
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Why are former coaches not slam dunk hires as athletic directors?
It is a much more political job than some are probably accustomed to when dealing directly with Administration, alumni, boosters, and University support and community events.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 2:11 pm to Che Boludo
How many successful coaches were successful with a shitty administration. Maybe those coaches don’t know what true athletic department administration actually looks like. Or may some of them were successful only because they had great administration above them.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 2:11 pm to captdalton
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Just based on results, it looks like Broyles was a better coach than AD.
Not sure what results you’re referring to here…
-43 NC’s
-57 SWC titles
-47 SEC titles
-Spearheaded our move to the SEC which, regardless of how the last decade plus has went in football, was a genius move.
-Made many elite coaching hires across multiple sports
-Spearheaded the modernization of our sports facilities including raising the money to do so.
- among other notable accomplishments
Posted on 3/24/26 at 2:25 pm to pgaddxn
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Skip Bertman was a much much better coach than AD. I don’t know if he bombed as AD but he wasn’t good.
He did hire Nick Saban
Posted on 3/24/26 at 2:37 pm to lowhound
You said former coach as AD. Both Bryant and Dye were coach and AD at same time. Obviously they had some serious staff doing most of the work and it reinforces todays view that you can't do both at same time
Posted on 3/24/26 at 2:45 pm to captdalton
John Cohen at AU is well on his way unless Golesh lands.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 2:45 pm to captdalton
The guy at Auburn right now.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 2:56 pm to lowhound
But for that, he would have certainly bombed.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 3:10 pm to captdalton
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Obviously Ray Tanner.
The GOAT of this.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 3:16 pm to Wildcat98USA
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unless Golesh lands
Golesh is landing. Baseball upgrades have been good. Basketball is the only issue now but Steven Pearl was not as bad as everyone thinks he was in his first season. It will all depend on how he does in the portal.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 3:22 pm to captdalton
As someone who lead a team to a CWS Final, Cohen's been pretty bad at Auburn.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 3:28 pm to lowhound
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He did hire Nick Saban
Ummm no the frick he didn’t
. Bertman won a National Title in baseball a few months after Saban was hired. Joe Dean was the AD at the time.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 3:32 pm to captdalton
They require two different types of personalities. ADs are more of an administrative mind.
PS- Nick Saban would make an excellent AD if he actually enjoyed working with institutional administration...but he doesn't.
PS- Nick Saban would make an excellent AD if he actually enjoyed working with institutional administration...but he doesn't.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 3:39 pm to captdalton
Broyles was... the things that made him a great AD also made him a pain in the arse that drove off coaches. His micromanagement partly offset his tremendous eye for talent when it came to hiring coaches.
Superb organizer and at one point the most powerful man in the state of Arkansas... and that Bill Clinton said that not me. All in all great for the school, but with some downsides that you have to take with the great.
Superb organizer and at one point the most powerful man in the state of Arkansas... and that Bill Clinton said that not me. All in all great for the school, but with some downsides that you have to take with the great.
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