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Who are five favorite head coaches that coached your team?

Posted on 4/17/26 at 8:49 pm
Posted by Gatorbait2008
Member since Aug 2015
28185 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 8:49 pm
I know it has probably been talked about a ton but I have a good excuse; I am dumb.

1. Spurrier
2. Donovan
3. Meyer
4. Muschamp
5. Golden




Posted by SECdragonmaster
Order of the Dragons
Member since Dec 2013
17441 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 9:03 pm to
1. Dye
2. Marsh
3. Bruce Pearl
4. Gene Chizik (one year)
5. Hal Baird
Posted by Rzrbackguy
Apalachicola, FL
Member since Jul 2014
2620 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 9:34 pm to
Broyles
Holtz
Richardson
Calipari
Sutton
Posted by Ag Zwin
Member since Mar 2016
26175 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 9:35 pm to
1. Schlossnagle
2. Fisher
3. Franchione
4. Sumlin
5. …


Oh, wait…
Posted by JamalMurry27
Tennessee Titans
Member since May 2023
8448 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 9:37 pm to
saban, oats, gottfried, shula, dubose.....my age wont let me go to gene or the bear

Posted by AUTiger789
Birmingham, AL
Member since Apr 2022
3979 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 10:07 pm to
1. Dye
2. Bruce
3. Shug
4. Butch Thompson
5. Tuberville
Posted by Wishbone85
Member since Nov 2024
2304 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 2:51 am to
1. Switzer
2. Stoops
3. Gasso
4. Sampson
5. Kindler(Have to put her here since she's probably about to win her 9th gymnastics natty)
Posted by Rebbedup
Member since Jun 2021
4324 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 3:15 am to
Tough one. In my lifetime…

1.John H. Vaught (6 SEC titles. NC trophies as well. True winner)
2. Senator Tuberville (people forget how bad the NCAA screwed us)
3. Freeze (didnt win one SEC game the year before he arrived)
4. Kiffin (he had the easiest schedules of all of them and won. Blew games he shouldn’t have but still fun to watch. He is the first coach allowed to pay players. Took great advantage of it with a great eye for talent. Might be autistic)
5. Billy Brewer (so much losing before he arrived. Proved it could be done)

I know a lot of people would question Tuberville but I was there. He had 50 scholarship players and still won. He played with walkons and true freshmen and still competed and won. After 4 years left lots of talent for Cutcliffe. If he had stayed we would’ve won the west. Orgeron turned our talent around in a short time but just wasn’t ready to be a head coach. He was left no talent by Cutcliffe.
Posted by makersmark1
earth
Member since Oct 2011
21118 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 4:58 am to
1. Coach Ralph “Shug” Jordan

Combat engineer in WWII.
Landed at North Africa (Operation Torch)
Landed in Sicily
Landed in Normandy; received Purple Heart
Landed in Okinawa

2. It is not close enough to matter for the rest of the list.
Posted by Godawgs4
Member since Aug 2016
5386 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:27 am to
Babe McCarthy(1959 & 1962 would have possibly won National Championships had then been allowed to play…both teams finished 24-1 (13-1 SEC) and #3 in the final poll.
Allyn McKeen (65-19 record-1939 to 1948 with the SEC championship in 1941)
Ron Polk (Father of SEC Baseball)
Richard Williams (built State’s basketball program from the ground up in the late 80’s - 90’s culminating in the 1996 Final Four).
Jackie Sherrill (1991-2000) last three years not so much as every thing went south.
Posted by UKWildcats
Lexington, KY
Member since Mar 2015
19784 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:45 am to
I was born in '83, so I'm not going to rank guys I wasn't alive for at Kentucky, like Bear Bryant.

1. Mark Stoops
2. Rich Brooks
3. Hal Mumme
4. Guy Morriss
5. Jerry Claiborne

Only Bill Curry, Joker Phillips, and Will Stein remain as options.

Joker was a disaster. Enough said. Worst UK coach I've seen.

Curry, also a disaster, but my formative years of going to UK football games were his era. I have an autographed Bill Curry glamour shot in a box somewhere at my parents house from going to his summer football camp at UK as a kid.

So I went with Claiborne at 5 because my first UK games as a youngin were when he was coach. My first football memory in my head we were playing either Vanderbilt or LSU here, I just remember the team was yellow, would've been late 80s.

Will Stein obviously hasnt coached a game yet, but based on his recruiting so far, he is going to be on the list real fricking fast.
This post was edited on 4/18/26 at 7:48 am
Posted by vholley50
Midland City,Al
Member since Nov 2013
437 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 8:31 am to
I have read the whole story about Coach Jordan. He is a HERO by every definition known.
Posted by joshnorris14
Florida
Member since Jan 2009
46879 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 8:35 am to
quote:

4. Muschamp
5. Golden


Help me understand this.
Posted by GoGators1995
Member since Jan 2023
7559 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 8:36 am to
1. The Zooker
Posted by Gunga Din
Oklahoma
Member since Jul 2020
3413 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 9:16 am to
quote:

1. Switzer
2. Stoops
3. Gasso
4. Sampson
5. Kindler(Have to put her here since she's probably about to win her 9th gymnastics natty)



Bud Wilkinson has GOT to be on any OU list...if not at the top.

And Billy Tubbs has got to be in over Kelvin Sampson. He was way more popular with the fan base than Kelvin.

Gym?... as big a deal as it is for OU and as good as they are... your average T-shirt OU fan probably doesn't even know who the women's gym coach is...

Posted by SpotCheckBilly
Member since May 2020
8493 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 9:19 am to
Shug
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Pat Dye
Bruce Pearl
Sonny Smith
Tommy Tuberville
This post was edited on 4/18/26 at 9:22 am
Posted by Darindawg
Member since May 2022
4043 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 9:29 am to
1. Kirby Smart
2. Vince Dooley
3. Wally Butts (before my time, but revered amongst the faithful old timers)
4. Mark Richt
5. Erk Russell, with an asterik. Was never a head coach, he was Vince's DC during the championship run back in the day. Ended up at Georgia Southern. Many wanted him back after Vince stepped down. He was a goodun.
Posted by MizzouTrue
Member since Jun 2016
5040 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 9:42 am to
5 across the sports that I was actually alive to see?

Gary Pinkel
Norm Stewart
Mike Anderson
Eli Drinkwitz
Larry Smith
Posted by MrMojoRisin
Parts unknown
Member since May 2014
8283 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 9:51 am to
1. Nick Saban - 6 national championships @ Bama
2. Bear Bryant - 6 national championships (but I only remember his last couple of years coaching at Bama).
3. Gene Stallings - 1 national (I was a student)
4. Nate Oats - 5 sweet 16s, 2 elite 8s and a final 4 in 7 years (so far) as Bama’s coach. .
5. Wimp Sanderson - 6 sweet 16/

Honorable mention - Jim Wells (baseball); Sarah Patterson (gymnastics)
Posted by BigBro
Member since Jul 2021
20209 posts
Posted on 4/18/26 at 10:08 am to
Football
1. DKR
2. Mack
3. Sark

Baseball
1, Augie
2. Gus

Basketball
1. Barnes
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