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re: Who are the top 3 FB coaches in your school's history?
Posted on 5/7/10 at 5:50 pm to NJReb
Posted on 5/7/10 at 5:50 pm to NJReb
quote:Dye and Tubbs also had the advantage of coaching in a time when the NCAA was working to make things much more evenhanded across the CFB landscape. Jordan did what he did in an era of teams (notably Bama with Coach Bryant) being able to sign 100+ kids to scholarships just to keep the from playing for other teams.
Shug was never a great coach, in my opinion--just a decent one in an era when coaches rarely got fired unless they were really, really bad. Dye and Tubs were much more talented, IMO...
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Posted on 5/7/10 at 5:51 pm to PJinAtl
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Dye and Tubbs also had the advantage of coaching in a time when the NCAA was working to make things much more evenhanded across the CFB landscape. Jordan did what he did in an era of teams (notably Bama with Coach Bryant) being able to sign 100+ kids to scholarships just to keep the from playing for other teams.
FWIW, Jordan was at Auburn for nearly a decade, before Bryant came back to Tuscaloosa in 1958. What Bryant did with scholarships wasn't something that couldn't be done anywhere else.
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