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John Wooden or Paul "Bear" Bryant
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:20 pm
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:20 pm
Who was the greater coach in their respective sport? I have to go with Bryant because he didn't need Sam Gilbert's money to win. 
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Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:20 pm to Bench McElroy
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I have to go with Bryant because he didn't need Sam Gilbert's money to win.
lol at thinking the Bear was clean
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:20 pm to Bench McElroy
Bryant just supplied his own money?
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:21 pm to Bench McElroy
I go Wooden. The streak those UCLA teams had will never be duplicated in sports.
Bring on the flames Gumps
Bring on the flames Gumps
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:22 pm to usc6158
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lol at thinking the Bear was clean
He certainly ran a cleaner program than Wooden or Cheat Carroll.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:22 pm to Bench McElroy
John Wooden
I dont think anybody in any sport can say they won 10 championships in 11 years. (Boston Celtics of the 1950's and 1960's won 10 in 12 years)
Bear Bryant was a great coach but he only won 7 national championships, so Im going with Coach Wooden.
ETA: Wooden will contribute for years and years after his life with his pyramid of success as well.
I dont think anybody in any sport can say they won 10 championships in 11 years. (Boston Celtics of the 1950's and 1960's won 10 in 12 years)
Bear Bryant was a great coach but he only won 7 national championships, so Im going with Coach Wooden.
ETA: Wooden will contribute for years and years after his life with his pyramid of success as well.
This post was edited on 6/4/10 at 11:24 pm
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:22 pm to mmjones87
Wooden and its not even close
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:23 pm to Bench McElroy
John Wooden
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:25 pm to Jeeves
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Jeeves
Best Avatar on TD, every time I see where you posted I crack a smile seeing good ole G on the screen.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:25 pm to dockstar99
G is where it's at. 
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:26 pm to Bench McElroy
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He certainly ran a cleaner program than Wooden or Cheat Carroll.
riiiiiiight
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In his later years Bryant admitted that as a driven young coach, he would have done almost anything to win. He built his Kentucky teams in the late '40s and early '50s partly by paying players to come in from Ohio and Pennsylvania. At Texas A&M, which he took from 1-9 in 1954 to the Cotton Bowl three years later, he was punished by the NCAA for recruiting violations
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:29 pm to Jeeves
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G is where it's at.
G was a Pimp, I still to this day cant figure out how a Butler could pull as much arse as he did on FPoBA
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:30 pm to Bench McElroy
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He certainly ran a cleaner program than Wooden or Cheat Carroll.
What about Mike Dubose?
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:32 pm to usc6158
Who gives a shite what he did at UK and Aggieland? His legend was made at Alabama where he ran a clean program.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:33 pm to Bench McElroy
can we exclude the gumps from answering this?
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:34 pm to Bench McElroy
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Who gives a shite what he did at UK and Aggieland?
Its part of his resume. Thus part of his coaching career. It counts.
This post was edited on 6/4/10 at 11:36 pm
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:37 pm to mmjones87
Wooden's Pyramid of Success >>>> Any Contribution Bryant gave past his death
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:37 pm to mmjones87
Wooden. Period.
7 straight titles > anything that drunk in t town ever did
7 straight titles > anything that drunk in t town ever did
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:40 pm to Marines4Auburn
Wooden was the lesser of the two cheaters. The Wizard.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:42 pm to Bench McElroy
Even though I love Coach Bryant and believe he is the greatest college football coach of all time, it has to be Wooden. What that man did was absolutely incredible and will never again be matched. They come from different sports and Coach Bryant was certainly dominant at times in his career, but what Wooden had was TOTAL domination.
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