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Former SEC coaches who just don't get enough credit?
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:50 pm
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:50 pm
The 2007 college football thread on the MSB got me thinking about just how good of a coach Rich Brooks was at Kentucky.
He inherited a team on probation with a bowl ban, forfeiting 19 scholarships over 3 years (pretty rough when you're not a traditional football program), and a limit of 80 players on scholarship per season during that probation period. That was in 2003. By 2006 he had Kentucky winning at least 7 games a season regularly over the next three season before his retirement. Against solid East competition. With wins over Clemson and Florida State in bowl competition (as well as a 9 win ECU team). But because it was Kentucky and not regularly competing for a BCS bowl he never got much credit for it.
What are some other examples of coaches that fit that mold across the SEC?
He inherited a team on probation with a bowl ban, forfeiting 19 scholarships over 3 years (pretty rough when you're not a traditional football program), and a limit of 80 players on scholarship per season during that probation period. That was in 2003. By 2006 he had Kentucky winning at least 7 games a season regularly over the next three season before his retirement. Against solid East competition. With wins over Clemson and Florida State in bowl competition (as well as a 9 win ECU team). But because it was Kentucky and not regularly competing for a BCS bowl he never got much credit for it.
What are some other examples of coaches that fit that mold across the SEC?
This post was edited on 10/16/15 at 4:51 pm
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Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:51 pm to BluegrassBelle
Bill Curry
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:52 pm to BluegrassBelle
sure, Saban turned LSU back into a national power, but Gerry Dinardo built the fence that turned us into a recruiting powerhouse.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:52 pm to SonofDye
0-11 against Auburn, right? 
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:53 pm to BluegrassBelle
Ron zook recruited the 06 NC gators. He also had a better record than muschamp.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:53 pm to BluegrassBelle
Is that you in the picture? Is that crutches? are you smoking?
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:54 pm to SonofDye
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Bill Curry
All he did at Bammer was win and recruit their 1992 national championship team.
...but he wasn't one of 'Da Bar's' boys.
This post was edited on 10/16/15 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:54 pm to TheSandman
Bingo!!!
Did pretty good against everybody else though when he was at Bama and did about as good as you could in those days at Kentucky.
Did pretty good against everybody else though when he was at Bama and did about as good as you could in those days at Kentucky.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:59 pm to SavageOrangeJug
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Bill Curry
All he did at Bammer was win and recruit their 1992 national championship team.
...but he wasn't one of 'Da Bar's' boys.
Curry had more to do with the team that went 7-5 in 1990 than the team that went 13-0 in 1992
Posted on 10/16/15 at 5:01 pm to BluegrassBelle
Dinardo was the catalyst for LSU's success in the new Millennium. We'd look very different today without his contributions.
Eta: and so would Bama and Saban's legacy I think.
Eta: and so would Bama and Saban's legacy I think.
This post was edited on 10/16/15 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 10/16/15 at 5:03 pm to SonofDye
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Did pretty good against everybody else though when he was at Bama and did about as good as you could in those days at Kentucky.
He did worse than the man he replaced, Jerry Claiborne, by quite a bit. Claiborne at least drummed up a 9-win season at UK. Curry could barely win 4 games a season with any consistency and had a 1-10 season in the middle of tenure there.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 5:04 pm to BluegrassBelle
Houston Nutt went 75-48 at Arkansas, with a winning record in the SEC
Their other 5 HC are 41-65 in SEC games
Their other 5 HC are 41-65 in SEC games
This post was edited on 10/16/15 at 5:05 pm
Posted on 10/16/15 at 5:06 pm to BluegrassBelle
I agree on Rich Brooks. Made a very respectable program in Lexington under long odds.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 5:12 pm to baytiger
'96 and '97 were good years but '98 and 0-7 in conference play in '98 plus the loss to unranked Houston. Probably didnt help that after he was fired the interim head coach won their only conference game against Arkansas.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 6:04 pm to BluegrassBelle
Joker Phillips. He was legit.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 6:19 pm to BluegrassBelle
Houston Dale Nutt. Piggies ran him out of town after he won the West three times for them.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 6:20 pm to BluegrassBelle
I clicked to post rich brooks fwiw
Posted on 10/16/15 at 6:35 pm to Mizzou fan in GA
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Joker Phillips
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