re: Most Overrated SEC coaching legend

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I've always thought Pat Dye was overrated

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Pat Dye has to be viewed through the same prism that Steve Spurrier is looked at.

Dye came into a program that had been down for the past several years... had a single SEC Championship on its program resume... during an era in which Bear Bryant was coaching on the other side of the state and had won 8 consecutive Iron Bowls. And 9 years later he had won Auburn 4 SEC Titles and had a 6-3 record in Iron Bowls (including a loss in his first season).

While his accomplishments fall far short of Spurrier's, its a similar situation. Spurrier comes to Florida... a program with zero SEC Championships... and becomes the dominant program in the conference almost immediately.

To me, you have to look at the general context with those two. Sure, Dye lacks a National Title... and Spurrier lacks the National titles compared to guys like Bryant and Saban..... but considering what both of those men inherited, built, and left behind, they both certainly rank up as two of the coaching greats in SEC history. No doubt.