A former college and NFL coach for 40 years was asked who the 5 greatest

Hey whaddya know. An old man thinks things back in his day were the best things and has little thoughts on current things.

I’m worried about that guy’s mental health if he couldn’t even remember five names.

1. Bear
2. Houston Nutt
3. Chad Morris (could move up depending on number of titles)
4. Saban
5. Les Miles (tough place to win, fan expectations are unreasonable)

“The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren’t being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country’s future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.”

Coach Bryant......man was he correct

I agree Josey.... 100%

I said it before, Saban would not have as many NCs under the System that Bear Bryant played under. Bobby Bowden would have more than Saban if he played under the Playoff System.

Gonna pick a name from slightly before my youth, and one who got his gig around the time I graduated college.

Bob Devaney
Bill Snyder

Obviously Bear Bryant belongs up there, maybe even the best.

But Devaney took a team that had been down for a decade or more (and was just decent to pretty good at best in the past), and turned them into a blueblood.

Bill Snyder took Kansas State, a team who had never accomplished much, and was in as deep a hole as can be imagined when he took the job. And has has them winning conference titles or at least being relevant the whole time he's been there. All in a recruiting position that makes Mississippi State look like it is in the catbird seat.

He was asked who were the greatest inbred drunks?

Give me, in no particular order:

Curley Hallman
Gene Chizik
Mike DuBose
John L. Smith