re: Best CFB Coaches Ever?

Had Bryant coached in the playoff Era, his Kentucky would have gone, possibly his last A&M team..and he would have taken Alabama to the playoffs 8 out of 10 years in the 70s and 6 out of 10 in the 60s.

All the "he could sign everyone" is a BS talking point created by his opponents.

Every coach in the SEC could sign the same amount of players and the SEC had scholarship restrictions in place and the NCAA implemented restrictions in 1973.

10-1 SEC Champion. No way they don't go to a 4 team playoff.

Went on to beat #1 Oklahoma in Sugar Bowl

They lost 7-0 to #9 Tennessee in Knoxville...you call that a smashing?

C'mon man. You're smarter than that I hope

Polls are shite according to most everyone on this board..

But if polls are the benchmark.. Sagarin list Kentucky at #1 in 1950. So I guess Bryant won 7 NCs if that's the standard

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Urban Meyer gets crucified for issues that were FAR less severe than what Paterno did.

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And? How does that affect where he would rank as a coach?

I thought this thread was ranking coaches by coaching abilities.
Urban Meyer let the University down....the players down...he let everybody down except himself. That has nothing to do with how he coaches, though.

So remind me again what your point was?

Urban Meyer deserves to be crucified for issues. But nor for his coaching abilities.

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Had Bryant coached in the playoff Era, his Kentucky would have gone, possibly his last A&M team..and he would have taken Alabama to the playoffs 8 out of 10 years in the 70s and 6 out of 10 in the 60s.

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That seems like a major stretch. Bryant had his success when college football was the wild wild west. He was a great coach, but it was a different time.

Besides, the rankings should not be based on what a coach MIGHT have done IF he had coached in another era.

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Every coach in the SEC could sign the same amount of players and the SEC had scholarship restrictions in place and the NCAA implemented restrictions in 1973.

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And Bryant won 4 of his titles before they were in place and two afterwards. See any correlations?

Since 1980

1. Saban
2. Urban
3. Bowden
4. Spurrier
5. Dumbo Sweety

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And? How does that affect where he would rank as a coach?

I thought this thread was ranking coaches by coaching abilities.
Urban Meyer let the University down....the players down...he let everybody down except himself. That has nothing to do with how he coaches, though.

So remind me again what your point was?

Urban Meyer deserves to be crucified for issues. But nor for his coaching abilities.

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Yet you want to give Paterno a pass.

Bo Schembechler?

Give me a freaking break.

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Yet you want to give Paterno a pass.

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What? have you alwayss truggled with reading?

Issue for the purpose of thsi thread do not matter.

In reality? neither get a pass.

Let me clarify. When I said one was reprehensible? I was talking about Paterno. Apparently you can't get over our success this year to the point that you can read posts without orange colored glasses.

So. Let me spell it out for you.


For the purposes of this thread (Talking about coaching ability only) bot Paterno and Meyer should be considered.

Both did no favors for their schools, though. What Paterno covered up was reprehensible, and what Meyer covered up and allowed was pretty bad, too.





Reading Is Fundamental

Let me help you with thsi. Here was my post on Paterno and (at the time Woody hayes)

I also don't think Paterno or Hayes should be eliminated issues unrelated to coaching.
Those issues, while deplorable in one case and bad in the other have nothing to do with how well they coached a football team.

Hayes hitting a player in full pads was bad, but hardly deplorable. The kid got hit in the course of the game a lot harder than that.

So, I was saying Paterno issues were deplorable. How is that giving him a pass?