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re: Coaches who built their reputation by feasting on nothing but creampuffs

Posted on 6/30/26 at 1:15 pm to
Posted by ClassicCityAlum
Palm Beach, FL
Member since Mar 2019
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 1:15 pm to
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Kirby Smart loves to play cream puffs. He’s 8-0 against Mizzou.


Be careful - Mizzou gives us a very tough game every year. I’ll never understand the Mizzou hate on this forum, they’re probably the best posters here.
Posted by Dawgs2122
Member since Dec 2024
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 1:17 pm to
Heupel doesn't even like the cream puffs...he chickened out against Army
Posted by Dawgs2122
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 1:22 pm to
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Zebra aided.



MuH RefS AnD InjUrIeS!!!
Posted by madmaxvol
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 1:28 pm to
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Heupel doesn't even like the cream puffs...he chickened out against Army



He's such a chicken, he got Jeremy Pruitt to submit the request through Fulmer before he was even hired, and got Fulmer's replacement, Danny White, to sign the change within a week of getting the Tennessee job.
Posted by Dawgs2122
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 1:35 pm to
But he sure beat up on Kent State
Posted by New Money
Athens, GA
Member since Jun 2023
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 1:47 pm to
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Be careful - Mizzou gives us a very tough game every year. I’ll never understand the Mizzou hate on this forum, they’re probably the best posters here.


Mizzou wants to act like it is a premiere program when it hasn’t won its conference since Dan Devine was coaching there.

The OP is talking cream puffs when to most everyone else, they are a cream puff. But hey, they played UGA close and made it to ATL a couple of times.

They bring it on themselves.
Posted by madmaxvol
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:10 pm to
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But he sure beat up on Kent State




Yep...but they replaced Army with Akron, and they only beat them by 57 points.
Posted by wesfau
Member since Mar 2023
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:27 pm to
Basically any NC-winning coach in the past 30ish years who didn't coach in the SEC made his name by playing patsies. Conference or non-.
Posted by VFL67
Member since Feb 2025
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:32 pm to
Damn, that might be why he is 2-1 against Mizzou

woof at home and on the road...yikes



This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 2:37 pm
Posted by VFL67
Member since Feb 2025
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:33 pm to
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At least Josh beat Alabama once.


Twice

Posted by Oswald31
Member since Mar 2019
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:37 pm to
lol, they were playing a 4th string true freshmen qb who had literally never thrown a pass
Posted by Quicksilver
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:42 pm to
Mullen at MSU was also a big cream puff fan. He had some really tough ones on his early schedules that were set before he got there but after that, they breezed through them. They scheduled Okie State in 2013 and lost their AD (Scott Stricklin) publicly apologized for scheduling them.
Posted by Eldodroptop
Member since Jul 2021
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:49 pm to
It’s always been Mark Mangino‘s world. We’re just orbiting it.
Posted by AUTiger789
Birmingham, AL
Member since Apr 2022
4143 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 3:03 pm to
I've got the data.

Formula: winning % against unranked opponents MINUS winning % against ranked opponents, only while at the school they coached at last season

The higher the number, the more that coach feasted on cupcakes:

.649- Billy Napier, Florida (FIRED)
.640- Hugh Freeze, Auburn (FIRED)

.611- Eliah Drinkwitz, Missouri
.609- Mike Elko, Texas A&M
.608- Brian Kelly, LSU (FIRED)
.594- Brent Venables, Oklahoma
.566- Josh Heupel, Tennessee
.529- Clark Lea, Vanderbilt
.513- Sam Pittman, Arkansas (FIRED)
.512- Mark Stoops, Kentucky (FIRED)

.500- Shane Beamer, S Carolina
.467- Jeff Lebby, Miss St
.434- Steve Sarkissian, Texas
.336- Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss
.280- Kirby Smart, Georgia
.178- Kalen DeBoer, Alabama

The OP's head coach is actually the one who's feasted on cream puffs of all the returning coaches.

Drinkwitz has a .792 win% against unranked opponents but just a .182 win% against ranked opponents.
This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 3:04 pm
Posted by New Money
Athens, GA
Member since Jun 2023
4342 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 3:07 pm to
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The OP's head coach is actually the one who's feasted on cream puffs of all the returning coaches. Drinkwitz has a .792 win% against unranked opponents but just a .182 win% against ranked opponents.


This. This right here.

…and they gave him an extension when nobody was coming for him.
This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 3:08 pm
Posted by SneezyBeltranIsHere
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 3:36 pm to
Posted by reggierayreb
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 4:14 pm to
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