Greatest Football Coaches All-Time….

He still didn’t serve in two world wars.

Only looking at this from an SEC standpoint:
1) Saban
2) Neyland
3) Bryant
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4)Spurrier/Dooley/Dye,ect.

Kirby Smart is likely to be up there at some point tbh, but he still has like 20 years left to finish writing his overall legacy. His back to back nattys already assures him a spot in the college football HOF one day. Now we will see just how high he can ultimately climb in the rankings of all time coach

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No, but he does go to shitty old neyland every other year... That has to equal out.

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I mean having to play all his home games in 1960s/70s version of both Legion Field and Denny Field in Tuscaloosa could be considered by many as a foreign stage of war Bryant had to be apart of. Add in his stops in 1950s Lexington and College Station, and Bryant definitely didn't have the easiest life when it come to his surroundings he had to reside in most his life.

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doubt this record will ever be matched or broken.

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Unless someone like Alabama or LSU is somehow relegated to play only HS teams one season, it will most certainly never happen again. Shutting out everyone you play is simply an impossible feat in today's college football.

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It's Saban and it's not even close. That's not to diminish Bryant in any way because he is for sure an icon in his own way, but Bear greatly benefited from a time when you didn't have scholarship limits. The parameters Saban had to work with these past 25 years were much more difficult to establish an all-time sustained run of greatness than what Bryant built in the 70s.

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So you’re one of those guys that have bought into the “Unlimited Scholarship” bait.. Just so you know, the SEC had limitations in those days..

Plus, every school was playing under the same rules, so if Bryant was signing more than everyone else, they should have signed more.

It’s also worth mentioning, that had Bryant coached under the BCS or CFP format, his Kentucky team wins the National Championship.

If the playoff had existed in Bryant’s day.. his Bama teams of 61,62,64,65,66,71,72,73,74,75,77,78,79 all get in the playoff.

Bryant didn’t have anymore players than anyone else in those years…

If Saban coached in the Poll era as did Bryant, he has 4 National Championships.

2009,2012,2015,2020.

His LSU team split with USC and would have gotten none of it if not for the BCS. His 2011 doesn’t get a rematch , his 2018 team was 4th in the polls .

So don’t fall into the trap.

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Do you think Bryant should have said “Neyland sucked”?

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Well no, because that would be a lie. Neyland was undefeated against the Bear, and was 12-5 against Bama.

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Only looking at this from an SEC standpoint:
1) Saban
2) Neyland
3) Bryant


4)Spurrier/Dooley/Dye,ect.

Kirby Smart is likely to be up there at some point tbh, but he still has like 20 years left to finish writing his overall legacy. His back to back nattys already assures him a spot in the college football HOF one day. Now we will see just how high he can ultimately climb in the rankings of all time coach

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Really, truly, tbh ... hard to argue with that assessment for the most part, if we're strictly talking SEC, which your subject line contradicts.

I'd put Spurrier at #4 by himself because he made UF into something outta nothing plus what he did at SC, he was very innovative and he changed the league and college football in a lot of ways. I'll never forget seeing him drawing plays on the ground on the sideline when he was coaching at Duke against #3 Clemson .... and he beat them. '84 I think it was, don't quote me on that. But Spurrier was special.

I thought a lot of Coach Dooley too, he was a great man.

Loved Coach Dietzel, one of the finest human beings to ever walk the face of the earth.

Saban has dominated like no other. Neyland was obviously a great man. THE Bear is known as THE Bear for a reason.

Wallace Wade was pretty special ... as was Knute Rockne, et al.

It's very difficult to rank coaches. Some are/were marathoners ... some were sprinters (sic: Lou Holtz). Some were builders, some were maintainers, keepers of the flame.

Question: Did Charlie Pell set-up both UF and the sheep humping sister bangers for immediate success? If so, where does that rank him?

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Best team in college football history.

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Another Tennessee Team.

It’s 2023, Imagine bragging about your football team’s success during the time Hitler was invading Czechoslovakia.

And I thought 2008 was a while ago