re: If you could have any football coach past or present? Other than......

I had to think on this one a while but if I can't take the Bear, then I'm going with Tom Osborne.

Ray Perkins, he followed a legend but reminds me so much of Saban,could not stand the media and has the attitude of leave me alone and I will run this

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Just make sure you don't face anyone who takes Switzer.

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Switzer did get them put on probation and had to resign.

Barry Switzer resigned as the University of Oklahoma's football coach Monday, saying that he was frustrated by National Collegiate Athletic Assn. rules that do not "recognize the financial needs of young athletes."

Switzer said he wanted to be a spokesman for changing NCAA rules that he said did not allow coaches to treat athletes humanely.

"I am not making excuses but simply giving an explanation when I say it was difficult to turn my back on these young men when they needed help," he said. "We have created a system that does not permit me or the program to buy a pair of shoes or a decent coat for a player whose family can't afford these basic necessities.

"How can any coach stick to these rules when a young man's father dies many miles away and the son has no money for a plane ticket home to the funeral?"

Jimmy Johnson

Miami showing up in fatigues was pure pimp. Still glad we were the ones that got to shut them the frick up though in 92. =D

Fielding Yost. 6 NCS and perhaps the greatest team of all time.

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Incredible when you think that at one time or another Arkansas could have had Johnson,Switzer,Carroll, or Bryant as our coach and we whiffed each and every time.

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We whiffed on Frank Thomas, Spurrier and Bobby Bowden. So I feel your pain.

The point a minute teams were pretty impressive though. I would go with Bo. I think he would have been very very successful at bama

I'll take Bud Wilkinson and enjoy 4 straight undefeated seasons

I said bend the rules, not pay someone 200k fricking dollars!! And I brought up Carrol because three people said on this thread they would pick him. My point was why did you find fault with switzer and not Carrol or Johnson.

Switzer coached for 15 years at oklahoma. He quit not just because of the probation. A lot of problems off the field helped force him out. Ask an Oklahoma fan who they would rather have switzer or holtz?

I was with you when you said Osborne, but holtz proves you smoke a lot of crack.

Jimmy Johnson or Bobby Bowden.

Do not know why no one seems to think much of Bowden, but before he got older and was just trying to hang around because of Jo Pa, he was a great one. He built FSU out of nothing and was ahead of his time in the 80's (kinda like Spurrier was in the 90's).