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re: Mount Rushmore of SEC Head Coaches in any sport. I will leave my original 4 names.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 2:40 pm to MrWalkingMan
Posted on 2/6/26 at 2:40 pm to MrWalkingMan
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Vitello leaves them high and dry, so Tennessee fans go back to pretending baseball doesn’t exist
It was always a tertiary collegiate sport in the same tier as Women’s hoops, softball, wrestling etc
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Posted on 2/6/26 at 2:52 pm to VFL67
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facetious. - 4 National Titles
Nope
Posted on 2/6/26 at 2:56 pm to BuckI
Pete Golding!
All of his wins are in the playoffs. Nobody close.
All of his wins are in the playoffs. Nobody close.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 3:04 pm to mckibaj
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Mike Price
Chad Morris
Curry Hallman
Bryan Harsin
This post was edited on 2/6/26 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 2/6/26 at 3:54 pm to BurgTiger
quote:Can't argue with facts.
Pete Golding!
All of his wins are in the playoffs. Nobody close.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 4:23 pm to mckibaj
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Mike Price Chad Morris Curry Hallman Bryan Harsin
Harsin sucked, but he wasn’t Derek Dooley bad. Woody Widenhofer also deserves consideration.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 5:12 pm to SEC Doctor
Skip is over Saban since Skip built his program from absolutely NOTHING 
Posted on 2/6/26 at 5:43 pm to BuckI
Saban
Rupp
Bertman
Manny Diaz
Rupp
Bertman
Manny Diaz
Posted on 2/6/26 at 6:16 pm to captdalton
Wimp has a helluva lot better case than Price. He was cheating on the woman he was cheating on his wife with. When she ran into his slap/fist.
It happens.
It happens.
This post was edited on 2/6/26 at 6:17 pm
Posted on 2/6/26 at 6:22 pm to dkreller
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Curley Hallman equates to the Washington Monument.
The Washington monument is better than Mount Rushmore so i don’t get your point.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 6:25 pm to MrWalkingMan
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Skip
Vitello leaves them high and dry, so Tennessee fans go back to pretending baseball doesn’t exist
Never change
Who said that? You act like skip over pat is some universally accepted thing by everyone except Tennessee fans.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 6:30 pm to BuckI
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BuckI
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I'm going with...
Bryant
Saban
Rupp
Neyland
Baseball fans may add names I'm unfamiliar with.
Who are your picks?
I'm going with...
Chad Morris
Joker Phillips
John L. Smith
Chad Morris
Posted on 2/6/26 at 6:32 pm to boston vol
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boston vol
Oh shite, I forgot about Derek Dooley..
Add him to my list replacing one of the Morriss spots ^^^^
Posted on 2/6/26 at 6:40 pm to madmaxvol
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The guy only won 83% of his games at Tennessee. How can that compare with the truly great SEC coaches?
Neyland was a great coach. I am not the one to determine if he would belong on a fictional sports Mt. Rushmore.
Tennessee fans have a lot to be proud of concerning his career. On the other hand, it seems as if some Tennessee fans may attribute a little more to Neyland than was really there.
There was another poster in this thread that was stating that without Neyland there could have been no Bryant or Saban, which is totally ridiculous. Wallace Wade and Frank Thomas laid the foundations for Alabama, not Robert Neyland.
Alabama was in the process of bringing much needed recognition to Southern football nationally in heralded Rose Bowls that were basically de-facto NC games, at the same time Neyland was still an assistant at Army and and assistant at Tennessee, before he even became a head coach.
While it is true that Bryant never beat Neyland while he was the head coach of Kentucky, that does not mean that Neyland never lost to Alabama.
I think Neyland's record against Alabama was 10-5-1.
Enjoy his achievements at Tennessee, which are great, but don't attribute to him being the bedrock, the very foundation, as was stated by the other Tennessee poster, of Southern football.
That's a bit much.
This post was edited on 2/6/26 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 2/6/26 at 6:50 pm to AlextheBodacious
Seriously?
The poster I responded to had made a Mount Rushmore of shitty coaches.
I basically said Curley is the worst and deserves a class of his own.
The poster I responded to had made a Mount Rushmore of shitty coaches.
I basically said Curley is the worst and deserves a class of his own.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 6:55 pm to dkreller
Seriously?
Mike (Mouse) Holloway: 14 national championships in Track & Field and still going strong.
Mike (Mouse) Holloway: 14 national championships in Track & Field and still going strong.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 10:44 pm to MrWalkingMan
What about Patrick Murphy? Softball coaches need to be listed?
Posted on 2/7/26 at 2:14 am to Gatorgal04
He deserves a strong mention if not a place among the best 4 ever.
Posted on 2/7/26 at 10:53 am to BuckI
quote:Your list is sound.
I'm going with...
Bryant
Saban
Rupp
Neyland
Baseball fans may add names I'm unfamiliar with.
Who are your picks?
PS- the clown below that was trying to leave Gen. Neyland off the list obviously knows nothing of college football history.
This post was edited on 2/7/26 at 10:56 am
Posted on 2/7/26 at 10:57 am to BobRossMobBoss
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There was another poster in this thread that was stating that without Neyland there could have been no Bryant or Saban
Neyland is the original GOAT SEC coach. At the time of his retiremen,t he was considered the best coach in SEC history and had been the major face of the league from 1929 to 1950. Hence why the SEC was founded in Knoxville in 1932. He was the most influential persona at the time.
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Wallace Wade and Frank Thomas laid the foundations for Alabama, not Robert Neyland.
No doubt that those two are the fathers of modern Bama football but Neyland had a greater impact to the conference.
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Alabama was in the process of bringing much needed recognition to Southern football nationally in heralded Rose Bowls that were basically de-facto NC games, at the same time Neyland was still an assistant at Army and and assistant at Tennessee, before he even became a head coach.
It is true that Bama put Southern football on the map with that Rose Bowl win. But Wallace Wade left Bama for Duke because Bama fans were mad he couldn't beat Neyland, and Thomas had a losing record to the General.
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I think Neyland's record against Alabama was 10-5-1.
Neyland's final record against Bama was 12-5-2. The most wins for any coach ever against Alabama
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Enjoy his achievements at Tennessee, which are great, but don't attribute to him being the bedrock, the very foundation, as was stated by the other Tennessee poster, of Southern football.
He was the consistent force that led to the SEC becoming a power conference. He was the main face of the conference from the 20s to the 50s, and as mentioned, he implemented sideline coaching practices still used today. He was definitely the most influential SEC coach till Bryant
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