re: Worst SEC coaching hire

Tie between Ed O and Croom.

Lou Tepper
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1. Mike Price
2. Curley Hallman
3. Sly Croom
4. Ron Zook
5. Ray Goff

Has Kiffy been mentioned yet?

Mike "It's Rollin Baby" Price

Where does Jim Donnan stand in all of this?

Croom is not even close. Id have to go with hallman

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Left Richt with more talent than he has now

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True story

I cut it off @ 1985 for most of them, and in 1992 for USC & Arkansas. Also, each coach spent at least 3 years at the school:

1. Watson Brown, Vandy: 10-45 (.181)
2. Woody Widenhofer, Vandy: 15-40 (.272)
3. Ed Orgeron, Ole Miss: 10-25 (.285)
4. Bobby Johnson, Vandy: 29-66 (.305)
5. Bill Curry, UK: 26-52 (.333)

I was expecting the top 5 to be loaded with Vandy coaches. Curry was pretty bad, but Orgeron was flat out pathetic: 3 SEC wins in 3 years, 3 straight against Memphis with an avg. margin of victory at 3 points per game, 2 wins against Northwestern State, 1 against LA Tech, and the 10th win against The Citadel. Johnson is a decent coach, he just can't do much at Vanderbilt, although they shouldn't be 2-10 either like they were this year.

Here's #6-10
6. Sly Croom, Miss State: 21-38 (.355)
7. Curley Hallman, LSU: 16-28 (.363)
8. Rocky Felker, Miss State: 21-34 (.381)
9. Brad Scott, USC: 23-32 (.419)
10. Gerry Dinardo, Vandy: 19-25 (.431)

Can someone explain why LSU hired Dinardo at the time, b/c I was only like 6 when he was hired. Croom was actually worse than I thought he was, though not by much.

Finally, 11-15
11. Hal Mumme, UK: 20-26 (.434)
12. Rich Brooks, UK: 39-46 (.458)
13. Danny Ford, Arky: 26-30 (.464)
14. Lou Holtz, USC: 33-37 (.471)
15. Sparky Woods, USC: 25-27 (.481)

Rod Dowhower of Vanderbilt went 4-18 (.181), but only coached 2 years. Also, Jack Crow of Arkansas went 9-15 (.375), though he only coached one game in Arky's innagural SEC season.

For the last 25 years, I have to put Zook on the list. He was handed the keys to a gold mine and pretty much did the bare minimum with UF talent.