Ranking Big Ten Football & Men’s Basketball Head Coach Duos from Best to Worst via Ben Kenney, Badgers Wire (14. Fleck/Medved)

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Kind of an impossible pointless exercise? But, PJ alone should get us top 9 and Medved has some credibility and has done nothing wrong at Minnesota…so Gophers belong Top 9 somewhere.
Ohio State needs to be higher…the National Championship has to be worth more than that.
 


More than anything this just reiterates the depth of coaching in the B1G conference in the football and basketball coaching ranks. Not the conference to "learn on the job".
 



golfing18now said:
More than anything this just reiterates the depth of coaching in the B1G conference in the football and basketball coaching ranks. Not the conference to "learn on the job".
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I don't disagree with your last line at all but the only thing this list is good for is seeing the names of the current football and basketball coaches at each school right now.
 

howeda7 said:
They've been ready to fire Gard a couple times in the last 4 years. And Fickell might well be fired this year. But sure #4.
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He has Gard as the #3 MBB coach in the conference, ahead of a few guys who have been to Final Fours and a couple of others who are likely going to be in the Basketball Hall of Fame.

That's a little ambitious for a head coach who has never advanced beyond the Sweet 16 ever and who has not been to a single Sweet 16 since 2017 (8 seasons).

Gard is a good coach, great fit there, won a couple of Big Ten titles. He is good. But, he is not the third best coach in the 18-team Big Ten.
 
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tjgopher said:
He has Gard as the #3 MBB coach in the conference, ahead of a few guys who have been to Final Fours and a couple of others who are likely going to be in the Basketball Hall of Fame.

That's a little ambitious for a head coach who has never advanced beyond the Sweet 16 ever and who has not been to a single Sweet 16 since 2017 (8 seasons).

Gard is a good coach, great fit there, won a couple of Big Ten titles. He is good. But, he is not the third best coach in the 18-team Big Ten.
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He earned the nickname 2nd Round Greg for a reason. I would put Gard around #8 in the conference and Fickell about 17th. So they should be around 12th as a combo.
 



Football Coaches:
1. Day OSU
2. Planning ORE
3. Franklin PSU
4. Bielema ILL
5. Ferentz Iowa
6. Cignetti IND
7. Riley USC
8. Fleck MN
9. Rhule NEB
10. Moore MICH
11. Schiano RUT
12. Smith MSU
13. Fickell WIS
14. Fisch WAS
15. Braun NW
16. Odom PUR
17. Locksley MD
18. Foster UCLA

Basketball:
1. Izzy MSU
2. Painter PUR
3. Gard WIS
4. May MICH
5. Altman ORE
6. Underwood ILL
7. DeVries IND
8. McCollum IOWA
9. Musselman USC
10. Medved MN
11. Williams MD
12. Cronin UCLA
13. Collins
14. Pikiel RUT
15. Diebler OSU
16. Hoiberg NEB
17. Rhodes PSU
18. Sprinkle WAS

TOTAL POINTS:
Oregon 7
Illinois 10
MSU 12
Iowa 13
Indiana 13 (Iowa wins tie break with higher coach)
OSU 16
WIS 16
Mich 16
USC 16
Purdue 18
Gophers 18
PSU 20
NEB 24
Rutgers 24
Maryland 28
NW 28
UCLA 30
Washington 31

Just my spin, but a little different.
 

Otis said:
Football Coaches:
1. Day OSU
2. Planning ORE
3. Franklin PSU
4. Bielema ILL
5. Ferentz Iowa
6. Cignetti IND
7. Riley USC
8. Fleck MN
9. Rhule NEB
10. Moore MICH
11. Schiano RUT
12. Smith MSU
13. Fickell WIS
14. Fisch WAS
15. Braun NW
16. Odom PUR
17. Locksley MD
18. Foster UCLA

Basketball:
1. Izzy MSU
2. Painter PUR
3. Gard WIS
4. May MICH
5. Altman ORE
6. Underwood ILL
7. DeVries IND
8. McCollum IOWA
9. Musselman USC
10. Medved MN
11. Williams MD
12. Cronin UCLA
13. Collins
14. Pikiel RUT
15. Diebler OSU
16. Hoiberg NEB
17. Rhodes PSU
18. Sprinkle WAS

TOTAL POINTS:
Oregon 7
Illinois 10
MSU 12
Iowa 13
Indiana 13 (Iowa wins tie break with higher coach)
OSU 16
WIS 16
Mich 16
USC 16
Purdue 18
Gophers 18
PSU 20
NEB 24
Rutgers 24
Maryland 28
NW 28
UCLA 30
Washington 31

Just my spin, but a little different.
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Your breakdown just as valid as the one posted by the OP. You could ask 100 people to do this and you would get 100 different combinations. There would be some consistent teams near the top and some near the bottom but in general it would be a big jumble of teams that could end up all over the place.....in many ways much like the typical standing in the Big Ten for football and basketball where there are a couple teams you can count on to be near the top, a few you can count on to be near the bottom and the majority who could end up in any number of spots based on how things break.
 

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