BleedGopher
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per CBS:
Coaching matters in college football, but an under-appreciated point of the game is that not everyone is coaching for the same things.
For instance, who's the better coach: Nick Saban or Bill Snyder? One has six national championships, but the other took the worst Division I program at the time and orchestrated the single greatest turnaround in the history of the sport.
(OK, the right answer is probably Nick Saban, but you get the point.)
That's what always bugged me about traditional coach rankings. Who's to say the guy coaching for a national championship is automatically better than the one taking two- and three-star recruits and winning nine or 10 games a year? They're accomplishing two entirely different things, usually with different sets of expectations.
That's why I've decided to once again rank coaches in tiers. It made more sense to group coaches accomplishing similar things than it did to try to decide which one was 10th best or 11th best based on different contexts for data. That's what we're doing again this year.
Before getting to the tiers themselves, allow me a few (several?) points of clarification.
Some of you youngsters may not remember this, but there was a time when Schiano was -- practically on a yearly basis -- the go-to name in the college football coaching rumor mill. Those days are long gone, but the spirit of the Schiano Man lives on (#govols). The coaches in this tier are going to be hot names for the next few years provided they keep up their winning ways. That doesn't necessarily mean they'll leave for another job, but they'll be mentioned often. The standout name here is Kiffin, who won a Conference USA championship in his first season with FAU. Without question, being the offensive coordinator at Alabama was the best thing that's ever happened to his career. It might be another couple of years before his name is associated with bigger jobs, but he's on the upswing.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...uture-hall-of-famers-to-questionable-futures/
Go Gophers!!
Coaching matters in college football, but an under-appreciated point of the game is that not everyone is coaching for the same things.
For instance, who's the better coach: Nick Saban or Bill Snyder? One has six national championships, but the other took the worst Division I program at the time and orchestrated the single greatest turnaround in the history of the sport.
(OK, the right answer is probably Nick Saban, but you get the point.)
That's what always bugged me about traditional coach rankings. Who's to say the guy coaching for a national championship is automatically better than the one taking two- and three-star recruits and winning nine or 10 games a year? They're accomplishing two entirely different things, usually with different sets of expectations.
That's why I've decided to once again rank coaches in tiers. It made more sense to group coaches accomplishing similar things than it did to try to decide which one was 10th best or 11th best based on different contexts for data. That's what we're doing again this year.
Before getting to the tiers themselves, allow me a few (several?) points of clarification.
Some of you youngsters may not remember this, but there was a time when Schiano was -- practically on a yearly basis -- the go-to name in the college football coaching rumor mill. Those days are long gone, but the spirit of the Schiano Man lives on (#govols). The coaches in this tier are going to be hot names for the next few years provided they keep up their winning ways. That doesn't necessarily mean they'll leave for another job, but they'll be mentioned often. The standout name here is Kiffin, who won a Conference USA championship in his first season with FAU. Without question, being the offensive coordinator at Alabama was the best thing that's ever happened to his career. It might be another couple of years before his name is associated with bigger jobs, but he's on the upswing.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...uture-hall-of-famers-to-questionable-futures/
Go Gophers!!
