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Destination jobs: SI's top 12 Coaching gigs

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Andy Staples breaks the top-12 coaching jobs into 3 categories:

Platinum:

Ohio State
Oklahoma
Texas
USC

Gold:

Alabama
Florida
Georgia
LSU
Penn State

Still destinations, but barely:

Florida State
Michigan
Notre Dame

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Destination jobs: The 12 truly premier gigs in college football
The Platinum Standard

These are the best jobs in America. These programs should win at least 10 games every year, and their coaches should be among the nation's highest paid. They should win a national title at least once every 10 years or so, and they should begin each season as a national-title contender.

Ohio State

One line from this year's Equity in Athletics report from the U.S. Department of Education sums up why Jim Tressel and his sweater vest aren't leaving Columbus anytime soon:

Grand Total Revenues: $117,953,712.

Ohio State routinely duels Texas for the nation's wealthiest athletic department title. Buckeyes coaches in every sport get the best money can buy in terms of facilities and administrative support. In football, as long as the coach beats Michigan and wins the Big Ten title regularly, he'll compete for national titles, and fans will serenaded him with Hang On, Sloopy for as long as he desires. Tressel, who boasts a 7-1 record against Michigan, four Big Ten titles and a national title, has become Buckeye state royalty.

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IronBuckI;1415971; said:
Despite my hatred for them, I can't say that I agree with Michigan or Notre Dame being any lower than Platinum.
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Their recent records really hurt them. And when was the last time ND won a national title? Before this year, you had to go way back before they had even won a bowl game. I think Michigan should be maybe one tier higher. I guess bordering Canada could being an auto-ding but who knows.
 
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What would you rather have as a base state for recruiting Georgia, Pennsylvania, or Michigan?
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And yet PSU still hasn't sniffed the prestige of post-Woodson UM, let alone before that.

PSU and UGA are not top-2 jobs in their own conference.
 
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BigWoof31;1416015; said:
I got 300 blue chip recruits over the past 10 years that would beg to differ.
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Blatantly flaunting the SEC's abillity to over-sign.

Well, either that, or about 50 guys didn't qualify. :biggrin:
 
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The programs whose fans would be upset at not being in the top-12:

Auburn (but Bama is clearly the better job in the state)
Tennessee (but they're 3rd in the SEC East)
Nebraska (great fan support, lousy recruiting base, recent slippage)
Miami (lousy fan support, great recruiting base, recent slippage)
 
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BB73;1416037; said:
Blatantly flaunting the SEC's abillity to over-sign.

Well, either that, or about 50 guys didn't qualify. :biggrin:
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Does it reduce desireability?
A schools ability to attract top talent should be one of the top factors in this exercise.

Or should I just sit tight and wait for this to develop into a "our league is really alot better than their league" type threads, it's certainly off to a great start.
 
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What this list doesn't take into account is that tOSU isn't platinum for everybody. Yeah, it is on paper, but it could easily be as much a nightmare for the wrong guy as it is a the dream job for JT. Alabama was a disaster for Bill Curry although he posted some really good numbers. On the other hand, uga is a better job for Richt (and, therefore, looks better overall) than it was for his many inept predecessors.

Hopefully, DickRod is so out of sync with scUM culture that the experiment will be a failure, but not so much of a train wreck that they actually go out and get someone else until we spend another decade feeding them their own excrement.
 
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