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Top 5 Major College Football Coaches of All Time (Vote for 5)

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Bucky Katt;1496531; said:
My list:

1. Ty Willingham
2. Charlie Weis
3. Rich Rodriguez
4. Ron Zook
5. John Cooper
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I like to bash Cooper as much as anyone but he doesn't deserve to be on that list of fuckups. I know you are just screwing around but there is "beat everyone but your rival" bad and just "get beat by everyone" bad.
 
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Jaxbuck;1496536; said:
I like to bash Cooper as much as anyone but he doesn't deserve to be on that list of fuckups. I know you are just screwing around but there is "beat everyone but your rival" bad and just "get beat by everyone" bad.
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Yeah, Zooker doesn't belong there either. Just couldn't come up with anyone else off the top of my head.
 
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OH HSKR FAN;1496125; said:
Switzer was a snake oils salesman if you have ever seen one. This is urban legend. On recruiting trips he would arrive unnecessarily early at a prospects and rummage through a garbage can looking for the beer that the old man drank. Oh how convenient! He shows up for the recruiting visit with the old man's favorite beer.
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Brilliant!
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Royal, Bryant, Paterno, Wilkinson, and Hayes in no particular order (I just can't bring myself to put that ass Switzer on here).

I'm surprised DKR isn't getting more honorable mention. 3 ships is 3 more than Shembechler won.
 
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UTSINCE96;1498941; said:
Royal, Bryant, Paterno, Wilkinson, and Hayes in no particular order (I just can't bring myself to put that ass Switzer on here).

I'm surprised DKR isn't getting more honorable mention. 3 ships is 3 more than Shembechler won.
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DKR was top-7 for me, but I couldn't pick him over Bryant, Paterno, Rockne, Woody and Wilkinson...I'd have Leahy sixth.

Bo was a good man and a great coach, but the lack of national championships is telling. He's Top 15 in my book.
 
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i'll admit that i don't know nearly as much about all these various coaches as i should, but i went hayes, paterno, royal, osborne, and bryant

bryant is really head and shoulders above everyone else. paterno is on my list because the sheer length of and overall success he's had in his career is astounding to me. royal is on there mostly because i couldn't bring myself to put switzer or bowden on there. he's also kind of a lesser Hayes, with both having similar careers. Woody didn't have an amazing win percentage, and wasn't a perfect model of consistency in the least, but also put together some massively powerful teams that played simple yet terrifying football and played against an epic rival that none could match. and osborne's record speaks for itself, even if it did take him a long while to get an undefeated season.

what i think is an interesting discussion is how some of the marquee coaches today will eventually stack up to these legends. i'd love to be able to look 10 or 15 years down the line and see what Tressel and carroll's overall records are
 
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Voted for "other"...........Ara Parsegian

This is a VERY hard list to narrow down to five.

Had to regretfully leave off Wilkinson and Osborne in favor of Rockne and Pop Warner, because I thought the latter two were more innovative.

Hayes and Bryant were no-brainers.

I think there is a definite second tier of guys like Schembechler, Paterno, Bowden, McKay, John Robinson, Royal and a bunch more who were great.
 
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Somebody should give this a mention....

Winningest college football coach, Carroll program savior Gagliardi retires

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St. John?s University head coach John Gagliardi smiles as he announces his retirement from the Division III NCAA team during a news conference on Monday in Collegeville, Minn. He retired with a record of 489-138-11 and passed Eddie Robinson for the career coaching victories record in 2003, piling up four national titles along the way. He got his first college job at Carroll in 1949, leading a Saints program that had been on the verge of being dropped to three league titles in four seasons.

Entire article: http://helenair.com/sports/college/...cle_2c72d156-32dc-11e2-9a73-0019bb2963f4.html
 
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