Top ten best and worst college football coaches....
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He is an excellent coach dude
We're in an era where teams under .500 have made bowl games. When you get paid a top 5 salary in all of college football, and your team can't even say it's consistently top 5 in its own conference, damn right your salary becomes a punchline and a factor in ranking you one of the worst coaches.
Keep it all the way live - you don't really pay attention to Iowa football. Which is cool, because, shyt, no one does. But if you did you'd know Ferentz's team has been a mediocre ball of shyt every year recently, losing to conference doormats and non-conference bums (can't trot out the old "we can't recruit, so we have to outwork and outcoach everyone bullshyt when you're losing to the Northern Illinois' of the world), and being top 5 in football players arrested for 4 years. Not to mention covering up two separate alleged sexual assaults. It's happening in Iowa, so no one really cares, but the program is a fukking joke. And that's not even mentioning the players contracting life-threatening illnesses from being overtrained, the coverup of the failed drug tests and the drug-dealing, and the 754 running backs who have been kicked out or transferred in the last 4 years.
The team has finished unranked in 6 of the last 8 seasons. Worse than that, they've underachieved, which is squarely on the coaching staff. The line of thought is Iowa can't recruit with the big boys in the Big 10, but they can out-execute them. Hasn't held true. Despite the cover ups, his players' recurring guest spots in the police blotter, and the horrendous losses to doormat Minnesota two straight years, to intrastate rival Iowa State, and the most recent 10-2 BCS team Iowa had returning all of its important starters yet finishing 8-5 the next season, you rarely if ever hear Kirk's job called into question.
Let's just review this one more time: unranked for 6 out of 8 seasons; top 5 in football players arrested (including his own fukking son - talk about sorry ass leadership) for a 4 year period; two sexual assault scandals covered up; 4-8 last season, 2-6 in the conference, with home losses to a Central Michigan team that finished 7-6, 4-4 in their mid-major conference and an Iowa State team that finished 6-7, 3-6 in their conference.
Let's not stop there. He's a top 5 salaried coach in all of college football, and lost the last 6 games of his fukking season last year. The year before that he went 7-6, 4-4 in the conference with yet another loss to Iowa State, and Iowa was one of two Big 10 teams to lose to Minnesota. The year before that he finished 8-5, 4-4 in the conference, lost 3 of the last 4 games to end the season, and once again was one of only two Big 10 teams to lose to Minnesota.
And add to that the fact that in the best season Ferentz ever had, he went to the Orange Bowl with an 11-1 team, they ran the opening kick back 100 yards... and then proceeded to get outscored 38-3 until a garbage time touchdown.
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Its crazy how were this many replies and NOBODY challenged saban being #1 . He is just the best i guess
based on what he's done in the last decade, who could come even close to that spot besides him?
We're in an era where teams under .500 have made bowl games. When you get paid a top 5 salary in all of college football, and your team can't even say it's consistently top 5 in its own conference, damn right your salary becomes a punchline and a factor in ranking you one of the worst coaches.
Keep it all the way live - you don't really pay attention to Iowa football. Which is cool, because, shyt, no one does. But if you did you'd know Ferentz's team has been a mediocre ball of shyt every year recently, losing to conference doormats and non-conference bums (can't trot out the old "we can't recruit, so we have to outwork and outcoach everyone bullshyt when you're losing to the Northern Illinois' of the world), and being top 5 in football players arrested for 4 years. Not to mention covering up two separate alleged sexual assaults. It's happening in Iowa, so no one really cares, but the program is a fukking joke. And that's not even mentioning the players contracting life-threatening illnesses from being overtrained, the coverup of the failed drug tests and the drug-dealing, and the 754 running backs who have been kicked out or transferred in the last 4 years.
The team has finished unranked in 6 of the last 8 seasons. Worse than that, they've underachieved, which is squarely on the coaching staff. The line of thought is Iowa can't recruit with the big boys in the Big 10, but they can out-execute them. Hasn't held true. Despite the cover ups, his players' recurring guest spots in the police blotter, and the horrendous losses to doormat Minnesota two straight years, to intrastate rival Iowa State, and the most recent 10-2 BCS team Iowa had returning all of its important starters yet finishing 8-5 the next season, you rarely if ever hear Kirk's job called into question.
Let's just review this one more time: unranked for 6 out of 8 seasons; top 5 in football players arrested (including his own fukking son - talk about sorry ass leadership) for a 4 year period; two sexual assault scandals covered up; 4-8 last season, 2-6 in the conference, with home losses to a Central Michigan team that finished 7-6, 4-4 in their mid-major conference and an Iowa State team that finished 6-7, 3-6 in their conference.
Let's not stop there. He's a top 5 salaried coach in all of college football, and lost the last 6 games of his fukking season last year. The year before that he went 7-6, 4-4 in the conference with yet another loss to Iowa State, and Iowa was one of two Big 10 teams to lose to Minnesota. The year before that he finished 8-5, 4-4 in the conference, lost 3 of the last 4 games to end the season, and once again was one of only two Big 10 teams to lose to Minnesota.
And add to that the fact that in the best season Ferentz ever had, he went to the Orange Bowl with an 11-1 team, they ran the opening kick back 100 yards... and then proceeded to get outscored 38-3 until a garbage time touchdown.
Holy hell this post is the gospel
I tip my cap to you sir
Saban has been gone since 2005. Miles may not have made LSU into a destination, but he has maintained it. He's taken them to 2 title games, got a ring, he's won SEC Championships. That does not qualify as worst coach.
Texas has the easiest recruiting job in the nation, btw.
Ed MOTHEREFFING G
Chances make champions
nobody. Its just funny to me (in an observational matter) that we rarely come to a consensus on anything in this sport, but he is clearly #1 ...its true.
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
He really does...@wildchill11 , Miles has NO ONE in state to compete with and it's really rare for one of them Louisiana boys to skip out of state..Perrilloux might be the last big name I can really think of. Mack at least has to deal with Briles & Sumlin
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it happens^
The mess mack brown made of texas is his own fault. Around 2007 or so the 20 best kids in the entire state promptly showed up to Texas Junior Days and asked to sign. Brown barely had to lift a finger. Texas simply has no equal in the amount of advantages it has (tv network, cool city, great academics, football mecca, recruiting base, facilities, boosters, etc etc etc)
Now kevin sumlin has blown by him.
And regarding miles, its not like other SEC coaches leave Louisiana alone. They all fight battles on other people's turf.
Right on cue, Iowa loses it's opening game at home to Northern Illinois.
Right on cue, Iowa loses it's opening game at home to Northern Illinois.
Tide Run This
Veteran
Ferentz is a chump
Pelini is another coach who is all bark no bite blackshirts my ass UCLA gonna run a train on them Sept 14.
Pelini is another coach who is all bark no bite blackshirts my ass UCLA gonna run a train on them Sept 14.
IDK why Nebraska keeps this guy? He is horrible and need to get rocked by one of his players for his tantrums on the sidelines.
http://thegazette.com/2013/03/06/ui-reviews-hire-of-ferentzs-future-son-in-law/
Top 5 salaried coach with no significant results, Iowa is yet again closer to the bottom of the Big 10 than its top. Meanwhile, Ferentz follows up hiring his son by hiring his future son-in-law.
ITWAN...
Top 5 salaried coach with no significant results, Iowa is yet again closer to the bottom of the Big 10 than its top. Meanwhile, Ferentz follows up hiring his son by hiring his future son-in-law.
ITWAN...
3. Chris Petersen, Boise State.Now entering his eighth season in charge of the Broncos, Petersen has gone 84-8 to rack up an insane .913 winning percentage. Last year's team -- the first in the post-Kellen Moore era -- was one of the biggest rebuilding projects he's had, and it still finished 11-2. Petersen has no equal when it comes to player development. Boise never sniffs the top of the recruiting rankings and yet has produced seven first- or second-round NFL draft picks under his watch.
4. Gary Patterson, TCU.Here's what I wrote about Patterson in 2007: "Does anyone get less credit for running a consistently successful program than this guy?" And that was before two BCS bids, an undefeated 2010 campaign and an impressive transition to the Big 12. While the Horned Frogs still have plenty to prove following a 7-6 debut in their new league, Patterson has long since demonstrated that he's one of the top defensive minds the sport has seen over the past decade.
5. Bill Snyder, Kansas State.I know I said this list isn't based on career achievement, but it's hard not to bring up Snyder's '90s miracle work in Manhattan -- particularly now that he has engineered a second surprising turnaround. The Wildcats, 39-45 from 2004-10 (three of those seasons under Ron Prince), went a combined 21-5 in Snyder's third and fourth years back at the helm, including capturing last year's Big 12 title. There's no magic formula or trademark strategy at Kansas State. Snyder simply wins.
