05-25-2011, 02:00 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: San Diego
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Re: Coaching Carousel Part 2
I guess it all depends on how we or the game defines prestige. To me if you have won multiple conference championships and at least one national championship you should be in the A's. If you have never won a NC should not. Joe Pa, Spurrier, Saban, Stoops, Mack, Tressel, Les Miles should be A's. You can assign A-, A, A+ however but can't think of too many others deserving of an A. Once you reach a certain prestige you would have to totally fail to lose it or drastically go lower. I never get the Joe Pa doesn't belong cuz he hasn't won. He is still revered as one if not the greatest coach ever. Same with programs. I hate Notre Dame, they haven't been NC contender really since I was in kindergarten, but they are prestigious. Prestige is defined as a level of respect one has achieved. Joe Pa, Spurrier, Notre Dame achieved that level many years ago, probably before most of the readers and posters were born, but nevertheless they achieved it.
I think B's and B+ should have a lot of coaches. B+ should be the ones who have won a NC or are on the verge of being great but not proven it over enough time(Chizik, Kelly, etc) or coaches who have had winning programs over at least a decade (Mark Richt, Chris Peterson, Gary Patterson).
I think if you have never won a conference championship you should be no higher than a B. I love Bo Pelini think he is the greatest defensive mind in the game but he has not proven he is any higher than a B coach in my mind.
That also goes back to the fact of coordinators keeping their grades. It depends on what it means in the game. Pelini one of top DC before getting HC job, Weis is one of the greatest offensive minds, but obviously not a great HC. Same can be said for Al Groh in regards to DC, or Chuck Long, DeWayne Walker, Kevin Steele all great as coordinators not great as HC'S. There are exceptions as all HC started somewhere, but I can not believe that Gus Malzahn who is one of the best OC in the nation would automatically be one of the best HC's.
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