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FOX Sports analyst and former Colorado quarterback Joel Klatt recently named his Top 10 coaches in college football. A transcript of the podcast and list is below:

#10 — Lane Kiffin, LSU​

Joel Klatt: My top 10 coaches in college football… I’ve never done this before. I’ve shied away from it because my relationships with coaches across the country are important—trust is the currency in my job. I try to present fair critiques, fair analysis, and that’s generally reciprocated with...

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Dan Lanning No. 4 and Steve Sarkisian No. 6

Two perennial underachievers in relation to the near-unlimited resources both have on hand

No world whatsoever where either is a better coach than Kyle Whittingham (among others)
 
Interesting that Klatt leaves Matt Campbell off even his honorable mentions.

The guy was ten games over .500 in the Big XII in 10 seasons. That ain't nothing at a place like Iowa State
 
TwentySix said:
“He knocked off two stigmas that have plagued him throughout his career: the first being he doesn’t win big games.”

Blows my mind that people make big money to regurgitate nonsense like this.
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Exactly. The stigma was beat wins big games but loses to a team of two he shouldn’t.
he was won pac 12 titles. Thats winning in nov.
 
I had been meaning to poll CIS about where it believes Mario ranks now.

We lack objectivity and long-term perspective on this site. 90% of this board wanted to fire him after SMU. That's not how I suspect that percentage feels about him now. Where do we rank Mario? This is an interesting thread to look at when folks want to fire him next season if we drop some game against some team we shouldn't.

Personally, I'd put Cignetti, Ryan Day, Marcus Freeman, Lane Kiffin, Kirby Smart (no particular order) ahead of Mario.

But outside of those 5, I think you can jumble Mario anywhere from 6 to 15.

If we're just rating coaching jobs this past season, Mario is top 3.
 
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College football media is so lazy with the Mario narratives. Close game, late game problems? Sure. Losing to double digit dogs problems? Absolutely.

When has Mario ever had a 'big game' problem?

Conference championship game? He's won. NY6 Bowl game? He's won. On the road vs top 10 teams? How's Ohio State or aTm for wins? CFP games? You all watched it, the best run of coaching in his career.
 
AlexCane said:
I had been meaning to poll CIS about where it believes Mario ranks now.

We lack objectivity and long-term perspective on this site. 90% of this board wanted to fire him after SMU. That's not how I suspect that percentage feels about him now. Where do we rank Mario? This is an interesting thread to look at when folks want to fire him next season if we drop some game against some team we shouldn't.

Personally, I'd put Cignetti, Ryan Day, Marcus Freeman, Lane Kiffin, Kirby Smart (no particular order) ahead of Mario.

But outside of those 5, I think you can jumble Mario anywhere from 6 to 15.

If we're just rating coaching jobs this past season, Mario is top 3.
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Marcus freeman is not a better coach than Mario cristobal. He took over a loaded and rolling notre dame. Which is the 3rd or 4th most stable program in the country behind Ohio State, Georgia, and Alabama. I think he is a very good coach but he gets far too much praise as a 1st time hc taking over after Kelly.
 
The rest of the list is whatever but the top 3 should be in this order. 1.Kirby 2.Cignetti 3.Ryan Day.
Not sure how you can justify Kirby being 3. Also Lanning being 4 is laughable.
 
I disagree with putting Cignetti at number 1. I know he has had a meteoric risem but let's give him a few years to actually sustain success.
 
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Lets do a top 10 ranking of ******* idiots who comment on college football for a living....


1. Joel Klatt
2. Joel Klatt mid air after Jon Beason launched him like a pinata in the Orange Bowl
 
TwentySix said:
“He knocked off two stigmas that have plagued him throughout his career: the first being he doesn’t win big games.”

Blows my mind that people make big money to regurgitate nonsense like this.
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These clowns just like to talk. His stigma has never been not winning the big games. It's been being prepared for the letdowns. The teams we should dog walk and play down to. That's always been marios crutch.
 
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