I love how u’re doing all this justification for the opps.
It’s like clockwork on this board. It amazes me how many of u can do a deep dive in to justify other teams’ & don’t nor can’t do the same for ur own.
But, just remember; this was you back in 2020 in regards to ur coaching scale:
After watching these conference championship games I kept sayin how far are we away from being this competitive. Clemson with 6th straight and no signs of slowing down. Ohio state with 5 straight and are recruiting at a ridiculous level. Alabama continues is historic run. The more I watch...
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I'm quite flattered you took the time to look up my old posts. I'm not going to look up your old posts because I frankly don't really care all that much what you were right or wrong about 3 years ago. If you learned new info and it changed your opinion, that's called "learning" and most people (me included) tend to think that's a good thing.
But hey - you win. You found where I posted something with info I had at the time that later turned out to be wrong. Since it's so important for you to show that I've been wrong, feel free to go all the way to when I posted on Shadows board (I think I started posting in 2007) and I'm sure you will find some ice cold takes that you will find quite titillating.
But let's look at my rankings from Dec 2020 just for fun
10- Meyer, Saban, and Dabo
still good
9- Jimbo
nope, turns out he is a great recruiter but terrible coach who can't adapt to modern football - hmm sounds familiar
8- Brian Kelly, Lincoln Riley
think both are correct despite Kelly's start at LSU, he ended up annihilating the acc in 2020 and followed it up with an 11-1 season in 2021. Given NDs academic standards, he had recruiting limitations a lot of other coaches didn't have and still outperformed relative to the talent on the roster.
7- Dan Mullen, Richt (UGA Era), Gundy
1 for 3. The autopsy on Mullen is he was a brilliant Xs and Os guy, but couldn't recruit. Didn't know that in Dec 2020. I think Gundy is a **** of a coach just in terms of pure coaching ability. I still stand by this. As for Richt, at the time his overall tenure at UGA was more impressive than Smarts up to that point, especially given the bag game that Smart had and top classes (was year 5 for Smart, he looked at the time like a guy who couldnt win a championship despite infinite resources and top classes)
6- Mario Cristobal, Kirby Smart
This is before we really saw Justin Herbert in the NFL and discovered he was one of the best QBs to come out of college in a long time. It made people take a closer look at whether Cristobal didn't get all the "meat off the bone" with Herbert by not building the offense around what Herbert did well and instead making him play in Cristobals preferred offense. Herbert still put up great numbers because he was exceptionally talented, but I don't think he reached his full potential. Unfortunately that pattern seems to have happened again in Miami.
5- Mack Brown, Matt Campbell
Still good
4- Diaz
I'm sure it's seen as blasphemy to put Diaz above Richt. I'll raise up Richt up from #3 to this spot so Diaz and Richt are both on this level. Richt had the 10 win season after all. In 2020 Diaz had an 8 win abbreviated season that I think would have been a 10 win season if it had been the original schedule. Sorry, I am sure I am in the minority here but I'm simply not impressed with what Richt did at UM as a HC. I appreciate him getting the IPF, but his talent evals were generally hot garbage.
UM shouldn't have hired Diaz to begin with, but it was what it was. Whereas I can buy the argument that Diaz was brand new HC and deserved some time to learn on the job, Cristobal doesnt get that deference from me- especially not with an 8.5 million salary and the highest paid staff in the acc. Cristobal took his lumps at FIU, then started figuring things out at Oregon so he had training wheels. Diaz was going to need to learn on the job.
If Diaz was HC right now I would bet any amount of money that we're 3-2 now instead of 2-3. I doubt he'd have replaced Lashlee with another pro style OC, so we'd probably have another OC that built the offense around TVD and it would be a top 25 O again, just like it was the 2 previous years. Does that mean I'd rather have Diaz than Cristobal? Depends on what happens in February. If Cristobal pulls a top 5 class this year, there is no doubt I'd rather he be the HC. If he does that, then he's stacking talent like Smart did in his 1st class and I think he'll eventually exceed what Diaz could have done even at his (Diaz's) peak. However, If Cristobal ends up with a class in the 10-13 range, that's probably around the same class rank that Diaz in year 4 would have landed, except Diaz makes 5 MILLION LESS per year. And Diaz likely ends up with a better record this year so I don't see any advantage to having hired Cristobal.
3- Richt (Miami era)
2- Golden, Shannon
1- Willie Taggart
