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Top 25 coaches CFB history

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Very flawed list, if your that great a coach the NFL comes calling, and hardly anybody says no. Imo you need to win two chips in college and one SB, now that would narrow it down right. JJJJJJ
 
Any list without Eddie Robinson, Jimmy Johnson & Bob Stoops is an invalid list.

Dennis Erickson deserves to be on the list as well, the man won 179 ball games, 2 National championships & 6 conference titles (3 Big East, 2 Pac-10's & a Big Sky).
 
Texxcane said:
Very flawed list, if your that great a coach the NFL comes calling, and hardly anybody says no. Imo you need to win two chips in college and one SB, now that would narrow it down right. JJJJJJ
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Johnson essentially won 3 national titles and 3 Super Bowls. Miami would have won the 88 title if it weren’t for the refs. Dennis Erickson’s 1989 national title and Barry Switzer’s 1996 Super Bowl win are both akin to Larry Coker’s 2001 national title.
 
Liberty City El said:
Any list without Eddie Robinson, Jimmy Johnson & Bob Stoops is an invalid list.

Dennis Erickson deserves to be on the list as well, the man won 179 ball games, 2 National championships & 6 conference titles (3 Big East, 2 Pac-10's & a Big Sky).
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Erickson got fired at Arizona State, and his tenure at Miami isn’t on par with Schellemberger or Johnson’s. The 1989 and to some extent 1991 titles were with Jimmy’s players. He actually had a similar pattern at Oregon State and Arizona State as he did at Miami, where his best years were with his predecessor’s players. And obviously there was the scandal at Miami.
 
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Texxcane said:
Very flawed list, if your that great a coach the NFL comes calling, and hardly anybody says no. Imo you need to win two chips in college and one SB, now that would narrow it down right. JJJJJJ
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Fully agree. So many great coaches don't stick around college to build legacies as that NFL scratch comes calling. Howard Schnellenberger, Jimmy Johnson and Butch Davis all had dynasties at Miami that could've gone on for well over a decade.

Criteria for a lot of these guys is pretty whack, as well—not to mention doing it in different eras. All those old school guys coaching in that leather helmet era where there were literally only 2-3 good teams on the planet, while they just beat up on nobodies ... how do they fare in today's game with so much parity in the sport.
 
ItsAUThing.com said:
Fully agree. So many great coaches don't stick around college to build legacies as that NFL scratch comes calling. Howard Schnellenberger, Jimmy Johnson and Butch Davis all had dynasties at Miami that could've gone on for well over a decade.

Criteria for a lot of these guys is pretty whack, as well—not to mention doing it in different eras. All those old school guys coaching in that leather helmet era where there were literally only 2-3 good teams on the planet, while they just beat up on nobodies ... how do they fare in today's game with so much parity in the sport.
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It’s a little hard to put Schnelly on any top 25 list, because his post-Miami resume isn’t that impressive. His Louisville and FAU tenures aren’t anything that will wow people, and let’s not even mention his time at OU.

Butch Davis? I’m sorry, but it’s a little hard to put a guy on a top 25 list when practically his whole reputation seems to be what could have been if he hadn’t left for the NFL.

I can understand why they don’t put Jimmy on the list since most of the guys on the list were at their programs for more than 5 years and won more than one title. And I guess they feel that Jimmy’s success in the NFL is irrelevant to a CFB coach list. I still wish they had Johnson, just to have a Canes coach on there.
 
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Not having Eddie Robinson on that list is crazy. None of the Miami coaches stayed long enough. If Schnell or Jimmy would have stayed like a Bowden then one of them would be on the list with five or six titles to their name. I did see one notable absence. If you can guide a major program through the "Cloud", you should be on the list.

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jmcanes22 said:
Not having Eddie Robinson on that list is crazy. None of the Miami coaches stayed long enough. If Schnell or Jimmy would have stayed like a Bowden then one of them would be on the list with five or six titles to their name. I did see one notable absence. If you can guide a major program through the "Cloud", you should be on the list.
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What about the guy who was responsible for this result? Not resigning after this game, and continuing to put your heart into coaching Miami, has to count for something, right?
 
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What about the guy who was responsible for this result? Not resigning after this game, and continuing to put your heart into coaching Miami, has to count for something, right?
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I mean, as much as people want to say willie taggert is our Al Golden, well Randy Shannon got the party started at Miami. I actually think Golden was better than Shannon. While Golden wasn’t a good coach and I rip him a lot, shannon was the foundation for the disaster the next 13 years. I wish Shalala would cross the Clinton’s.
 
jmcanes22 said:
I mean, as much as people want to say willie taggert is our Al Golden, well Randy Shannon got the party started at Miami. I actually think Golden was better than Shannon. While Golden wasn’t a good coach and I rip him a lot, shannon was the foundation for the disaster the next 13 years. I wish Shalala would cross the Clinton’s.
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They were both disasters. People view Golden as worse because he was more recent, he wasn't an alum, and he had the ability to fool you into thinking he was a good coach. (Which made it seem all the worse once it was obvious he wasn't a good coach.)
 
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