What is the best college coaching job?

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J C Higgins said:
Although Saban alluded to this immediately after the loss to Michigan couple of years ago, Brett Favre, in a "Sporting News" article that I'm unable to link, said this is the reason Saban quit and won't return to coaching.
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Brett may be correct.

However, i wouldnt be surprised if one of the top 3 NIL schools calls him, he will come running back.
 
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I'd put Ohio St and UGA up there at the top. Ohio St has had some great coaches over the years, but it seems like they're at least pretty good no matter who the coach is. If you ignore the Luke Fickell interim season after they fired Tressel, Ohio St hasn't finished below .500 since 1988 and has had a winning season every year since 1999. Since Woody Hayes took over in 1951, they've had 4 losing seasons.

Until this most recent firing process with Kelly, I would have LSU up there too. And it still is a great job, but their political dysfunction might take the sheen off of it for a while.
 
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Of the top jobs available currently, I think LSU would be an obvious choice, but because of the dysfunction internally and w/ AD, if I were a top coach, I think I'd look to UF or PSU first. If I wanted to be comfortable and be in the running every year in ACC for title and playoffs, I'd look at VT. Will be interesting to see where Franklin and Jimbo end up...if anywhere.
 
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Tennessee because I love Tennessee. But after that I’d have to say LSU. Here’s why, I love their culture. The food, the party and their fans are super involved. A few years ago when we were playing LSU at the Hoover Met, they were chanting like it was a football game 😆. My next choice would be Miami. South Florida is great if you are wealthy. Next, Texas or A&M because it’s a cool prideful state. Alabubba? Hell no. Tuscaloosa is a dump and the state of Alabama’s motto is thank god for Mississippi.
 
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05_never_again said:
I'd put Ohio St and UGA up there at the top. Ohio St has had some great coaches over the years, but it seems like they're at least pretty good no matter who the coach is. If you ignore the Luke Fickell interim season after they fired Tressel, Ohio St hasn't finished below .500 since 1988 and has had a winning season every year since 1999. Since Woody Hayes took over in 1951, they've had 4 losing seasons.

Until this most recent firing process with Kelly, I would have LSU up there too. And it still is a great job, but their political dysfunction might take the sheen off of it for a while.
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As to your second comment, a direct reflection of the top shelf talent they have had in their history. It attracts the great coaches
 
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lilesrt said:
Seems to be Ohio State given their endless supply of money. Texas is dysfunctional.
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Ohio State bankrolls a recruiting machine. As proof, just look at them flipping 6 recruits in the past month, including a Tennessee commitment. No school was more elated to see NIL / player payments than the Buckeyes. In a game of money, they will always have the numbers -- and it was stupid of everyone else to let the sport become what it is, because no one will ever outspend them. Stupid, stupid, stupid. No one was ever going to outspend them. Larger alumni networks, more millionaires, more money to access and spend. If the game is only about money, then the biggest pots of money are gonna win more often than not.

Add in the Ohio State high school systems which feed into Columbus, and you have an entire state working in lock step to accomplish one goal - the dominance of the school football program. Between that and the money, well, good luck.
 
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I don’t know about the single best but if your team has strong NIL collectives and only has to win 10 games a year to get into the playoffs you’re pretty much set.

Bonus points if you’re in a weak conference that’s easy enough to win to avoid the first round of the playoff.
 
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Any school that pays a coordinator 2 million, that's the job I'll take.
 
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Voltopia said:
Ohio State bankrolls a recruiting machine. As proof, just look at them flipping 6 recruits in the past month, including a Tennessee commitment. No school was more elated to see NIL / player payments than the Buckeyes. In a game of money, they will always have the numbers -- and it was stupid of everyone else to let the sport become what it is, because no one will ever outspend them. Stupid, stupid, stupid. No one was ever going to outspend them. Larger alumni networks, more millionaires, more money to access and spend. If the game is only about money, then the biggest pots of money are gonna win more often than not.

Add in the Ohio State high school systems which feed into Columbus, and you have an entire state working in lock step to accomplish one goal - the dominance of the school football program. Between that and the money, well, good luck.
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And they are pushing the rest of the Big Ten to accept the Private Equity investment deal for even more CASH.

You would like to think that at some point, the rules of a fair trade market take over and all things become more equal, but I just don't see that happening until some governing body somewhere puts caps and limits in place on NIL and portal activities.
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
As to your second comment, a direct reflection of the top shelf talent they have had in their history. It attracts the great coaches
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I don't think it's as much about attracting great coaches as much as it is fully supporting the guy they do hire and giving him resources.

The only coach who was already known to be a great high-level coach at the time Ohio St hired him was Urban. Day had just been a career assistant. Tressel had been an extremely successful coach, but at the I-AA level. John Cooper had 1 good year at Arizona St and a bunch of good years at Tulsa. Earle Bruce had a bunch of mediocre years at Iowa St. Since Woody, the most proven coach they hired was probably Cooper, which is funny because he's probably the one who underachieved the most.
 
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IndianaVol said:
And they are pushing the rest of the Big Ten to accept the Private Equity investment deal for even more CASH.

You would like to think that at some point, the rules of a fair trade market take over and all things become more equal, but I just don't see that happening until some governing body somewhere puts caps and limits in place on NIL and portal activities.
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Actually they have reservations about it, and rightly so. So does Michigan.
 
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05_never_again said:
I don't think it's as much about attracting great coaches as much as it is fully supporting the guy they do hire and giving him resources.

The only coach who was already known to be a great high-level coach at the time Ohio St hired him was Urban. Day had just been a career assistant. Tressel had been an extremely successful coach, but at the I-AA level. John Cooper had 1 good year at Arizona St and a bunch of good years at Tulsa. Earle Bruce had a bunch of mediocre years at Iowa St. Since Woody, the most proven coach they hired was probably Cooper, which is funny because he's probably the one who underachieved the most.
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Good point
 
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I will refer to the Hal Mumme response years ago " I personally would never consider a job over the Mason-Dixon line".
SEC and the sweet, sunny south would be higher criteria on my list than the most NIL $$$. I would take a job at one of the SEC schools with a good NIL collective and take my chances.
 
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