Best Ever College Fooball Coaches

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#27
braths said:
So where does Gen. Robert Neyland fit in this discussion of all-time great coaches?
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He'd probably be in most people's top 5. I think that SI did something back around 2000 that came up with an all-time college football team. I think Bear Bryant was head coach -- can't remember the offensive coordinator. Neyland was the d-coordinator for the all-time team.
 
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nickknx865 said:
Depends on who you ask. Most people acknowledge the USC-Alabama game in '70 as the one that started to integrate college football. However, I think Arkansas had an African-American walk-on in '65. I know it wasn't in the SEC, but that's when the South started to integrate football.

Prior to integration? 2 BCMNC's of Robinson's were won in the segregated south. 6 of his SWAC titles came before integration.
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I'm not sure that's right about when integration started. Maybe that's when Bama started, but I think other schools had already began.
 
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tvolsfan said:
I'm not sure that's right about when integration started. Maybe that's when Bama started, but I think other schools had already began.
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UT's Lester McClain was the first black player in the SEC and that was the late '60s.
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hatvol96 said:
That's laughable. Barry Switzer owned him and, if there had been meaningful PED testing during his tenure, he'd have been lucky to go 8-4 most years.
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And seems to me Switzer's predecessor was as good as any of the big 8 guys.
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hatvol96 said:
That's laughable. Barry Switzer owned him and, if there had been meaningful PED testing during his tenure, he'd have been lucky to go 8-4 most years.
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Yes and that could be said of many top programs during that time period.
 
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Even though he was a rival of MWSC, Mel Tjeerdsma at NWMS has a fine resume for a D2 coach. The coach at Carson Newman is no slacker either. I remember listening on the radio to both teams goin at it for the NC years ago, late 90's I think. When NWMS beat them in 4 or 5 OT's in the championship game, I thought I had listened to the greatest football game ever played.

It was D2 and I had no dog in the fight, but was an amazing broadcast, and game.
 
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hatvol96 said:
They were the only program turning 180 pound walkons into 300 pound Outland Trophy winners.
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That may be true as well, but the way you worded the comment I responded to seemed to imply that Nebraska, under Osborne, was the only program on the "juice".

Yes I agree Osborne's team benefited from PED, but so did other programs. I'm sure Switzer benefited as well, Brian Bosworth?
 
#38
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Volgrad98 said:
That may be true as well, but the way you worded the comment I responded to seemed to imply that Nebraska, under Osborne, was the only program on the "juice".

Yes I agree Osborne's team benefited from PED, but so did other programs. I'm sure Switzer benefited as well, Brian Bosworth?
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Brian Bosworth was an elite recruit who simply added mass. Nebraska's roster was dotted with guys who were second team all county in Assclown, NE who suddenly became John Hannah.
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hatvol96 said:
That's laughable. Barry Switzer owned him and, if there had been meaningful PED testing during his tenure, he'd have been lucky to go 8-4 most years.
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Barry Switzer didn't win 83% of his games and win 3 NCs in 4 years, losing only 2 games in those four years. Osborne never had a team that finished out of the top 25 and 17 of his teams finished in the top 10.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Brian Bosworth was an elite recruit who simply added mass, speed, and strength. Nebraska's roster was dotted with guys who were second team all county in Assclown, NE who suddenly became John Hannah.
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#42
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bleedorange1983 said:
Barry Switzer didn't win 83% of his games and win 3 NCs in 4 years, losing only 2 games in those four years. Osborne never had a team that finished out of the top 25 and 17 of his teams finished in the top 10.
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How many National titles did Osborne win while Switzer was at OU? Who dominated the Big Eight during that period? If you don't know history, you probably shouldn't comment on it.
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#43
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BigPapaVol said:
Not really. Bosworth was fast when he showed up.
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Yes, I am not disputing the fact BB wasn't talented when he step onto campus, but his game definitely elevated after PED's. He was unstoppable.
 
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While they were coaching simultaneously, national titles: Switzer 3, Osborne 0.
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#45
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Volgrad98 said:
Yes, I am not disputing the fact BB wasn't talented when he step onto campus, but his game definitely elevated after PED's. He was unstoppable.
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Alonzo Highsmith and Vinny Testaverde disagree.
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hatvol96 said:
Brian Bosworth was an elite recruit who simply added mass. Nebraska's roster was dotted with guys who were second team all county in Assclown, NE who suddenly became John Hannah.
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I literally lol'd at this.
 
#49
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hatvol96 said:
UT's Lester McClain was the first black player in the SEC and that was the late '60s.
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The Bear won multiple national titles pre integration, didn't he? You really think SWAC schools would dominate them? I obviously didn't watch these games, but it seems unlikely that SWAC schools would dominate, when they didn't really dominate all the other teams the played.
 
#50
#50
They pretty much only played eachother...

The SWAC is where all the southern pro talent was coming from then, not the SEC.
 
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