Coaching Levels

[Voldirector11]

My ranking system for coaches I would be interested in having.

Top Tier
#1. James Franklin
#2. Gus Malzahn
#3. Tom Herman
#4. Matt Campbell
#5 Mack Brown

Mid Tier
#1. Luke Fickell
#2. Lane Kiffin
#3. Jamey Chadwell
#4. P.J. Fleck
#5 Sam Pittman

Low Tier
#1. Lance Leipold
#2. Bill Clark
#3. Jim McElwain
#4. Josh Heupel
#5 Billy Napier

Bottom Coordinator Tier
#1. Jim Chaney
#2. Kendal Briles
#3. Brent Venables
#4. Kevin Steele
#5 Tony Elliott

 

[MDVols]

System broken.

 

[vols1707]

Just trust our AD White. He will make the best choice. “Fans feelings” hold a lot of responsibility on where this program is now.
He didn’t take on this challenge to run the program further from relevance. He took the challenge to take us back up. And that monumental challenge is probably going to take 5-7 years and some more bumps along the way.

 

[hillsborovol]

Just trust our AD White. He will make the best choice. “Fans feelings” hold a lot of responsibility on where this program is now.

I hope you aren't referring to the fans effectively killing the Schiano hire. His 12 year winning percentage at Rutgers is 0.493.

Rutgers' all time winning percentage is 0.496. So, he is slightly worse than the average for that school.

There is a reason no big school has ever hired him, and his record is a big part of it.

 

[Jimbobcooter88]

My ranking system for coaches I would be interested in having.

Top Tier
#1. James Franklin
#2. Gus Malzahn
#3. Tom Herman
#4. Matt Campbell
#5 Mack Brown

Mid Tier
#1. Luke Fickell
#2. Lane Kiffin
#3. Jamey Chadwell
#4. P.J. Fleck
#5 Sam Pittman

Low Tier
#1. Lance Leipold
#2. Bill Clark
#3. Jim McElwain
#4. Josh Heupel
#5 Billy Napier

Bottom Coordinator Tier
#1. Jim Chaney
#2. Kendal Briles
#3. Brent Venables
#4. Kevin Steele
#5 Tony Elliott

Id take kiffin or freeze over most the tier one ....Maybe campbell

 

[miket4god]

My ranking system for coaches I would be interested in having.

Top Tier
#1. James Franklin
#2. Gus Malzahn
#3. Tom Herman
#4. Matt Campbell
#5 Mack Brown

Mid Tier
#1. Luke Fickell
#2. Lane Kiffin
#3. Jamey Chadwell
#4. P.J. Fleck
#5 Sam Pittman

Low Tier
#1. Lance Leipold
#2. Bill Clark
#3. Jim McElwain
#4. Josh Heupel
#5 Billy Napier

Bottom Coordinator Tier
#1. Jim Chaney
#2. Kendal Briles
#3. Brent Venables
#4. Kevin Steele
#5 Tony Elliott

Billy Napier and Tony Elliot are way too low on that list. Mack Brown and Gus are way too high.

 

[Southeastern VFL]

I wonder why we have not contacted Gus Malzahn?

 

[JonGrudensAgent]

What tier is Sonny Dykes?

 

[uncle chewii]

That list is a little messed up. Sam Pittman as a mid tier coach... um it's his first year coaching and he had the same record as Pruitt, so you must thing Pruitt is a mid tier coach.

 

[Hbg]

My ranking system for coaches I would be interested in having.

Top Tier
#1. James Franklin
#2. Gus Malzahn
#3. Tom Herman
#4. Matt Campbell
#5 Mack Brown

Mid Tier
#1. Luke Fickell
#2. Lane Kiffin
#3. Jamey Chadwell
#4. P.J. Fleck
#5 Sam Pittman

Low Tier
#1. Lance Leipold
#2. Bill Clark
#3. Jim McElwain
#4. Josh Heupel
#5 Billy Napier

Bottom Coordinator Tier
#1. Jim Chaney
#2. Kendal Briles
#3. Brent Venables
#4. Kevin Steele
#5 Tony Elliott

Hugh freeze not on list so your list is irrelevant

 

[VOL-TIL-I-DIE]

I'm trying to remain positive and give AD White the benefit of the doubt he'll bring the right guy to Knoxville. I hope we are getting close to closing this door and beginning our official rebuild.

 

[volmainia2]

My ranking system for coaches I would be interested in having.

Top Tier
#1. James Franklin
#2. Gus Malzahn
#3. Tom Herman
#4. Matt Campbell
#5 Mack Brown

Mid Tier
#1. Luke Fickell
#2. Lane Kiffin
#3. Jamey Chadwell
#4. P.J. Fleck
#5 Sam Pittman

Low Tier
#1. Lance Leipold
#2. Bill Clark
#3. Jim McElwain
#4. Josh Heupel
#5 Billy Napier

Bottom Coordinator Tier
#1. Jim Chaney
#2. Kendal Briles
#3. Brent Venables
#4. Kevin Steele
#5 Tony Elliott

Kiffin`remember the excitement he brougt. who hasnt done something in their life that their not proud of js

 

[Tennessee1371]

I personally would be more interested in Kendal Briles than Elliot. Has put a good offense on the field everywhere he has been or at least made the most of what he had to work with / not a product of riding the Clemson coattails. Also unlike Elliot he is a QB coach first and foremost. My knock on Elliot is he would have to find a QB coach to develop one.

Think they need to find a coach with HC experience but if you go the coordinator route that would be my pick.

 

[37620VOL]

fify

Top Tier
#1. James Franklin
#2. Gus Malzahn
#3. Tom Herman
#4. Matt Campbell
#5 Lance Leipold

Mid Tier
#1. Luke Fickell
#2. Bill Clark
#3. Jamey Chadwell
#4. P.J. Fleck
#5. Billy Napier
#6. Freeze - only because of low chance of occurrence
#7. Josh Heupel
#8. Tony Elliott

Low Tier
#1. Mack Brown
#2. Kendal Briles
#3. Kevin Steele

Nope
#1. Lane Kiffin - ain't coming 0% chance
#2. Sam Pittman - ain't coming 0% chance
#3. Venables
#4. Jim Chaney
#5. Dykes
#6. Jim McElwain

 

[37620VOL]

Kiffin`remember the excitement he brougt. who hasnt done something in their life that their not proud of js

But he would have to do it again to come to us. So if he came to us it would only confirm that he cannot be trusted.

 

[MAD]

Bottom Coordinator Tier
#1. Jim Chaney
#2. Kendal Briles
#3. Brent Venables
#4. Kevin Steele
#5 Tony Elliott

People please stop with the Coordinators for head coach, it rarely works.


Imagine Clemson or Alabama going after Randy Sanders in 1999 after we won the National Championship? That’s what we did when we went after Pruitt. Or if we were to go after Tony Elliott.

Please just stop.

 

[peaygolf]

My ranking system for coaches I would be interested in having.

Top Tier
#1. James Franklin
#2. Gus Malzahn
#3. Tom Herman
#4. Matt Campbell
#5 Mack Brown

Mid Tier
#1. Luke Fickell
#2. Lane Kiffin
#3. Jamey Chadwell
#4. P.J. Fleck
#5 Sam Pittman

Low Tier
#1. Lance Leipold
#2. Bill Clark
#3. Jim McElwain
#4. Josh Heupel
#5 Billy Napier

Bottom Coordinator Tier
#1. Jim Chaney
#2. Kendal Briles
#3. Brent Venables
#4. Kevin Steele
#5 Tony Elliott

I still say Will Healy @ Charlotte would be a "Top Tier" HC

 

[37620VOL]

People please stop with the Coordinators for head coach, it rarely works.


Imagine Clemson or Alabama going after Randy Sanders in 1999 after we won the National Championship? That’s what we did when we went after Pruitt. Or if we were to go after Tony Elliott.

Please just stop.

Randy should have ETSU humming this year.

 

[AstonRoyal]

My ranking system for coaches I would be interested in having.

Top Tier
#1. James Franklin
#2. Gus Malzahn
#3. Tom Herman
#4. Matt Campbell
#5 Mack Brown

Mid Tier
#1. Luke Fickell
#2. Lane Kiffin
#3. Jamey Chadwell
#4. P.J. Fleck
#5 Sam Pittman

Low Tier
#1. Lance Leipold
#2. Bill Clark
#3. Jim McElwain
#4. Josh Heupel
#5 Billy Napier

Bottom Coordinator Tier
#1. Jim Chaney
#2. Kendal Briles
#3. Brent Venables
#4. Kevin Steele
#5 Tony Elliott

Personally I’d swap Napier for Chadwell but that’s just me. I have no idea why y’all are so high on a guy who’s never even been to a power 5 school

 

[sechamp2012]

People please stop with the Coordinators for head coach, it rarely works.


Imagine Clemson or Alabama going after Randy Sanders in 1999 after we won the National Championship? That’s what we did when we went after Pruitt. Or if we were to go after Tony Elliott.

Please just stop.

It happened in 2014 Arkansas went after Clemson OC Chad Morris the flavor of d day and he took Arky all the way to the bottom of SEC West.

 

[90 Vol]

Wow.

 

[GTBATV]

How is McElwain in any tier?

 

['Boro-vol]

I wonder why we have not contacted Gus Malzahn?

Because he is now a bazillionaire. He's probably looking at new boats right now.