Interesting Top 10 Best, 5 Worst CFB Coaches List by Mandel from CNNSI

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Kirk Ferentz, Iowa. The 2009 Orange Bowl proved an aberration in Ferentz's otherwise unimpressive recent tenure. Take away that one 11-2 season and the Hawkeyes are 47-41 since 2005 under their $3.6 million-per-year coach.
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so glad to see him included. They pay him ridiculous money
 
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While he is underachieving, Lane is not one of the 5 worst coaches in NCAA. That's just silly.


That is meant to attract attention to the article.
 
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allvol123 said:
While he is underachieving, Lane is not one of the 5 worst coaches in NCAA. That's just silly.


That is meant to attract attention to the article.
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Before someone jumps in to flame you for defending him, I still think had he been Crompton's Coach for 3 years that the kid would've been 2nd/3rd round and we win more than a few more games behind him.
 
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Still think Dooley should be on there or the name of the list changed to Dooley
Its amazing Ferentz is paid that much and still coaching, i know Iowa prolly isnt the easiest place to win but geeze
Also I despise CLK but he doesnt belong on that list yet.
 
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Kiffin on the list is silly; if he repeats last year this season, maybe, but I agree he was put on the list for "shock" value only.
 
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Glad people are finally seeing what I've been saying for over 6 years: Ferentz is a fraud.
 
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utvolpj said:
so glad to see him included. They pay him ridiculous money
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Ferentz is probably the most overpaid coach in all of athletics, but this isn't a list about ranking the most overpaid coaches. Iowa hadn't been "somebody" for a very long time prior to Ferentz's arrival, and Iowa still isn't "somebody" with Ferentz on board with the exception of several clearly isolated seasons over a 10+ year span. Ferentz took a pretty average program and elevated it slightly; he is paid far too much money for what he's achieved, but that doesn't make him one of the five worst coaches in college football.

Kiffin also doesn't deserve a spot on the "Worst 5" list either. He's unlikable, underachieved like crazy last year and, ultimately, anything short of a really good bowl game will have him out at the end of the season. But that doesn't make him one of the Worst 5 coaches in the game.

Give me more people like Kevin Wilson and Jeff Quinn on the list instead and I'd give it more credence.
 
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OrangePack82 said:
Mandel noted on his twitter that after His 11-2 season he had him in his top ten coaches list and now he's fallen to the bottom five.
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Exactly. Falling over 110 spots on the ranking for going 8-5, 7-6 and 4-8 over the next three seasons? Absurd. Seems to me like Mandel, along with the brass at Iowa, just had him pegged too highly to begin with. Don't fault Ferentz for you not correctly slotting him in the first place, though.
 
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Kiffin did not deserve any of the three jobs he has been handed and he has failed miserably at all three.

1. Failed miserably with the Raiders and left in the middle of a season to get away from the mess he created. He had no respect from his players, his asst coaches, or his peers.

2. Came to UT, ran off most of the linemen on campus, made the University look bad with his no class act, signed the single worst class in UT history, brought the NCAA down on UT, thumbed his nose at all of the Tennessee Traditions, left in the middle of the night and had his coaching staff calling UT recruits and telling them not to come to Knoxville.

3. At USC he took over one of the top programs in the NCAA and quickly turned them around. Started last year ranked #1 in the country and ended up 6-7 with a loss in a bowl being played in a high school stadium.

Yet, many of you still defend him. What's wrong with the youth of America!!
 
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I don't think they're defending him; it's just that a year's "5 worst CFB coaches" list should be based more on the overall lack of accomplishment or the continuous (relative) poor results (not just one meh year after a 10 win year) rather than "the guy's a douche"

Also, just of note, you've got it backwards, USC went 7-6 last season
 
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TrueOrange said:
I don't think they're defending him; it's just that a year's "5 worst CFB coaches" list should be based more on the overall lack of accomplishment or the continuous (relative) poor results (not just one meh year after a 10 win year) rather than "the guy's a douche"

Also, just of note, you've got it backwards, USC went 7-6 last season
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It's not just "one meh year." The guy has not been successful at any job. He's been handed the reins of three of the biggest names in sports (Raiders, Vols, Trojans) and has failed at all of them and left every one of these programs in much worse shape than he found them.
 
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Backwards K said:
It's not just "one meh year." The guy has not been successful at any job. He's been handed the reins of three of the biggest names in sports (Raiders, Vols, Trojans) and has failed at all of them and left every one of these programs in much worse shape than he found them.
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Franklin would hire him in a heartbeat.
 
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Backwards K said:
Kiffin did not deserve any of the three jobs he has been handed and he has failed miserably at all three.

1. Failed miserably with the Raiders and left in the middle of a season to get away from the mess he created. He had no respect from his players, his asst coaches, or his peers.

2. Came to UT, ran off most of the linemen on campus, made the University look bad with his no class act, signed the single worst class in UT history, brought the NCAA down on UT, thumbed his nose at all of the Tennessee Traditions, left in the middle of the night and had his coaching staff calling UT recruits and telling them not to come to Knoxville.

3. At USC he took over one of the top programs in the NCAA and quickly turned them around. Started last year ranked #1 in the country and ended up 6-7 with a loss in a bowl being played in a high school stadium.

Yet, many of you still defend him. What's wrong with the youth of America!!
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Kiffin got wins over Spurrier and Richt with a team that was not anymore talented than the 2 teams he beat. He is not among the 5 worst coaches in the NCAA.
 
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Backwards K said:
Kiffin did not deserve any of the three jobs he has been handed and he has failed miserably at all three.

1. Failed miserably with the Raiders and left in the middle of a season to get away from the mess he created. He had no respect from his players, his asst coaches, or his peers.

2. Came to UT, ran off most of the linemen on campus, made the University look bad with his no class act, signed the single worst class in UT history, brought the NCAA down on UT, thumbed his nose at all of the Tennessee Traditions, left in the middle of the night and had his coaching staff calling UT recruits and telling them not to come to Knoxville.

3. At USC he took over one of the top programs in the NCAA and quickly turned them around. Started last year ranked #1 in the country and ended up 6-7 with a loss in a bowl being played in a high school stadium.

Yet, many of you still defend him. What's wrong with the youth of America!!
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I'm not trying to defend Kiffin, and i'm sure not the youth of America, but there isn't a football coach alive who is going to win anytime soon at USC. Those major penalties are designed to do exactly what they're doing, which is make your football program less successful than it was previously. Sure, they have talent, but they have less depth than the teams they play, so they're at a disadvantage. To me, if there is an indictment of Lane Kiffin in all of that, it's that any idiot (even him) should have been able to see this coming and steered clear of that train wreck. Maybe he should at least have wondered why all those other guys turned down the job before the AD got down to his name on that list, anyway.
 
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Daloth said:
Before someone jumps in to flame you for defending him, I still think had he been Crompton's Coach for 3 years that the kid would've been 2nd/3rd round and we win more than a few more games behind him.
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Arguable. Had he been Barkleys coach for 3 years he would not have been drafted.
 
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Kiffin inherited enough talent for USC to be ranked #1 when last season started. How'd that turn out?

In all three jobs he was given, the programs got worse as time went by.
 
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Daloth said:
Before someone jumps in to flame you for defending him, I still think had he been Crompton's Coach for 3 years that the kid would've been 2nd/3rd round and we win more than a few more games behind him.
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Matt Barkley agrees
 
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tim said:
Arguable. Had he been Barkleys coach for 3 years he would not have been drafted.
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Yep, He made a terrible QB under a legendary coach look amazing, and a QB at a school under a legendary coach that constantly sends QBs to the league in the first round who fail miserably (save Palmer who did meh). Great comparison.

But you got those likes for the kiffy haters, so that's what matters, right?
 
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