Rank Your Top Ten SEC Coaches Of All-Time (Football)

[zjcvols]

I thought about this with Vince Dooley's passing. I won't put any major prerequisites on it (except pre-SEC existence doesn't count and they had to coach in the SEC, sorry Dan McGugin, Wallace Wade and Frank Broyles). I tried not to lean too much into modern era but this is what I came up with (in order).

Nick Saban
Bear Bryant
Robert Neyland
Steve Spurrier
Johnny Vaught
Frank Thomas
Urban Meyer
Vince Dooley
Bobby Dodd
Phillip Fulmer or Les Miles (I couldn't choose)

 

[Ned Ray McWorkher]

Not Les.... Good list otherwise.

 

[zjcvols]

Not Les.... Good list otherwise.

I know what you’re thinking…but man Les has a case.

He’s top 8 in win percentage in SEC history. Won 8 games every year. Two SEC titles, a national title and he’d have another if the BCS rankings went with Oklahoma State over Alabama. 114-34. Probably has 3-4 SEC titles if not for Saban.

 

[peaygolf]

Without looking up stuff……
in no order…..

Neyland
Bryant
Saben
Spurrier
Meyer
Dooley
Vaught
Thomas
Shug Jordan
Dan McGugin

 

[CaliVol2009]

I thought about this with Vince Dooley's passing. I won't put any major prerequisites on it (except pre-SEC existence doesn't count and they had to coach in the SEC, sorry Dan McGugin, Wallace Wade and Frank Broyles). I tried not to lean too much into modern era but this is what I came up with (in order).

Nick Saban
Bear Bryant
Robert Neyland
Steve Spurrier
Johnny Vaught
Frank Thomas
Urban Meyer
Vince Dooley
Bobby Dodd
Phillip Fulmer or Les Miles (I couldn't choose)

Bear Bryant never beat Neyland, switch those two.

 

[Volfan1000]

I thought about this with Vince Dooley's passing. I won't put any major prerequisites on it (except pre-SEC existence doesn't count and they had to coach in the SEC, sorry Dan McGugin, Wallace Wade and Frank Broyles). I tried not to lean too much into modern era but this is what I came up with (in order).

Nick Saban
Bear Bryant
Robert Neyland
Steve Spurrier
Johnny Vaught
Frank Thomas
Urban Meyer
Vince Dooley
Bobby Dodd
Phillip Fulmer or Les Miles (I couldn't choose)

Neyland
Bryant
Saban
Dooley
Spurrier
Vaught
Dye
Majors
Dodd
Meyer

 

[Switch 625]

Interesting list
SEC Football: Ranking the 25 Best Coaches in Conference History

 

[stolitonic]

No Jeremy Pruitt??

 

[ENGRVOL]

Think the top 3 of Saban, Bear, and Neyland are lightyears ahead of the rest.
SEC is filled with coaches that were good for a few years winning a single championship followed by either many bad years or ncaa penalties (like Stallings, Fulmer, coach O, chizik, Les). Hard to rank those coaches.

 

[stolitonic]

You talking just schools NOW in the SEC?

Hard to leave off Bobby Dodd at GT back in the day if you are going for a true history.


How you gonna treat a team like Ark who may only have a 30 year SEC history but a 100 year+ history overall?

 

[zjcvols]

You talking just schools NOW in the SEC?

Hard to leave off Bobby Dodd at GT back in the day if you are going for a true history.


How you gonna treat a team like Ark who may only have a 30 year SEC history but a 100 year+ history overall?

I said they had to coach in the SEC hence why Broyles was off the list

 

[zjcvols]

Think the top 3 of Saban, Bear, and Neyland are lightyears ahead of the rest.
SEC is filled with coaches that were good for a few years winning a single championship followed by either many bad years or ncaa penalties (like Stallings, Fulmer, coach O, chizik, Les). Hard to rank those coaches.

The top 3 is clear. Then Thomas, Spurrier, Vaught in the next tier. Then you can put 15 guys in the 7-10 list.

 

[zjcvols]

Bear Bryant never beat Neyland, switch those two.

Pretty sure Bryant would have gotten Neyland a few times if he had coached at Bama from the beginning. Not to disrespect the General but Bryant’s 1970’s run the is the most impressive in college football history.

 

[perico]

I thought about this with Vince Dooley's passing. I won't put any major prerequisites on it (except pre-SEC existence doesn't count and they had to coach in the SEC, sorry Dan McGugin, Wallace Wade and Frank Broyles). I tried not to lean too much into modern era but this is what I came up with (in order).

Nick Saban
Bear Bryant
Robert Neyland
Steve Spurrier
Johnny Vaught
Frank Thomas
Urban Meyer
Vince Dooley
Bobby Dodd
Phillip Fulmer or Les Miles (I couldn't choose)

Gene Stallings

 

[Firebirdparts]

I would agree Neyland, Bryant, Saban are way ahead.

I would like to see these guys ranked on win percentage. Side note; Dodd's team won 31 straight, so he was in that "unbelievable" category in the old days. That kinda stuff amazes me. When he was QB/TB at UT, the vols were in a 33 undefeated streak. He was QB for most of that. That's a different world of football evidently.

Interesting that Vaught had 3 nattys at ole miss.

 

[WingT]

which dooley are we refering to here