Who would be on Your list of top 5 worst SEC Football Coaches you've seen?

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My top 5 worst would be:

1)Rod Dowhower Vanderbilt
2)Woody Widenhofer Vanderbilt
3)Joker Phillips Kentucky
4)Curley Hallman LSU
5)Rockey Felker Mississippi State
 
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I will exercise self-serving selectivity and confess that this person is about ten years before my time, but Bear Bryant’s immediate predecessor at Alabama, Jennings B. Whitworth (1955-1957), would be at the top of my list. His towering "achievements," which place him atop this Wall of Infamy, include the following:

(1) Overall record: 4-24-2 (.166); SEC record: 3-18-1 (.159). See List of Alabama Crimson Tide head football coaches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

(2) 17 consecutive losses (from 11/13/54-10/20/56), 19 consecutive games without a victory (10/30/54-10/20/56). Included within that streak were back-to-back losses to the Commodes (21-6 and 32-7) and Tennessee (20-0 and 24-0). During that 19-game span, Alabama was shut out NINE times.

(3) For all of the great teams that Alabama has fielded over the years, let us also raise our glasses to the perfect record of the 1955 Crimson Tide, a squad that went 0-10-0 and scored only 48 points all year. A job well done. See Alabama Historical Scores.
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
I will exercise self-serving selectivity and confess that this person is about ten years before my time, but Bear Bryant’s immediate predecessor at Alabama, Jennings B. Whitworth (1955-1957), would be at the top of my list. His towering "achievements," which place him atop this Wall of Infamy, include the following:

(1) Overall record: 4-24-2 (.166); SEC record: 3-18-1 (.159). See List of Alabama Crimson Tide head football coaches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

(2) 17 consecutive losses (from 11/13/54-10/20/56), 19 consecutive games without a victory (10/30/54-10/20/56). Included within that streak were back-to-back losses to the Commodes (21-6 and 32-7) and Tennessee (20-0 and 24-0). During that 19-game span, Alabama was shut out NINE times.

(3) For all of the great teams that Alabama has fielded over the years, let us also raise our glasses to the perfect record of the 1955 Crimson Tide, a squad that went 0-10-0 and scored only 48 points all year. A job well done. See Alabama Historical Scores.
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The 1957 National Champion Auburn team beat that Alabama team 40-0
 
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WoodstockVol said:
My top 5 worst would be:

1)Rod Dowhower Vanderbilt
2)Woody Widenhofer Vanderbilt
3)Joker Phillips Kentucky
4)Curley Hallman LSU
5)Rockey Felker Mississippi State
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How could Joker Phillips be on that list and not Derek Dooley? Joker beat Dooley. Something a UK coach had not done to a UT coach in a quarter century.
 
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It is interesting that you pointed that out. In fact, from 1954-1957, Auburn outscored Alabama 128-7 in reeling off a four-game wininng streak. See Alabama Historical Scores. As difficult as the last five years have been for Tennessee, I am specifically citing this data to say that things can get worse, a lot worse, even for proud and storied programs like Alabama.
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
It is interesting that you pointed that out. In fact, from 1954-1957, Auburn outscored Alabama 128-7 in reeling off a four-game wininng streak. See Alabama Historical Scores. As difficult as the last five years have been for Tennessee, I am specifically citing this data to say that things can get worse, a lot worse, even for proud and storied programs like Alabama.
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The 1958 Auburn-Alabama game was only a 14-8 win for Auburn. That shows the great job Bear Bryant did with that team(going 5-4-1 His first season at Alabama)
 
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UGADawg4Life said:
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Wait, I thought Kiffin was the second coming and had a hot wife and all. Is it just because he left in the middle of the night?!?!
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I never liked kiffin and always thought it was a mistake. Guy is a joke Hell he can't even win in the Pac 12, he would have never amounted to anything in the SEC.
 
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Too many to name
Derek Dooley
Brad Scott
Watson Brown
Mike Archer
Curley Hallman
Rod Dowhower
George MacIntyre
Ray Goff
Mike Shula
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His overall record (19-25) wasn’t that bad for a Vanderbilt head coach, but Gerry DiNardo deserves honorable mention simply for losing four games to Tennessee by the combined margin of 201-39, including 62-14 and 65-0 massacres in 1993 and ’94, respectively. See Tennessee Historical Scores.

That is the kind of metaphorical bloodletting that should always take place in the course of Tennessee-Vanderbilt games.
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
His overall record (19-25) wasn’t that bad for a Vanderbilt head coach, but Gerry DiNardo deserves honorable mention simply for losing four games to Tennessee by the combined margin of 201-39, including 62-14 and 65-0 massacres in 1993 and ’94, respectively. See Tennessee Historical Scores.

That is the kind of metaphorical bloodletting that should always take place in the course of Tennessee-Vanderbilt games.
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He kinda brought it on himself by running his mouth.
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allvol123 said:
How could Joker Phillips be on that list and not Derek Dooley? Joker beat Dooley. Something a UK coach had not done to a UT coach in a quarter century.
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Joker went like 2-10 last year....

2-10<5-7

And Dooley beat him 2/3 Times.

I'm not a Dooley fan....but putting him anywhere near the top 5 of worst SEC coaches You've seen is ignorant. Unless you are under the age of 30. Then it's understandable.
 
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1.Lane Kiffin
2.Derek Dooley:devilsmoke:
3.Mike Shula
4.John L. Smith
5.Ed Orgeron
 
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Vol4life25 said:
Joker went like 2-10 last year....

2-10<5-7

And Dooley beat him 2/3 Times.

I'm not a Dooley fan....but putting him anywhere near the top 5 of worst SEC coaches You've seen is ignorant. Unless you are under the age of 30. Then it's understandable.
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Dooley is probably the worst coach in school history, and I serious doubt he's any more successful at Kentucky than Joker was. He may not be bottom 5, but he's probably close.

Mike Archer is also up/down there.
 
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Vol4life25 said:
Joker went like 2-10 last year....

2-10<5-7

And Dooley beat him 2/3 Times.

I'm not a Dooley fan....but putting him anywhere near the top 5 of worst SEC coaches You've seen is ignorant. Unless you are under the age of 30. Then it's understandable.
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Joker was at UK. Dooley was at UT. I am well above 30. Anyone saying Dooley couldn't be one of the worst disasters this league has seen, is ignorant.
 
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Eliminating everybody that has coached at Vandy or Kentucky:

Ray Goff
Sparky Woods
Brad Scott
Gene Chizik
Mike Archer
 
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allvol123 said:
Joker was at UK. Dooley was at UT. I am well above 30. Anyone saying Dooley couldn't be one of the worst disasters this league has seen, is ignorant.
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The only possible pass Dooley could get is that everyone acknowledges that he walked into a grease fire. Now, that's not to say that he didn't spray lighter fluid on it.
 
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