Phil had Peyton Manning – couldn’t win a NC and went 0-4 against Gators.

Spurrier had Danny – who beat the Vols and won the NC.

I kind of miss [NAME REDACTED], to be honest with you. He looks like Lumbergh, from Office Space. Arp.

One, all gater fans should be GLAD you got Croomed & lost [NAME REDACTED] in the process. BTW, SOS didn’t fare too well in Starksville (0-2).

Two, imagine you’re being recruited by The Orgeron, who is now replaced by GIGGETY!!!GIGGETY!!! Enough to give a young man brain damage.

That said if you put a consistent 7 to 8 win team in Champaign, with a conference championship once every like 5 years, The University of Illinois would jump at it immediatley. Look at our 20 year win loss record, there is reason we became a basketball school. I know he isn’t the best coach we’ll say “strategically” but frankly I’ll take a bonehead with talent blowing a game against Michigan than losing to Northwestern every year.

Cause they’re gonna have to pull one or two more mammoth road upsets to top 6-6 or 7-5

And by the way, I do watch other teams besides the Big 12 and I am very impressed with your recall of game stats and win/loss records.

This wasn’t meant as a comment as past their prime. They have been around coaching a long time and hung in there long enough to earn their due. Unlike coaches today, who leave on whim.

I won’t pretend he’s going to bring us up to the level of a national powerhouse – after all, this year looks like a possible disaster for you guys and we’ll still be lucky to finish more than a game ahead (maybe even lucky to manage that much). And realistically, we won’t be evening the series anytime soon – but even JLS managed to take two out of four to OT and had a chance to tie on the final play in another. As long as Dantonio isn’t a complete failure in the clutch, if we can keep the games close like that, sooner or later, we’ve got to pull one of them out, right?

Paterno? Really? Do you watch college football outside the Big 12?

Oh, and Paterno bitch slapped Darrell Royal and Texas in the Cotton Bowl in ‘74, and is 3-2 overall versus the Horns.

Paterno had at least 4 undefeated seasons, won multiple national titles, and has won all of the major bowls, Rose, Cotton (at one time), Sugar, Orange, and Fiesta (now).

And, he did almost all of the above prior to 1990. Rose Bowl win came in 1994.

Now, maybe, today, he is past his prime, but otherwise…

Or preparation can be just hanging in there forever, i.e. Paterno, Schembechler, etc.

Superior talent compensates for inferior coaching, see Vince Young winning the national title, I mean Texas winning the national title, but at some point the scale will be tipped in favor of inferior talent with the superior coaching, what Oklahoma had when Stoops first arrived in Norman.

The phrase, “it is not the Xs and Os, but the Jimmys and Joes,” is true, but only true to an extent.

This is why a coach like Spurrier could do wonders with QBs that threw like rag arm girls, see Wuerffel, Danny, seriously who throws a balloon to a WR only 15 yards down the field, but Jeff Bowden’s scheming ruined QBs who could have been NFL players.

You get a good to great coach with very good to great talent, depending on position, and you have USC.

#34 – He did win and would have kept winning there. He was getting amazing talent that probably could not get into a Big Ten school in a talent rich state.

Overall, I pretty much agree with the article about schools with talent and their head coaches.

We all say Ron Zook is a bad coach, but he’s 2-1 versus Mark Richt, who’s pretty good. I know Zook had some loaded Florida teams, but those Georgia teams (especially in ‘02) weren’t the little sisters of the poor. Nevermind the fact that Phil Fulmer has pantsed the Dawgs the past two seasons in a row…