Tiger Bait came out with the following ranking of SEC coaches. The rankings are based on their career records. Anyone have any remarks? 1. Steve Spurrier 2. Tommy Tuberville 3. Mark Richt 4. Urban Myer 5. Les Miles 6. Houston Nutt 7. Phillip Fulmer 8. Sylvester Croom 9. Mike Shula 10. Bobby Johnson 11. Rich Brooks 12. Ed Orgeron
Personally, I don't have any big problem with it because it is based on career achievements. It will be interesting to see how it changes in three years. I doubt if Spurrier will stay #1.
Yeah, how is Croom where he is? :dis: And if youre going on career accomplishments, Fat Phil should be near the top. He does, after all, have a National Championship.
His stats would indicate he deserves to be higher ranked. But I think his problem is that he has not won a conference title in 8 years and is not recruiting as well as some expected, although that could change this year.
Croom higher than Shula?? :shock: What exactly has he done that is better than Shula? That one surprises me a bit.
houston nutt is overrated as usual Croom should be about last... he has won his steady 2-3 games every season Urban shouldn't be ahead of Les, and I have no clue why he is. They both have 1 season in the SEC, and Les won the West, Urban didn't win his side... Other than that, not half bad
It's all very subjective I guess and also based on previous records with other teams, so a bit misleading as well. No way Croom should be ranked where he is because of that, and Johnson should be ranked much higher along with Fulmer. And to say Fulmer isn't recruiting well is flat out wrong, he had the number one or two class in the country the year before last, and to 10 classes the preceding 4 years. Yes last year they dropped to a top 20 position, but to say he has recruited well is baseless.
I think Tubberville should be at the top spot and Spurrier in third behind Richt because Spurrier's previous record should be striken. As far as coaching ability, I'm not sure Miles is ahead of Meyer (too early to tell, though my gut tells me no) and I know Fulmer isn't ahead of Nutt. Trash on Nutt all you want, but put Fulmer at Arkansas and I don't see him with Nutt's record. Shula should be ahead of Croom, without doubt. The bottom four are nothing special - maybe Bobby Johnson gets the nod as #9, but he hasn't gotten much talent to Vandy - last year was an aberration with an exceptional qb. The other programs I had among 1A's worst - terrible for our SOS and the respectability of SEC football. We still had quite a few among the top teams in the nation, but our weakest links are getting weaker.
