With a minimum of ten years’ experience,
Active FBS coaches ranked wins per year.
1. Stoops (Okla) 10.7
2. Meyer (OSt) 10.6
3. Richt (GA) 9.7
4. Miles LSU 9.5
5. Saban Ala 9.2— Phil Steele (@philsteele042) March 27, 2014
What’s remarkable is that two of the coaches on that list – Miles and Richt – have been on hot seats in the last five years.
Filed under Georgia Football, Phil Steele Makes My Eyes Water
“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
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Confirms my suspicion about some of our fan base.
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Cue the “MNC” comments
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+1 same thought
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“Errbody has a damn MNC ‘cept Reverend Richt on that list!!!1!11!!”
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Yep, people forget that guys like Paterno, Osborne, and Bowden, who any college football fan would admit are coaching legends, took 17 years or more (Osborne over 20) at their schools before they won a MNC.
I’m not saying Richt is going to be mentioned in the same breath as those guys 20 years from now, but I do hate it when I hear our fans say things “If Richt hasn’t won a national title by now, he’s never going to.” I do believe that eventually Richt is going to have that season where the necessary stars align, the ball bounces our way a couple of extra times, and we bring home that crystal trophy.
And McGarity will reward Richt handsomely with a $25,000 annual pay raise, or something along those lines. 😉
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Yep!
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Cue Janet…
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Nick Saban does not have time for arithmetic that ranks Big Game Bob, Irwin, CMR, and das Hat above him
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I wonder if Pruitt can match his intensity?
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Our players better hope that Jeremy can’t match Nick’s proficiency in the use of barometers
“I’m going to tell you what, if I had a barometer up your ass to say whether you were giving effort or not” or if a hurricane coming
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I look at that list and think two things: (1) “this should be unsurprising to more people” and (2) “oh so close…”
Richt couldn’t quuuuuuite get over the Florida hump while Meyer was there. There were some brutal years (2008 and 2009 come to mind). But the other games were close and competitive. Some years, we took superior teams into Jax and wet the bed (2005, 2008). In 2006, we overachieved against with a freshman quarterback.
As for the rest of the group, Richt is 2-4 against Saban and 3-2 against Miles.
Strip away the MNC beauty pageant, and we’ve got a coach who holds his own against the best of the best, even without the institutional advantages derived from oversigning and academic standards.
GATA, y’all.
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Doesn’t Richt have 3 wins against Saban or was the 2005 SECCG win over LSU against Miles?
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That was Les Miles’ first year. He was 1-2 against Saban at LSU and 1-2 against him at Bama. He is however 4-4 vs LSU and 3-2 vs Bama during his coaching career.
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What I find remarkable about that list is that Big Game Bob is at the top. Who’d have thunk it?
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Actually Mayor, I would. Guy has had a cake schedule in the ‘artist formally known as Big 12’ for a while. He has to beat, what, 2 good teams on average a year to get 10 w’s?
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He also owns Alabama and Nick Saban, so there’s that…
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Ya know, not to mess up the whole “if you ain’t ESS EEE CEE then you don’t matter” narrative.
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Well if BGB were in the SEC his numbers would be a lot different don’t cha think?
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BGB mocks your skepticism about his ability to win in the SEC, while secretly being thankful he won’t ever have to back up his hubris on that issue.
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Big Game Bob, that’s who!
“Stoops’ star fell bit by bit over the years, dropping as the bowl defeats and shocking upsets and occasional blowouts began to pile up. Each setback plunged the OU program further and further from his halcyon 2000 season, when he climbed a rocket and rode it to the national championship in just his second season as head coach.” A 13-2 shocker over FSU whose Offensive Coordinator was multi-tasking as the new incoming replacement head coach at Georgia
http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/ou/john-e-hoover-big-game-bob-s-back-after-near/article_6fe4c92e-ccb1-5a4b-b3cc-34d5bb3be5f2.html
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If Gruden were at UGA, he’d be above Stoops at zero.
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Which ranks Chuckie perfectly because he has always been considered by some to be a unique purely imaginary number
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People need to start appreciating what we have in Coach Richt.
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He’s #3 and #1 in the S-E-C!
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If you ranked the salaries of those 5 coaches, Richt would be at the bottom of the list by about a million dollars. That just blows my mind every time I see what the other college football coaches, especially SEC coaches, are being paid.
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It’s almost as if he were coaching at Brown
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The calling all Eeyore Dawgs and Bobo haz a crayon crowd have been noticeably quiet.
I like it that way.
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Amen, support the team and enjoy the game.
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Richt earned himself the right to be fired a few years ago due to the programs slide from 2006-2010. He also earned the right to keep his job a tad longer during 2011 (following the first 2 games of the season) and 2012. 2013 will be fresh in everyone’s mind heading into 2014. Only time will tell.
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Correct me if I’m wrong here, but didn’t the 2007 Georgia football team finish #2 in the nation (and should have been #1 if they hadn’t been f#cked out of playing in the BCSNCG by an ESPN hatchet job). I don’t think that year was part of the “slide.” Your whole premise is wrong Skeptic. Some years the team has been better than others. If there was a “slide” it really lasted only 2009 through 2010. In 2011 the Georgia team won the SEC East. In 2012 the Dawgs won the SEC East again and if the SECCG ends a little differently, that team is in the BCSNC and likely wins the NC. No “slide” there. Was last season part of a new “slide?” Quit trying to create trends when they really don’t exist.
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