Best SEC coaches?

PGC

 

323 wins. Six NCs. 13 SEC titles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_W._Bryant

rb

 

I'm not Satan lover, and I find it hard to disagree. But LSU was dreadful when Satan took over. What he managed there is easy to overlook, but he deserves credit for it.

 

If total college coaching histories (and not just SEC resumes) were taken into account, I'd probably put Meyer ahead of Satan Saban, doing a Mine That Bird along the rail and closing fast on Steve Superior.

 

Spurrier's at USC now? What happened to Pete Carroll?

 

Saban, other than the national championship season, was very good but not great at LSU.
2000 was an up-and-down rebuilding season.
In 2001, he went 10-3 and won the SEC -- after about a hundred things broke exactly right to enable them to win the West. There were a half-dozen games in November that had to go a certain way for LSU to have a shot, and they all did.
In 2002, the team tanked after Matt Mauck got hurt against Florida (finished 3-2 with two ugly losses and two miracle finishes that evened out).
2003 was the good times.
2004 was good but got screwed up by a total offensive no-show against Auburn.
Saban's LSU teams were always in the hunt, yet also had brainfarts at certain times -- especially on defense, which he's supposedly the guru at. See the 2002 Arkansas game and the infamous Capital One Bowl in 2004.
I haven't seen those kinds of screw-ups from Meyer's teams. I'd put Meyer over Saban any day of the week.

 

Is that supposed to impress us?

 

I'm not even a fan, and it impresses me.

RB