Who is the best college football coach? Who is the best NFL coach?

Fisher is tough to root against. Great guy. I don't think too many coaches in the league could be classified that way.

 

Miles can recruit (not as well as Saban, but still pretty well) and he isn't afraid to take chances during a game, but his coaching (teaching) ability is debatable. There are very few players on that team this year that have improved much over the course of their careers. Plus, he hasn't really surrounded himself with good assistants (Pelini might be a good defensive coach, but he's never had to coach his own recruits).

After Saban, Meyer, Tressel, Carroll, I'd probably go Jim Grobe or Mark Richt.

 

Best coaches are Belichick (NFL) and Carroll (College football).

 

I'm not sure how anyone could vote for Fisher in the NFL -- he is clearly a very good coach -- but Shanahan and Belicheck both have multiple super bowls on their mantles and I am willing to bet both have similar, if not better, winning percentages, division titles, playoff berths, etc., than Fisher does. I also think you can make a better case for Jon Gruden and Tony Dungy than Jeff Fisher.

In the end, however, it has to be Belicheck, especially given what he has done this year.

College coaching, it is hard to argue with Nick Saban, Pete Carroll or Urban Liar. I could be convinced of any of those three and couldn't make a strong argument against any of them.

 

If you cheat and keep the best running back in college football on the sideline for your biggest play of the season.

 

Nothing wrong with those two.

Fisher and Meyer are right there as well.

 

I'd say Belichick and Saban.
But I give Fisher a big prop for rebuilding that team from scratch. Of course, the management was smart to stay with him during the lean years.

 

Belichick cheated. Shanahan can't win without Elway. Fisher's teams consistently overachieve. Gruden's team went into the tank very shortly after winning the Super Bowl with a team that Dungy built. Dungy's teams consistently choked for years and years (in Tampa and Indy) before he finally won one.

Carroll loses too many games that he has no business losing. Meyer is just now winning with players he recruited (there is no reason to think that won't continue).

 

Meyer ain't winning. He's destroying teams.

That MSU game... that's his only blotch.

 

Tom Coughlin ahead of Fisher. Belichick is the best coach.

Saban as a game coach is ahead Carroll.

 

Coughlin was about to be canned before he won the Super Bowl.

 

Ole Miss... and at home...