1)Al Golden from Temple: 7-4, 8-4, 7-5. Thanks, Golden, for making Temple respectable again. I am waiting for the right time to back Golden at Miami.
2)Frank Solich of Ohio: 7-4, 8-5, 8-5. Just a straight-up, good coach who probably shouldn't have been fired from Nebraska, and who is doing a nice job in the MAC's Ohio program.
3)Urban Meyer of Florida: 12-1, 7-6,7-6.The hell with stocks and mutual funds. If Meyer returns to coaching, I'd invest in whatever team Meyer coaches.
4)Nick Saban of Bama:9-5,9-4,8-5. NCAA's best coach?
5)Jim Harbaugh of Stanford: 7-5, 8-5, 8-5. He's bringing that same cold-bloodedness to the NFL.
6)Dave Wannstedt of Pitt: 7-6, 8-4, 7-4-2. Wannstedt got screwed at Pitt. He did a nice job there and no one loved his alma mater more than Pitt's fired coach.
7)Chris Petersen of Boise:8-4,9-4,9-4. You know what's ironic here: the coach prior to Petersen, Dan Hawkins, was as impressive as his successor, with 5 winning spread years in a row. Yet, Hawkins went to Colorado, and, essentially, sucked. It makes me wonder how Petersen would do at another school
8)Gary Patterson of TCU: 8-4, 8-4, 7-6: My man, GP, lost a 4-yr. starter at QB in Andy Dalton, 4 O-line starters from '10(including a 1st team AA at center!), and 7 starters on defense. He still has a pretty formidable team in what should've been a re-building year. I'm probably stretching this a bit, but, I consider Patterson close to being a defensive genius.
9)Dave Cutcliffe of Duke: 6-5, 5-4, 7-5: For those who took the time to take guesses on my query, this was the coaching guess which would've have qualified you for a bonus prize. It shouldn't be so surprising. Cutcliffe did a nice job at Mississippi before he was unjustly fired. He's also built a rep as working well with, and developing QBs(Count the Manning bros. in that group). Under the category of "always willing to change", I almost never considered Duke as a possible team I'd play week-to-week. Since "discovering" Cutcliffe's success as a spread coach, I now look at Duke each week as a potential recommendation.
Interesting side note: two of the aforementioned coaches faced each other yesterday: Golden vs. Cutcliffe. Miami got the win, and, I believe, the cover.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
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