🏈 Best Non-SEC College Football Coach

[LBS]

Two friends and I offered up our thoughts about the best coaches not already in the SEC in an effort to identify those who might be invited into the club after next season's inevitable firings. Each of us coming up with one name was not hard (each oddly answering with a different name), but what was interesting was how hard it was coming up with choices 4, 5, and 6.

So, who do you think are the best 6 coaches NOT already in the SEC?

 

[BamaFan615]

1 - Bob Stoops
2 - Mac Brown
3 - Chris Peterson
4 - Frank Beamer
5 - Greg Schiano
6 - Kirk Ferentz

3 dark horses are Bo Pelini, Steve Sarkisian and Jim Tressell....I'm sure that I'm forgetting some good ones too.

 

[bamatuska]

1. Chris Peterson
2. Gary Patterson
3. Mac Brown
4. Bob Stoops
5. Frank Beamer

 

[AlabamaAubKiller]

You guys are giving Stoops too much credit.
Latley, he's gotten to 3rd base a bunch.... he just can't seal the deal.

1. Joe Pa
2. Mack Brown
3. Frank Beamer
4. Bob Stoops
5. and i tie Bo Pelini & Jim Tressell for fith. Altho.....that's a long shot for both.

 

[LBS]

The Top 3 that my buch came up with were:
~Bo Pelini
~Will Muschamp (we know he has never coached a game as HC)
~Frank Beamer

Pelini and Muschamp were chosen because hiring a coach is about the future. The thought is that given a few years, Pelini will have proven himself at Nebraska (he should dominate that division), and that Muschamp would be the brightest unproven star in the country and will have been rightly groomed to take over a big-time program.

By the same token, folks like Stoops, sandwiched between Brown/Muschamp and Pelini would have proven himself unimpressive. Still others would either be proven within inferior conferences or proven themselves too inconsistant.

Frank Beamer, although not likely to jump at this point, always has great Defenses and Special Teams. If he was not a threat, Coach Saban would not have wanted to play him, A'ight?

 

[psychojoe]

1. Gary Patterson

2. Peterson

3. Beamer

4. Mac Brown

5. Bob Stoops

6. Joe Pa.

 

[Bo]

In no particular order

Gary Patterson
Chris Peterson
Mac Brown
Bob Stoops
Bo Pelini
Steve Sarkisian

I know everybody has Beamer on their list, I've just never been very impressed with him, and it seems his teams tend to play a little dirty at times.

 

[UAgrad93]

I'll say Patterson at TCU, Peterson at Boise, Tressel at OSU, Brown at Texas, Davis at UNC, and Stoops at OU.

 

[BamaUte]

Thought I'd drudge up an old post by adding the obvious: Kyle Whittingham.

I'd also add Gary Patterson and Chris Petersen. I have a ton of respect for the programs they're running right now. Their teams are at an elite level.

 

[bamaupsman]

I would have to say Rich Rodriguez. What he did for Bama's program is unbelievable.

 

[firestorm]

I would have to say Rich Rodriguez. What he did for Bama's program is unbelievable.

Sure, that's a good point to put on the table for him as one of the very best out of the SEC, lol

RTR,