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Sporting News Tags Top Coaches
2005-08-27
Posted by: badanov

We have always liked the way The Sporting News has categorized things, and this installment on college coaches from the major conferences is not exception. Three categories: the only and only, rising star and better get it done, reminds me of our favorite categories with regard to college conferences, stars, dark horses and goats.

Interesting in the SEC how the columnist, Matt Hayes, juxtaposes two proven coaches who should both be in the one and only category; Steve Spurrier of South Carolina and Urban Meyer of Florida. Instead, Spurrier is the one and only (apparently not altogether a good thing in this case, we would guess ) even with a team in the SEC not expected to do much of anything this year in the wake of last year's coach Lou Holtz's retirement.

And we have been hinting around in these pages that Florida has a very good chance in the SEC this year, but it is a tough argument with everyone else ooing and ahhing about Tennessee and LSU.

In another of the conferences, the Big 12, Bob Stoops is the only and only, and Hayes gets this right. Stoops is maddeningly intense about a football game, and tends to hold on like a Rottweiler onto a rib roast until he takes a chunk out of opposing teams. Hayes calls Stoops one of the top three in college football, and there can be no arguing that.

We are no OU fans, but we are not dumb enough to count Oklahoma out of anything until 00:05 left in the fourth quarter. And as we have pointed out previously, neither are the AP sportswriters.

In some of the other conferences, Hayes names as the one and only, Pete Carroll of USC, Frank Breamer of Virginia Tech, Bobby Petrino of the Big East, and Sonny Lubick of Colorado State, though we would argue that Glenn has done a lot for Wyoming, and is considered the team to beat in the Mountain West conference, the Utes notwithstanding.. Hayes notes this by naming Glenn as a rising star.

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