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re: Greatest College Football Program Builder of All-Time
Posted on 10/30/14 at 4:42 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
Posted on 10/30/14 at 4:42 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
Did Bear build aTm?
I guess we should ask if they have a program first.......
I guess we should ask if they have a program first.......
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Posted on 10/30/14 at 4:48 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Butch Davis
Posted on 10/30/14 at 4:51 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Saban. Turned LSU and Bama around in no time. I'm not informed enough to know what Michigan States situation was like. I'm convinced he could show up at New Mexico State and have them in the top 25 in 3 years.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 5:30 pm to Celery
Urban for the years he was at the programs.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 5:41 pm to CatsGoneWild
Mack Brown with Tulane, UNC, and Texas?
Posted on 10/30/14 at 5:43 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
Snyder
What he's done and continues to do at KST. They showed the other day, that he has 20++ walk ons on the 2 deep depth chart, and few of them have made all conference.
What he's done and continues to do at KST. They showed the other day, that he has 20++ walk ons on the 2 deep depth chart, and few of them have made all conference.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 5:44 pm to FT
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Bill Snyder should be somewhere high on the list.
#1
Horrible for years.
He arrives - they're nationally relevant.
The second he leaves - mediocre
Comes back - relevant again.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 5:45 pm to Fat Harry
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Mack Brown with Tulane, UNC, and Texas?
Surprised this took until page 2.
He did a pretty good job letting Texas fall apart, though.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 5:52 pm to Henry Jones Jr
If we're talking builders - as in lifting a program out the dregs into contention, then Snyder has to be up there.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 5:52 pm to Fat Harry
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Mack Brown with Tulane, UNC, and Texas?
He never had a winning season @Tulane
In 10 years @UNC only had two seasons with less than 3 losses
Texas was already national program
My top 3 would be
Bobby Bowden
Howard Schnellenberger
Hayden Fry
Posted on 10/30/14 at 5:54 pm to TigerintheNO
Lane Kiffin? 
Posted on 10/30/14 at 5:58 pm to Backinthe615
Gary Patterson looking to do his part as well... with a little help from some other guy at the very start.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 6:03 pm to TigerintheNO
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He never had a winning season @Tulane
In 10 years @UNC only had two seasons with less than 3 losses
Texas was already national program
He also had 3 10 loss seasons.
Schnellenberger basically single-handedly stopped Metro Conference football from starting.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 6:08 pm to Henry Jones Jr
I really think if he hadn't busted a spring, Jim Leavitt could've been on this list. Well, maybe this list in the future. If USF had kept that mojo, they'd probably be in the P5 already.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 6:20 pm to Backinthe615
I despise Schnellenburger for his 1 year at OU. What he did there was worthy of treason.
But Hayden Fry, Paterno, Snyder, and Bowden get my votes.
Glen Mason Jackie Sherrill and George Pearles get honorable mentions
I think what Arnsparger did at LSU was pretty damn good also.
But Hayden Fry, Paterno, Snyder, and Bowden get my votes.
Glen Mason Jackie Sherrill and George Pearles get honorable mentions
I think what Arnsparger did at LSU was pretty damn good also.
This post was edited on 10/30/14 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 10/30/14 at 6:37 pm to sms151t
Knute Rockne... Made Notre Dame a powerhouse for decades and still relevant today, and could reasonably be given more credit than anyone for why we care about college football to this very day.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 6:40 pm to Henry Jones Jr
H.S. shouldn't have even won a national title. The last team to beat 3 stright top ten teams, before Mississippi St. did it this year was Auburn in 1983, they played like 6 top ten teams that year plus number 15 Alabama.
Anyways, before I named the best I wanted to make my point.
Bear Bryant is the easy, EASY choice here. He stayed at Maryland only one year, left because of the President, but Maryland won the National title 5 or 6 years later. I can't give him much credit here, but I clearly think Bear changed the culture.
Bear Bryant won an SEC title at Kentucky, he also went 10-1 and beat the National Champion Oklahoma Sooners in the 1950 Sugar Bowl 13-7. Both teams finished 10-1, but the titles were decided before the bowl games then.
KENTUCKY! !!!
Texas AM was a horrible team when Bear arrived and he turned them into National Title contenders in a few years.
Bama went 1-10 in 1957 with lile 4 or 5 wins in the three prior seasons. To boot, LSU, Ole Miss and Auburn were national power houses when Bear arrived. Within 4 years Bear won his first of 6 National Titles at Bama in a 22 year span, and that doesn't count the undefeated untied team of 1966 or the 1977 team that got shafted by Notre Dame.
There is NO COMPARISON to Bear as far as turnaround masters go.
Anyways, before I named the best I wanted to make my point.
Bear Bryant is the easy, EASY choice here. He stayed at Maryland only one year, left because of the President, but Maryland won the National title 5 or 6 years later. I can't give him much credit here, but I clearly think Bear changed the culture.
Bear Bryant won an SEC title at Kentucky, he also went 10-1 and beat the National Champion Oklahoma Sooners in the 1950 Sugar Bowl 13-7. Both teams finished 10-1, but the titles were decided before the bowl games then.
KENTUCKY! !!!
Texas AM was a horrible team when Bear arrived and he turned them into National Title contenders in a few years.
Bama went 1-10 in 1957 with lile 4 or 5 wins in the three prior seasons. To boot, LSU, Ole Miss and Auburn were national power houses when Bear arrived. Within 4 years Bear won his first of 6 National Titles at Bama in a 22 year span, and that doesn't count the undefeated untied team of 1966 or the 1977 team that got shafted by Notre Dame.
There is NO COMPARISON to Bear as far as turnaround masters go.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 6:51 pm to S.E.C. Crazy
Wallace Wade also built Duke's football program, before it fell apart. Then Spurrier rebuilt. Then it fell apart again, and now Coach Cut rebuilt it again.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 6:53 pm to S.E.C. Crazy
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1977 team that got shafted by Notre Dame
Well, Alabama shafted USC the next year.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 6:55 pm to S.E.C. Crazy
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He stayed at Maryland only one year, left because of the President, but Maryland won the National title 5 or 6 years later. I can't give him much credit here, but I clearly think Bear changed the culture.
god you're delusional
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