re: Who’s the worst college football head coach of all time?

If we are not just talking W/L, could Art Briles end up in this conversation?

Why the hell is a HC of any DI football program booking hotels for away trips?

Jerry Baldwin

Ears Whitworth took over at Alabama in 1955. They were two seasons removed from a SEC title. Harold Drew left a solid program. Whitworth immediately destroyed it, going 4-24-2. He was fired in 1957. Bryant was hired and the rest is history.

O was in the conversation before becoming head coach at lsu

10-25 overall
3-21 in the sec

Kevin Steele and it isn’t close

Steele was the head coach at Baylor University from 1999 to 2002. His record was 9–36 (1–31 in the Big 12 conference).

It's clearly Whitworth. Going 4-24-2 at Northwestern or Vanderbilt is one thing. Going 4-24-2 at Alabama is entirely another. Under Red Drew, who preceded him, the program had declined from the glory years of Wade and Thomas, but they were still contenders for the SEC most years, and of course Bryant came in after Whitworth was fired and won the NC within four years. Whitworth was apparently a special kind of awful.

Taggart was dreadful at FSU.

Someone else mentioned John L. Smith. His teams at Michigan State always had talent and were pretty damn scary when they were clicking, but my god did they know how to melt down.

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Watson Brown

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Wasn't he the UAB coach that beat Saban?

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LINK to GameDay piece slamming Greg Robinson

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Thanks for posting this. I watched that when it came out. It was kind of like a publicity thing for when The Express was released. But they couldn't really celebrate the program because Robinson's teams sucked so bad. He doesn't get enough credit for how monumentally shitty he was as a head coach. Syracuse became a laughingstock under him, a reputation that still persists. Corso was spot on in that piece, Daryll Gross sucked just as much as Robinson.