Candid Coaches: Who are the most overrated and underrated college football coaches?
Under the condition of anonymity, we asked our coaching panel to speak out about their peers. Who is undeserving of all the praise they receive? Which coaches need to be talked about more? Let's take a look at their responses.
Most overated
COACH RESPONSES
Willie Taggart, Florida State
20 percent
James Franklin, Penn State
20 percent
Kirk Ferentz, Iowa 13 percent
Lane Kiffin, FAU 13 percent
Five other coaches 34 percent
then most under rated
David Shaw, Stanford
12 percent
Chris Petersen, Washington
12 percent
Dan Mullen, Florida
8 percent
Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern 8 percent
Kyle Whittingham, Utah
8 percent
14 other coaches
52 percent
This from an unnamed coach smacks of blind jealousy
"If you had the No. 1 recruiting class in the country every year [you'd win like Nick Saban]. He shows up at every single game with a better roster than the teams he 's playing. … If you count cheating and getting the best players in the country as part of running a program, he's the best in the country. It's like saying an NFL coach is the best coach in the league if he gets 25 first-round picks every year."
Under the condition of anonymity, we asked our coaching panel to speak out about their peers. Who is undeserving of all the praise they receive? Which coaches need to be talked about more? Let's take a look at their responses.
Most overated
COACH RESPONSES
Willie Taggart, Florida State
20 percent
James Franklin, Penn State
20 percent
Kirk Ferentz, Iowa 13 percent
Lane Kiffin, FAU 13 percent
Five other coaches 34 percent
then most under rated
David Shaw, Stanford
12 percent
Chris Petersen, Washington
12 percent
Dan Mullen, Florida
8 percent
Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern 8 percent
Kyle Whittingham, Utah
8 percent
14 other coaches
52 percent
This from an unnamed coach smacks of blind jealousy
"If you had the No. 1 recruiting class in the country every year [you'd win like Nick Saban]. He shows up at every single game with a better roster than the teams he 's playing. … If you count cheating and getting the best players in the country as part of running a program, he's the best in the country. It's like saying an NFL coach is the best coach in the league if he gets 25 first-round picks every year."
