SEC: Ranking the Conference’s Head Coaches Entering 2015 Spring Practice
By Logan Shaw
The SEC is said to be the best conference in college football due to their constant national relevancy and elite coaching, but who is the best head coach in the SEC?
There aren’t too many more jobs in college football more coveted than an SEC head coaching position. The SEC represents excellence and history, and its schools are conveniently located in the home of some of the most talented football states in the country.
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Former Vanderbilt and current Penn State head coach, James Franklin, used to say, “there are three conferences in football: the AFC, the NFC, and the SEC.”
An SEC head coaching position is a big time responsibility, some schools more so than others, but big responsibilities come with a lot of scrutiny. Every good move you make is praised, and every bad move you make is condemned. The SEC promotes excellence, and if you don’t perform to that level, you’ll find yourself another job pretty fast.
There have been lots of good coaching in SEC history, and saying that, this current wave of coaches in the SEC might be the best group, yet. These men coaching these SEC teams are talented recruiters, knowledgeable coaches, and above all else, they, mostly, are winners.
I’ve compiled a list of the fourteen coaches, ranking worst to first, to see who the best head coach is in the SEC. To rank these coaches, I took both historical stats and more recent stats into account.
It was very difficult to not take history into account. Compiling this list was very tough because almost every coach in the conference has had some success in the past, or is experiencing success now. It was very problematic not to just rank coaches based on their current teams standings.
Anyways, here are the best coaches in the SEC from worst to first for the 2015 season, according to Saturday Blitz.
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