Re: Least favorite opposing coaches

Earlier this week, there was a thread about Brian Kelly being fans’ most hated coach. I said he wasn’t in my top 5. This got me thinking about who my top 5 are. Oddly, Muschamp isn’t in the top 5 either. I think primarily in both cases, it is because they seem harmless to me. That is probably a bigger insult than hating them.

So here is the top 5 I came up with (in some cases pure hatred overcame harmlessness):

1) Dave Doeren
2) Ryan Day
3) Kirby Smart
4) Lane Kiffin
5) Jim Harbaugh

Honorable mention: Steve Spurrier, Lou Holtz, Scott Schaefer, Paul Johnson, Urban Meyer, James Franklin, Dan Mullen

So that you won’t think I am just a hater, here are 5 active coaches that I think I like...tell me why I shouldn’t (no particular order):

Pat Narduzzi
Nick Saban
Mack Brown
Les Miles
Mike Gundy

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Nov 7, 2020, 8:50 AM

First off you make this tough by mentioning coaches like Brian Kelly ,who we don't face all that often, or even Jim Harbaugh or Ryan Day that we probably never will play against outside of the CFP's.
Then you have Kirby Smart or Lane Kiffin, both coaches that we recruit against.
Then you mention Spurrier, and Holtz, both now retired but were once opposing coaches.
So I simply give you the 5 coaches who are my least favorite, regardless of the current situation.
First, and foremost is Spurrier , who in my opinion is the biggest @$$-hole in college football ever. Like them or not, what he did to the coots is basically unforgivable ,which brings me to the 2nd biggest @$$-hole in college football, Jimbo Fisher(Texas A&M).
What he did to FSU ,and the way be baby sat Jameis Winston is probably worse than what Spurrier did, but I disliked Spurrier long before I did Fisher.
So that brings me to #'s 3,4,and 5.
Number 3 is the man with the lisp, Lou Holtz. He put more teams on probation than Carter has little liver pills, but hey his "Coot" team did put up a good fight against Clemson back in 2004.
# 4 is Paul Johnson. What a loser he was ,but he sure knew how to coach the chop block method of playing football.
An at # 5,is Urban Meyer, who I just feel is too highly regarded in the coaching circle. Add to that I think the pressure to succeed plays on his brain too much.
Oh, and I really don't dislike Muschamp. He is an o.k. Defensive Coordinator ,but he is in "way over his head "as a Head Coach.

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