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CFB Coaching Tiers

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April 23, 2020 at 3:59pm
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The super offseason is upon us, what better time to debate meaningless things about football? 

This has surely been done before, but I think it's always good to do this once in a while: ranking CFB coaches and fitting them into tiers. 

The rules are simple: only active head coaches, so no one who's dead (Woody, Behr Bryant, Joe Pa (eww)), no one retired (Urban, Bob Stoops), and no one who's in the NFL (Carrol). 

The tiers as I see them go as such: 

Tier 1: Elite Coaches, only the best of the best and the most proven. (Any program would love to have them at the helm)

Tier 2: Very good/rising star coaches. (Almost any program would be at least satisfied to have them)

Tier 3: Good coaches. Yeah they're good, they're not the best though. (The James Franklin tier) 

Tier 4: Decent coaches. (Maybe the litmus test for this one would be, "if this guy was named the new coach at Ohio State, would you be disappointed but not distraught?") 

Tier 5: Mediocre coaches. They're not terrible, they're also not very impressive. 

Tier 6: Bad coaches. How do they still have jobs? 

Tier 7: Meme coaches, they don't coach, they do performance art for an inflated salary while boosters tear their hair out. 

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