Posted on 12/10/2019 5:05:15 PM PST by Rummyfan
I’ve met famous musicians, actors athletes and even our favorite vice presidential candidate from Alaska but the two people I am proudest of meeting and shaking their hands are Tom Osborne and Bob Devaney. I’ve actually met T.O. a few times and had a couple of brief conversations with him.
Here in Nebraska, Bob Delaney is known simply as the Bobfather. In this state T.O. is referred to as less than a god but more than a man. Nebraska won 44 more games than any other program between 1962 and 2001. That is the legacy of those two coaches. Sad that it has slipped away like it has.
Go Big Red!
I'm not disputing that. I would only say that, if there is any competition, that it doesn't come from the men's side, but from the women's side: Pat Summitt.
Woody Hayes was classic old school Big Ten. He would rather lose by running the ball than win by passing it.
Not that that is a good thing. I don’t think that it is. Plus “great” is counted by more than just the win column.
I don’t know. He always drove up.
Poor wording.
Navy has 2 on the list.
The training place up north has 2 and the one out west has 1. I was suprised that more earlier coaches for Navy and the one up north didn’t make the list but it’s basically combined wins so I guess I get it.
I’m not saying he is the best, but John MacKay USC in the 60s was on fire with a running back or two every year on the hesimann hunt. He brought USC back after a post-war slump.
But it was his quick hit that drew so many fans. We couldn’t get enough.
Examples: Coach what do you think of your offense’s execution. I think it’s good idea.
SC Kicker,Pete Rajecki, had said he was nervous kicking in front of his coach, McKay asked that the press “Tell Mr. Rajecki that I plan to attend all the games.”
We didn’t tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.
Kickers are like horse manure. They’re all over the place.
We’ve broken down the expansion teams and they’ve averaged winning 2.7 games their first year, which to me is rather difficult. I figured out the 2, but the .7 has got me wondering what the hell is going on.
Emotion is highly overrated in football. My wife Corky is emotional as hell but can’t play football worth a damn.
Coach are you gonna run OJ 47 times every game. Yes, unless he joins the union.
20 Funny Football Team Names
Cereal Killers.
Chili Peppers.
Hopscotch Mafia.
Abusement Park.
E = MC Hammer.
We Can’t Agree.
The Flaming Marshmellows.
Team Redundant Team.
Easier said than run.
Bye Week.
Boom Shaka Laka.
Low Expectations.
Rescheduled.
Smells Like Team Spirit.
Bed Bath and Beyonce.
Elemonators.
Ashamed of what we did for a Klondike Bar.
Screaming Nachos.
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.
Game of Drones.
Well, one asterisk on his tombstone might very well be “Though he tried four times, he never beat Notre Dame.” Alas.
Don James at 52??? Nope. Huskies!
Yes. The college football season ended about 3:30pm November 30. But then it started at noon on the same day. :-)
Agreed. Either Saban or Bryant 1&2.
I met Bob Devany once, a real gentleman. As a grad teaching assistant at NU, I had Scott Strasberger in one of my classes. Also a gentleman and a good student. He went on to become an orthopedic surgeon.
Well, that's all that matters.
Bo was 5-4-1 against Woody, anyway. Harbaugh would kill for that record against The OSU.
It’s ESPN dude.
There is too much “recency bias” in all this.
In particular, Walter Camp is likely the best coach ever (78-5-3 overall and 67-2 at Yale from 1888-1892 plus 11-3-3 at Stanford from 1892-95). Apart from the highest win percentage of any, he created so much of the modern game: 11-man teams (down from 15), line of scrimmage, down and distance, center snap, and “All-America Team” before he retired at age 36!
Robert Zuppke having been 131-81-12 at Illinois from 1913-41 also deserves to be much higher than #121! He invented the pre-snap huddle, screen pass, long-snap punts, the linebacker position, and the flea-flicker play.
Hayden Fry deserves to be much higher having turned fallow fields into bounty at a series of universities and even more so for the incredible coaching tree that sprouted from his tutelege!
Except Bryant had the power to avoid the 2nd best teams being invited to his New Year's bowls. Saban can't do that. Avantage Saban.
A half dozen Fry assistants went on to great or near great coaching careers...
Got the point.
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