Who Is Your Pick For College Coach Of The Year?
by Beergut on Dec 10, 2009 5:19 AM CST
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PrintThe Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) has released their finalists for the 2009 Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year award. The finalists are texas' Mack Brown, Georgia Tech's Paul Johnson, Cincinnati's Brian Kelly, Oregon's Chip Kelly, TCU's Gary Patterson, Boise State's Chris Petersen, and Alabama's Nick Saban. Saban is a previous winner, having won it in 2003 at LSU and last year at Alabama.
My pick is Oregon's Chip Kelly, simply because of where he took his team through the season, from an embarrassing loss to in the opener to Boise State that caused him to suspend his star player all the way to the Rose Bowl. He did a phenomenal coaching job holding his team together, and he did it as a rookie head coach.
The 2009 Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year award will be given out on January 5, 2010.
Who is your pick for coach of the year?
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Mack Brown
I am slightly surprised that Mack Brown’s pay raise hasn’t come up on this blog. As a contributing, card-carrying Libertarian I really have no problem with any school who can afford to do so paying their head coach any amount of money. Mack Brown has had great success over a decade plus period now, and if there’s any college coach who deserves to make the most money in 1-A football it’s probably Brown (one could Argue for Urban Myer with more championships but Brown has been at it longer and has compiled an amazing record, frankly).
I saw this mentioned on ESPN earlier today , and there is probably some validity to it. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4744679 I do have some concerns about the precedent this pay raise sets, regardless of my sometimes laissez-faire attitude about economies. Programs hiring new coaches could fall into the haves and the have-nots when it comes to talented coaching staffs, if unchecked coaches pay continues as it seems to be doing. I would hate to see CFB become something akin to MLB, where there are a few big market teams (Texas, Florida, Ohio State) and then everyone else falling somewhere below the big spenders. I don’t see the NCAA allowing unchecked spending forever.
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