Question: Who are your top five football head coaches in the SEC? List is provided below

saturdaysarebet

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Who are your top five football head coaches in the SEC? List is provided below:


Alabama - Kalen DeBoer
Arkansas - Sam Pittman
Auburn - Hugh Freeze
Florida - Billy Napier
Georgia - Kirby Smart
Kentucky - Mark Stoops
LSU - Brian Kelly
Ole Miss - Lane Kiffin
Miss St. - Jeff Lebby
Mizzu - Eli Drinkwitz
Oklahoma - Brent Venables
SCaro - Shane Beamer
Tennessee - Josh Heupel
Texas - Steve Sarkisian
Texas A&M - Mike Elko
Vanderbilt - Clark Lea
 

rolltide_21

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1. Smart 2. Deboer 3. Sark 4. Lane 5. Heupel

I placed Deboer above Sark because he has multiple wins against him but below Smart because he hasn’t won a national championship. If Deboer continues coaching like this year in years 2 & 3 then my list would change. I don’t believe Lane or Heupel are better coaches than him given CKD’s overall history/track record as a HC
 
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TideEngineer08

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Actually my take is I see only 1 truly elite HC and that is Kirby Smart.

I see 2 HCs who are poised to become elite but the jury is still out: Sark and DeBoer. They've both made the CFP, DeBoer actually beat Sark and made the NC game, but neither did this while navigating an SEC schedule. And neither have actually won a title. Sark is on his way to that this season, so we'll see. DeBoer, IMO, has failed pretty badly this year. But it is the 1st season, following the legend, with a mess of a locker room.

In the next tier, I have Lane Kiffin and Josh Heupel. Great talent evaluators, but so-so gameday coaches, in big games. Both have shown a tendency to drop games to inferior teams.

So maybe that's my top 5. Kirby, DeBoer, Sark, Kiffin, and Heupel. But Kirby is clearly ahead of the others. The enthusiasm for DeBoer is at a complete standstill, and Sark has a great opportunity ahead of him the remainder of this year.
 

tusks_n_raider

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Kirby and Sark are the Top 2

3-5 are Lane, Heupel, Elko/Napier

I have no idea where to put CKD

This season he’s beat Kirby and he’s undefeated at Wash vs Sark

but

He’s lost to Vandy, Tenn/Heupel, and in completely non competitive fashion to Venebles/OU

How do you coalesce that?
 
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Foleybammer

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Kirby- Elite won Natty
Lane- Never won anything
Sark- Lost to Deboer in Semi Final
DeBoer- Proven winner needs to build program the way he wants it. Let's not
forget he's playing with Saban's players. Reality is we were lucky to have
beaten Auburn last year,

Lots of good coaches in SEC
 

CrimsonTitles

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1. Kirby Smart
2. Kalen DeBoer
3. Steve Sarkisian
4. Lane Kiffin
5. Shane Beamer
6. Josh Heupel
7. Mike Elko
8. Eli Drinkwitz
9. Brian Kelly
10. Billy Napier
11. Clark Lea
12. Sam Pittman
13. Mark Stoops
14. Brent Venables
15. Hugh Freeze
16. Jeff Lebby
 

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