OT: Who am I?
I'm the head coach of a football team in a BCS conference. The coach that preceded me had seven straight winning seasons, won 9 games in his final year, and took his team to three bowl games. He was the winningest coach in my school's history as of when I was hired.
Unfortunately, the coaching record for my first six years was not so stellar:
2-9
3-8
6-4-1
6-5
5-6
2-8-1
At the end of my sixth year, many fans at my school had concluded that I wasn't going to get the job done, and demanded that the Athletic Director make a change. For whatever reason, he kept me on, and now I'm considered by virtually all college football observers to be one of the top coaches in the game.
Who am I?
Mack Brown?
lol@the thought of Texas ever being that patient
It's Frank Beamer.
The only reason I picked Brown was because he coached at 3 shitty programs before Texas. So I thought he compiled his crappy record with those team. I guess I misunderstood the question.
They'd have to be a pretty mediocre program with low expectations. Even with the seven straight winning seasons.
To even have six seasons of bad football like that and not be fired, this had to happen quite a long time ago. Not to mention the fact that there were still ties when this was happening which mean these six seasons had to before the 90s.
So the coach came to a program that really didn't have a solid place in college football, became the best coach in that school's history as well as one of the top coaches currently coaching, and has been doing this for a while.
I would have to guess this is Frank Beamer. Am I correct?
Mack Brown: 9-3 in first season @ Texas (1998).
Frank Beamer: 2-9 in first season @ VaTech (1987).
It's Beamer, good job Dreadlocks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Beamer
Coach Rod is waaaaay ahead of schedule.
Yeah maybe Illinois is onto something here as well.
I didn't know it was that bad for Beamer. He's lucky that VTech doesn't have as many obtuse, whiny, and delusional fans as UM.
Coach Rod is waaaaay ahead of schedule.
I'm as big of a supporter of RR as anyone here, but to say he is waaaaay ahead of schedule you must be drinking some janky ass koolaid.
Michigan isn't Virginia Tech
It isn't the early 90s.
Comparing the two is completely irrelevant. We're impatient because we've been spoiled by 40 years of continuous success. Just because other coaches at different schools get lots of slack for not being very good doesn't mean we should. I'm all for giving RR enough time to get it done, but that's not the environment in which we live. We're a high-profile school in a very scruitinizing media world, so loudmouth talkers demand immediate results, and prevent the kind of patience VT gave Beamer. 2010 is "the year" and everybody knows it, and there have to be better results or everyone will be jumping off the bandwagon. That's just the way it is, fair or not (and I believe it's unfair).
I'm going to guess Beamer.
...just checked cfdatawarehouse. I'm correct. Yay self-validation!
Don is Frank Beamer?
Shit, and I think we've been sharing Rich Rod's schemes with him too!
This seems like a fun game, let's try another one with a coach who went in the opposite direction:
I came to Michigan having had a losing season at my previous school, but managed five straight winning seasons to start.
I won two National Championships at Michigan, and in the span of 4 years only lost one game, winning the Big Ten each year.
My last four seasons took a nose dive, as I went 1-7, 4-4, 1-7, 4-4, and I resigned after the last of those.
Who am I?
Kipke.
And btw, if there is any coach who knew how to make an exit, without a doubt it's Fritz Chrisler. He had a pretty solid career, brought the winged helment, had an amazing player who won the Heisman, and then he won a Big 10 championship or 2, then won the Rose Bowl and the national championship in 1947, and then he retired soon afterward. Way to go out at the top of the game.
No kidding - I'd be willing to wager that's a big part of why he remains a much bigger name among Michigan fans than Kipke, despite the fact that Kipke presided over possibly the greatest 4-year run in Michigan history apart from Yost's unmatchable 1901-1904 stretch.
Since we're doing this.... One of the best coaches in the country. First 3 Years (Basketball):
17-13 (6-8)
10-17 (4-10)
11-17 (3-11)