If You could have any coach for one game...

If the talent level is even, forget about it. No defense with the same athleticism, or same skill as Johnson's offense would have a prayer. The option didn't go away because it didn't work; the option went away because it was hard to get the top-shelf quarterbacks to run it and it because passé in the world of NFL-like attacks and spread offenses. Give Johnson high-end talent and he'll dominate. Give Johnson mediocre talent and he'll still win.

It's impossible to overstate just what a miraculous job he did at Navy, setting the wheels in motion for a program that, maybe, has 20 real, live FBS-caliber players on it, and maybe ten guys who could start for mediocre BCS teams, and two or three who could find playing time at a high level. Those Navy teams that Johnson coached were outmanned every game, and yet they were always competitive and always got to bowl games. I'm not sold that Meyer or Carroll could do at Navy what Johnson did.

The Peach Bowl, sorry, Chick-fil-A Bowl blowout against LSU came when a fast, rested Tiger team had a month to prepare. In this scenario of a one-game format, presumably the other team would get a chance to prepare, but again, the talent and athleticism wouldn't be superior. Johnson's system works. He'll show that even more over the next few years in Atlanta.
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I'll take Bill Belichick overall, and CPJ if we're just choosing from the college ranks.
 
I'd take Joe Gibbs if I could take any coach who ever existed. The guy won 3 superbowls with some hodge podge starters which included a QB coming off the bench in the playoffs and a 4th string runningback who set the superbowl single game rushing record.

In my opinion, Joe Gibbs did far more with far less than anyone who ever coached the game of football at any level.

If I was choosing solely from the college ranks, I'd choose Chris Peterson although Paul Johnson is up there. So is Jim Grobe.

However, if i could choose any coach that ever coached in college it would be Bobby Dodd. If Dodd had Bear's talent... fuhgitaboutit.
 
I don't see why Pete Carrol comes close to making any of their lists, given the criteria of the question. Carrol wins on recruiting NFL caliber players. There's nothing wrong with that, he's definitely an awesome coach to have, but in terms of pure gameday coaching I don't see what's so special about him. Most coaches in the country could easily win most of his games with the kind of talent he has.
 
beej67 said:
Most coaches in the country could easily win most of his games with the kind of talent he has.
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Considering the amount of talent that FSU, Miami, and Notre Dame supposedly pull in, apparently the brain trusts that are Saint Bobby, Randy Shannon and Fat Chuck dont fall into this category.
 
refrigeratormover said:
Bill Parcels back in his hey day.
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Wow, really? Not trying to argue with you RM, as you have infinite more experience on a football field than I do, but I always thought of Parcells as a great motivator over a season, but never thought of him as one of the best gameday coaches. I will have to go back and look at some old games now to see where I was incorrect. Thanks.
 
refrigeratormover said:
Bill Parcels back in his hey day.
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You mean, back in his 'Hey, Hey, HEY' day [/Fat Albert] :laugher:

As much as I like CPJ, I think I'd pick Heisman. Becuase it is for one game. So I'd want a coach who could come in today and win today. No time to teach anybody anything. All you really have to work with is attitude, motivation, desire and fear and I think Coach Heisman pretty much understood how to do that as well as anyone in the history of the game.
 
BuzzMD said:
.. I always thought of Parcells as a great motivator ...
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When you take over a team on 4 hours notice (in our hypothetical case), motivation becomes one of the more important factors.
 
Understand, 00, but I thought Parcells motivation often took time to develop -- where people were uneasy/scared at first, not knowing if job was safe or not. At least that is what I have always read/heard. I would not think that would work for gameday, but hell, as I mentioned above, my real football experience is 0-- so I am learning.
 
Johnson doesn't make any sense if you only give him a week or less to coach the players. His system certainly requires practice as does Mike Leach's to get good. I cannot imagine PJ performing exceptionally if tasked with coaching the All-American game.

I have to admit the logic on Nutt is very good. He would put a few wrinkles into a base offense.

Urban would be tough to argue with.

Pete Carroll makes no sense at all. Sure he is 88-15 and 5-6 in bowls. But if he is 32-7 versus top 25 does that mean he has lost 8 games to unranked opponents? Does anyone believe for a second that he doesn't have the best talent? Some tool mentions Tebow as a crutch for Urban, but Heisman or not, has Pete ever had a team QBed by a guy with less pro potential than Tebow? As we all know, Pete has had second stringers with more pro potential than Tebow. Plus who QBed Utah? And I don't even remember the name of the starting QB for UF's first championship. Pro potential isn't everything, but if you put Pete at Utah, how does he do?

SO for one game, IF your team just happens to have way better talent than the opposition and IF you have a Pro quality signal caller, choose Pete and you will win about 85% of the time.
 
What is even worse is how little I know of Bobby Dodd's accomplishments. :( This is the start of my second year being a GT fan so if you guys could give me a little slack that would help :D
 
Yellow Fever said:
What is even worse is how little I know of Bobby Dodd's accomplishments. :( This is the start of my second year being a GT fan so if you guys could give me a little slack that would help :D
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Well, Bear Bryant said in his autobiography that Bobby Dodd was the best game-day coach he ever saw. He made the comment, "If you'd let me coach a team Sunday through Friday and Bobby Dodd coach them on gamedays for Saturday, we'd never lose a game!"
 
BuzzMD said:
Wow, really? Not trying to argue with you RM, as you have infinite more experience on a football field than I do, but I always thought of Parcells as a great motivator over a season, but never thought of him as one of the best gameday coaches. I will have to go back and look at some old games now to see where I was incorrect. Thanks.
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Why don't we be a little more passive in our response?
 
GTCrew said:
Johnson doesn't make any sense if you only give him a week or less to coach the players. His system certainly requires practice as does Mike Leach's to get good. I cannot imagine PJ performing exceptionally if tasked with coaching the All-American game.
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I love the man to death, but in this case... agreed
 
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