Who should be the 5 finalists for COY?

[iowajerms]

3 undefeated P5 coaches

Nick Saban, Bama
Brian Kelly, ND
Dabo Swinney, Clem

Undefeated Mid-Major and 1st year

Josh Heupel, UCF

Other CFP contending coach

Mike Leach, Wazzu
Jim Harbaugh, Mich
Lincoln Riley, Okla
Kirby Smart, UGA
Urban Meyer, OSU - I know, off-season issues will keep him from winning. But I will put him in anyway.

Less than 3-loss Coaches

Dana Holgorson, WVU
Matt Wells, Utah St
Luke Fickell, Cincy
Ed Orgeron, LSU
Jeff Monken, Army
Bill Clark, UAB
Lance Leipold, Buff
Bryan Harsin, Boise
Jeff Tedford, Fresno
Scott Satterfield, App St

 

[4down20]

There is only 1 real coach of the year trophy.

The COY award is actually just an award for the most improved team, which rules Saban and Dabo out by default. I think it also rules Huepel out since he inherited an undefeated team.

So I'm guessing it's between Leach, Kelly and Clark. I'll say Clark or Leach, and I'll go with Clark since Leach has been around forever.

 

[Lance Armstrong]

Tom Herman
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[Lance Armstrong]

But in all honestly Mike Leach is winning that.

 

[iowajerms]

I say

Nick Saban - probably will never win, but I think he should be front-runner.
Mike Leach - probably will win.
Jim Harbaugh
Mike Wells
Jeff Monken

 

[Red_Alert]

I vote Leach

 

[Across The Field]

There is only 1 real coach of the year trophy.

The COY award is actually just an award for the most improved team, which rules Saban and Dabo out by default. I think it also rules Huepel out since he inherited an undefeated team.

So I'm guessing it's between Leach, Kelly and Clark. I'll say Clark or Leach, and I'll go with Clark since Leach has been around forever.

Ohio State has had 14 conference titles, 2 national titles, 2 other national title game appearances, and a 12-0 season since our last conference COY winner. It's a joke of an award these days.

 

[Kaplony]

With all due respect to everyone else listed but UAB's Bill Clark should be the winner. Two years ago his program did not exist and now he's sitting at 9-2 and looking at a possible 12 win season and a conference title.

 

[Ickey Shuffle]

Luke Fickell obv. Took a team mostly of freshman ( his guys ) to a ABC primetime game. Things only going up from here. Proud of my team.

Thank you Ohio State for giving us this treasure

Inb4 a shitty P5 school poach another one of our coaches

 

[iowajerms]

isn't military academy teams different than others when it comes to recruiting? I think Monken has to get credit for that.

 

[NU_FTW]

Undefeated Mid-Major and 1st year

Josh Heupel, UCF

all this guy has done is ride the coattails of Scott Frost, and this year they look worse than last year... not even close to a coach of the year.

 

[Red_Alert]

isn't military academy teams different than others when it comes to recruiting? I think Monken has to get credit for that.

The process

Dorsey: Football is the fun part for service academy recruits

 

[tnapucco]

Lincoln Riley's team is 10-1 when fielding the worst defense in the history of civilization.

 

[Deep Creek]

Jeff Monken, Army

 

[Codaxx]

Rather do it by conference

Acc: Dino Barbers
Big 12: Campbell again
Big 10: harbaugh. Had Maryland beat OSU, I would put Canada here
PAC 12: Leach, the easiest call
Sec: Stoops.. considering Coach O, because he may get 10 wins and you all know you thought this was going to implode (me included)

 

[Deep Creek]

Lincoln Riley's team is 10-1 when fielding the worst defense in the history of civilization.

Texas Techpre 2018 says, " hold my beer"!

 

[Codaxx]

Texas Techpre 2018 says, " hold my beer"!

Why they aren’t candidates for coach of the year. COY fixes things that were broken the year before

 

[tnapucco]

Texas Techpre 2018 says, " hold my beer"!

Did they let Kansas score 40?

Didn't think so..

 

[Deep Creek]

Why they aren’t candidates for coach of the year. COY fixes things that were broken the year before

True. I'll give coach GQ a lot of credit for sticking with David Gibbs. And credit to Gibbs for sticking with Tech. Both of them were criticized big time the past few years. But they inherited a 100% mess. While not super duper great, they are playing very hard on that side of the ball IMO.

 

[Deep Creek]

Did they let Kansas score 40?

Didn't think so..

Hmmm, you have a point. Just looked.

On Tech, Kansas has scored:
2016 19 points
2017 19 points
2018 16 points