I'm not overwhelmed by those lists - especially the closest fruit to the tree. Parcells looks like the best of the bunch. Walsh was a college head coach as well and none of his college guys made that list - Denny Green and Ty
I'm not overwhelmed by those lists - especially the closest fruit to the tree. Parcells looks like the best of the bunch. Walsh was a college head coach as well and none of his college guys made that list - Denny Green and Ty
Why would you be? There are only a few College National Title winners and a number of SuperBowl winners in there, nothing impressive about that. The premise that great coaches fail to spawn great coaches is wrong. The truth is some do, some don't. A lot of it depends on their management style. IMO, universally applying a contrarian theory to the value of their assistants makes no sense.
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espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/page/coachingtree130604/greatest-nfl-coaches-tom-landry-coaching-tree
Walsh:
espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/page/coachingtreewalsh130610/
Parcells:
espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/page/coachingtree130529/greatest-nfl-coaches-parcells-belichick-coaching-tree
An awful lot of hardware won by this bunch. Some of the best coaches of the last four decades.
Then end of his career Sean Payton was. That's four Super Bowl titles right there.
None of whom beat Stanford or Oregon.
So that's two. Sounds like a nice exception to my rule