All time favorite coach top 5 vs least favorite top 5

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Fulmer
Majors
Dickey
Heupel
Cutcliffe
Honorable mention Chavis , Monte Kiffin (Neyland before my time )

Least
Pruit
Dooley
Jones
Kiffin
Chavis (lol) hate love relationship lol
 
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There’s a lot of talk on here about Tennessee tradition, but most on here know little about that tradition. It seems some think Tennessee first started playing football in the 90s. How could anyone make a list of Tennessee coaches that doesn’t include Neyland and Barnhill?
 
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cgbtn said:
There’s a lot of talk on here about Tennessee tradition, but most on here know little about that tradition. It seems some think Tennessee first started playing football in the 90s. How could anyone make a list of Tennessee coaches that doesn’t include Neyland and Barnhill?
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Because I wasn’t alive. Mine came from coaches I actually followed while living.

Obviously, Neyland is everyone’s #1 if we’re just going by who was best.
 
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Neyland has to be #1. He won 4 national championships and likely would have won more if he hadn’t been called away to serve our great nation.
2.Fulmer/Cutcliffe- I am grouping them together because if you look at Fulmer’s record with and without Cut there is a difference.
3. (Tie)Majors/Heupel- I couldn’t decide because Majors set Fulmer up for his run but Heup quickly brought us back from college football wasteland.

Least favorite?

4.Jones- aside from the corny catch phrases and the years after Dobbs left he actually won several games
3. Kiffin- look I get it, USC was your dream job but there has to be a better way of going about leaving
2.Dooley- I knew he was in over his head when he had to call a TO to get his 2 point D on the field in the Troy game
1.Pruitt- as bad as Dooley was he never had a 3-7 season. He just about destroyed the program
 
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volfan2024 said:
Fulmer
Majors
Dickey
Heupel
Cutcliffe
Honorable mention Chavis , Monte Kiffin (Neyland before my time )

Least
Pruit
Dooley
Jones
Kiffin
Chavis (lol) hate love relationship lol
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Head coaches only:
Most Favorite:
1. General Robert Neyland
2. Phil Fulmer
3. Johnny Majors
4. Josh Heupel
5. Doug Dickey/Bowden Wyatt

Least Favorite:
1. Jeremy Pruitt
2. Butch Jones
3. Derek Dooley
4. Lane Kiffin
5. Brady Hoke
 
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orangebloodgmc said:
Y'all list some good 'uns. But there was also good ole Coach Cafego who usually our kicking game going like a rodeo roundup. Also, the recent Marvin West article on our Sugar Bowl beat-down of Miami reminds us that Ken Donahue had that year's defense squared away. 👍
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Nice call on both, especially Coach Cafego. Anyone who hated Vanderbilt that much deserves respect from all of us.
 
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Since I’m a nega, I am going to abstain from the first grouping and state my least favorites in order.

Jones
Pruitt
Dooley
Kiffin

Overrated:
Chavis

Underrated:
Cutcliff
 
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Neyland is probably the "best," but since I didn't start paying attention until the mid-80s, my favorites are Fulmer and Heupel. I loved Fulmer's teams, but the man seemed a bit dry, uninteresting; he lacked the emotional fire of a Spurrier or Kiffin. In contrast, I really enjoy seeing Heupel talk about the team and the games. He has a glint in his eye and a slight grin that makes me think he's a little kid who's up to something. He also has that aggressive passing game mindset that I love; nothing in the game gets me juiced as much as a deep ball on the money.
 
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Will exclude Neyland because I wasn't around to see what he did.

During my lifetime the best head coaches were Dickey and Heupel considering the status of the program when they took over and the speed with which they turned things around. Majors also a favorite.

Fulmer climbed into a warm bed and his winning record was a reflection of two major things: his ability to recruit and the quality of the other SEC programs in that era.

Agree with the favorable comments about assistant coaches Cafego and Donahue and will add another, Vince Gibson.
 
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HeuperDrive said:
lol, please explain how?
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Well, does our DL line look good to you when we play good teams? Once again we get to see offenses light us up on defense but, we usually skew those stats when we play the ETSU's of the world. Now, some of that is on Banks also.
 
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