Interesting list of 10 college football coaches that 247 thinks may win their first national championship:
Riley - USC
Lanning - Oregon
Harbaugh - Michigan
Franklin - Penn St.
Day - tOSU
Freeman - ND
Sarkisian - Texas
Heupel - Tennessee
Kelly - LSU
Norvell - Florida St.
And the only school of the 10 listed above NOT to ever have won a national championship in football? You guessed it. My "Zeros", right SC fans?
Seems like a good recruiting tactic: "Come to Oregon where you can win the first EVER national championship at your school. You will surely go down in history. Not as the ___th team to win it, but as the very FIRST to win it".
I know if Oregon ever wins its very first national championship, it's gonna taste so much sweeter than winning the ____th national championship for those fans of other teams who have won it multiple times before. Trust me on this one. Do you remember the first national football championship your team ever won? Were you there for it? As they say, you always remember your first.... 😎
good post
funny how Dykes dropped off the list
Franklin doesn't really belong
where Whittingham might
You're making progress. Congrats. But your honest shot at ever actually winning that first NC is getting worse every day if you have to stick in the Pac-12. You know this too.
Venables is better than half the guys on this list.
Other than Day, none of the coaches are going to win a NC. Not at their current schools; not anywhere.
No, I don't remember the first NC my school won. It was 20 years before I was born.
BUT, I remember the first one my school won after I became a fan. 1962. And the first one when I was an undergrad. 1967. And the first two after I graduated and went to work. 1972 and 1974. Etc.
And, by the way, the two in 2003 and 2004 were just as sweet, and they made all the others relevant again.
So if your Ducks ever claim the crystal football, shoot me an email and tell me how it feels and we'll compare notes.
You said, "Seems like a good recruiting tactic: "Come to Oregon where you can win the first EVER national championship at your school. You will surely go down in history. Not as the ___th team to win it, but as the very FIRST to win it".
I say: That tactic has certainly worked out well for SC basketball, ever since Bob Boyd first used it with Paul Westphal.
No.
As for Sarkisian, I'll coach a team to a national title before he does.