College Football Coaches Want Their Sons To Play For Georgia's Mark Richt Or Oklahoma's Bob Stoops
If you had a son, and you had the chance to choose which coach he'd play for, who would you pick?
It's certainly an interesting question, one that ESPN posed to college football coaches across America, with the caveat that they answered assuming they were no longer coaching. Out of 128 coaches, 98 answered, and the two that came out on top were Georgia's Mark Richt and Oklahoma's Bob Stoops.
The two coaches received eight percent of the votes, and were followed by two relative surprises: Minnesota's Jerry Kill and Stanford's David Shaw. Here are all the coaches who received more than one percent of the vote:
- Richt, Stoops (8%)
- Kill, Shaw (7%)
- Duke's David Cutcliffe (5%)
- Michigan State's Mark Dantonio, Ohio State's Urban Meyer, Oregon State's Mike Riley, Kansas State's Bill Snyder, Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin (4%)
- Texas' Charlie Strong (3%)
- Baylor's Art Briles, Pitt's Paul Chryst, Iowa's Kirk Ferentz, Northwestern's Pat Fitzgerald, Ole Miss' Huge Freeze, Auburn's Gus Malzahn, Navy's Ken Niumatalolo (2%)
The results are intriguing, and vary a bit when you ask coaches in the Power 5 conferences and coaches from Group of 5 schools. According to coaches in Power 5 conferences -- which are made up by the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC -- Stoops (14% of coaches), Richt (8%) and Snyder (8%) are the most popular choices. However, Group of 5 coaches -- whose teams play in the AAC, C-USA, MAC, Sun Belt, and Mountain West -- all gave Kill, Richt and Shaw eight percent of their votes.
If you'd like to see the full results of all three polls, here's the link. Now we ask you: if your son was to play college football, who would you want to be his coach?
