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Big 12 coaches, by the records
Tim Griffin over at ESPN.com actually gives off some light during the darkness of nuclear football winter with yesterday’s entry.
Musing about who is the best Big 12 coach, Griffin took on the logical task of compiling the records for every Big 12 coach since the league’s inception.
At the top of the list? No surprise: Bob Stoops and Mack Brown, with Stoops edging out Mack .839 – .802 overall, due to five more Big 12 Championship wins.
There are several interesting takeaways from this, other than the ones Griffin pulled out that showed R.C. Slocum and Frank Solich are the two most underrated coaches in league history and Callahan sucked balls (didn’t need fancy stats for that one).
What he didn’t bring up or acknowledge is how utterly dominant Stoops is against the rest of the conference. We at TaW will gladly take on that task, natch. Before we get into it, think hard about the only coach in Big 12 history who has a winning record versus Stoops. The answer will appear at the end of this post. No cheating!
For discussion purposes below, here are the records, courtesy of Griffin:
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Note: Active coaches are in yellow. Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads will be in his first season as a head coach in the conference.
With a 73-14 (overall) record, Stoops is tied with Brown in wins, but Coach Whine has four more losses (thanks to one more year in the league than Stoops). There’s a severe dropoff after that, though, as the two have almost 20 more wins than the third-place coach, sleepy Bill Snyder (54-29).
Nowhere is Stoops’ domination of the conference better exemplified than with his six conference championships, three of them coming in the past three years. No other Big 12 coach has more than one Big 12 championship trophy and, in fact, only one three coaches have more than two appearances. Even Gary Barnett was 1-3 in the Big 12 CCG, but his appearances were largely due to the suckness of the Big 12 North.
There’s another way to check the pwnage, though, and it concerns something OU’s rivals love to point out: head-to-head.
Of the other 32 coaches to ever head a Big 12 football program, only one has a winning record versus Stoops. It’s obviously not Brown, it’s not Barnett and it’s certainly not Mike Gundy. To illustrate just how dominant this stat is, there are only nine of the 32 who have ever beaten Stoops:
Brown 4 (4-6 overall)
Leach 2 (2-7)
Miles 2 (2-2)
Barnett 1 (1-4)
Hawkins 1 (1-1)
Snyder 1 (1-5)
Solich 1 (1-1)
Slocum 1 (1-3)
Dykes 1 (1-0)
Mack has the most number of wins against Stoops at four, which when compared to the rest of these records, should be considered a resounding success. The UT athletic department should commission a ring or a trophy to celebrate being number one again.*
Franchione wins the futility award for being 0-6 versus versus Stoops with two different teams (A&M, Bama). Overall, he’s 0-7 versus Oklahoma with three different squads (A&M, Bama, TCU). We really need to somehow get this guy on the schedule again.
Finally, if you guessed that Spike Dykes was the only coach in Big 12 history to have a winning record against Stoops, congratulate yourself.
