Skull Session: Ryan Day is behind James Franklin in a ranking of college football’s top coaches, Marvin Harrison Jr. should’ve won the Biletnikoff and James Laurinaitis is a dude.
Nick Saban? Absolutely. He's one of the greatest coaches in college football – if notcoach in college football history. Kirby Smart? He's a back-to-back national champion at Georgia, so that makes sense. Dabo Swinney? Clemson has fallen off recently, but he won CFP titles in 2016 and 2018, while Day has never reached that summit. And Harbaugh? I'd much rather have Day, but the Michigan Man has defeated Day in back-to-back years, which makes it hard to argue for them to be swapped.
I seem to get more pushback on Franklin than any coach in these rankings. Some of that is probably due to my recognition of just what a remarkable job he did at Vandy prior to his time in Happy Valley. In short, he took an SEC program that hadn’t finished in the Top 25 in more than 60 years to two Top 25 seasons in three years. Vandy hasn’t had a winning season since he left, going 34-73.
Again, I like Feldman, but come on, man. The primary justification for putting Franklin ahead of Day – or ahead of anyone, for that matter – cannot be his tenure at Vanderbilt. Frankin's last season there was in 2013, a year I deem outside the statute of limitations for calling a football coach elite, which a top-five ranking most certainly does.As Brian Hartline said about Marvin Harrison Jr.
Brian Hartline believes Marvin Harrison Jr. was the clear choice to win the Biletnikoff Award last season
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