(Sorry for the delay in posting this…my computer suffered a catastrophic failure (read: corrupted RAID) while syncing, for the first time, with my iPhone last week.)
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10. Larry Smith, USC
9. Dick Tomey, Arizona
8. Dennis Erickson, Washington State, Oregon State and Arizona State
7. Bruce Snyder, Cal and Arizona State: One of the true “program builders” the league has seen in the past quarter century. Snyder took a last-place Cal team and turned it into a 10-game winner, and then he revived ASU, taking the Sun Devils to the brink of the national title. Sure, he got some help from the Berkeley admissions department (Russell White), but give him credit for signing a quarterback from Idaho who was passed over by the big schools (Jake Plummer).
6. Tyrone Willingham, Stanford and Washington
5. Mike Price, Washington State
4. Jeff Tedford, Cal: Tedford’s performance in Berkeley has been terrific; his timing has been awful — coinciding with USC’s return to dominance. No question, Tedford has made ample use of JC transfers at the flagship school of the UC system. But evidence suggests he has kept the JuCos in the classroom and out of trouble (for the most part). And his performance on the field and on the recruiting trail has been tremendous. Three years after Cal was 1-10 under Tom Holmoe, Tedford went 10-2.
3. Don James, Washington
2. Mike Bellotti, Oregon
1. Pete Carroll, U$C
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hey, im from mississippi and have become a cal fan over the past 4 or 5 years... i finally made the trip to berkeley and the bay area this summer and i have been even more hooked on the bears (especially the football team) since. i have been searching all over the internet to find a cal football schedule poster that i could order. do you have any suggestions?
Not a bad list, but Ty Willingham and Dick Tomey should swap places. Also, Larry Smith?? (who also coached at UofA by the way) What about Bob Toledo at UCLA? And Dennis Green at Stanford? Indeed, I'd give Green the nod over Willingham in a heartbeat. Finally, when are journalists going to stop ignorantly bashing junior-college transfers? As a college professor with lots of experience at both the two-year and four-year level, I can honestly say I have observed no categorical difference in the quality of students between those two settings. There are great students, and there are lousy students, at both. Rather than where the students come from, we should be more concerned with what they do after they get to Cal. And the examples of Russell White and the vast majority of JC transfers under Tedford demonstrate just how successful in the classroom students from less-than-stellar backgrounds can be.
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