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(The top 4 are Pete Carroll, Dennis Erickson, Mike Bellotti, and Mike Riley.)
5. Jeff Tedford, Cal. Part of a rich coaching tree with roots at Oregon, Tedford thinks about offense with the complexity of an NFL coach. And he is starting to see the big picture. Witness his willingness to relinquish play-calling duties to new coordinator Frank Cignetti, one of the bright young minds in the game.
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This is a silly, bogus ranking. Obviously whoever wrote it is unfamiliar with Pac 10 coaches and Pac 10 campuses. I don't argue with Carrol, though I hate saying so. I do argue with Belotti and Ericson. Belotti has the nicest facilities in the Pac 10 and Nike support so he can get talent despite Eugene being wet and miserable. Ericson is a good X and O coach, whose notion of academic and personal integrity is right in line with Britney Spears. Everywhere he goes his teams have serious off field issues and his guys are all talent and no class. Mike Riley at OSU even has way better facilities than Cal. Riley does a nice job, and by all accounts is a great guy who helps his guys become better men, but saying he is better than Tedford is ridiculous. He consistently fails to recruit top talent, despite the nice facilities, and though his teams play well and have beaten Cal now twice in Berkeley, he is still limited by his talent and is only a second tier coach.
I admit Tedford had a rough year last year, but I wouldn't trade him for anyone else in the Pac 10.
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