Heres the D2 pre-poll thread for your nominations and discussion before the poll.
Some quick facts out of the 100 D2 seasons(past 10 each world) there has been 78 different coaches to win a NC.
At D2 there were more coaches who I'd consider elite but are probably not going to fair well due to just 1 team. These are coache like
devilow14 whose Mount Olive team has been terrorizing Crum with 2 NC 3 F4 1 E8 and 1 S16 in the past 10 seasons. Or
getbedarded whose Iba team Lander has dominated with 2 NC 3 F4 2 E8 and 1 S16 in the past 10 seasons.
There were also some coaches who were punished with the cutoff as there were some coaches who if we went back 15 seasons would've added another championship, or multiple(emy)
I made a excel spreadsheet of the NC winning coaches compiled their NC wins, NC losses, F4, E8, and S16 appearances at D2 in the past 10 seasons. If they had a school for less than 3 seasons and no S16 or better I did not count it as a team. I didn't use seasons either as I have somewhat of a life and wasn't going to count how many seasons a coach has played.
Here is the final spreadsheet for you guys to look at and base judgement upon.(please inform of mistakes, I am just 1 person)
Here are the leaders for each category:
NC's - 3 (bluena and trophaeum)
NC loss - 4 (daveredden)
NC appearances -6 (daveredden)
F4 losses - 8 (cjwolf)
E8 losses - 6 (alblack56)
S16 losses- 12 (emy1013)
Personally I'm looking at daveredden, emy1013, trophaeum, cjwolf, robinhood410 as my top 5 no order right now just based on stats.
On a side note, I didn't take into consideration any alternate ID's unless they won a NC, so if coaches have an alternate ID and theres a few of them I can add those stats in as I think its worthy as its best coach not best ID.
Just a quick PSA: By doing this I am not considering myself good or anything, I'm not devaluing certain coaches personally or saying coaches aren't good/bad. I'm just doing my best to engage the forums with some fun topics.
7/2/2015 1:51 AM (edited)