Who's Missing?

Let me guess?

Iain Dowie?

OOPS! Someone is missing from the list and it is not the Baby Tuna.

BCS Champion has a better ring to it than COTY.

Fight on, PC you are our COTY!

A complete joke. What did Bob Stoops do this year? I have no problem with Petersen or Schiano. Tell Houston Nutt that Pete beat him 50-14.

Schiano, yes! For taking the laughing stock of college football to a cinderella season.
Peterson, maybe! For being a first year wonder.
Stoops, Uhhhh no! I agree with uscbred, what the hell did Stoops do this year!
Carr, the only other worth mentioning. But like Stoops too many 9-3 seasons with one title to show for it.

Forgotten on this list is the little "BIG" tuna so we can seriously laugh at him.

Now onto Pete Carroll! Was expected to have his worst season at SC since his first due to a tremendous dropoff in talent and is now on the cusp of another championship and doesn't get mentioned.

Need we say more, the voters are complete MORONS!

Stoops? His starting QB vanished 2 weeks before the start of the season, Pac-10 refs stole a game vs Oregon and the Heisman winner A Petersen was lost in mid Oct with injury. Still made Big 12 title game. Where is Frank Solich? Ohio in MAC title game 2 years removed from 1 win. Also, how about Tressel? OSU lost 12 starters from last year yet he is the only major undefeated team in the BCS title game.

2 words - Hot Garbage.

How Do You Do? Lemmee see: Jim Tressell from Ohio State? Pete Carroll of USC? Hmmm......why are BOTH OF THESE GUYS missing?

Why would you think PC should be nominated for COTY? He's already coach of the millenium.

PC will laugh all the way to the BCS championship game.

Fight On!

I can't believe they would leave Jim Tressel off there. That is outrageous!

Scott, the only one missing might be Karl Dorrell, who has a higher "GPA" this season than Carroll. No B to B- coach deserves to be COTY...

Stoops lost his QB for the whole season and his RB for half the season, and the Sooners ended up 10-2, with one of the losses the result of botched officiating. I'd say he did a decent job.

Wake Forest was picked to finish last in the ACC, and is now 10-2 and in the league championship, so Grobe is probably the front-runner for this award.

This list has to be geographically correct, I presume? No other way to explain Lloyd Carr as one of the finalists over Pete Carroll. The FWAA couldn't even come up with the right coach in Houston; Todd Graham at Rice (going to a bowl for the first time since 1961) did more with less than Art Briles.

Such are the levels of expectation PC has brought to USC. Let's see - the team loses 2 Heisman trophy winners (TWO!!!), more than half the O line, a crapload of juniors on both sides of the ball, everyone picks them to lose 2-3 games this year but PC brings USC back to the brink of the NC game. Somehow he doesn't even get a nomination for coach of the year. NICE.

uscbred,
Bob Stoops has led his team to a 10-2 mark despite losing his starting QB before the season began and losing his Heisman candidate RB halfway through the season. If not for a blown call to start the year, his team would be included in the National Championship discussion.

That being said, I still believe the exclusion of Pete Carroll is ridiculous. His accomplishments outshine all the above candidates (save perhaps Shiano's job at Rutgers).

A team that last year was a veritable who's who of some of the greatest players in NCAA history loses 8 starters on offense alone due to graduation and early NFL entry.

A new untested starting quarterback, running backs, both O and D lines. 15 (Fifteen!!) true freshmen see significant playing time.
Major injuries that hit the top 3 fullbacks, starting safety, and both All-America candidates at WR miss significant playing time.
2 tailbacks are hobbled during the stretch run.

After 2 impressive wins to start the season, the team weathers some growing pains, and the derision and negativity of some "fans" and internet bloggers. (Where are you Patrick II, eftzoons, and John Redcorn?)

The team rebounds from a mid-season loss to an inferior opponent to be on the cusp of returning to the NC game by defeating 3 nationally ranked opponents. Soundly.

Is there now an anti-PC backlash due to USC's continued success?
We true fans know that we are witnessing something special, and who is the COTY. And it sure isn't Bob Stoops.

It's not a perfect world. The challenge will be for Pete to beat OSU and win the NC in Glendale. It'd be nice to have one of the announcers mention how Pete could have gone unnoticed this year with what probably was be his least experienced squad...
Anyway, Pete doesn't do this for that kind of recognition, he's building something special for the record books! :)

USCBred-

What has Bob Stoops done this year?

Obviously you don't watch any college football outside of the Pac-10. Coach Stoops would be my COTY, even though I'm a USC fan. Why?

Simple. He has taken his team to the Big 12 Championships while battling the following: the lost of his starting QB and a projected started on the OL; the questionable 'loss' at Oregon; losing to Texas; and losing Adrian Peterson (an early Heisman candidate before his injury). Yet with all these knocks to his program, and a little help from Texas, he has taken a program without many all-star players and turned it into a possible conference winner.

A win this weekend over Nebraska, and I believe OU is favored, would land the Sooners in the Feista Bowl. Great coaching is what has gotten them to this point...so does that answer your question about what Bob Stoops has done this year?

As they stated on ESPN...now imagine what we would be discussing if that call in Oregon was correct? (11-1) Hmmmmmmm....

Uh, Coach Pete is already Coach of the Century. Why does he need to be mentioned every year?

Just because Carr has underperformed to his given players/talent last year means that by performing to their experienced capability he is now a great coach? Huh? I don't even mind Pete not getting his (although wrong), but c'mon, this list should be coaches who brought out the extra ordinary out of their team.

I do think Nutt, Schiano, Grobe, Jones, and Petersen are worthy. What about BC's coach? Or I would even take Mike Stoops over Bob Stoops.

The best coach is not the one who takes great talent and makes good teams. It's about out coaching when it counts and bringing out the most of what they have. In that case, Carroll is more than worthy, but Schiano is a mircacle worker.

Another stupid award. Wolf did you vote for the WVU coach?

Uh, bred, Stoops has gotten his team to the Big12 title game without his original QB Bomar (kicked off team) and without his RB stud Adrian P. (injury), and after being robbed of a win by poor Pac10 officiating.

Pretty good job for him this year, although I'd give PC my vote for his most impressive coaching job since his first 2 years. Quite a feat to get this young, injury-prone team back to another BCS title game without all that NFL talent.

Although as a betting man, I think the Rutgers coach will get it - talk about pulling a program out of nowhere...

How can a coach that took a bunch of first-year players to the brink of a fourth consecutive national championship game not be among the top 9 coaches in college football?

Pete is hands down doing the best job with the type of team he had coming in (with the loss of two Heisman winners, 6 underclassmen leaving early forthe NFL, etc.).

Stoops has done a great job as well. If he wins the Big XII after losing his QB to start the year and his Heisman RB midway through the year, he should get all the kudos in the world.

Which one of these Coaches will be playing in the National Championship Game?

Pete Carroll is missing that's who! Fight ON!!!

Best kept secret in football. Don't tell anyone!

ne14USC -

Are you serious? All Bob Stoops did this year was win 10 games without his starting QB and with his starting RB (the best player in College Football) injured most of the season. If not for the moronic PAC-10 refs against Oregon, OU has one loss and is in the middle of the MNC race.

Great coaching job by Bob Stoops this year. Not as good as Pete Carroll (IMHO), but take nothing away from Stoops.

Most of you guys that read Scott's blog have to know that Wolfe's answer to his own question is obviously Jim Tressell.

Tressell deserves to be nominated this year -- undefeated, ranked #1 all year long, a berth in the BCS National Championship game, two victories over teams ranked #2 at the time they played and his QB will win the Heisman Trophy.

All of this and the defense returned only 2 starters this year.

If those aren't qualifications for a nomination for Coach of the Year, then I just don't understand what the award represents.

Sam,

What have you been smoking? I did not mention Stoops anywhere in my post. You wrote "Great coaching job by Bob Stoops this year. Not as good as Pete Carroll (IMHO)..."

So what I am saying is PC deserves to be on the list, what the H are you saying??