ESPN’s Brett McMurphy conducted a poll of coaches, asking which coach they would want their sons to play for. Georgia head coach Mark Richt and Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops tied for the lead. His full top 10:
Coaches would entrust their kids to Mark Richt, Bob Stoops
Two of the nation’s longest-serving head coaches top ESPN reporter Brett McMurphy’s poll of football coaches.
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I asked coaches who they'd want their son to play for: 1-Richt & Stoops 3-Kill & Shaw 5-Cutcliffe 6-Dantonio, Meyer, Riley, Snyder & Sumlin
— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) September 13, 2014 Richt and Stoops are among the longest-serving head coaches in the country. Richt is in his 14th season as head coach at Georgia, while Stoops has been at Oklahoma for 16 years. Those tenures are well-earned, if McMurphy’s poll is any indication.
Minnesota’s Jerry Kill and Stanford’s David Shaw tied for third. Kill is one of three Big Ten coaches in the poll, along with Mark Dantonio and Urban Meyer. Duke’s David Cutcliffe comes in fifth, while Oregon State’s Mike Riley, Kansas State’s Bill Snyder and Texas A&M’s Kevin Sumlin join Meyer and Dantonio at sixth.
Ninety-eight of the 128 FBS college coaches participated in the poll, according to McMurphy, and 44 different coaches received votes. No coach received over 8 percent of the votes.
McMurphy later broke down the poll among Power 5 coaches and Group of 5 coaches. Stoops ran away with the votes of Power 5 coaches, taking 14 percent. Kill, who came to Minnesota after stints at MAC school Northern Illinois and FCS Southern Illinois, tied for the lead among Group of 5 coaches with Richt and Shaw.
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