Rich Brooks Overachiever; Hal Mumme Underacheiver

[anon_7tbtqcx308nxh]

I found these rankings interesting. We knew what Brooks did post-sanctions was impressive, but it's interesting to see how impressive compared to the rest of the coaching community since 2005 (that coached at least four seasons). Brooks lands in the 95% percentile.

Other names: Charlie Strong was in the 65% percentile, Spurrier 60% percentile, and Mumme has been at 7% percentile since he left UK.

The list is also useful for identifying future head coaching hires. Ken Niumatalolo should get a better job than Navy soon.

 

[cookscats]

Hal Mumme 2 biggest mistakes at UK was Mike Major and Claude Bassett. I told a friend of mine the minute I seen him he looked like a he was up to no good.

 

[redbudman]

Rich Brooks is by far and away the best coach we have had since Bear Bryant! He did what Head Coaches are suppose to do and that is let his assistants coach at their respective positions! He also commanded respect! If Rich Brooks were 20 years younger and had the facilities we have now we would be in great shape! But the boosters did not get behind him! For what reason I do not know! He would still be her if they had of and we would have been relevant in the East with 7 -9'win seasons!

 

[JasonS.]

Ken Niumatalolo is the truth.

 

[mktmaker]

Rich Brooks is by far and away the best coach we have had since Bear Bryant!

I respect your opinion and I respect Rich Brooks.

We have had several good head coaches:

Blanton Collier: After we fired him he coached the Browns to an NFL championship and four NFL championship games . (This was before the Super Bowls.)

Fran Curci

Jerry Claiborne (whom we hired when he was on the downside of his career)

None of them (including Brooks) received the support they needed from wimpy AD's.

 

[bthaunert]

Rich Brooks is by far and away the best coach we have had since Bear Bryant! He did what Head Coaches are suppose to do and that is let his assistants coach at their respective positions! He also commanded respect! If Rich Brooks were 20 years younger and had the facilities we have now we would be in great shape! But the boosters did not get behind him! For what reason I do not know! He would still be her if they had of and we would have been relevant in the East with 7 -9'win seasons!

I love me some Papa Brooks. He was the right guy to take us out of the probation period. It is telling about our program when you take a guy who went 16-39 (.290 winning percentage) in conference and call him the best since Bear Bryant. As a comparison, Bill Curry went 14-40 (.259 in conference). Again loved me some Brooks, but he benefited from OOC scheduling.

 

[rmattox]

In my lifetime, Collier was probably the best coach we've had, followed by Curci and Brooks. People like to bash Mumme but he has to be credited with instilling an excitement in Ky Football that had been absent since Curci's firing.

 

[cats4life]

brooks was 12 - 18 in conference in his last four years. which included a year we lost almost all of our offensive production from the prior year AND our best wr, our best rb in season while playing a rookie qb.

 

[bthaunert]

brooks was 12 - 18 in conference in his last four years. which included a year we lost almost all of our offensive production from the prior year AND our best wr, our best rb in season while playing a rookie qb.

I believe he was 12-20 (.375). Much better than his overall record and I agree, it's unfair for me to put those first 3 seasons on him.

 

[WildCard]

II wonder how many ADs look at this list when hiring coaches. [roll]

I like Connolly but it strikes me that he sometimes gets a bit too carried away with his numerical analysis. This might be one of those times. The problem here is deterring what a team's expected performance should be. I would think if you simply looked at a coach's record against the spread you would get a pretty good idea of how well he performed against "expectations". Wayyy too much work to dig this data out but I would be interested to see how it compares. JMO.

Peace