Who's more valuable -- Stoops or Brown?
Published: 6/27/2010 11:09 PM
Last Modified: 6/27/2010 11:09 PM
Who's the better coach, Bob Stoops or Mack Brown? No easy answer there, given the ground Brown has made up against his former nemesis the past five years.
Another question -- who's more valuable?
Think about that for a second. If Stoops were to resign tomorrow, is Oklahoma set up for automatic championship-contending success the next five years? Or is the Sooners' decade-long run a direct result of the of their chin-jutting head coach?
OU fans in the mid-60s might have thought the program was on auto-pilot. Then came Gomer Jones. Same thing with Gary Gibbs/Howard Schnellenberger/John Blake in the 90s.
Now, consider Texas. If coach-designate Will Muschamp were to take over for Brown tomorrow, would the Longhorns miss a beat? Or would they be headed for a David McWilliams/John Mackovic type fall?
It is the opinion of GatorSports.com, the website "powered by the Gainesville Sun," that Stoops is more valuable to OU than Brown is to Texas. In fact, Stoops is one of the site's three most valuable coaches in the country, along with Nick Saban and Frank Beamer. (Beamer would be my choice to top the list.)
Brown? He's one of the three least valuable, sandwiched between Les Miles and Urban Meyer.
GatorSports.com taking a shot at one of their own? Not necessarily. Again, this is as much a statement about the power of a program as the ability of a coach.
Another way to look at it -- Stoops is the better coach, but Texas has the better program.
Reasonable?
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
Sports Writer
