College coaches love to talk about how great things are this time of year. A new season looms. Everyone is 0-0.
But while they all start with the same record, they are not all equal.
I've wanted to do a college coach ranking for some time, but I needed the right format. National Top 25 lists are fine and somewhat insightful, but I never understood how coaches from schools with vastly different resources -- and realistic goals -- could be lumped together in a single ranking. How do you fairly compare Alabama's Nick Saban and Army's Jeff Monken, or even outstanding coaches in the same conference, such as Clemson's Dabo Swinney and Wake Forest's Dave Clawson?