Thursday, December 11, 2008

Which SEC coaches do you think voted for Bobby Johnson?

Here's an interesting exercise: Figure out which SEC coaches voted for Bobby Johnson for the league's coach of the year — as well as who voted for Nick Saban and who voted for Houston Nutt.

As ESPN's Chris Low points out on his blog, we'll never know who voted for whom. But of course we can speculate.

So let's assume that Johnson, Saban and Nutt split the 12 votes — getting 4 votes apiece — and no coach could vote for himself, and Tuberville, Fulmer and Croom cast votes before they were run out of town. So who voted for whom?

Here's my best guess:

BOBBY JOHNSON VOTERS
• Rich Brooks: Knows how tough it is to build a football program at a basketball school.
• Houston Nutt: Still wondering how in the world he lost to Bobby Johnson.
• Sylvester Croom: Loves an underdog, and realizes this award isn't worth a dang anyway, because he won it last year.
• Mark Richt: Follows the teachings of Jesus and feels compassion on the traditionally weakest among us.

NICK SABAN VOTERS
• Steve Spurrier: Understands the link between arrogance and success.
• Les Miles: Thinks you should get coach of the year if you're competing for a national championship instead of a guy from Mississippi (he lost to Croom last year).
• Tommy Tuberville: Seemed to be out to sabotage his job — blowing up the offense, firing his coordinator mid-season, leaving Mario Fannin on the bench after he accounted for all of Auburn's offense against Georgia, voting for Saban (?).
• Bobby Petrino: He's not concerned with the little guys. He wants Saban to win the award so he can knock him off later and take his job at Alabama.

HOUSTON NUTT VOTERS
• Urban Meyer: Has consistently voted for Ole Miss ahead of Georgia in the Top 25, and Nutt's the only coach to beat him this season.
• Bobby Johnson: Knows how lucky he was to beat this guy and needs Vandy fans to realize that Nutt's Rebels will be harder and harder to beat in the future.
• Phil Fulmer: His worst team ever beat Bobby Johnson's best team ever. And he wouldn't vote for Saban if hell froze over.
• Nick Saban: He knows how close he came to losing to Nutt. And he's probably sorry he didn't get to face Vanderbilt.

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