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hell, Cignetti could be on my top 4 today

Google him.

I dunno... I want to see Cignetti do it at another school first.

In Indiana - As soon as possible.

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send him to the SEC SEC SEC

Imagine a scenario where two head coaches had done really well in college football.  Let's say Coach A won 3 NCs and a slew of other things, and Coach B had won 3 NCs and a comparable slew of other things.  Both had success at three different programs.

Pretty close, but imagine Coach B also won a Super Bowl and his team played in another.  Should that matter if we're judging coaching proficiency?

but, his hair was perfect

cocaine with the Caines and the cowboy crackwagon

Thought for sure you'd have Bo from Miami (OH no).

Paul Brown

IMHO, Paul Brown is the greatest Football Coach ever.  

That said, I don't think he belongs on a "Mount Rushmore of COLLEGE Football Head Coaches" because even if you include his two seasons as the HC at Great Lakes Navy during WWII he still only coached five total seasons of CFB.  If you don't count those it is only the three at Ohio State.  

He gets too little credit, IMHO from Ohio State fans because he was overshadowed by Woody but one of the things that some other people have discussed in this thread is elevating a program and when Woody won NC's at Ohio State it had been done before.  When Paul Brown did it, he was the first.  

Paul Brown's record:
HS:

• He coached the Severn School Prep Admirals in Maryland for two years and won one State title.  
• He coached the Massillon Washington Tigers for nine years, won five State titles and four "national titles" (note, HS national titles are even more 'mythical' than college ones but still this is impressive).  
• Overall he coached 11 seasons of HS football and won six state titles.  

College/wartime military:

• He coached the Ohio State Buckeyes for three seasons and won Ohio State's first NC in 1942.  The team fell off in 1943 but that was Tojo's and Hitler's fault not Paul Brown's.  All of Ohio State's players left to go fight the war.  
• He coached Great Lakes Navy for two seasons finishing #17 in the College AP Poll in one of them.  

Pro:

• He coached the Cleveland Browns in the AAFC for four seasons and won the AAFC Title all four years.  
• He coached the Cleveland Browns in the NFL for 13 seasons and won 4 NFL titles and eight conference titles.  
• He coached the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFL for two seasons and didn't do much.  
• He coached the Cincinnati Bengals in the NFL for six seasons and won two divisional titles.  

Brown was only 33 when Ohio State made him their HC straight from the Massillon HS job.  He was so young that he was actually drafted in WWII because he was still draft age.  Not only did he win Ohio State's first NC, he was the first Ohio State HC to get the Buckeyes to #1 in any AP Poll.