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I was thinking (dangerous).

When does PC start to get recognition as being among the best coaches in NCAA football? I noticed during the game yesterday the announcers fawning over Harbaugh and the TV showing his mug over and over and over again.

PC is a better coach, to anyone paying attention. He built a fantastic staff and that group has built a winner, top to bottom. They graduate their kids. They are humble to a fault. They love where they are.

So, when??

Agree totally Badge.  He has been great from day one.  Consistent, humble, and doing it without the 4-5 stars.

He is the kind of coach I would want my kid to play for.   

I was thinking (dangerous).

When does PC start to get recognition as being among the best coaches in NCAA football? I noticed during the game yesterday the announcers fawning over Harbaugh and the TV showing his mug over and over and over again.

PC is a better coach, to anyone paying attention. He built a fantastic staff and that group has built a winner, top to bottom. They graduate their kids. They are humble to a fault. They love where they are.

So, when??

Well, you half answer your own question with the humble to a fault part. 
But I think the answer is more complicated. The hype comes from doing one of two things, reaching heights or saving programs from bad spots. Chryst hasn't yet won a conference title. He hasn't come to a downtrodden program and jumpstarted it (left Pitt early). 
For better or worse, he's seen as the perfect cog in the Wisconsin machine. He took took over a program where the past two coaches won 73.1 and 73.9 percent of their games and went on to win 23.3 and 46.8 percent of their games at the next job. I hope to never find out if PC is just a cog or not. I want that machine humming with him at the helm. 
And the other part is that PC's best tenets are more subtle. He's a gifted tactician, but you have to know what you're looking at. The way he uses motions, sets things up, the way he installs passing games complex for the college level and gets them going, all that is cool. But it doesn't pop the same as some hyper-quirky scheme or big rebuilding project. Win the conference a time or two, or just get a few more 10-plus win years under the belt, and it'll happen. 

^^^ Exhibit A.


He's 11-0 with the weakest schedule of any major P5 team in the nation.



According to Sagarin, UW's schedule ranks 55. Michigan's is 45 due a boost from yesterday. 


Bama's is 63. Washington is 58. LSU is 57. Colley ranks are similar. AH are similar. And on and on.


A pattern is developing?? Quit while you're behind, perhaps?

^^^ Exhibit A.


He's 11-0 with the weakest schedule of any major P5 team in the nation.



According to Sagarin, UW's schedule ranks 55. Michigan's is 45 due a boost from yesterday.


Bama's is 63. Washington is 58. LSU is 57. Colley ranks are similar. AH are similar. And on and on.


A pattern is developing?? Quit while you're behind, perhaps?

This Wisconsin team has gotten plenty of comparisons to '15 Iowa, but there are quite a few differences.
'17 Wisconsin isn't just winning, it's winning convincingly.  I don't think they've beaten anyone by fewer than two scores so far.  '15 Iowa eked out win after win after win.  And to be honest, they probably had no business beating Wisconsin that year.  They lucked out with some timely turnovers.
And for the record, '17 Wisconsin would do to '15 Iowa what Stanford did in the Rose Bowl.

The last OSU coach to win it was Earle Bruce, 1979. 

It's an award for the tallest midget.

Doesn't matter if OSU follows 6-7 with 12-0, or wins a NC with their third string QB. They are simply not eligible for the award.