It really kicked off when you took issue with a small piece of a larger post I made. Particularly the examples of former players I chose.Dude, this whole thread started with your response to someone saying great players fail miserably at coaching.
My main point throughout this conversation hasn't been that there are tons of "great" players who turned out to be good coaches. It's that there's no evidence to back it up the notion that "great" players fail as coaches at a disproportionate rate, and no reason to think it's true, or will hold true in the future. See post #39. Very few aspiring coaches even get a chance to be a P5 or pro head coach, much less a successful one. I've seen no evidence the success rate for "great" players is meaningfully worse than for coaches who come from other backgrounds, especially when you consider the vast majority of those without successful pro careers get aggressively weeded out at the lower rungs of the coaching ladder.
I'm sure you could just as easily make the blanket statement that failed NFL head coaches don't make good college coaches. I'm sure a lot on here would agree with you. I'm sure Alabama fans wouldn't. The point here, so there's no confusion, is that the NFL piece is pretty irrelevant when it comes to Saban because he had a ton of success in college football prior to his NFL failure. Deion has had coaching success, besides his NFL "greatness." If you go back to my post you originally responded to, this was a much bigger part of the point I was making before you chopped it up into just an argument about whether certain coaches were great or just merely good players.
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