NCAA Basketball: Ranking the top 10 schools with the best football-coaching duos
By Brian Rauf
Some schools are known as football schools while others are known as NCAA Basketball schools – yet there are some that have great success in both. These are the best coaching duos in the country.
How often have you heard or referred to a school as either a basketball school or a football school? There’s often a clear priority from either the university or fan base, but in some cases, schools have dominant programs in both sports.
This can usually be seen in the level of coach at each program. For instance, Texas A&M just paid Jimbo Fisher an obscene amount of money to coach their football team while their basketball coach, Billy Kennedy, is not one of the highest-paid coaches in the SEC.
On the flip side, Kansas will pump whatever resources are needed into their basketball program while their football program is floundering and losing to teams like Nicholls on a weekly basis.
See? One is clearly a football school and one is clearly a basketball school.
Of course, that line is sometimes blurred. A school with as proud of a football program as Michigan will always be a football school in the minds of the fan base, but the basketball program has been extremely successful in recent years.
Which schools have the best football-basketball coaching duos in the entire country? Here’s our top 10: