Coaching seniority in SEC

[BanditVol]

With 3 new East coaches this year and the firing of Miles, satan is now the dean of SEC coaching

West
satan                   10
Mullin                    8
Sumlin/Freeze        5
Bielema/Malzahn    4
Orgeron (interim)   1

East
Jones/Stoops                  4
Mason                            3
donkey                           2
Muschump/Odom/smart  1

So now Jones is the longest tenured coach in the East and there are only 4 coaches with a longer tenure, two of which are only a year more.  Wow things change pretty quickly nowadays.

It's interesting to rank Jones along with the coaches that came in about the same time he did....

Malzahn - hard to argue with making it to the MNC first season
Freeze - in by a hair over Butch, due to beating bammer twice and briefly being ranked no. 1 (otherwise records are remarkably similar)
Jones - has done really well considering where he started from.  Real test is next season and beyond.  Could move up a notch this season if it goes well at end.
Sumlin - this season may move him up, but every other season is a late season collapse
Bielema - would have been higher prior to this season
Mason - Where IS that list of plays?  Recent upset of uga moves him up one notch
Stoops - doing about as well as you can at UK, but that's pretty bad

Overall I am happy with Jones.  Assuming he hold serve this season (10-2 and a trip to Atlanta), survives next year (no worse than 8-4) and makes the playoffs in 18 or 19, he can move on up the list