The following is a list of every coach who has won more than one conference championship during Andy Reid’s head coaching career, along with their Super Bowl record.
| Coach | Wins | Losses |
| Bill Belichick | 6 | 3 |
| Andy Reid | 1 | 2 |
| Tom Coughlin | 2 | 0 |
| John Fox | 0 | 2 |
| Mike Tomlin | 1 | 1 |
| Pete Carroll | 1 | 1 |
| Sean McVay | 1 | 1 |
Is this a list of the best coaches of the last 24 years? Probably not. I would not count John Fox as an all-time great, as much as this makes me think. Is it a list of some pretty darn good coaches? Yes. It’s an eclectic group, but it’s a good one to be a part of for an NFL coach.
The point of sharing this is that nobody besides Andy Reid and Bill Belichick has coached in more than two Super Bowls over the time Andy Reid’s been a head coach, and now Reid’s coaching in his fourth. You cannot keep the man out of the Super Bowl. Not for long, anyway.
Other Andy Reid stats:
- Andy Reid has a career .641 regular season winning percentage, which means he’s averaged double-digit wins, even if you project that onto the old 16-game season.
- Andy Reid’s teams have won their division more often (13 times) than they’ve lost it (11 times). Against the field, Andy Reid has a winning record.
- Andy Reid and Kansas City have now won the division seven years in a row.
- Andy Reid has won 13 or more games the same number of times (3) that he’s finish with a losing record.
- Andy Reid has made the Conference Championship round three times as often as he’s finished with a losing record.
- Andy Reid hasn’t won fewer than twelve games since 2017, which was also the last time he lost before the Conference Championshp.
Take all of that, add to it his role in developing and unleashing Patrick Mahomes and Brett Favre (not to mention Alex Smith and Donovan McNabb, who went to the Pro Bowl a combined nine times), and it’s hard to think of another coach aside from Bill Belichick with as impressive a career as that of Andy Reid. Yes, he’s had talent, but that’s part of the game. And to spin that a bit further, it’s more impressive to have talent when you’re repeatedly drafting at the end of the first round.
Purdue Pur-did, Kansas Isn’t It, and a Word on Creighton
Purdue finally lost again. They went to Assembly Hall, fell massively behind in the first half, rallied, and fell to Indiana by five.
It is thoroughly unconcerning.
Trayce Jackson-Davis had a big game, scoring 25 on 19 shots from the floor, and the Hoosiers gave Zach Edey some trouble on his scoring end, forcing five turnovers. But as far as losses go, losing to your archrival on the road when your archrival is one of the thirty best teams in the country—and doing it by just five—isn’t bad. Purdue’s defense looked suspect, as has been the concern, but even with the turnovers, Edey was a force, scoring 33 and pulling down 18 boards. Edey had ten rebounds on the offensive end alone. Purdue had more offensive rebounds than Indiana had defensive rebounds. It’s a little wild that Purdue lost this game. Losing to your archrival on the road (by just five) when your archrival is one of the thirty best teams in the country and it was a statistically wacky loss? That’s not going to sink a national title contender. Especially not this year, when—though Houston and UCLA and Alabama all played well the last two days, and Tennessee scored 46 but won anyway (a very Tennessee thing to do)—the rest of the field looks so open at the moment.
On the other side—the concerning side—Kansas lost a fifth time, and for the fourth time in its last six games. It went to Iowa State and got manhandled, turning the ball over on thirty percent of its possessions. (Expert Iowa State analysis: That was great. Also, cool to have Kunc back.) Jalen Wilson did all he could, but it wasn’t close to enough. Joseph Yesufu was the second-leading scorer and he only scored eight.
The game was Gradey Dick’s worst as a college athlete, the freshman turning the ball over five times while getting just six shots up from the floor to go with a pair of free throws. This is indicative of the larger issue here for Kansas. The beauty of Bill Self basketball is that his team is often close to the sum of its parts. There are few coaches who make teams better than that sum, and there are a lot who leave teams worse, but Bill Self’s team is almost always a collection of great players playing great basketball, each guy hitting his potential. That last part might be happening this year. These guys might all be hitting their potential. But if they are, the potential isn’t good enough. Last year, Wilson was one of four great players within their respective roles. This year, he’s one of one. Dajuan Harris is good, and Kevin McCullar is good, and Gradey Dick is good, and KJ Adams has some very good games, but none of those four are great. Not only is the bench thin, but the starting lineup just isn’t that good. Yes, we should fully expect them to bounce back tonight against Texas back at Allen Fieldhouse. But even winning that would leave them a game back in the Big 12. This team isn’t it, which is a shame for Kansas fans, because if you dropped a lot of KU teams over the last fifteen years into this season, they’d be among the favorites. (One last Iowa State note: I hate the “Fuck KU” chant, but I do love all the Dick jokes KU’s opponents are making, and the image of a crowd chanting, “You suck, Dick!” as their team wipes the floor with their habitual overlord was a fun one.)
Taking this back to the national picture: Is Creighton going to win it all? Oddly enough, Creighton’s defense grades out better on KenPom right now than its offense. Part of this is that the offense is sneakily not that good, plagued by poor shooting, but it’s easier to trust an offense led by Greg McDermott and Baylor Scheierman to figure it out than it is to trust Creighton’s defense historically under McDermott. The fact the defense is there is a really, really good sign, and in a crowded field? Why not the Jays?
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What’s happening tonight:
College Basketball (the great one, preceded by the good one)
- 7:00 PM EST: Duke @ Miami (ESPN)
- 9:00 PM EST: Texas @ Kansas (ESPN)
NBA (the best game, plus the Bulls)
- 7:00 PM EST: Cleveland @ Washington (League Pass)
- 8:00 PM EST: San Antonio @ Bulls (League Pass)
NHL (the best game)
- 7:00 PM EST: Tampa Bay @ Florida (ESPN+)
