For what ever it’s worth, Tom Deinhart of The Sporting News has been ranking the football coaches in each conference. He finally got to the Big East. WVU’s Rich Rodriguez was 1st, and given his success it is hard to argue against (damn).

6. Dave Wannstedt, Pitt. Wanny finally looks like he’s home. Of course, he is, coaching at the school and in the town that forged that crooked grin. He knows defense, and he has infused talent into the program. But it’s time to start delivering the goods with West Virginia, Louisville and Rutgers stealing the headlines. Pitt is a proud program that ALWAYS should be good.

Only Randy Edsall at UConn and Greg Robinson at Syaracuse are behind Wannstedt. I want to argue against him already behind Steve Kragthorpe at Louisville and Brian Kelly at Cinci. The problem, of course, is that so far Coach Wannstedt hasn’t really done much as a coach to say he should be ahead. The only argument available, is that the other two haven’t done anything in the Big East yet.