Matt Fortuna
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599 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Mar
Matt Fortuna’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I've yet to see a guy who's won big at the Division II or FCS level who hasn't then gone on to win big at the Power 4 level, whether that's Kalen DeBoer, Willie Fritz, Chris Kleiman.
Brian Kelly and Jim Harbaugh got their starts as head coaches at San Diego and Grand Valley State.
Yeah, Lance Leipold, that's what I was forgetting as well.
And I just think you can't replace that experience.
I'll throw this back to you because I wrote this a couple years ago, and no one believes me.
For whatever reason, the SEC, for as good as they are at football, allegedly –
That one's for you, Doug.
Well, we don't say that on this show.
They get coaches, even in Kirby Smart's case, who had never been head coaches before, who therefore become great head coaches at Blue Bloods.
Can you, since 1990, can you name me the Big Ten head coaches who had never been head coaches before who were successful?
And this excludes internal promotions such as Ryan Day, Brett Bielema, Pat Fitzgerald, like fresh hires from other programs.
So like a Ryan Walters, for example, a great example of how it didn't work.
How many have been successful?
And honestly, well, I want to hear what you guys say.
two but i can't think of anybody exactly exactly two and that's including bill o'brien who only lasted two years left after two years barry alvarez is the other one even kurt barrence was the head coach at maine which people can laugh and say it's maine but you were a ceo of a program where you were responsible for everything like it is just and maybe you could throw dan landing in there he started in the pac-12 when he came from georgia to dc but uh it's pretty much impossible
to not have head coaching experience and walk into a program blindly and take it over in the big 10.
It's been true everywhere.
No matter how great some of these hires have looked on paper.
I know Ryan Walters, like he probably would've got Colorado if coach prime wasn't available.
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