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[QUOTE="jekelish, post: 1399929, member: 82"]
I don't think you need to come from a coaching tree to know how to coach, but it certainly helps raise your profile and get you better gigs where you can put your acumen on display earlier if you coached under Nick Saban or Bob Stoops or Urban Meyer or whoever. Cream will always rise, sometimes it just rises faster because of the opportunities that come from having coached under those great mentors.

Not saying Lester is going to be the "cream"...that's still to be seen. But coming from a good coaching tree doesn't always mean anything (just ask former SU hoops assistant Wayne Morgan, for example).

I'm not one way or the other on this argument, by the way. There are successes and failures on both sides of the debate. I do think it goes back to the fact that if you're a guy who came up under Nick Saban you're going to get better opportunities earlier in your career, so it's going to make that coaching tree look fantastic if you can actually coach a little.
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