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To remind everybody, here are our coaches the last 30 years:

Jack Elway (1984 - 1988): 25-29-2 (16-22-2 in the Pac-10), best finish T4th (twice), 1 bowl game (27-21 loss in the 1986 Gator Bowl)
Dennis Green (1989 - 1991): 16-18 (13-11), best finish T2nd (1991), 1 bowl game (18-17 loss in the 1991 Aloha Bowl)
Bill Walsh (1992 - 1994): 17-17-1 (10-14), best finish T1st (1992), 1 bowl game (24-3 win in the 1992 Blockbuster Bowl) [note, his W/L record here includes only his second sting)
Tyrone Willingham (1995 - 2001): 44-36-1 (32-24), best finish 1st (1999), 4 bowl games including 1 Rose Bowl (1-3 record)
Buddy Teevens (2002 - 2004): 10-23 (5-19), best finish 8th (twice), 0 bowl games
Walt Harris (2005 - 2006): 5-17 (5-12), best finish T4th, 0 bowl games
Jim Harbaugh (2007 - 2010): 29 - 21 (21-15), best finish 2nd (twice), 2 bowl games, including 1 BCS Bowl (Orange) (31-27 loss in the 2009 Sun Bowl, 40-12 win in the 2010 Orange Bowl)
David Shaw (2011 - current): 42-12 (28-8) , best finish 1st (three times; twice as Pac-12 Champion), 4 bowl games, including 3 BCS bowls (1 Fiesta, 2 Rose), (2-2 record)

Here's how I would rank the coaches (from worst to best):
8. Walt Harris (tough choice between Harris and Teevens; both were awful, but at least Teevens was a likable person)
7. Buddy Teevens (In a tough fight for that bottom spot)
6. Jack Elway (before my time, but nothing in his record suggests he was any good)
5. Bill Walsh (tough to separate his two stints, and how much he benefited from Dennis Green's recruits in 1992, but all the coaches above him clearly had better seasons
4. Dennis Green (did well enough that the NFL came calling; OTOH, some ethically questionable behavior)
3. Tyrone Willingham (Longest stint of the coaches; 7-0 in Big Games, returned us to the Rose Bowl, and a maker of men.  Him leaving Stanford for Notre Dame was a disaster for everyone - Stanford, Notre Dame, and Willingham, plus there is that fake punt against us... still pluses far exceed minuses)
2. Jim Harbaugh (you can easily argue he deserves the top job given what he inherited, versus what Shaw inherited; his transformation of the team was truly miraculous.  On the other hand, he loses a couple points for his annual dalliances with other teams)
1. David Shaw (ultimately, I put him at the top because there simply isn't a better representative of the University, both as a coach and as a person, as David Shaw.)

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To remind everybody, here are our coaches the last 30 years:

Jack Elway (1984 - 1988): 25-29-2 (16-22-2 in the Pac-10), best finish T4th (twice), 1 bowl game (27-21 loss in the 1986 Gator Bowl)
Dennis Green (1989 - 1991): 16-18 (13-11), best finish T2nd (1991), 1 bowl game (18-17 loss in the 1991 Aloha Bowl)
Bill Walsh (1992 - 1994): 17-17-1 (10-14), best finish T1st (1992), 1 bowl game (24-3 win in the 1992 Blockbuster Bowl) [note, his W/L record here includes only his second sting)
Tyrone Willingham (1995 - 2001): 44-36-1 (32-24), best finish 1st (1999), 4 bowl games including 1 Rose Bowl (1-3 record)
Buddy Teevens (2002 - 2004): 10-23 (5-19), best finish 8th (twice), 0 bowl games
Walt Harris (2005 - 2006): 5-17 (5-12), best finish T4th, 0 bowl games
Jim Harbaugh (2007 - 2010): 29 - 21 (21-15), best finish 2nd (twice), 2 bowl games, including 1 BCS Bowl (Orange) (31-27 loss in the 2009 Sun Bowl, 40-12 win in the 2010 Orange Bowl)
David Shaw (2011 - current): 42-12 (28-8) , best finish 1st (three times; twice as Pac-12 Champion), 4 bowl games, including 3 BCS bowls (1 Fiesta, 2 Rose), (2-2 record)

Here's how I would rank the coaches (from worst to best):
8. Walt Harris (tough choice between Harris and Teevens; both were awful, but at least Teevens was a likable person)
7. Buddy Teevens (In a tough fight for that bottom spot)
6. Jack Elway (before my time, but nothing in his record suggests he was any good)
5. Bill Walsh (tough to separate his two stints, and how much he benefited from Dennis Green's recruits in 1992, but all the coaches above him clearly had better seasons
4. Dennis Green (did well enough that the NFL came calling; OTOH, some ethically questionable behavior)
3. Tyrone Willingham (Longest stint of the coaches; 7-0 in Big Games, returned us to the Rose Bowl, and a maker of men.  Him leaving Stanford for Notre Dame was a disaster for everyone - Stanford, Notre Dame, and Willingham, plus there is that fake punt against us... still pluses far exceed minuses)
2. Jim Harbaugh (you can easily argue he deserves the top job given what he inherited, versus what Shaw inherited; his transformation of the team was truly miraculous.  On the other hand, he loses a couple points for his annual dalliances with other teams)
1. David Shaw (ultimately, I put him at the top because there simply isn't a better representative of the University, both as a coach and as a person, as David Shaw.)

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