As teams like Tennessee, Arkansas, UCLA, Florida State, Nebraska and others continue to struggle under first-year head coaches, a sense of unease is rising in the fanbases.

Many are wondering what their coaches can do to change things, but ESPN recruiting analyst Tom Luginbill has a sobering message — not much.

As you can hear below, Luginbill joined ESPNU Radio on SiriusXM and said coaching doesn’t matter as much as people think:

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“Every football fan has got to understand this: coaching is overrated,” he said. “It’s players. You have to have players. You can be the greatest motivator, you can be the greatest X’s and O’s guy, you can have all the right pieces of the puzzle in place, but if you don’t have players, you aren’t going to win.

“If you took Bobby Bowden, if you took Joe Paterno, John McKay, Bear Bryant — go put them at New Mexico State and see how many games they win. Jeremy Pruitt and Scott Frost didn’t all of a sudden decide to take stupid pills in the month of August. They didn’t go to the doctor and say, ‘Hey, I want you to make me the dumbest coach you possibly can.’ You have to have dudes, man.”

Based on that bleak assessment, it could take a while for these teams to turn things around under their new coaches.