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Who are the most influential college coaches? According to a CBSSports.com 12-member voting panel of people who work in the college sports industry, they are the highest-profile coaches who recently won big.

Who are the most influential college athletic directors? Based on the same panel’s votes, these ADs tend to be those who are on powerful committees and/or tend to freely speak their mind.

What is telling about the vote — and sure, it’s a subjective vote — is no coach or AD cracked the top 10 list of the Most Influential People in College Sports. The power of a coach tends to be far more local than national. The opinions of Mike Krzyzewski, Urban Meyer, Nick Saban and John Calipari usually result in more action at their respective universities than on the national landscape. Calipari, for instance, has been complaining for years that the NCAA and schools weren’t allowed to pay for family travel to games. The NCAA created a pilot program this year once Meyer spoke out publicly and Ohio State AD Gene Smith and Oregon AD Rob Mullens worked behind the scenes to get it done.

One notable coach who didn’t crack the coaches’ top 10 but we believe should have made it: Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma. When you’re a basketball coach, no matter the gender, and win as many NCAA titles as John Wooden while being as outspoken as Auriemma, you’ve got influence. Only Auriemma would criticize the style of play in men’s basketball during the women’s Final Four and get as much attention as he got. Auriemma received only one vote, perhaps speaking to how much college sports’ influence is tied to the revenue-generating sports.

I suspect if we did this project again in a couple years there would be an AD or two who cracked the top 10 of the overall list. Athletic directors are starting to gain more power in NCAA decisions and as the Power Five conferences create their own legislation. Plus, they’re serving on the College Football Playoff Selection Committee, which will continue to be a lightning rod in college sports based on which teams make the four-team field and if the playoff should expand to eight teams.

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Solomon: How much do coaches and athletic directors influence college sports? A ton. Here are those moving the needle, starting with Coach K and Urban Meyer. 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