Coach is the best runner up of Survivor
Clip · 22 Feb 2026 · 0 min
Summary
A host wants Coach to win Survivor 50 and is putting all his money behind him. He thinks Coach has a good chance and calls his South Pacific game one of the best runner-up games, not a winning game. His view is that Coach only needed to admit his faults, and that he learned that lesson late in the season and would probably have won. He adds that Sophie beating him makes Coach look better than he probably was, and calls him the goat character of Survivor.
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0:00 Team of people I want to shout for this season and I want to like I want coach to win so I'm going to throw all my money behind coach >> and I think coach has a good chance of winning. I will go out on a limb and say that coach's game in South Pacific is actually one of the better or probably one of the best runner-up games.
0:16 Definitely obviously it's not a winning game, but I feel like all he needed to do was admit his faults. And I think he's learned that lesson at the very end of the season and he probably would have won. And I think that the fact that Sophie beat him in the context of winner winners at War makes him actually seem like a lot better player than he probably actually is.
0:38 So I'm high on coach. he's one of the he is the goat character of surv.