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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 3439056, member: 1673"] ? Of course Auriemma is not the best coach for everybody; neither is Ceal; neither is Summit; no one is. What prompted my question was not a defense of Auriemma, but at the implausibility that anybody should be comparing the two. Certainly the Connecticut media would not be comparing the two. I doubt many of the Connecticut media were aware of her or, if they were, they would bother making comparisons with someone who had not won a championship. What would be the point? It would have had to be Colorado or national media or sports pundits. Even so, why on earth would they be comparing the two before Auriemma won his first championship? I doubt anyone in Colorado media would be much aware of Auriemma until that happened; actually it would be pretty flattering to Auriemma if they were, even if they thought Ceal was better. So anyone claiming one coach to be superior to the other probably did so after 1995. However, by the time Auriemma had coached twenty seasons he would have been fifty-one, two years older than when Ceal retired, but by that time had been to eight Final Fours and won five Championships. The only comparable coach for that, then or now, would be Summitt. Mainly I don't get why it would be a conversation at all to compare the two, yet you refer to "many" sources claiming Ceal to be the superior coach. So I'd like to know at least some of the sources, whether they were Colorado or national pundits (I'll be stunned if it was Connecticut pundits), and how much after 1995 such comparisons were made (I'd be stunned if it was before at least one of them won a championship). [/QUOTE]

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