HuskyWarrior611
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In fairness, the article talks about active coaches it seems. None of them have the experience Self has so I’d tend to agree.The point of that article that you're unable to read is that a lot of successful division 1 coaches consider him the best bench coach around.
The only ones close would be Izzo, Calipari, and Pitino. I’d for sure take Pitino, but there’s probably a lot of non-basketball reasons coaches wouldn’t vouch for him at the time of that article plus he was at Iona.
Self would be further down that list if he was ranked amongst his generation of coaches (K, Calhoun, Roy, Knight, etc.) With Calhoun, K, and Knight probably being the debate.
Also going to be very interesting to see who emerges from this new generation of coaches as the leaders and champions of the pack. Hurley has a pretty great jump on everyone else right now.