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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 5175385, member: 1023"]
I agree he was an excellent coach.  But in 2007 he was the next big thing.  He won zero championships after that.  Zilch.  He had good teams and not so good ones.  In his last year at Florida he went 16-17 fwiw, not to the Final Four.  In 2007 he was going to be the next John Wooden.  By 2015 he was still viewed as good but not as good as Coach K, or Roy Williams or Jim Calhoun or some others who had won multiple titles in multiple years.  Elite 8s are Elite 8s. Nobody says “he is a great coach.  He got us to 3 Elite 8s.”  Heck they wanted to fire Calhoun for only getting to Elite 8s.  It was kind of nostalgic when he got to a Final Four.  Donovan was the  new face of college basketball in 2007.  By 2015 he was a good coach. You want to say very good, I agree with that.  UF fan base wasn’t crushed when he left.  They would have been in 2007.  winning  back to back is a huge accomplishment obviously.  But college basketball is a what have you done for me lately business.

Look, it happens.  Perceptions change.  When Calipari won at Kentucky I remember reading a piece (about how he had “reinvented” college basketball and he would probably win many more with his ability to recruit 5 star talent.  Doubt anyone says that now.
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