Boog, I also agree with you that, if Cal won 10 straight championships and then saved the Pope's life, there would still be posters here saying he sucks as a coach. But don't confuse that minority with the majority who admit Cal has great abilities but he still makes our skin crawl.
But he hasn't... So therefore saying he isn't a very good coach for not winning more with that absurd amount of talent is a valid statement.
Look at it this way, almost every final four team in the last 15 tournaments has had at least one NBA 1st rounder in that year's draft, and most often that player is the focal point of that entire team. The less talented players defer to him more often than not because that's an effective strategy for winning at the college level. Now imagine this, Cal for the last 10 years or so has had at a minimum 3 or 4 of these very same guys on each of his team's, with total roster turnover each year! This past season he had 7 players of this rare caliber (rare relative to the overall talent distribution throughout college basketball). He has coached one NBA MVP in Rose and a future multiple time MVP and potential all time great in Davis, and that's not even counting the slew of other NBA superstars (Cousins, Wall) and budding stars (Noel, Knight, Tyreke, Bledsoe). And yet with all this absurd, ridiculous talent he has one title to his name.
If you have ever watched an NBA player play against regular people, even college athletes, the talent disparity is incredible. Yet Cal has essentially rolled out an NBA roster every season for almost 5 years now to play against kids who have never even seriously considered themselves as draft picks, let alone future stars of the league like Cal's guys. To say he has met expectations with what he brings in talent wise is a complete farce in my opinion. Call me a hypocrite whatever, but there's a reason that even UK fans think Cal has in a way underperformed.
