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Conference Coaches of the Year (late season edition)

Probably JPM best coaching job in a decade. Maybe less is more. Duke flew under the radar nationally and now they are playing really good basketball. I'm really looking forward to the ACC tournament next month.
 
TerpWomenFan said:
Probably JPM best coaching job in a decade. Maybe less is more. Duke flew under the radar nationally and now they are playing really good basketball. I'm really looking forward to the ACC tournament next month.
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All they needed was to keep their players healthy, which doesn’t happen for them very often.
 
WestCoast said:
In the PAC-12, Arizona's Adia Barnes should be a frontrunner for the COY award with four regular season games remaining.
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If I were looking at coach whose team has made the biggest jump this year, I would give it to J R Payne.
 
Barnes or Graves for PAC. Leaning toward Graves.

Mulkey for B12. Easy choice.

McKeown for B1G. Easy choice IMO although both Brenda and Bluder are having really good years.

Dawn for SEC. I love Vic but Dawn deserves it hands down over him this year.

Walz for ACC. Maybe P? Nah, I'll stick with Jeff.
 
Dokey said:
If I were looking at coach whose team has made the biggest jump this year, I would give it to J R Payne.
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Of course you would. Your enthusiasm for Colorado this year has been endlessly entertaining. They have done nothing to separate themselves from USC, Utah, Washington or Washington St.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
Of course you would. Your enthusiasm for Colorado this year has been endlessly entertaining. They have done nothing to separate themselves from USC, Utah, Washington or Washington St.
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The ultimate Pacific NW homer vs the ultimate Colorado homer! I'm siding with you on this one though. Going from 2-16 to (likely) 5-13 ain't COY material even if theyve come painstakingly close to pulling off some massive upsets. Graves is my pick.
 
bballnut90 said:
Barnes or Graves for PAC. Leaning toward Graves.

Mulkey for B12. Easy choice.

McKeown for B1G. Easy choice IMO although both Brenda and Bluder are having really good years.

Dawn for SEC. I love Vic but Dawn deserves it hands down over him this year.

Walz for ACC. Maybe P? Nah, I'll stick with Jeff.
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I think Raegan Pebley could challenge Mulkey, TCU was originally picked to finish 8th in the pre season poll and they are in 2nd place right now.
 
bballnut90 said:
Barnes or Graves for PAC. Leaning toward Graves.

Mulkey for B12. Easy choice.

McKeown for B1G. Easy choice IMO although both Brenda and Bluder are having really good years.

Dawn for SEC. I love Vic but Dawn deserves it hands down over him this year.

Walz for ACC. Maybe P? Nah, I'll stick with Jeff.
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1st place finish after they were picked by everyone to finish first?
 
ACC: McCallie (I had Fortner early on even Hoover)
B1G: McKeown
BIG 12: Pebley
PAC 12: Barnes
SEC: Staley
 
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I'd like to see Dawn get the Naismith this year to be the first to win as player and coach.

You'd have thought she would have gotten one already, but the most obvious years she lost to Muffett, Geno, and Courtney Banghart (the undefeated season for Princeton).
 
I hold back my vote at this point. I want to see how GEORGIA TECH in the tournament ...But I love how Nell Fournier is coaching this team up to this point.
 
bballnut90 said:
Barnes or Graves for PAC. Leaning toward Graves.

Mulkey for B12. Easy choice.

McKeown for B1G. Easy choice IMO although both Brenda and Bluder are having really good years.

Dawn for SEC. I love Vic but Dawn deserves it hands down over him this year.

Walz for ACC. Maybe P? Nah, I'll stick with Jeff.
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Umm, maybe Regan Pebley from TCU instead of Kim...depends if there is any anti-Baylor sentiment like in the ACC for ND...
ACC still seems it should be Jeff despite this recent run by JPM. Talent has been there all along but she still has 5 conference losses...

What about the American? Should Geno win it for the 6th time in 7 years? ;)
 
DefenseBB said:
Umm, maybe Regan Pebley from TCU instead of Kim...depends if there is any anti-Baylor sentiment like in the ACC for ND...
ACC still seems it should be Jeff despite this recent run by JPM. Talent has been there all along but she still has 5 conference losses...

What about the American? Should Geno win it for the 6th time in 7 years? ;)
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Mulkey = expected wins, Pebley = improvement; same arguement as Graves and Barnes and indeed the argument eternal in coach of year awards.

In the case of the AAC - is there anyone that "did" anything notable. Not that I heard, Geno it probably should be. But I don't - in general - favor just giving the award to the most winning team.
 
DefenseBB said:
There, I fixed it for you...
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Seriously, I can’t help but think if this late season surge may help JPM get an extension. Just a couple months ago I was pretty sure next year was destined to be her last.
 
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Plebe said:
Seriously, I can’t help but think if this late season surge may help JPM get an extension. Just a couple months ago I was pretty sure next year was destined to be her last.
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Thats how this always works. A coach on the brink of getting fired only to pull a rabbit out of their hat to get another extension. They will go another two years of bad/medicore play then have another surge year. Rinse and repeat. :D
 
SECbbfan24 said:
Thats how this always works. A coach on the brink of getting fired only to pull a rabbit out of their hat to get another extension. They will go another two years of bad/medicore play then have another surge year. Rinse and repeat. :D
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Why do I get the feeling this hits a little too close to home for you? :rolleyes:
 
SECbbfan24 said:
Thats how this always works. A coach on the brink of getting fired only to pull a rabbit out of their hat to get another extension. They will go another two years of bad/medicore play then have another surge year. WASH, Rinse and repeat. :D
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There I fixed it for you, after all as @Plebe noted, you about to live it as well...:oops:
 
Gamecockfan77 said:
Dawn and Vic are the only two who make much sense in the SEC.

Maybe a small argument for Nikki.
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I know I'm biased, but the way Dawn and her staff have molded such a young team into the number 1 team has impressed me.
 
In the Mighty SoCon ..... it HAS to be Trina Patterson of UNC-G. Picked to finish in 5th place by the Coaches... 6th by the Media... they currently sit in 1st place... with two games to go.

In the Rugged Big South...... If I had a vote.... I'd give it to Chelsea Branbury of High Point. 1st year coach... with a very young and inexperienced roster... currently sitting at 11-6 in the league... with 3 games to go.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Of course you would. Your enthusiasm for Colorado this year has been endlessly entertaining. They have done nothing to separate themselves from USC, Utah, Washington or Washington St.
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Glad to be entertaining, though Colorado is on the rise and hopefully will return to the glory years of the Ceal Barry era. Right now their problem is not finishing games, otherwise they would be heading for a quick exit from NCAAT, but I think they currently are the best of the bottom six and one of the early favorites to win WNIT. They would beat any team in the AAC except UConn, which is not saying much.
 
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Dokey said:
but I think they currently are the best of the bottom six
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That is endlessly debatable. I don't even have an answer to which is best of them. Throw USC, Utah, Colorado and the Washington schools in a hat and pick one. You can find data points to support pretty much any of them.

I will give you that Colorado has been much better than I expected given how much they struggled last year and lost Leonard and Robinson to graduation. But Utah also has exceeded expectations. They also appear to be on the rise w/ 2 Fr. leading them in scoring (and several Sophs also among their most productive players). USC has also gotten huge contributions from Fr. Moving up in the Pac 12 is a difficult proposition and Colorado has company in making a push.
 
Sorry @Dokey . USC beat Utah tonight, Colorado about to lose to UCLA. If USC beats Colorado on Sunday they will be 8-10, no way any of the other bottom 6 teams can claim they are better. A loss would drop Colorado to 5-13. Even w/ unbalanced schedules you can't claim to be better than a team 3 games ahead of you in the standings.
 
Dokey said:
Glad to be entertaining, though Colorado is on the rise and hopefully will return to the glory years of the Ceal Barry era. Right now their problem is not finishing games, otherwise they would be heading for a quick exit from NCAAT, but I think they currently are the best of the bottom six and one of the early favorites to win WNIT. They would beat any team in the AAC except UConn, which is not saying much.
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No way Colorado runs the table against the rest of the AAC.

Colorado needed a strong 4th quarter just eke out a win over Tulane. That's a team in a 3-way tie for 5th in the AAC.
 
Dawn should be SEC coach of the year. While we all knew they were good, the way she's molded her freshmen to play with her seniors is very impressive. Mitchell has done a good job with Howard and not much else so maybe he should get some votes but Dawn should take it
 
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