Ed Cooley

[champs99and04]

I've praised Cooley but his coaching in this game has been perplexing. He's stayed with the zone even though his team clearly doesn't know how to play it. SC is scorching them right now.

 

[uconn1999]

Providence had 5 tournament appearances in the previous 25 years. Cooley is taking them to 4 straight tournaments, I would say he's doing a great job.

Do you really make the tournament, if you lose the play in game?

 

[Robertelamin]

That was pathetic.

 

[Jerry1714]

PAC 10 is always overrated.

I cannot wait for you to tell us the ACC is overrated when ND falls down 2-0 tomorrow. Sweet hot take

 

[superjohn]

Cooley did a great job in the regular season but that's a horrific loss especially coming off their no show against Creighton in the Big East tourny. Up 17 in the second half, horrible job extending the game late. Just an awful loss. I thought Bennie Boatwright was coming here at one time, big game for him.

 

[superjohn]

PAC 10 is always overrated.

Pac 12 has three of the best teams in the country this year.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Clinical first half for Ed and Friars.

...Must be nice

Yeah?

1-6 in the NCAA Tournament since the turn of the century.

...Must be nice

 

[CTBasketball]

Talk about hemorrhaging the season away.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Pac 12 has three of the best teams in the country this year.

This year they're legitimately good, though Oregon's injuries will hurt. But in the past few years they've certainly been highly overrated. No Final Four teams since 2007 :-O

 

[Fishy]

I don't think Cooley is a bad coach, but good god, the air comes out of his teams at the worst times.

He just did an awful job of adjusting when USC started taking apart the zone.

 

[superjohn]

This year they're legitimately good, though Oregon's injuries will hurt. But in the past few years they've certainly been highly overrated. No Final Four teams since 2007 :-O

Yes, Oregon is screwed because of injuries. They were a threat before that though.

 

[superjohn]

I don't think Cooley is a bad coach, but good god, the air comes out of his teams at the worst times.

He just did an awful job of adjusting when USC started taking apart the zone.

Exposed tonight.

 

[mauconnfan]

Ed stayed in the zone way too long. Good coach for sure, good guy but how did he not recognize their were ripping it apart?

 

[Deepster]

Well, throw another one and done on the pile for Ed Cooley.

This.

 

[Deepster]

I will say, even after all these years, a mug full of PC fan tears still goes down smooth. Mmmmmm.

 

[Inyatkin]

So we have as many NCAA wins in the last calendar year as Providence has in the last 20. Fun

 

[zls44]

I will say, even after all these years, a mug full of PC fan tears still goes down smooth. Mmmmmm.

Ol' reliable.

 

[pj]

To be fair, his last two losses last year came against the two teams in the national title game (Nova and UNC)...tough to beat those teams with two guys...and the reason they dropped to a 8/9 seed was because they dropped some games when Dunn and Bentil weren't healthy...Chukwu leaving didn't help that team either. They were very weak after Dunn and Bentil.

You mean Providence fans don't blame their coach when a team underperforms due to injury? Odd!

 

[pj]

I think you highly underestimate the value of a good coach, highly overate the coaching performance by Kevin Ollie this season, or both. There are many coaches who would have done better. Likely not NCAA tourney better, but Ollie got dealt a tough hand with the injuries...and then he got exposed. Exposed for a poor ability to adjust in-game, pre-game and just in his philosophy in general. Since it has become his program, he runs an offense that is predicated on having multiple playmakers...which we don't have in the bunches his pro style set requires. There are 5 games or so HE should have won. Never mind a much better and more experienced coach.

If you optimize for each and every game, then yeah you should be able to win more games, Wagner and Northeastern for example. If you optimize for March, you can't optimize for every game, you build a foundation early in the season rather than a completed hut. KO has done a pretty good job optimizing for March, check his AAC and NCAA tourney records.

And optimizing for March is what I want in a coach. I don't care if he loses a few extra games in November.

 

[UCweCONN]